Metro Vancouver events on May 31, 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

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

Season 2020 by White Rock Farmers' Market

Weekly Farmers' Market runs Sunday 10am - 2pm. May through October

White Rock | White Rock Farmers' Market | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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. 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

Clayton Community Farmer's Market

Shop for crafts, baked goods, fresh produce and more at this annual Farmer's Market.

Surrey | Clayton Heights Secondary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free

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

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

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

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

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

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre

FUZZ with guests

American rock band plays Vancouver

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Symphony X with Primal Fear, Firewind

Symphony X - American Progressive Metal band from New Jersey

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

TOOL

Tool, Who Recently Took Home The Grammy Award® For Best Metal Performance For The Song “7empest,” Has Added An Extensive Spring Tour For North America

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music