Metro Vancouver events on May 18, 2020

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

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

Victoria Day at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Fort Langley National Historic Site has a float in the 98th annual Fort Langley May Day Parade, which starts at 11 a.m. and is followed by a community fair. We hope to see you at the community fair after the parade

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Victoria Day in Burnaby Village Museum & Carousel

Join us for pomp, pageantry and family fun!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Family | 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

Journey - The Pretenders

Neal Schon, Ross Valory, longtime members Jonathan Cain & Steve Smith, and Arnel Pineda - have set an extensive North American tour in 2020 with the PRETENDERS that will feature all new production and hits from start to finish

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Commodore Ballroom: Jimmy Eat World With guests: White Reaper

Jimmy Eat World has released 10 studio albums, five of which have reached Top 10 on Billboard’s 200 Chart. The band’s last 4 albums have reached Top 5 on Billboard’s Rock Albums Chart and Alternative Albums Chart

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music