Art: Exhibition, Visual Arts Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents Amazonia: The Rights of Nature March 10, 2017 – January 28, 2018 The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents the thought-provoking, socially and environmentally-conscious new exhibition Amazonia: The Rights of Nature, on display March 10, 2017 – January 28, 2018. Curated by Dr. Nuno Porto (MOA Curator, Africa and L...	University of British Columbia – Museum Of Anthropology Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 1/28/18
Art: Exhibition MOA presents Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents the insightful and explorative new exhibition Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia (May 11 - October 9, 2017). Honouring the special significance that written forms hold across many diverse culture...	University of British Columbia – Museum Of Anthropology Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Mon 10/9/17
Art: Museum MOA presents Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia – May 11 – October 9, 2017 The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents the insightful and explorative new exhibition Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia (May 11 - October 9, 2017). Honouring the special significance that written forms hold across many diverse culture...	University of British Columbia – Museum Of Anthropology Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Mon 10/9/17
Art: Art Show, Gallery Emily Carr: Into the Forest The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s. These ...	Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Thu 8/31/17 at 10am
Art: Art Show, Gallery Pictures From Here Beginning in the late 1970s artists such as Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, Christos Dikeakos and Rodney Graham developed intellectually rigorous approaches to photography. Breaking with the romantic landscape tradition that dominated art making and collecting in ...	Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Mon 9/4/17 at 10am
Art: Museum Family: Bonds & Belonging What is a family? Can you pick your family or is it determined by blood? Is family who you share holidays with? Or who you share your daily routines with, like getting coffee together or hitting the gym? Explore these questions and discover some surprising...	Royal British Columbia Museum Victoria, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Thu 8/31/17 at 10am
Art: Art Show, Gallery Claude Monet's Secret Garden The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in over two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history. Monet’s 1872 painting Impression: Sunrise gave a name to th...	Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 10/1/17 at 10am
Art: Art Show, Gallery Elad Lassry Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images. This exhibition surveys works produced by the artis...	Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 9/24/17 at 10am
Art: Art Show, Gallery Persistence Persistence draws on recent works, largely from the Gallery’s collection, that illuminate the shifting role and unexpected endurance of technologies, physical objects and bodies. Key works include Shelagh Keeley’s Notes on Obsolescence, a large-scale wall ...	Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 10/1/17 at 10am
Art: Art Show, Gallery Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny over the course of six years between 1977 and 1983. The entire series of twenty-five photographs are being shown for th...	Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 10/1/17 at 10am
Special Event: Museum Unbelievable The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) poses provocative questions about our perception of stories with Unbelievable – a new exhibition that dives deep into the vaults of MOV. On display from June 24 – September 24, 2017, this quirky exhibition assembles iconic art...	Museum of Vancouver Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 9/24/17
Special Event: Museum Unbelievable The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) poses provocative questions about our perception of stories with Unbelievable – a new exhibition that dives deep into the vaults of MOV. On display from June 24 – September 24, 2017, this quirky exhibition assembles iconic art...	Museum of Vancouver Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 9/24/17
Art: Gallery Tsang Kin-Wah Tsang Kin-Wah will create a site-specific text work for the Vancouver art gallery exterior. Based on editorials taken from Vancouver newspapers in the 1980-90s, Tsang’s text critically addresses generalizations and issues surrounding the cultural climate o...	Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 10/15/17
Art: Gallery Tsang Kin-Wah Tsang Kin-Wah will create a site-specific text work for the Vancouver art gallery exterior. Based on editorials taken from Vancouver newspapers in the 1980-90s, Tsang’s text critically addresses generalizations and issues surrounding the cultural climate o...	Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 10/15/17 at 10am
Theater: For the Family Theatre Under the Stars presents Mary Poppins and The Drowsy Chaperone - July 7 - August 19, 2017 Enjoy a delightful dose of magical entertainment this summer with two irresistible Broadway musicals! Theatre Under the Stars presents Mary Poppins & The Drowsy Chaperone, running July 7 – August 19, 2017 (performances alternate evenings) at Stanley Park’s...	Stanley Park Pavilion – Malkin Bowl Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 at 8pm-10pm
Theater: Musical The Drowsy Chaperone Theatre Under the Stars presents the riotous Canadian Broadway sensation, The Drowsy Chaperone, July 8 – August 19, 2017 at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl. When a theatre fanatic puts on his treasured cast record, the characters spring to life and whisk audien...	Stanley Park Pavilion – Malkin Bowl Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17
Theater: Musical Mary Poppins Theatre Under the Stars presents one of the most popular Disney classics of all time, Mary Poppins, July 7- August 18, 2017 at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl. Everyone’s favourite nanny captures hearts anew as she swoops in to teach the Banks family a lesson i...	Stanley Park Pavilion – Malkin Bowl Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sat 8/26/17 at 8pm-10pm
Theater: Musical The Drowsy Chaperone In response to massive audience demand, Theatre Under the Stars has added performances of The Drowsy Chaperone, a riotous Canadian Broadway sensation now running until August 25, 2017 at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl. When a theatre fanatic puts on his treasu...	Stanley Park Pavilion – Malkin Bowl Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sat 8/26/17 at 8pm-10pm
Theater: Musical Theatre Under the Stars presents Mary Poppins and The Drowsy Chaperone - July 7 - August 26, 2017 Due to overwhelming popularity, Theatre Under the Stars will extend its critic and audience-acclaimed productions of Mary Poppins & The Drowsy Chaperone to August 26, 2017 at Stanley Park’s picturesque Malkin Bowl (shows alternate evenings). A beloved Vanc...	Stanley Park Pavilion – Malkin Bowl Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sat 8/26/17
Special Event: Fair/Festival, Film Vancouver Queer Film Festival Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres. VQFF is Vancouver's second largest film festival and the largest queer arts event in Weste...	Downtown Vancouver Vancouver, BC Sat 8/19/17 - Sun 8/20/17