Metro Vancouver events on May 30, 2020

Women in Firefighting Workshops

Attend this one-day workshop to learn about becoming a career firefighter.

Surrey | Surrey Fire Department Central Training Facility | 8:30 am to 4:30 pm | Workshop

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

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

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

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

2020 Vancouver International Children's Festival

Enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages. Treat the family to acrobatics, puppetry, theatre, dance, music and lots of arts activities

Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival

Canada Life Tiny Tots: Teddy Bears Musical Picnic

We’re going on a picnic! This playful show introduces children and families to the music of Claude Debussy. Sing-along favorites and picnic games round out the fun

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Music

Group of Six

Experience the west coast connection: simplified forms, expressive colour, & spirituality in nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

5th Annual Root Beer Festival

Come join us for another amazing Root Beer Festival in Langley City. This year will be bigger then ever & we are keeping our fingers crossed for sunshine!

Langley | Douglas Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

Royal Canadian Circus - Vancouver 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

Vancouver | Concord Pacific Place | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

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

PULSE Productions - Beauty and the Beast

This is a story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

St. Patrick Regional Secondary: Spirit Alive Gala Choir Concert

This event showcases the exceptionally gifted young men and women of the St. Patrick Regional Secondary Choirs and their dedication to enriching Vancouver’s arts and culture community through a “commitment to excellence and joyful noise!”

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music

Josh Feinberg in Concert

Embark on a meditative musical journey with traditional Indian Ragas that borrow from other styles.

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Lights by Adam Grant Warren

Roy Surette directs this powerful new play about a disabled son visiting his mother who has Alzheimer’s and lives across the country in St John’s

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Gold series: Tovey Conducts Chopin and Vaughan Williams

VSO Music Director Emeritus Maestro Bramwell Tovey leads a program that pairs English poetry with Polish passion. Angela Cheng will enthrall in Chopin’s 2nd Piano Concerto, a work of “undescribable beauty.”

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

Erato Ensemble: Science

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to attend Erato’s season closer, but it can’t hurt! Research shows that the concert will present a varied program of music about and inspired by science

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts