This weekend celebrate the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival! Our stone satellite won’t be the only thing brightening the slowly lengthening darkness as our hemisphere tilts into autumn, there’s also a light-up Facade Festival, the Fringe Festival, a music festival, and a flamenco festival. Want company? Head to the library on Saturday and borrow a dog. Really.
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Friday September 13
2019 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: Tea & The Moon
Where: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
What: Celebrate the second largest festival in the Chinese calendar at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden! The 2019 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival takes place Friday, September 13 and this year, it’s all about tea. Come along with friends, family, and loved ones and fully immerse yourself in the Chinese art, culture, and history of tea that goes back over 4,000 years.
Her Story: Canadian Women Scientists
Where: The Annex (Vancouver Civic Theatres)
What: a film series dedicated to sharing the stories of Canadian women scientists. Produced by Curiosity Collider, four pairs of local filmmakers and Canadian women scientists collaborate to create 5-6 minute videos; for each film in the series, a scientist tells her own story, interwoven with the story of an inspiring Canadian women scientist who came before her in her field of study.
The Clock by Christian Marclay
24-Hour Friday Night Screenings of The Clock
Where: The Polygon Gallery
What: On select Fridays throughout summer 2019, The Polygon will stay open overnight for 24-hour screenings of The Clock, providing the chance to see the evening and early morning sections of the film. Presented in a custom-built cinema within the gallery, The Clock montages film and television footage from the last 70 years. The time represented in each clip is synchronized with actual time, allowing The Clock to function as a 24-hour timepiece.
Arts Club presents A Thousand Splendid Suns
Where: Stanley Alliance Industrial Stage
What: In this sweeping tale set in war-torn Afghanistan, two women’s lives intersect through fate. The unlikely but extraordinary friendship of Laila and Mariam helps them cope with the tyranny and tumult of life in 1990s Kabul—and leads them to an unforgettable act. A Thousand Splendid Suns, based on the best-selling novel by the author of The Kite Runner, is a haunting yet hopeful story that illuminates the strength of the human spirit.
Runs Until: Sunday October 13, 2019
Where: VanCity Theatre
What: Meet Ingrid. She is an septuagenarian, a former fashion designer, German-born but now living alone in the woods in Oklahoma. She makes her own clothes. She built her own home with rocks she collects, even makes her own cement. She grows her own food (and butchers it too). She is almost entirely self-sufficient. This is her story.
Runs Until: Thursday September 19, 2019
Where: Anvil Centre
What: ECCW pro wrestling returns to the Anvil Centre in New Westminster for War Games! Main event is a War Games style steel cage match with team Scotty Mac (Andy ‘The Dreadful’ Bird, Erik Strange & Bishop) vs. Moonshine Mafia (Eddie Osbourne, Judas Icarus & Eli Surge). Also in action are Artemis Spencer, Nicole Matthews, Beef Boy, The Voros Twins, Fergie, Ravenous Randy, Travis Williams, Reloaded, plus much more!
Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show Opening Parade
Where: Meet outside Carnegie Centre, 401 Main St.
What: Join the parade to the gallery with exhibiting artists and Carnegie Centre’s Artists in-Residence, Amal Rana and Erv Newcombe.
Where: VYVE
What: Nature and dancing without intoxicants.
Engelbert Humperdinck: The Angel On My Shoulder Tour
Where: River Rock Casino
What: Grammy-nominated singer Engelbert Humperdinck will be returning to the River Rock Show Theatre. In a career spanning almost 50 years, Engelbert has generated sales in excess of 140 million records, including 64 gold albums and 35 platinum, four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe, and stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Las Vegas Walk of Fame
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Courtesy of Pacific Theatre
Pacific Theatre presents Mother Of The Maid
Where: Pacific Theatre
What: Isabelle Arc knows what her teenage daughter Joan needs: discipline, a loving husband, and to stop communing with God. As Joan hurtles toward her destiny as the Maid of Orleans, Isabelle must care for the extraordinary child who belongs not just to her, but to all of France.
Runs Until: Saturday October 5, 2019
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival 2019
Where: Various locations
What: As one of the few celebrated festivals devoted to Flamenco Art outside of Spain, the festival has since its beginnings in 1990 grown to a mature understanding of Vancouver’s multicultural audiences by nurturing the form’s hybridized roots in Sephardic, Persian, Gypsy and Indian cultures and by striving to reflect and connect its diverse sociocultural identity through work narratives underlining flamenco’s universal message of humanistic tolerance.
Runs Until: Sunday September 29, 2019
Westward Music Festival | Facebook.com
Where: Various locations
What: For a third straight year Westward Music Festival will take over multiple downtown Vancouver music venues featuring over 100 artists this September. Celebrating the spirit of Vancouver and it’s world-class music scene, shows will feature multi-genre line ups that will all take place within a 2.5km radius of one another at venues such as the Vogue Theatre (open to all ages), The Imperial, The Biltmore Cabaret, The Fox Cabaret, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and Rickshaw Theatre. Lineup includes: Joji, The Paper Kites, Lissie, The Wonder Years and many more.
Runs Until: Monday September 16, 2019
Where: Yaletown Park & Mainland Street
What: Westward Music Festival has announced the Westward Street Party: a series of free concerts on September 13 and 14 that will take place on three Yaletown street corners. Artists performing include: Jo Passed, I M U R, Rare Americans, Diamond Café, Little Destroyer, Missy D, Teon Gibbs, Esette, Dj dood, Niki Sadeki, and many more!
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Arts Club Theatre Company presents New Play Festival
Where: Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre
What: Don’t miss this opportunity to look behind the scenes as we prepare new works for the stage. Experience live public readings and be part of the process as some of Canada’s most talented actors, directors, dramaturgs, and playwrights bring new scripts to life.
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Arts Club Theatre Company presents New Play Festival: Forgiveness
Where: Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre
What: An adaptation of the novel by Mark Sakamoto, which is the story of his grandparents during the Second World War. Mark’s maternal grandfather was a Canadian soldier, who spent years as a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp. His paternal grandmother was one of thousands of Japanese‐Canadians interned by the Canadian government during the war. But instead of being bitter about their experiences, they taught forgiveness.
Courtesy of the Ottawa Redblacks
Where: BC Place
What: The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Catch the BC Lions as they face off against the Ottawa Redblacks.
Maggie Rogers – Heard It In A Past Life World Tour
Where: Orpheum Theatre
What: Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers returns to Vancouver after a sold-out show at the Commodore Ballroom in April of this year. The BBC, Tidal, Google Play, Vevo, Pandora and numerous publications – including Rolling Stone, NYLON, SPIN, Billboard and more – have tipped her as an artist to watch. NPR named her one of its Favorite Musicians and The New Yorker declares, “Maggie Rogers is an artist of her time.”
Yuk Yuks presents Bryan O’Gorman
Where: Yuk Yuks
What: Bryan O’Gorman is a professional weirdo who has headlined comedy shows in dozens of countries. This year he plans on playing in every country on earth, plus the moon. Catch him now before he dies in a feeble attempt to make it to the moon in a homemade rocket.
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Saturday September 14
Where: Emery Barnes Park
What: Come to Emery Barnes Park and sign up to borrow a dog from the Canine Library. Check them out using their bark-code and read your dog their favourite poem during your 15-minute session.
Photo: Fiona Ackerman
Where: šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square
What: Façade Festival is a monumental public art project and cultural event taking place from sunset to midnight each evening on the Georgia Street façade of the Vancouver Art Gallery. A selection of BC contemporary artists, both established and early-career, have been commissioned to create ten stunning, site-specific works of art. Using the technology known as ‘projection mapping’, the works have been tailored specifically for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s iconic architecture, and will be projected over its Georgia Street façade, covering the building with moving, dynamic artwork.
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Arts Club Theatre Company presents New Play Festival: Outside
Where: Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre
What: When war correspondent, Arnaud, learns of his father’s death, he returns to the family farm after a 14-year absence where he will confront what he left behind. As he had expected, his brother Armand wants nothing to do with him. Both abandoned by family members, the brothers reunite begrudgingly in order to settle their father’s estate. Is their relationship beyond salvation? Which secrets haunt the nearby forest? And where the hell is that incessant barking coming from?
Where: Heritage Hall
What: Welcome to First Pick Handmade, a handmade fashion and accessories show with a boutique department store feel. Shop for your new Fall look and get first pick directly from local and Canadian designers. Clothing, Jewelry, Hats, Shoes, Bags and more, curated just for you. What will you find at First Pick?
Runs Until: Sunday September 15, 2019
Point Grey Village Fall Festival 2019
Where: Sasamat St. & West 10th Ave
What: Join the fun at the Point Grey Village Fall Festival! This exciting afternoon for the family will be featuring a number of our local vendors and exhibitors, tons of delicious food trucks and a line-up of performances to keep you entertained. Got some little ones that need taking care of? We’ve got interactive games and activities for all!
Where: Plaza of Nations
What: We’re back for the last Warmup! Have you been yet!? Bring a friend and get yourselves down to the Plaza for $5 craft beers and ciders, margaritas, soft drinks and snowcones, food trucks, games and giveaways and up to 60% off Whitecaps gear! There’s no better way to spend your Summer Saturday – and no better way to pregame before Houston Dynamo enter BC Place.
Where: Rogers Arena
What: This upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship with headline fight between former UFC Lightweight Championship challenger Donald Cerrone and former WSOF Lightweight Champion Justin Gaethje.
Where: Woodwards on Cordova
What: In the Eastside, with the Eastside and for the Eastside, join us for a challenging and exciting 10 km run through the heart of Vancouver, showcasing the historic east side of Vancouver as it courses through parts of Gastown, Chinatown, and East Vancouver. The race also has a large fundraising component, raising money for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Watari Support and Counselling, Breakfast Club of Canada, and the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Houston Dynamo
Where: BC Place
What: Take part in the roaring atmosphere at this Major League Soccer game and cheer on the Vancouver Whitecaps as they take on the Houston Dynamo
Your Summer Saturday ft. Legends and Stars
Where: BC Place
What: The 3rd annual Legends & Stars charity match, presented by Daily Hive Vancouver, returns to BC Place. Kickoff goes at 4:45 just before our match against Houston Dynamo! To attend Legends & Stars, fans must also have a ticket for Whitecaps FC’s match against Houston later that evening. Among this year’s participants for the event at BC Place will be Vancouver-born actor Jacob Tremblay, along with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, Ross Lynch, as well as cast from The 100, Riverdale, Siren, A Million Little Things, and more.
Engelbert Humperdinck: The Angel On My Shoulder Tour
Where: River Rock Casino
What: Grammy-nominated singer Engelbert Humperdinck will be returning to the River Rock Show Theatre. In a career spanning almost 50 years, Engelbert has generated sales in excess of 140 million records, including 64 gold albums and 35 platinum, four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe, and stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Las Vegas Walk of Fame
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Where: Yaletown Park & Mainland Street
What: Westward Music Festival has announced the Westward Street Party: a series of free concerts on September 13 and 14 that will take place on three Yaletown street corners. Artists performing include: Jo Passed, I M U R, Rare Americans, Diamond Café, Little Destroyer, Missy D, Teon Gibbs, Esette, Dj dood, Niki Sadeki, and many more!
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Arts Club Theatre Company presents New Play Festival
Where: Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre
What: Don’t miss this opportunity to look behind the scenes as we prepare new works for the stage. Experience live public readings and be part of the process as some of Canada’s most talented actors, directors, dramaturgs, and playwrights bring new scripts to life.
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Yuk Yuks presents Bryan O’Gorman
Where: Yuk Yuks
What: Bryan O’Gorman is a professional weirdo who has headlined comedy shows in dozens of countries. This year he plans on playing in every country on earth, plus the moon. Catch him now before he dies in a feeble attempt to make it to the moon in a homemade rocket.
Runs Until: Saturday September 14, 2019
Vancouver Cheese and Meat Festival
Where: Roundhouse Community Centre
What: Explore the smells, tastes, and textures of artisan foods while pairing them with wine, cider, beer, and cocktails.
Sunday September 15
Image: Amy Romer
Visites en français / Tour of The Polygon Gallery in French
Where: The Polygon Gallery
What: Planifiez votre visite à la Galerie et joignez-nous à nos visites en français, dirigées par un de nos professionnels de l’art. Découvrez l’histoire de The Polygon Gallery et les expositions / Join us at The Polygon Gallery at for a guided tour in French, led by an arts professional. Learn more about the history of the Gallery and the summer exhibitions
Where: Heritage Hall
What: Welcome to First Pick Handmade, a handmade fashion and accessories show with a boutique department store feel. Shop for your new Fall look and get first pick directly from local and Canadian designers. Clothing, Jewelry, Hats, Shoes, Bags and more, curated just for you. What will you find at First Pick?
Runs Until: Sunday September 15, 2019
Where: Hard Rock Casino
What: The Price Is Right Live™ is the hit interactive stage show that gives eligible individuals the chance to “Come On Down” and play classic games from television’s longest running and most popular game show. Contestants can win cash, appliances, vacations and possibly even a new car by playing favorites like Plinko™, Cliffhangers™, The Big Wheel™, and the fabulous Showcase.
Vancouver Fringe Festival 2019
Where: Various locations on Granville Island
What: This boundary-pushing performance arts festival returns featuring some of the best (and weirdest) in live performance from across Canada and around the world. The action centers on downtown’s Granville Island, where acts take the stage in multiple theatres, as well as far less traditional venues.
Runs Until: Sunday September 15, 2019
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Vancouver Fringe Festival 2019
Where: Various locations on Granville Island
What: This boundary-pushing performance arts festival returns featuring some of the best (and weirdest) in live performance from across Canada and around the world. The action centers on downtown’s Granville Island, where acts take the stage in multiple theatres, as well as far less traditional venues.
Runs Until: Sunday September 15, 2019
Westward Music Festival | Facebook.com
Where: Various locations
What: For a third straight year Westward Music Festival will take over multiple downtown Vancouver music venues featuring over 100 artists this September. Celebrating the spirit of Vancouver and it’s world-class music scene, shows will feature multi-genre line ups that will all take place within a 2.5km radius of one another at venues such as the Vogue Theatre (open to all ages), The Imperial, The Biltmore Cabaret, The Fox Cabaret, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and Rickshaw Theatre. Lineup includes: Joji, The Paper Kites, Lissie, The Wonder Years and many more.
Runs Until: Monday September 16, 2019
Bill Reid Gallery | Language Matters
Where: Bill Reid Gallery
What: Water is an essential ingredient for human life—it connects us geographically, culturally, and socially while fueling our bodies and spirits. Guest curators ReMatriate Collective reveal the unique connection between womxn and water in the matriarchal societies of the Northwest Coast, with special attention to the roles of child-bearers, healers, and doulas.
Runs Until: Monday September 16, 2019
Where: VanCity Theatre
What: Meet Ingrid. She is an septuagenarian, a former fashion designer, German-born but now living alone in the woods in Oklahoma. She makes her own clothes. She built her own home with rocks she collects, even makes her own cement. She grows her own food (and butchers it too). She is almost entirely self-sufficient. This is her story.
Runs Until: Thursday September 19, 2019
Rolande Souliere: Frequent Stopping IV and V
Rolande Souliere: Frequent Stopping IV and V
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: The multi-media practice of Australia-based Anishinaabe artist Rolande Souliere entangles the visual language of hard-edged geometric abstraction with that of contemporary traffic signage to consider how colonial infrastructures mark both spaces and the people inhabiting them. Her solo exhibition Frequent Stopping IV and V presents new large-scale, site-specific work at the Contemporary Art Gallery’s two public sites: its street level façade and the nearby Yaletown-Roundhouse Station. This exhibition draws from Souliere’s ongoing body of work that creates interventions using caution tape and street barrier patterns in immersive, muscular installations.
Runs until: Friday September 20, 2019
Bard on the Beach
Where: Bard on the Beach Festival Site, Vanier Park
What: Bard on the Beach, Western Canada’s largest not-for-profit, professional Shakespeare Festival, welcomes you to join them for their 30th season. Presented in a magnificent setting on the waterfront of Vanier Park, this year’s lineup includes: The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare In Love, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Coriolanus.
Runs until: Saturday September 21, 2019
CAG presents Maryam Jafri | Automatic Negative Thought
CAG presents Maryam Jafri | Automatic Negative Thought
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Extending across both of CAG’s two gallery spaces, the exhibition will include the presentation of three recent series of sculptural works alongside a new video work co-commissioned by CAG and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol in Innsbruck, Austria. The artist explores the ways the body is increasingly experienced as a site of anxiety-fueled narcissism and self-surveillance that is politically and economically produced.
Runs Until: Sunday September 22, 2019
The Polygon | Sara Cwynar: Gilded Age II
Where: The Polygon Gallery
What: Organized by Vancouver curator Jenn Jackson, Gilded Age II is Cwynar’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast. The exhibition features recent photographs and two videos, reflecting Cwynar’s interest in the enduring legacies of design and popular imagery in contemporary consciousness. Across Cwynar’s works, found photographs, everyday artefacts, illustrations, notes, and models unfold and challenge enduring systems of value and meaning.
Runs Until: Sunday September 22, 2019
Shipyards Night Market
Where: The Shipyards, North Vancouver
What: Fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment. The festivities in the Square kick off at 5pm on Friday nights where you will find 100+ vendors selling fresh food and locally made products. The Friday Night Market also includes a beer garden serving local craft beer and cider as well as Betty’s Vodka Iced Tea. You must me 19+ to enter the beer garden. On the Shipbuilders’ Stage there is live music until 10pm, showcasing talent from all over BC.
Runs until: Friday September 27, 2019
Where: Jim Deva Plaza
What: We are a group of West End artists, artisans and neighbours working towards a more vibrant community. We are creating opportunities for connection and creative expression. We hope to be more than just a market, we want to be a gathering space for West Enders to support local artists, enjoy local music, participate in community art projects and workshops and meet neighbours!
Runs Until: Saturday September 28, 2019
Where: Oakridge Centre
What: Summer isn’t over yet! From now until the end of September, drop by the Oakridge Canada Line Plaza for some jazzy blues to balloon animals or steel drums to salsa. Eat your lunch and mingle on our outdoor tables and chairs. Available on a first-come first-served basis.
Runs Until: Saturday September 28, 2019
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival 2019
Where: Various locations
What: As one of the few celebrated festivals devoted to Flamenco Art outside of Spain, the festival has since its beginnings in 1990 grown to a mature understanding of Vancouver’s multicultural audiences by nurturing the form’s hybridized roots in Sephardic, Persian, Gypsy and Indian cultures and by striving to reflect and connect its diverse sociocultural identity through work narratives underlining flamenco’s universal message of humanistic tolerance.
Runs Until: Sunday September 29, 2019
Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: With more than 130 artworks on view, this exhibition will present the work of Alberto Giacometti, one of the twentieth century’s most renowned and influential artists. Including masterful works in sculpture, painting, drawing and design, it will examine the breadth of Giacometti’s practice while highlighting his place among his contemporaries in Paris and London
Runs until: Sunday September 29, 2019
Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives
Where: Museum of Vancouver
What: This exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city. Scenic design, videos, taxidermy, crowd-sourcing technologies, and the display of natural specimens breathe life into these tales of co-habitation. The immersive nature of the exhibition, including hands-on activities, encourages visitors to examine their relationship with nature, think about momentarily disconnecting from their devices, and find equilibrium with the natural world around them.
Runs until: Monday September 30, 2019
Butterflies at the Aquarium
Butterflies at the Vancouver Aquarium
Where: The Vancouver Aquarium
What: Step out of British Columbia’s temperate rainforest and into the Amazon’s tropical rainforest when you enter the Graham Amazon Gallery. Discover a wide variety of butterflies, including blue morphos, giant owls and heliconians, as you stroll along the boardwalk. Keen eyes will spy them feeding on nectar, fruit and flowers, camouflaging on tree trunks, courting a mate and hitchhiking on lucky visitors.
Runs until: September 2019
Where: Bill Reid Gallery
What: Explore the unique connection between womxn and water in the matriarchal societies of the Northwest Coast, with special attention to the roles of child-bearers, healers, and doulas. Artists Richelle Bear Hat (Blackfoot/Cree), Krystle Coughlin (Selkirk), Lindsay Katsitsakataste Delaronde (Mohawk), Alison Marks (Tlingit), Dionne Paul (Nuxalk/Sechelt), Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena), Marika Echachis Swan (Nuu-chah-nulth), Carrielynn Victor (Sto:lo), Veronica Rose Waechter (Gitxsan) and Water Keeper, Audrey Siegl (Musqueam) will explore water as a crucial element of creation, its historical uses for survival, and contemporary over-consumption as a threat to sensitive coastal ecosystems.
Runs until: Wednesday October 2, 2019
Shake Up: Preserving What We Value
Shake Up: Preserving What We Value
Where: Museum of Anthropology
What: The exhibition will bring to light the convergence of earthquake science and technology with the rich Indigenous knowledge and oral history of the living cultures represented in MOA’s Northwest Coast collection. Beyond scientific discoveries, knowledge of earthquakes and natural disasters has been passed down through generations throughout many cultures, including those of the Northwest Coast First Nations. Also as part of the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to see the majestic poles of the Great Hall undergo conservation, many for the first time in 40 years.
Runs until: Fall 2019
Richmond Night Market
Where: Richmond, BC
What: Stop by for authentically Asian snacks, street food and retailers selling unique accessories and knick-knacks at street-side prices. Some merchants are willing to bargain, so channel your inner negotiator and you’ll leave with a haul. There’s a diverse array of nightly live entertainment ranging from music and dance performances to carnival games and rides.
Runs until: Friday October 4, 2019
Courtesy of Pacific Theatre
Pacific Theatre presents Mother Of The Maid
Where: Pacific Theatre
What: Isabelle Arc knows what her teenage daughter Joan needs: discipline, a loving husband, and to stop communing with God. As Joan hurtles toward her destiny as the Maid of Orleans, Isabelle must care for the extraordinary child who belongs not just to her, but to all of France.
Runs Until: Saturday October 5, 2019
Steveston Heritage Experience
Where: Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site
What: The Steveston Heritage Experience leads you back in time on an interactive walking tour, stopping at four celebrated historic attractions — Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site, the Steveston Tram, the Steveston Museum, and the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site. Along the way, you’ll hear eye-opening tales of yesteryear village life, as told by a chatty local who seems to have just stepped from the streets of 1914. Carefully chosen food and beverage tastings will be served along the way.
Runs Until: Saturday October 5, 2019
TheatreSports: Back to School
Vancouver TheatreSports presents Back to School TheatreSports
Where: The Improv Centre
What: Get the fall off to a laughing start with some school-themed comedy as Vancouver TheatreSports (VTS) honours the beginning of fall with a special improv show dedicated to school days. Back to School TheatreSports takes classic TheatreSports short form improv ‘games’ and adapts them to parody classroom clichés and cliques (some things never change).
Runs Until: Saturday October 12, 2019
Arts Club presents A Thousand Splendid Suns
Where: Stanley Alliance Industrial Stage
What: In this sweeping tale set in war-torn Afghanistan, two women’s lives intersect through fate. The unlikely but extraordinary friendship of Laila and Mariam helps them cope with the tyranny and tumult of life in 1990s Kabul—and leads them to an unforgettable act. A Thousand Splendid Suns, based on the best-selling novel by the author of The Kite Runner, is a haunting yet hopeful story that illuminates the strength of the human spirit.
Runs Until: Sunday October 13, 2019
Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets
Where: Museum of Anthropology
What: This enchanting exhibition illustrates the role puppets have played around the world in the transmission of cultural knowledge, stories, and values from generation to generation. Shadows, Strings and Other Things features a broad array of puppets, old and new, from 15 countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Visitors will have the opportunity to view more than 250 handcrafted puppets from MOA’s collection — the largest in Western Canada — plus, new acquisitions from China, Brazil, Italy, Java, the UK, and France revealed to the public for the first time. Enter into an immersive and theatrical world for visitors of all ages.
Runs until: Monday October 14, 2019
Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty
Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty, the first retrospective of the renowned Canadian artist. Alexander became known for her investigations of the appropriated image, the artificiality of nature and the seduction of space in the 1980s. Extreme Beauty showcases more than eighty works from this artist’s career whose practice includes photography, sculpture, collage and installation.
Runs Until: Sunday October 20, 2019
Where: Lonsdale Quay
What: Stroll the boardwalk and take in ocean and city skyline views from North Vancouver’s Lonsdale Quay while you check out fresh, locally grown produce, delicious baked goods and nifty crafts created by local growers, bakers, and crafters.
Runs Until: Saturday October 26, 2019 (Saturdays)
The Dark Secrets of Stanley Park
Where: Stanley Park
What: There’s more to Stanley Park than incredible scenery. It’s also recently been home to crime, riots, persecution, political intrigue, class warfare, logging, hunting, disease, military installations, remarkable public art, ecological catastrophes, secret construction mega-projects, poetry, scandal, and murder.
Runs until: Saturday November 30, 2019 (Saturdays)
Image sourced from Jazz Vespers | Facebook.com
Where: First Baptist Church
What: St. Andrew’s Wesley’s Jazz Vespers, is celebrating its 26th Anniversary. Every Sunday from 4-5 PM, you’ll be tapping your toes and clapping your hands to the amazing sounds of local and international jazz giants. It’s an hour of jazz interspersed with reflections on love, faith and hope given by Rev. Dan Chambers or Very Rev. Dr. Gary Paterson.
Runs Until: Sunday December 29, 2019
Samuel Roy-Bois
Samuel Roy-Bois: Reward Friends, Punish Enemies
Where: The Polygon Gallery
What: Reward Friends, Punish Enemies is a site-responsive installation – imagined as an intervention into the architectural space of The Polygon—that invokes histories of resource extraction and the forest industry on the North Shore. Roy-Bois’ rustic, handcrafted aesthetic rubs against the steel-and-glass design of the gallery and the surrounding waterfront developments, upending distinctions between interior and exterior, private and public.
Runs Until: December 30, 2019
How Far Do You Travel
Where: Select B-Line TransLink busses
What: Five Canadian artists — Diyan Achjadi, Patrick Cruz, Rolande Souliere, Erdem Tasdelen and Anna Torma — are being commissioned to graphically wrap the exterior of a series of articulated buses traveling on major routes in Metro Vancouver.
Runs until: Tuesday December 31, 2019
Emily Carr | Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of art by Emily Carr (1871–1945) in the world. Our collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s. This installation in the Gallery’s rotunda reflects Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry. This installation brings together four of Carr’s iconic paintings: Big Raven (1931); Red Cedar (1931); Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky (1935); and Above the Gravel Pit (1937).
Runs Until: Tuesday December 31, 2019
Where: Vancouver International Film Centre
What: Year-round VIFF presents some of the world’s best cinema fused with related talks and events in a unique Films+ model.
Runs Until: Tuesday December 31, 2019
Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco
Where: The Improv Centre, Granville Island
What: Karen Flamenco brings the glamour and extravagance of a large flamenco dance production onto a small theatrical stage. The one-hour production welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic. With theatre style seating and bistro-style table seats, every audience member will get a close-up and personal experience that is very typical of a traditional Spanish Tablao.
Runs until: Saturday May 1, 2020
What are you up to this weekend? Tell me and the rest of Vancouver in the comments.
