Metro Vancouver events on May 22, 2020

Surrey International Children's Festival

Enjoy songs and stories at the Surrey International Children's Festival.

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | Festival

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

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

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

Cattle Decapitation with Archspire, Soreption & guests

Legends unite for an unbelievable evening of extreme and technical metal

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The Greatest Showman-Show #1 - Panorama School of Dance

Please join Panorama School of Dance as we celebrate our 40th anniversary with our best show yet… The Greatest Showman!

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Show

Jurassic World Live!

Your trip to Isla Nublar takes a terrifying turn after the Indominus Rex escapes and causes chaos in the park!

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Steven Page and Friends with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Barenaked Ladies co-founder and Canadian Icon Steven Page brings his powerful tenor, quick wit, and an arsenal of songs from his 30 year catalogue for a sweeping set backed by the VSO

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Tinashe - Tour For You

Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and actress

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Hedwig & the Angry Inch

This rock musical tells the story of a genderqueer rocker from East Berlin, touring North America with her band while telling her life story and following the former lover/bandmate who stole her songs

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical