Metro Vancouver events on May 14, 2020

Canada Gas and LNG Exhibition and Conference 2020

Canada Gas & LNG Exhibition and Conference will provide your company with a unique platform to showcase products and services to 5000 industry representatives from the local and global value chain

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 am | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition - NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh — MOLY AND KASSANDRA

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition. The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

The Dance Centre presents Discover Dance! Sujit Vaidya

One of Vancouver’s leading exponents of the exquisitely beautiful classical Indian dance style of bharata natyam, Sujit Vaidya also creates work which reflects a modern sensibility and pushes the boundaries of the form

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Dance

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

43rd Annual Cloverdale Bed Races

The main event is an elimination-style Bed Race with teams pushing specially designed beds on 176A St. Event includes a demonstration from the World Roundup Skateboard competition and a decorated bike parade for the younger folks

Surrey | Cloverdale BIA | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Family

Walk with the Doc

Join Dr. Davidicus Wong for an inspirational 30-45 minute talk on living a healthy and active lifestyle. Then join local physicians for a community walk at the Confederation Park track

Burnaby | Confederation Community Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Stars on Ice Tour

The Stars Align To Bring The World’s Best To Rogers Arena In Vancouver On May 14th For The 2020 Stars On Ice Tour

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 0:00 am | Family

Emergency Preparedness Workshop

Burnaby Public Library and the City of Burnaby Emergency Management Department are pleased to help you stay safe in case of a disaster

Burnaby | McGill Library | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

The Milk Carton Kids and Haley Heynderickx

The Milk Carton Kids are an American indie folk duo from Eagle Rock, California, United States, consisting of singers and guitarists Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, who began making music together in early 2011

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Eunoia - A Firehall Arts Centre presentation of Fujiwara Dance Inventions

Denise Fujiwara’s adaptation of Christian Bok’s award-winning book Eunoia is a multi-media experience of dance, video, music and costume that employs similar constraints as to those in the book through inventive movement and ground-breaking performances

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Receive and Process Theatre: Love/Sick

A darker cousin to ALMOST, MAINE, John Cariani’s play, LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Jeff Rubin

Canadian economist and bestselling author Jeff Rubin presents a provocative account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization and how the blowback -– from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe – will change the developed world

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Books

The Avett Brothers

An American folk rock band from Mt Pleasant, North Carolina. Come and catch The Avett Brothers doing what they do best

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Creatures

Creatures, a performance by duo RoyaLazyness, is a demonstration of the power of dance to move bodies beyond comfort zones, regardless of disabilities and differences

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts