Things To Do In Vancouver This Weekend

March 3, 2016
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By Destination Vancouver
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Coastal First Nations Dance Festival

Happy first week of March! This weekend there are many ways to explore Canadian heritages; celebrate Indigenous heritages with a dance festival and performances, try some French Canadian heritage (yes, including poutine) at a music festival, query gay heritage through performance, and cosplay it up to enjoy some pop Japanese heritage.


Friday March 4

festdubois

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Festival du Bois
Where: 942 B Brunette Ave (Coquitlam, BC)
What: The largest francophone festival on Canada’s west coast honours French Canadian traditions and culture. Don your best plaid and head over to Coquitlam to enjoy authentic food, arts, activities, and various entertainment such as a fiddle jam session with a veteran, master traditional fiddler.
Runs until: Sunday March 6, 2016

Coastal First Nations Dance Festival

Coastal First Nations Dance Festival

Coastal First Nations Dance Festival
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology, 7:30pm
What: These performances will showcase the diverse and rich cultural traditions practiced by a selection of some of the best artists from coastal British Columbia, the Yukon, as well as national and international guest artists. Throughout the festival, the Museum’s Great Hall will be transformed into a celebration of Indigenous cultures and dance traditions. Tickets available at Tickets Tonight.
Runs until: Sunday March 6, 2016

In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man

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In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology
What: The Sepik River of Papua New Guinea is one of the largest river systems in the world, extraordinarily beautiful, but seldom visited. It is here that the Iatmul people, who live along its banks, have created internationally renowned works of art primarily inspired by stories of the majestic crocodile as the primordial creator. This unique exhibition will showcase the most comprehensive collection of contemporary Sepik art in North America for the first time. In addition to highlighting the exquisite carvings of Papua New Guinea’s latmul people, the exhibition will delve into their economic, cultural, and spiritual connections to the river system, drawing urgent attention to the logging and mining operations that pose environmental threats to the region.
Runs until: January 31, 2017

The Gay Heritage Project

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The Gay Heritage Project
Where: The Cultch
What: Three gifted creator/performers set out to answer one question: is there such a thing as gay heritage? In their search, they uncover a rich history not often shared and shine new light on contemporary gay culture. The result is a hilarious and moving homage to the people who came before us and the events that continue to shape our lives.
Runs until: Friday March 19, 2016

Nature’s Garden

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Nature’s Garden: Spring through mixed media & Chigiri-e
Where: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
What: Roxsane K. Tiernan’s “Nature’s Garden” exhibit is a beautiful combination of acrylics and Chigiri-e depicting snapshots of nature. Her mixed media approach captures and enlivens each scene offering a story of escape and peace through nature and colour. Roxsane began learning and experimenting with Chigiri-e, a Japanese torn paper collage technique in 1984.
Runs until: Wednesday March 30, 2016

Elder

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Elder in the Making
Where: York Theatre
What: Two young urban dwellers, one a Blackfoot aboriginal named Cowboy and the other a Chinese-Canadian newcomer named Chris, embark on a spiritual journey across traditional Blackfoot territory. Through thousands of years of ancient history guided by wisdom of modern day elders, they find the beginnings of the long road to reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous people.

antisocial

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Antisocial Media
Where: Hot Art Wet City (2206 Main) opening reception at 7:00pm
What: A collection of works by i♥️, eafo and The Grominator made in the wake of several cliché personal experiences involving love, addiction, and stupidity. They both mourn and rejoice in this unsolicited education.
Runs until: Saturday March 19, 2016

Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice
Where: Belkin Art Gallery, 2:00pm
What: The event will focus specifically on the role that contemporary Indigenous artistic practice does and can play in redefining cultural tradition, representation, and the relations between Settler and Indigenous peoples at sites of creativity, community and dissent.
Runs until: Saturday March 5, 2016

Salt Spring in the City

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Salt Spring in the City
Where: Heritage Hall (3102 Main)
What: A kind of village market meets art show returns to Vancouver to showcase the treasures and flavours of the Salish Sea. Food, fashion, paintings, pottery, wine, crafts, and nostalgia for west coast homesteading and bohemian heritage.
Runs until: Sunday March 6, 2016

UCLA Festival of Preservation

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UCLA Festival of Preservation
Where: The Cinematheque
What: A biennial showcase of UCLA Film and Television Archive’s preservation and restoration work featuring glorious new 35mm prints of important classics, nearly-lost masterworks, neglected treasures, and rediscovered rarities spanning more than a century of American film history.
Runs until: Thursday March 17, 2016

Oral History as a Practice of Freedom

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Oral History as a Practice of Freedom: the Tsilhqot’in Title Case in Context–A Lecture by Lorraine Weir
Where: SFU Harbour Centre, 7:00pm
What: Since 2013 Lorraine Weir has been working with Chief Roger William and the Xeni Gwet’in First Nation on a book-length oral history of the Tsilhqot’in case (BCSC 2007, BCSC 2012, SCC 2014)which resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canada. She has written on “‘Oral Tradition’ as Legal Fiction” in the Tsilhqot’in case, on “time immemorial” in Calder, Van der Peet, and Tsilhqot’in, on spatial deixis in Tsilhqot’in, and is working on a book on concepts of time and space in relation to Tsilhqot’in law in the title case.

New Neighbours

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New Neighbours
Where: Kimoto Gallery
What: In this new body of work, Thomas Anfield continues his exploration of the relation between figuration and abstraction as well as image making vs. narrative. Employing the metaphor of the couple (and by extension the family) to speak of larger concerns of the human condition; As signposts to both our common social roles and our own interior lives.
Runs until: April 2, 2016

Cannibal Corpse

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Cannibal Corpse
Where: The Commodore Ballroom
What: The death metal band who is probably most noted for offensive song titles is still going, and here in Vancouver tonight.

EDZY EDZED 30 Year Retrospective

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EDZY EDZED 30 Year Retrospective
Where: Gallery Gachet
What: His thousands of works manifest as a personal visual meta–language that can be described as “Deconstructivism” in painting, as articulated by Jacques Derrida in The Truth in Painting (1987). This is a study of non–objective (abstract) painting in “western art history” through the filter of deconstruction in an effort to realize uninvented painting forms.
Runs until: Friday April 1, 2016

Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise)

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Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise)
Where: Centre A
What: Filipino-Canadian artist Patrick Cruz will transform the main gallery space of Centre A into an elaborate immersive environment that blends personal, political and historical narratives in order to meditate on the conditions and processes of displacement, cultural hybridity and the material excesses of our globalised world.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

The Ghost of Blood Alley

The Ghost of Blood Alley
Where: Studio Records on Granville
What: Local bluesy bluegrass, with Bridges to Royal and Clute.

Saturday March 5

JFest

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Harumatsuri (formerly J-Fest)
Where: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (Burnaby, BC)
What: Harumatsuri (formerly J-Fest) is an annual 1-Day event, typically held midway between the larger Anime Evolution and serves as a light version of the main convention with special focus on Japanese arts and culture. Harumatsuri also offers many of our traditional events on a smaller scale including panels, video and AMV showings, gaming, artists, and vendors.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Where: Vancouver Playhouse, 8:00pm
What: Working often as a trio with bassist Todd Sickafoose and drummer Terence Higgins, Ani is a force of nature on a stage – one of the most compelling performers around – with hundreds of songs spanning three decades. Her visit to Vancouver in the ‘not a bad seat in the house’, Playhouse, is not in honor of anything in particular – no new album, award or anything else. It is simply an opportunity to reconnect with or discover one of the wonders of contemporary music.

bazaar

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East Van Bazaar
Where: 1739 Venables
What: An opportunity to explore Vancouver’s thriving community of artists and artisans, makers and shakers and doers and dreamers, all manifesting their talents to create something beautiful, whether it be hand-crafted jewelry, local wood sculptures, new gadgets, oddities and collectibles, cool handmade items or vintage reworks.

Elektra Women’s Choir presents Your One and Only Life
Where: Ryerson United Church
What: Your One and Only Life (named for a song by Nova Scotia’s Susan Crowe) see Elektra together with The Vancouver Men’s Chorus and the director Willi Zwozdesky. Familiar songs, stunning compositions, and a world premiere are on the program as both choirs celebrate the arrangements and original compositions of their treasured colleague. Tickets available at Tickets Tonight.
Runs until: Sunday March 6, 2016

Delhi 2 Dublin

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Delhi 2 Dublin
Where: The Commodore Ballroom
What: A fusion of Bhangra, Electronic, Funk, Dub Reggae, Hip Hop, Celtic music and a mash up of other genres.

Deja Vu Vintage Market
Where: The Pipe Shop (North Vancouver)
What: Inspired by country vintage markets, find authentic, up-cycled and vintage-inspired collectibles in the historic Pipe Shop Building located in the Shipyards District, Lower Lonsdale.

Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice

Coastal First Nations Dance Festival

Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice
Where: Belkin Art Gallery, 9:30am & 2:00pm
What: The event will focus specifically on the role that contemporary Indigenous artistic practice does and can play in redefining cultural tradition, representation, and the relations between Settler and Indigenous peoples at sites of creativity, community and dissent.

VSO: Russian Classics
Where: The Orpheum, 8:00pm
What: A program of great Russian classics is conducted by accomplished young Scottish conductor Rory Macdonald. Menuhin Competition-winner Angelo Xiang Yu is one of classical music’s fastest-rising stars, and he performs Prokofiev’s graceful Violin Concerto No. 2.

Whammys: A night Out for Music Heals
Where: The Rickshaw
What: An event featuring live performances by winners or nominated persons/artists/bands who won or were nominated for a Whammy award. All artists were voted on by the public in two rounds of voting based off their contributions in 2015

Aoife O’Donovan

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Aoife O’Donovan
Where: The Biltmore, 7:00pm
What: American folk-rock singer-songwriter, on tour to support her latest release “In The Magic Hour” out Jan 22nd on Yep Roc Records.

familyfuse

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Vancouver Art Gallery Family Fuse Weekend: Cut+Copy+Paste
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Explore the groundbreaking exhibition MashUp through a diverse range of performances and hands-on activities. Join hip-hop dance performances and workshops with Dedos & The Now or Never Crew and Project Soul Crew, partake in screenprint workshop combining digital images with text presented by Malaspina Printmakers, learn a range of collage techniques from artists Jessie and Ewan McNeil, and see experimental electronic music and video performances by students from Burnaby North High who have created pieces during a project with The Western Front.
Runs until: Sunday March 6, 2016

hushwedding

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Hush Wedding Soiree
Where: Terminal City Club
What: Two floors of extravagant décor, roaming models, bubbles and bites, live entertainment, and endless inspiration to help you celebrate your special day in style.

Teenage Dirtbag
Where: Hot Art Wet City
What: Hosted by stand-up comic and New Yorker cartoonist Jacob Samuel, comedians Ross Dauk, Adam Pateman, Fatima Dhowre, and Katie Burrell explore the follies of youth.

john5

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John 5 and the Creatures
Where: The Vogue, 8:00pm
What: Yes – hat’s the John 5 from Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie.

Sunday March 6

Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake Stanley Park Historical Walking Tour

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Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake Stanley Park Historical Walking Tour
Where: Departs from Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, 1:00pm
What: Travel through the forest trails to the Pauline Johnson Memorial Monument at Ferguson Point, her final resting place, then returns to the Lagoon via the seawall.

Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Montreal Impact

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Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Montreal Impact
Where: BC Place Stadium
What: Vancouver Whitecaps FC begin their sixth season in Major League Soccer by hosting Canadian rivals Montreal Impact.

Rebelution

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Rebelution
Where: The Commodore Ballroom
What: A roots reggae music band formed in Santa Barbara, California.

Vancouver Art Gallery Family Fuse Weekend: Cut+Copy+Paste
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Explore the groundbreaking exhibition MashUp through a diverse range of performances and hands-on activities. Join hip-hop dance performances and workshops with Dedos & The Now or Never Crew and Project Soul Crew, partake in screenprint workshop combining digital images with text presented by Malaspina Printmakers, learn a range of collage techniques from artists Jessie and Ewan McNeil, and see experimental electronic music and video performances by students from Burnaby North High who have created pieces during a project with The Western Front.

Ongoing

PostSecret: The Show

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PostSecret: The Show (ends this weekend)
Where: Firehall Arts Centre
What: An immersive, poignant journey through the humour and humanity of the personal stories we keep to ourselves, and on rare occasions, share with others. Projected images, videos, three actors and a guitarist guide the audience through crowd-sourced narratives revealing the true stories behind the secrets. See the hopeful, shocking, painful and sexual secrets that brought hundreds of millions to the PostSecret blog, became six best-selling books and are currently in a Smithsonian art exhibition.
Runs until: Saturday March 5, 2016

BrightBlue

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Bright Blue Future (ends this weekend)
Where: Pacific Theatre
What: Bright Blue Future explores one pivotal night in the lives of four twentysomethings and the decisions they make that will affect their futures forever. This glimmering new play by Vancouver playwright Sean Harris Oliver speaks to the unique struggles faced by the young millennial generation.
Runs until: Saturday March 5, 2016

SoarOverChina

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Flight of the Dragon (ends this weekend)
Where: FlyOverCanada
What: A fully immersive experience including wind, mist, and even scents. Follow a mythical dragon as you soar over some of China’s most spectacular landscapes and scenery during Flight of the Dragon, then stay seated and take off again to experience
FlyOver Canada, a thrilling flight ride that takes you from east to west across Canada.
Runs until: Sunday March 6, 2016

5 Women Wearing the Same Dress

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5 Women Wearing the Same Dress
Where: Metro Theatre
What: Set in Tennessee, in a fancy, over-the-top, Southern wedding, the play’s premise is simple. Throw together a mixed and mostly bitter party of five bridesmaids (in hideous dresses) and let them steal away from the reception to repeatedly dish the shallow bride and guests. With the help of a little booze and a little pot, initial venting about their current situation soon develops into tales of malaise about where they are in life and then more potent social commentary.
Runs until: Saturday March 12, 2016

Dana Claxton: Made to be Ready

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Dana Claxton: Made to be Ready
Where: SFU Audain Gallery
What: Claxton’s new photographs and video works in Made To Be Ready are informed by her attention to Indigenous womanhood and sovereignty. Drawing on the ideas of Anishinaabe writer and scholar Gerald Vizenor, particularly his notion of survivance which unifies survival and resilience as a means of resistance, Claxton’s photos picture Indigenous women commanding their own mediation of cultural, political and spiritual ways of being and doing.
Runs until: Saturday March 12, 2016

Fighting Chance Productions presents: CATS

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Fighting Chance Productions presents: CATS
Where: Jericho Arts Centre
What: Currently enjoying a new life in London’s West End and headed to Broadway once again Catstruly does prove that it is Now and Forever. Based on the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Cats tells the story of the annual gathering of Jellicle Cats, at which time one special cat is selected to ascend to the Heaviside layer. A true musical theatre phenomenon, Catspreviously ran in London’s West End for 21 years and Broadway for just over 18 years. Tickets available at Tickets Tonight.
Runs until: Saturday March 12, 2016

Chutzpah!

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Chutzpah!
Where: Various locations
What: This multi-disciplinary Jewish performing arts festival welcomes outstanding internationally-celebrated dance, music, comedy and theatre artists from as far afield as Mexico, Germany, Cuba, Italy, USA and Israel as well as some of Canada’s finest. Expect anything from stand-up comedy to theatrical drama to rich global music to explosive and elegant dance.
Runs until: Sunday March 13, 2016

UCLA Festival of Preservation

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UCLA Festival of Preservation
Where: The Cinematheque
What: A biennial showcase of UCLA Film and Television Archive’s preservation and restoration work featuring glorious new 35mm prints of important classics, nearly-lost masterworks, neglected treasures, and rediscovered rarities spanning more than a century of American film history.
Runs until: Thursday March 17, 2016

MetaWorld Vol.1

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MetaWorld Vol.1
Where: The Beaumont
What: A selection of mixed media work from Vancouver based visionary artist Stazi Q aka MetaStazi.
Runs until: Friday March 18, 2016

The Gay Heritage Project

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The Gay Heritage Project
Where: The Cultch
What: Three gifted creator/performers set out to answer one question: is there such a thing as gay heritage? In their search, they uncover a rich history not often shared and shine new light on contemporary gay culture. The result is a hilarious and moving homage to the people who came before us and the events that continue to shape our lives.
Runs until: Friday March 19, 2016

antisocial

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Antisocial Media
Where: Hot Art Wet City (2206 Main) opening reception at 7:00pm
What: A collection of works by i♥️, eafo and The Grominator made in the wake of several cliché personal experiences involving love, addiction, and stupidity. They both mourn and rejoice in this unsolicited education.
Runs until: Saturday March 19, 2016

Gwaii Haanas: Land Sea People
Where: Bill Reid Gallery
What: Stories of the only place in Canada protected from mountaintop to seafloor. Thirty years after the Haida took a stand at Lyell Island, this unique place exists as an unprecedented example of cooperative management, between the Haida Nation and the Government of Canada.
Runs until: March 27, 2016

Body Worlds: Animals Inside Out

Body Worlds: Animals Inside Out

Body Worlds: Animals Inside Out
Where: Science World
What: Body Worlds creator and anatomist, Dr Gunther von Hagens takes you on an anatomical safari. As you explore this captivating exhibition, you will experience the intricate biology, zoology and physiology of a variety of the world’s most spectacular creatures.
Runs until: Sunday March 28, 2016

Nature’s Garden

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Nature’s Garden: Spring through mixed media & Chigiri-e
Where: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
What: Roxsane K. Tiernan’s “Nature’s Garden” exhibit is a beautiful combination of acrylics and Chigiri-e depicting snapshots of nature. Her mixed media approach captures and enlivens each scene offering a story of escape and peace through nature and colour. Roxsane began learning and experimenting with Chigiri-e, a Japanese torn paper collage technique in 1984.
Runs until: Wednesday March 30, 2016

EDZY EDZED 30 Year Retrospective

Coastal First Nations Dance Festival

EDZY EDZED 30 Year Retrospective
Where: Gallery Gachet
What: His thousands of works manifest as a personal visual meta–language that can be described as “Deconstructivism” in painting, as articulated by Jacques Derrida in The Truth in Painting (1987). This is a study of non–objective (abstract) painting in “western art history” through the filter of deconstruction in an effort to realize uninvented painting forms.
Runs until: Friday April 1, 2016

New Neighbours

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New Neighbours
Where: Kimoto Gallery
What: In this new body of work, Thomas Anfield continues his exploration of the relation between figuration and abstraction as well as image making vs. narrative. Employing the metaphor of the couple (and by extension the family) to speak of larger concerns of the human condition; As signposts to both our common social roles and our own interior lives.
Runs until: Saturday April 2, 2016

(In)Visable: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art

(In)Visable: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art

(In)Visable: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology
What: Against a backdrop of skyscrapers and mountains, ghosts and spirits haunt the island of Taiwan. Taiwan’s urban and rural life cycles are filled with rituals and ceremonies of various faiths ranging from Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism to Christianity, Chinese folk religions and animistic beliefs of Taiwan’s Aboriginal peoples. While religion affects, challenges and intermingles with the secular world, myths, legends and fairytales add other layers to the spiritual world of Taiwan.
Runs until: Sunday April 3, 2016

Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard

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Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: Through a varied collection of painting, photography and sculpture, Vancouver-based artist Tracy McMenemy seduces the viewer into endless and ongoing passage of time in her latest series, Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard. McKenzie Barge and Marineways was a landmark along the Burrard Inlet in Deep Cove, BC; an epicenter of industrial development in the North Vancouver community since 1932.
Runs until: Sunday April 3, 2016

Botany Inspired Stitches
Where: VanDusen Gardens
What: The Fraser Valley Quilters Guild has curated a vivid showcase of quilts inspired by their garden delights, finely crafted by the guild artisans.
Runs until:Sunday April 3, 2016

Rennie

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Group Exhibition from the Rennie Collection
Where: 51 East Pender
What: Bringing together a variety of practices and media, this survey aims to reveal the chaos of the world by addressing enduringly pertinent issues, from migratory displacement to an in-depth examination of identity and history.
Runs until: Saturday April 23, 2016

Winter Farmers Market

Winter Farmers Market

Winter Farmers Market
Where: Nat Bailey Stadium
What: Each week you can look forward to finding locally grown vegetables and fruit, meat and seafood from local ranchers and fishermen, artisan cheese and bread, herbs and seasonal nursery items, baked goods, prepared foods and artisanal craft.
Runs until: Saturday April 23, 2016 (Saturdays)

I Didn't Know I Didn't Know It

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I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know It
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: The first solo exhibition in Canada by British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison. Their practice unfolds as a way of observing the human condition, an ongoing investigation into the world that surrounds us, the objects we encounter and use daily, and our fundamental engagement with the physical universe in all its sometime or seemingly futile existence.
Runs until: Sunday April 24, 2016

Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise)

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Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise)
Where: Centre A
What: Filipino-Canadian artist Patrick Cruz will transform the main gallery space of Centre A into an elaborate immersive environment that blends personal, political and historical narratives in order to meditate on the conditions and processes of displacement, cultural hybridity and the material excesses of our globalised world.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Across the Top:

Across the Top: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Across The Top: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: This exhibit will transport you to the Arctic where you will learn about its environment and people; the many voyages of discovery; the search for John Franklin’s lost expedition (both historical and modern), and the ultimate discovery of HMS Erebus by Parks Canada.
Runs until: May 2016

Your Future Home: Creating a New Vancouver

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Your Future Home: Creating a New Vancouver
Where: Museum of Vancouver
What: In response to mounting concern about a rapidly changing region, this exhibit will immerse visitors in an experience that spotlights 20 visions for tomorrow’s city, while focusing on four topical issues: housing affordability, residential density, ease of transportation, and quality of public space.
Runs until: Monday May 16, 2016

MashUp

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MashUp
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Exploring how artists incorporate found images, objects, sounds and words into their work, starting with the movement’s emergence at the turn of the twentieth century and showing how it has become a dominant force in our world today. It will feature 371 works by 156 artists, filmmakers, architects, musicians and designers, such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris, Hannah Höch, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Nam June Paik, Jean-Luc Goddard, Frank Gehry, Dara Birnbaum, Stan Douglas, Hito Steyerl, Isa Genzken, DJ Spooky and Tobias Wong, among many others.
Runs until: Sunday June 12, 2016

In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man

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In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology
What: The Sepik River of Papua New Guinea is one of the largest river systems in the world, extraordinarily beautiful, but seldom visited. It is here that the Iatmul people, who live along its banks, have created internationally renowned works of art primarily inspired by stories of the majestic crocodile as the primordial creator. This unique exhibition will showcase the most comprehensive collection of contemporary Sepik art in North America for the first time. In addition to highlighting the exquisite carvings of Papua New Guinea’s latmul people, the exhibition will delve into their economic, cultural, and spiritual connections to the river system, drawing urgent attention to the logging and mining operations that pose environmental threats to the region.
Runs until: January 31, 2017


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