Metro Vancouver events on May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020
Fri
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
Flow
Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature
Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
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
23rd Annual Cloverdale Chili Cook-off
Local businesses and organizations prepare time honoured chili recipes for bragging rights. Food is free along with bounce castles, coloring contests, music and prizes
Surrey | Clover Square Village Mall | 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Food / Wine
Monuments with guests Skyharbor, Vespera
Monuments are a British progressive metal band formed by formers Fellsilent guitarist, John Browne, and former The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza guitarist, Josh Travis
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Bard in the Valley Presents: Nun of Your Business Cabaret
A mix of everything! Cabaret will celebrate local talent to create an exciting evening of events
Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show
Apocalyptica - Cell-0 Tour
Apocalyptica is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso, drummer Mikko Sirén, and vocalist Franky Perez
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Friday Night Dance
Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances at The ACT Arts Centre
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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
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
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Purcell & Handel
Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as past of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
James Authur - The YOU Tour with guest Delacey
James Andrew Arthur is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Vancouver Symphony Orchestr: Purcell & Handel
Rising Canadian mezzo Emily D’Angelo is the talk of the town. With Purcell and Handel she demonstrates her nimble technique and why the New York Classical Review calls her “the most promising performer of the day.”
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Dorrance Dance (US) - ETM: Double Down
In their second outing with DanceHouse, NYC’s Dorrance Dance serves up ETM: Double Down
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
Radical Redemption
Radical Redemption making his long-awaited #Vancouver return in Victoria Day Long Wknd
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music