Temperatures are rising and there’s so many Vancouver events for you to check out this weekend! From carnivals to craft beer bike tours, here are 20 Metro Vancouver events to check out over the next couple of days.
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Metro Vancouver Events This Weekend
Friday, March 29
About: Running from Thursday, March 21st – Sunday, March 31st, 2019, visitors can expect plenty of adrenaline-rushing rides, fun fair games, and plenty of delicious bites.
Date: Various
Time: 12:00 p.m.
About: 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 Gallery’s collection focuses on influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Surrealism on Canadian artists during the first half of the twentieth century.
Cost: Various
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
About: Guest curated by Haida Curator Kwiaahwah Jones in collaboration with Viviane Gosselin, Co-curator and Director of Collections & Exhibitions at MOV, this exhibition features an unparalleled collection of Haida art boasting more than 450 works created as early as 1890.
Cost: $9 – $19
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Craft Cycle Vancouver Beer Tour
About: Vancouver Beer Bike Tour, hosted by Canadian Craft Tours, is an exciting way to travel between some of North Vancouver’s most popular breweries.
Cost: $45
Time: Various
A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature
About: Created by the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago, A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature, is “an interactive and immersive exhibition that exposes and explains the mathematical patterns that abound in the natural world”.
Cost: Free – $25
Time: 10:00 a.m.
About: Hot Brown Honey returns to turn up the heat, deliver lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment!
Cost: $10 – $51
Time: 8:00 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.
About: This is a family-friendly event and everyone is welcome to experience artworks by 20+ notable artists from varying disciplines.
Cost: Free- $25
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Spring Break at the Vancouver Aquarium
About: Experience the weird, wonderful – and intriguingly normal – this Spring Break at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Cost: Free – $38
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Spring Break at the Space Centre
About: Visit the Space Centre over Spring Break for some special activities and programming focused on “Exploring the Sun” and “Exploring the Moon”. These family friendly activities will run daily throughout Spring Break.
Cost: Regular admission
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Gulf Of Georgia Cannery Spring Break
About: Guests will be tasked to find clues throughout the historic cannery to help solve a mystery, which is set during the Great Depression in 1930. A missing fortune has been ‘stolen’ from inside the safe of the Plant Manager’s Office!
Cost: Free – $11.70
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Burnaby Village Museum Spring Break
About: From Monday, March 18th – Friday, March 29th, 2019, the museum will offer free admission to their 10-acre site and welcome visitors with a variety of things to explore.
Cost: Free
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Dark Eighties: Cult 80s Hits
About: DJs Nikki Nevver, Vanessa Turner and Mirror Mask will be playing cult 80s hits all night.
Cost: $10 – $12
Time: 10:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Vancouver Art Gallery Family FUSE Week
About: Families will have the opportunity to connect with interdisciplinary artistic practices through a variety of art-making activities, inspired by the materials, processes and ideas at work in the Gallery’s current exhibitions.
Cost: Free
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Saturday, March 30
About: While navigating the troubled waters of romance, school and family, Archie, Alice, Sweetpea, and the rest of the crew become entangled in yet another dark and sexy Riverdale mystery. There’s a masked figure who is trying to ruin prom!
Cost: $25 – $30
Time: 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
About: Come out to All Saints Parish Hall for an afternoon of fashion gems from the Ivan Sayers fashion collection.
Cost: $40 per person
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
About: The event is described as a “multi-room, enchanted forest theme party, full of sensual & electric dance vibes galore, showcasing 25+ local DJ’s & producers”.
Cost: $25
Time: 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.
About: “AirPod owners ONLY! If you are one of the unfortunate few who don’t own a pair, you have some time to buy your own pair!” reads the Facebook event.
Cost: Free
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 11:55 p.m.
About: “Mr. D” has been making audiences laugh for two decades, and will mark the occasion with a show dedicated to his trademark humour about marriage, fatherhood, and his years as a teacher.
Cost: $49.50, $69.50, $89.50 (incl. GST)
Time: 8:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
About: Chelsea brings her pop/soul sound to life with passionate vocals, uplifting lyrics and grooving guitars.
Cost: $12
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 31
About: Come out for a special brunch collaboration with Kula Foods, Akeem Pierre, and Juice Truck. Included are a 5-course meal, Juice Truck mango lassi, giveaways, music and more.
Cost: $40
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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