Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend

April showers indeed! Grab an umbrella and get those rainy day cherry blossom photos, because the festival has officially begun. If you forgot your rain boots, never fear, there are many things going on this weekend that are under a roof, such as a photography festival, 1930s-style yodeling theatre, nude Austrian folk dancing, a spirits festival, soccer, a cheerleading competition, and an Indigenous puppetry story.

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Friday April 5

13th Annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

13th Annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
Where:
Various locations
What: The 13th annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival takes place at various iconic locations across Vancouver. Don’t forget your camera! There are picnics, bike rides, performances and more. 
Runs until: Saturday April 27, 2019

Capture Photography Festival

Capture Photography Festival
Where:
Various locations
What: Presenting the most compelling lens-based art from local and international artists. Each April, photography and lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver as part of the Exhibition Program, alongside an extensive Public Art Program, a youth-oriented Learning Program, and an Events Program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events. Launched in 2013, the annual not-for-profit Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival.
Runs until: Tuesday April 30, 2019 

Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bed & Breakfast
Where:
Granville Island Stage
What: When Brett inherits a family estate, he and his partner, Drew, move to a quiet little tourist town to set up a B&B. But will these big city boys face friction in their new community? With dozens of hilarious characters all portrayed by two actors, this theatrical production is a heartfelt comedy about “being out,” skeletons in the closet, and finding a place to call home.
Runs until: Saturday May 4, 2019

New Cackle Sisters: Kitchen Chicken

New Cackle Sisters: Kitchen Chicken
Where:
The York Theatre
What: The creators of L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres Performs Tom Waits and Cabaret Brise-Jour return with a freshly cooked-up kitchen chronicle. In New Cackle Sisters: Kitchen Chicken, the songs of the American ‘30s yodel queens The Cackle Sisters contend with the ovens for an improbable meal. Staggeringly beautiful, the acts fly by at an astonishingly fast pace while the team hustles to roast a chicken, mash potatoes, prepare appetizers, which may or may not eventually be served up.
Runs until: Saturday April 6, 2019

The Dance Centre presents Simon Mayer

The Dance Centre presents Simon Mayer
Where:
The Dance Centre
What: Sons of Sissy delves into the heart of the Upper Austrian countryside, where traditional folk dances and music reign supreme. These traditions are joyously subverted when four versatile performers/musicians reformulate Alpine dances to liberate themselves from convention. An accomplished choreographer, dancer and musician, Mayer offers an irreverent, affectionate take on his heritage, while demonstrating impeccable timing, bodily control, and musicality. Please note, this performance includes nudity.

Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne

Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne
Where:
Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Deanna Bowen’s artistic practice concerns itself with overlooked histories of Black experience, often connected to her own family in Canada and the US. Mining archives and forgotten documents, she makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures to bring traces of a complex, deeply personal and often violent past into public visibility. Bowen’s solo exhibition A Harlem Nocturne comprises two separate trajectories of new research that follow the artist’s maternal lineage in Canada.
Runs until: Sunday June 16, 2019

International Cheerleading Championships

International Cheerleading Championships
Where:
Vancouver Convention Centre East
What: Be a part of the largest international cheer and dance experience outside of the USA!  The 13th Annual Sea to Sky International Cheerleading & Dance Championship will once again unite thousands of cheerleaders from the USA & Canada.
Runs until: Sunday April 7, 2019

The Showpony Soiree

VIBF Presents: The Showpony Soiree
Where:
The Vancouver Playhouse
What: Showgirl? Showboy? Showpony! Enjoy an evening of performance finery at the Vancouver Playhouse. Burlesque artists from all over North America will be celebrating the dynamic spectrum of sexuality and gender expression through comedy, drag, and sensual striptease. Prepare to be entranced by our royal headliners and some of North America’s top teasers. Come dressed in what makes you feel your fanciest and fiercest.

P!nk: Beautiful Trauma World Tour (show 1 of 2)
Where:
Rogers Arena
What: Herself a singer-songwriter, dancer, trapeze artist and comedian, P!nk’s concerts are a feat of artistic brilliance. This is the seventh concert tour by the American singer, in support of her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma. Julia Michaels is accompanying the tour as a special guest.

Vancouver Whitecaps vs. LA Galaxy
Where:
BC Place
What: Take part in the roaring atmosphere at this Major League Soccer game.

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

Dirty Radio

Dirty Radio
Where:
Fortune Sound Club
What: Dirty Radio (stylized as DiRTY RADiO) is a Canadian indie-electro-R&B band from Vancouver, formed in 2010. The band consists of members Farshad Edalat (lead vocalist, supporting percussion and song writer) known by his stage name Shaddy, Anthony Dolhai (keyboardist, song writer) known by his stage name Tonez, and Zachary Forbes (drummer, producer, song writer) known by his stage name Waspy.

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives
Where:
Firehall Arts Centre
What: Created and performed by Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa, The Tashme Project: The Living Archives traces the history and common experience of the Nisei (second generation Japanese Canadians) through childhood, internment in Canada during the Second World War, and post-war resettlement east of the Rockies. The Nisei, now in their 70s and 80s, were children at the time of internment and their stories of adventure and play are presented in sharp relief with the more common internment narratives of hardship and justice.
Runs until: Saturday April 13, 2019

Sean Lecomber

Sean Lecomber (show 1 of 2)
Where:
Yuk Yuks
What: Based in Alberta, Sean is a CBC’s The Debaters favourite. He filmed his first Just For Laughs gala in 2013 and his comedy was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  Winner of the Just For Laughs homegrown competition, Sean’s other festival appearances include 3 appearances at the Halifax Comedy Festival as well as the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2013 and 2016.  He has written for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and is a two-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee.

Charlie Demers & Darcy Michael (show 2 of 3)
Where:
The Comedy MIX
What: Charles Demers was born and raised in Vancouver. He is an activist and comedian, a regular performer on CBC Radio One’s The Debaters, and co-host of Citytv’s comedic panel show The Citynews List in Vancouver. Darcy Michael is widely considered to be one of our country’s fastest rising stars, and has worked alongside many comedian greats, including Harland Williams, Kids in the Hall, Craig Robinson, Mike Smith, Debra DiGiovanni and Matthew Perry. Together, these two make for a riotous night of hilarity you won’t want to miss. 

Ayla Nereo: By The Light Of The Dark Moon Tour

Ayla Nereo: By The Light Of The Dark Moon Tour
Where:
Fox Cabaret
What: Every live performance with Ayla is its own inspired journey. Sometimes alone with an acoustic guitar and minimalist electronic accompaniment, other times armed with an array of loop-pedals and bandmates, Nereo is known for building layers upon layers of intricate vocal melodies into fierce, sweeping harmonies, weaving in syncopated threads of guitar, kalimba, piano, percussion, strings, celtic beats, even hip-hop wordplay.
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In Search of Imagination: A Local Experience, by Jim Park

In Search of Imagination: A Local Experience, by Jim Park (opening reception April 5)
Where:
Kimoto Gallery
What: The local landscape forms an important part of Jim Park’s practice. Park sees paint as a language; the memory of lived experience merges with the pictorial possibilities on the canvas. His paintings are records of this merging – memory, perception, and emotional experience made real.
Runs until: Saturday April 27, 2019

Gareth Emery & Ashley Wallbridge

Gareth Emery & Ashley Wallbridge
Where:
Celebrities Nightclub
What: Beginning as a radio show, showcasing the best of electronic music regardless of genre, the unprecedented popularity of the brand soon meant it was selling out shows (13 across the globe including his largest ever solo show at the legendary Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles), hosting festival stages (Stereosonic), and raising over $100,000USD for various charities via its hugely popular merchandise line. Already with two US iTunes #1 albums, 5 million records sold worldwide, and a social media following of 4 million+, Emery is stepping into legendary territory, and it all comes down to one thing… music.

Glory
Where:
Gateway Theatre, Richmond
What: The inspirational, triumphant, and incredible true story of the Preston Rivulettes women’s hockey team. In 1933, four friends set out to prove to Canada that hockey isn’t just a sport for men. As they fight through the Great Depression, prejudice, and personal upheaval, can they overcome the odds and forge their own path to glory? Featuring electrifying swing dance choreography inspired by the jazz age, GLORY captures all the thrills, excitement, and tension of a great hockey game. Go Rivulettes!
Runs until: Saturday April 13, 2019

Gerry Dee

Gerry Dee
Where:
Bell Performing Arts Centre (Surrey)
What: Comedian and TV personality Gerry Dee has been making audiences laugh for two decades and to mark the occasion he will embark on a new tour, 20 Years of Stand Up presented by Shopbrain. Dee will take his trademark humour about marriage, fatherhood, and his years as a teacher to 14 cities across Canada.

BC Blossom Photo Watch | Image Credit: Yayun Cao | Note: please be mindful of traffic when photographing the blossoms!

BC Blossom Photo Watch
Where:
Across British Columbia
What: Get your cameras ready during the Festival season because here come the blossoms! Share your best cherry blossom angles on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with hashtags: #vancherryblossomfest and #TELUSPureFibre. Winning photo (with the photographer to receive an iPad and FujiFilm printer) will be selected on May 3rd, 2019.
Runs until: Saturday April 27, 2019 


Saturday April 6

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Salmon Girl
Where:
Waterfront Theatre
What: A young girl makes some extraordinary friendships when she dives into a magical adventure where the delicate balance of nature could change her life forever. Theatre, dance, music and puppetry create a stunning experience that shares an Indigenous perspective on the importance of salmon in the natural world.
Runs until:  Sunday April 14, 2019

BC Distilled Festival
Where:
Croatian Cultural Centre
What: Raise your spirits! 38 artisan distilleries from across the province will be bringing their spirits to the sixth annual BC Distilled Festival. Attendees will have the chance to taste some of the best spirits in Canada. 25 of the distilleries in attendance this year won medals at the recent Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition – Canada’s only national spirit competition reserved exclusively for small distilleries, with a national panel of independent judges completing blind assessments of artisan spirits submitted by distillers across the country.

Vancouver TheatreSports presents: The Late Show
Where:
The Improv Centre
What: Are you a grown-up? If you are, join late Saturday nights for The Late Show – Adult Only Improv Comedy. This show takes the furry hand-cuffs off our improvisers to present edgy, uncensored improv comedy. With the aid of audience suggestions, our quick-witted improvisers create scenarios that explore mature themes, content and language. You never know how far this show will go and the audience are willing accomplices.
Runs until:  Fall 2019

VSO: Otto Tausk – From Russia with Jazz

VSO: Otto Tausk – From Russia with Jazz
Where:
Orpheum Theatre
What: George Gershwin, the American son of Jewish-Russian immigrants, was recognized as a musical genius, though he struggled to be taken seriously as an orchestral composer; but his Piano Concerto was a triumph, heavily influenced by jazz but very much like a traditional concerto. Sergei Rachmaninoff moved to America following the Russian Revolution, and was removed from the trials and tribulations of the burgeoning Soviet political machine; his Symphony No. 2 is an epic, luscious Romantic feast. Fellow Russian composer Rimsky- Korsakov’s Dance of the Buffoons seems like appropriate music to include, describing as its title does certain present-day politicians.

VIBF Presents: The Glamorama Gala
Where:
The Vancouver Playhouse
What: Get ready to get glam. Come dressed-up in your eleganza and enjoy the extravagant evening of opulent performances by our headliners as well as world-class burlesque artists from all over North America. Expect fierce, imaginative acts by this incredible cast of multifaced performing artists.

Formulation of Time
Where:
Lipont Place
What: Photography by Phyllis Schwartz, Edward Peck, Desiree Patterson and Sand Wan. The theme of this free exhibition is the symbolic meaning of plants’ life cycles. The photographic artworks in the exhibition will be in the format of framed or aluminum plate-mounted chromogenic prints.
Runs until:  Tuesday April 30, 2019

Jack & Jack
Where:
The Rio Theatre
What: American pop-rap artists Jack & Jack confidently and charismatically comprise two sides of a dynamic whole. On one side, you’ll find Jack Johnson dexterously rapping, turning up, and occasionally adding his own personal touch to the production. On the other side, you’ll find Jack Gilinsky carrying stadium-size hooks, moving with scorching swagger, and breaking hearts worldwide.

Jon & Roy

Jon & Roy
Where:
Commodore Ballroom
What: Canadian three-piece folk-rock band from Victoria, BC on tour with guests Carmanah and Old Soul Rebel. Catch them at the Commodore on the final night of their tour.

P!nk: Beautiful Trauma World Tour

P!nk: Beautiful Trauma World Tour (show 2 of 2)
Where:
Rogers Arena
What: Herself a singer-songwriter, dancer, trapeze artist and comedian, P!nk’s concerts are a feat of artistic brilliance. This is the seventh concert tour by the American singer, in support of her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma. Julia Michaels is accompanying the tour as a special guest.

Charlie Demers & Darcy Michael (show 3 of 3)
Where:
The Comedy MIX
What: Charles Demers was born and raised in Vancouver. He is an activist and comedian, a regular performer on CBC Radio One’s The Debaters, and co-host of Citytv’s comedic panel show The Citynews List in Vancouver. Darcy Michael is widely considered to be one of our country’s fastest rising stars, and has worked alongside many comedian greats, including Harland Williams, Kids in the Hall, Craig Robinson, Mike Smith, Debra DiGiovanni and Matthew Perry. Together, these two make for a riotous night of hilarity you won’t want to miss. 

Sean Lecomber (show 2 of 2)
Where:
Yuk Yuks
What: Based in Alberta, Sean is a CBC’s The Debaters favourite. He filmed his first Just For Laughs gala in 2013 and his comedy was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  Winner of the Just For Laughs homegrown competition, Sean’s other festival appearances include 3 appearances at the Halifax Comedy Festival as well as the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2013 and 2016.  He has written for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and is a two-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee.


Sunday April 7

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Weezer & Pixies
Where:
Rogers Arena
What: Hi there, 30-somethings. Following a rapturously received summer tour, Weezer will be returning to the road with Pixies this spring for a run of highly anticipated North American arena dates. 

Theresa Caputo Live! The Experience
Where:
Abbotsford Centre (Abbotsford, BC)
What: The Long Island Medium (with her own reality show), a New York Times best-selling author, and an incredibly busy mom, wife, and all-around family gal. “I was born and raised on Long Island in Hicksville, NY and have been married to my husband Larry for 28 years. We have two children, Larry and Victoria, and I’m close to my parents, who are still very much alive. I also have a brother named Michael and a feisty Yorkie Louie, and two French bulldogs Bubba and Bentley (yup we have them now!)”


Ongoing

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New Cackle Sisters: Kitchen Chicken

New Cackle Sisters: Kitchen Chicken
Where:
The York Theatre
What: The creators of L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres Performs Tom Waits and Cabaret Brise-Jour return with a freshly cooked-up kitchen chronicle. In New Cackle Sisters: Kitchen Chicken, the songs of the American ‘30s yodel queens The Cackle Sisters contend with the ovens for an improbable meal. Staggeringly beautiful, the acts fly by at an astonishingly fast pace while the team hustles to roast a chicken, mash potatoes, prepare appetizers, which may or may not eventually be served up.
Runs until: Saturday April 6, 2019

International Cheerleading Championships

International Cheerleading Championships
Where:
Vancouver Convention Centre East
What: Be a part of the largest international cheer and dance experience outside of the USA!  The 13th Annual Sea to Sky International Cheerleading & Dance Championship will once again unite thousands of cheerleaders from the USA & Canada.
Runs until: Sunday April 7, 2019

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives
Where:
Firehall Arts Centre
What: Created and performed by Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa, The Tashme Project: The Living Archives traces the history and common experience of the Nisei (second generation Japanese Canadians) through childhood, internment in Canada during the Second World War, and post-war resettlement east of the Rockies. The Nisei, now in their 70s and 80s, were children at the time of internment and their stories of adventure and play are presented in sharp relief with the more common internment narratives of hardship and justice.
Runs until: Saturday April 13, 2019

Glory
Where:
Gateway Theatre, Richmond
What: The inspirational, triumphant, and incredible true story of the Preston Rivulettes women’s hockey team. In 1933, four friends set out to prove to Canada that hockey isn’t just a sport for men. As they fight through the Great Depression, prejudice, and personal upheaval, can they overcome the odds and forge their own path to glory? Featuring electrifying swing dance choreography inspired by the jazz age, GLORY captures all the thrills, excitement, and tension of a great hockey game. Go Rivulettes!
Runs until: Saturday April 13, 2019

Salmon Girl
Where:
Waterfront Theatre
What: A young girl makes some extraordinary friendships when she dives into a magical adventure where the delicate balance of nature could change her life forever. Theatre, dance, music and puppetry create a stunning experience that shares an Indigenous perspective on the importance of salmon in the natural world.
Runs until:  Sunday April 14, 2019

Persuasion
Where: Metro Theatre
What: A performance adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel. Persuasion features her most matured heroine, Anne Elliot. Anne gets a second chance at love with Navy now-Captain Frederick Wentworth when her family rent out their home to Captain Wentworth’s sister and her husband. Eight years after Anne was persuaded to end their engagement, they must navigate the complexities of their feelings and changing social positions.
Runs until: Saturday April 20, 2019

The Orchard (After Chekhov)
Where: Arts Club Theatre
What: It’s Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, but told through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh family in the Okanagan Valley. With the bank calling and money low, will the Basrans be able to save their beloved orchard? Inspired by the playwright’s own childhood, this fresh adaptation confronts life, loss, and the Canadian immigrant experience with humour and beauty.
Runs until: Monday April 22, 2019

Resilience: Through Laughter

Resilience: Through Laughter
Where: Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery
What: Corrine Hunt’s experience with adversity takes us on a personal path through her latest mixed-media exhibition. Resilience is one of the most important aspects in our lives, and laughter can often be an antidote – the art of coping – with life’s circumstances that challenge our very being. In facing these challenges, Corrine pushed through with grace, perseverance and strength to give new purpose and pleasure to her art form.
Runs until: Friday April 26, 2019

13th Annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

13th Annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
Where:
Various locations
What: The 13th annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival takes place at various iconic locations across Vancouver. Don’t forget your camera! There are picnics, bike rides, performances and more. 
Runs until: Saturday April 27, 2019

BC Blossom Photo Watch | Image Credit: Yayun Cao | Note: please be mindful of traffic when photographing the blossoms!

BC Blossom Photo Watch
Where:
Across British Columbia
What: Get your cameras ready during the Festival season because here come the blossoms! Share your best cherry blossom angles on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with hashtags: #vancherryblossomfest and #TELUSPureFibre. Winning photo (with the photographer to receive an iPad and FujiFilm printer) will be selected on May 3rd, 2019.
Runs until: Saturday April 27, 2019 

In Search of Imagination: A Local Experience, by Jim Park


In Search of Imagination: A Local Experience, by Jim Park
Where:
Kimoto Gallery
What: The local landscape forms an important part of Jim Park’s practice. Park sees paint as a language; the memory of lived experience merges with the pictorial possibilities on the canvas. His paintings are records of this merging – memory, perception, and emotional experience made real.
Runs until: Saturday April 27, 2019

Cannery Farmer’s Market

Cannery Farmer’s Market
Where: Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site
What: Steveston’s winter food and artisan market features locally baked, grown, caught, and crafted products, seasonal events and activities for all ages, and performances by home-grown musicians and entertainers. Operated by the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society, the market also features community organizations for special in-market events – new this year is a partnership with the Richmond Food Security Society, which will present a series of Food Skills Workshops on select Sundays, covering a variety of themes including Fish, Holiday Leftovers, Healthy Snacks, and more. 
Runs until:Sunday April 28, 2019

Hastings Park Farmers Market

Hastings Park Farmers Market
Where: Hastings Park
What: Find a weekly selection of locally grown fruit and veggies, farm fresh meat, eggs and dairy products, fresh baked sourdough bread and treats, craft beer, wine and spirits, artisanal prepared food, local crafts, hot coffee and food trucks.
Runs until: Sunday April 28, 2019 (Sundays)

Capture Photography Festival

Capture Photography Festival
Where:
Various locations
What: Presenting the most compelling lens-based art from local and international artists. Each April, photography and lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver as part of the Exhibition Program, alongside an extensive Public Art Program, a youth-oriented Learning Program, and an Events Program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events. Launched in 2013, the annual not-for-profit Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival.
Runs until: Tuesday April 30, 2019 

Formulation of Time
Where:
Lipont Place
What: Photography by Phyllis Schwartz, Edward Peck, Desiree Patterson and Sand Wan. The theme of this free exhibition is the symbolic meaning of plants’ life cycles. The photographic artworks in the exhibition will be in the format of framed or aluminum plate-mounted chromogenic prints.
Runs until:  Tuesday April 30, 2019

Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bed & Breakfast
Where:
Granville Island Stage
What: When Brett inherits a family estate, he and his partner, Drew, move to a quiet little tourist town to set up a B&B. But will these big city boys face friction in their new community? With dozens of hilarious characters all portrayed by two actors, this theatrical production is a heartfelt comedy about “being out,” skeletons in the closet, and finding a place to call home.
Runs until: Saturday May 4, 2019

French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950

French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Sixty paintings and sculptures from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European permanent and long-term loan collections. Identifying France as the artistic centre of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, these works—which are diverse in subject matter, style and scale—were created by leading artists of the period, intended both for private collections and public display.
Runs until: Monday May 20, 2019

Affinities: Canadian Artists and France

Affinities: Canadian Artists and France
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Looking at the significance that French art and culture has held for Canadian artists over the past 120 years, this exhibition of works from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Collection focuses on influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Surrealism on Canadian artists during the first half of the twentieth century.
Runs until: Monday May 20, 2019

Counternarratives: Paintings by Archibald Fairbairn

Counternarratives: Paintings by Archibald Fairbairn
Where: Bill Reid Gallery
What: The watercolour paintings of Archibald Fairbairn (1888 – 1979) document the beauty of totem poles and communities during the early 20th century. This exhibition juxtaposes an idealistic painter’s postcolonial gaze with critical discourse from contemporary Indigenous voices.
Runs until: Sunday June 2, 2019

Displacement

Displacement
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: This exhibition comprises internationally acclaimed Victoria-based artist Mowry Baden’s work from the late 1960s to the present. Baden is known for producing intricate, sometimes humorous sculptural works and installations that borrow from the fields of perceptual psychology, science and architecture, and often solicit the audience’s participation.
Runs until: Sunday June 9, 2019

Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne

Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne
Where:
Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Deanna Bowen’s artistic practice concerns itself with overlooked histories of Black experience, often connected to her own family in Canada and the US. Mining archives and forgotten documents, she makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures to bring traces of a complex, deeply personal and often violent past into public visibility. Bowen’s solo exhibition A Harlem Nocturne comprises two separate trajectories of new research that follow the artist’s maternal lineage in Canada.
Runs until: Sunday June 16, 2019

Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives

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: July 2019

Making Waves: The Story and Legacy of Greenpeace
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: With humble beginnings in Vancouver, Greenpeace has grown into a large organization with offices in 40 countries. The NGO has protested numerous causes: whaling, deforestation, mining, genetic testing, and nuclear testing. Explore this exhibit that goes from their first voyage from Vancouver to Amchitka to protest Nuclear testing on an old fishing vessel to how cities, government, and industry today are developing new policies, technologies, and sustainable practices to ensure the preservation of our environment.
Runs until: Monday September 9, 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

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

Vancouver TheatreSports presents: The Late Show
Where:
The Improv Centre
What: Are you a grown-up? If you are, join late Saturday nights for The Late Show – Adult Only Improv Comedy. This show takes the furry hand-cuffs off our improvisers to present edgy, uncensored improv comedy. With the aid of audience suggestions, our quick-witted improvisers create scenarios that explore mature themes, content and language. You never know how far this show will go and the audience are willing accomplices.
Runs until:  Fall 2019

How Far Do You Travel

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

What are you up to this weekend? Tell me and the rest of Vancouver in the comments.

 

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