Metro Vancouver events on May 16, 2020
May 16, 2020
Sat
Birding Walks
Join a local naturalist and see diverse birds of Surrey. You'll see Surrey’s diverse habitats and get to know your local parks
Surrey | Surrey Lake Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free
Window Gallery: Portals
Installation by Kirsten Hatfield
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 am | Exhibition | Free
Burnaby Artisan Farmers’ Market
Burnaby Farmers' Market is located on the North Parking Lot at Burnaby City Hall at Canada Way and Deer Lake Parkway
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
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
Fort Langley Village Farmers' Market
Welcome to our Farmers Market. All our produce, foods, and artisan products are made locally here
Langley | Fort Langley Village Farmers Market | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
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
74th Annual Cloverdale Rodeo Parade
The main kick off event to get people into the Western Spirit. This morning event on the May long weekend event is an old fashioned parade with horses, marching bands, floats, bands, marching units and loads of vintage and custom vehicles
Surrey | Cloverdale Town Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family
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
Fort Langley Beer & Food Festival
Celebrate & enjoy the best of the Fraser Valley on May 16 with live music, 30+ craft breweries, 10+ local food vendors, cideries, wineries and much more right outside the wooden walls of the Fort Langley National Historic Site!
Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles
In celebration of the anniversary of Abbey Road, RAIN will bring the greatest hits of this epic recording to life, in addition to all your early Beatles favorites
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music
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
Vancouver Titans Deposit
Join us for a full weekend event, featuring multiple OWL matches a day, fan activations, and the chance to cheer on your Vancouver Titans for the first time ever LIVE at Rogers Arena!
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Sports
Vancouver Whitecaps Fc vs Nashville Sc
The regular season game Major League Soccer
Vancouver | BC Place | 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports
Stacked World
Stacked World Bass Massive
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
In The Distance: New Music from Croatia
Berislav Šipuš: Conductor and Robyn Driedger-Klassen: soprano with Turning Point Ensemble
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
Bill Maher
Bill Maher is an American comedian, political commentator and television host
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy
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
April Verch
Fiddler, singer-songwriter and step dancer April Verch is a triple threat performer known for bringing audiences to their feet
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 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
Citizen Cope
Clarence Greenwood, also known by his stage name, Citizen Cope, is an American songwriter, producer and performer
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Nicky Romero
Nicky Romero makes his return to #Vancouver Saturday May 16th, Victoria day long wknd, at Harbour Event Centre
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music