Metro Vancouver events on May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020
Sat
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
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
Gardens of South Surrey Bus Tour
Hop on a bus to explore 3 unique Surrey gardens - Darts Hill, The Glades, and Historic Stewart Farm.
Surrey | Darts Hill Garden Park | 9:45 am to 3:00 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
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
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
Write On Vancouver
#WriteOnVancouver, our day-long celebration of writing, authors and publishers returns May 23, 2020
Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 10:30 am to 5:30 pm | Books | Free
Surrey International Children's Festival
Enjoy songs and stories at the Surrey International Children's Festival
Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 10:30 am to 7:30 pm | Festival
Jazz in the Mews
Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free
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
Westminster Savings Family Day - May
Looking for a fun, free, and engaging way to spend time with your family? Join us for a family-friendly tour of our current exhibition and take part in a fun art-making activity!
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 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
The Greatest Showman-Show #2 - 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 | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts
Chado (tea ceremony) class
Learn the basics of Urasenke-style tea ceremony in this beginner-friendly class. Learn the proper ways to walk, bow, interact, and enjoy Japanese matcha tea and sweets
Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop
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
Sacrifice, Razor, Exciter with guests
Canadian thrash metal icons ready to rip the Rickshaw wide open!
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music
Art After Dark - A Night of the Arts for Teens
Place des Arts’ Youth Arts Council invites teens ages 13 to 17 to a free night of the arts. Come and explore your artistic and creative interests through a variety of casual, humour-themed arts activities
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Kids | Free
Fort Night Improv
A stacked cast of Vancouver Improv Comedians are coming to Langley to perform Saturday Nights!
Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
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
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
An Orchestral Rendition of Daft Punk: Greatest Hits: Vancouver
Thats right, for one night only we’re bringing Daft Punk's most popular songs to life! Using our host of talented performers and orchestral members we’re coming to Vancouver to re-live some of the best music ever performed!
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music