Happy Lunar New Year to those celebrating! Let’s see what’s happening to keep us entertained this week
Lanterns: Until February 21, Lunar Fest 2022 returns for another year with celebrations taking place around the city as well as virtual programs, featuring lanterns, entertainment, exhibits, crafts, markets, and many other event spread around the lower mainland.
Garden: This weekend, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden ushers in the Year of the Tiger, in-person and virtually, with celebration and family-friendly entertainment, crafts, demonstrations and activities
Taiwan: For a limited time, FlyOver Canada invites guests to celebrate the Lunar New Year whilst seeing spectacular Taiwan from above as Soar Over Taiwan, taking flight only until February 13th.
Chapel: Held over until February 20th! Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition with its 34 larger than life frescoes, continues to bring the Vatican ceiling to Vancouver Convention Centre East Building
Festival: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival continues to bring a world of unique arts and performances to our local stages and to your home with in-person and virtual events until February 6th.
Concert: MRG Live presents Korean-American singer Eric Nam #ThereAndBackAgain concert tour at the Vogue Theatre for three nights, Feb 3, 5 and 6.
Cheese: Keep tasting, Vancouver Foodster Grilled Cheese Sandwich Challenge…of which I’m pleased to be on the judging panel. As you taste the gooey goodness for yourself, then vote for your favourite melted memory until February 6, 2022.
Hot: Until February 14, the Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival (formerly Hot Chocolate Fest) continues for the 12th year, bigger and better than ever to celebrate humble hot chocolate during the West Coast Winter.
Books: Starting February 6 to 10, The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival returns virtually to warm up long winter nights with an array of authors from Canada, USA, Israel, Australia & Great Britain.
Arts: Until March 19, 2022, Burrard Arts Foundation presents a pair of exhibitions;
The Golden Section by Karin Jones features geometric arrangements made from human hair extensions that Jones purchased from a local beauty supply shop.
Sanda Rd Key Dhund by Sara Khan its Urdu title translating to Mists of Sanda Rd, referring to an area of Lehore, Pakistan, where the artist resided before moving to Vancouver in 2014.
Exhibition: From Jan. 22 to April 3, the Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is presenting a new exhibition, NOURISH, by curator Nan Capogna. Featuring American poet and writer Jane Wong and Vancouver-based artist duo Mizzonk (Wan-Yi Lin and Roger Chen).
Chamber: For two days only, Early Music Vancouver has special access for its patrons to HEBREO The Search for Salomone Rossi a film by Joseph Rochlitz and featuring the members of Profeti della Quinta whose concert was cancelled last month.
Folios: Witness a piece of history as Vancouver Art Gallery’s For All Time: The Shakespeare FIRST FOLIO celebrates the University of British Columbia Library’s recent acquisition of a complete first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, on display until March 20th.
Designer: Continuing at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is the Canadian premiere exhibition of Sho Sho Esquiro: Doctrine of Discovery, by award-winning designer, artist, and activist Sho Sho Esquiro on show until June 5, 2022
Roots: At MOA until March 27th, Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots celebrates different ways of understanding the world through the lenses of African and Black communities, the wealth of their cultural and art practices, and their inspiring legacy, through the works of contemporary artists from Lagos, Nigeria, and Vancouver
Canoe: In the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s featured exhibition, on until July 3, 2022, Canoe Cultures :: Ho’-ku-melh War Canoes and the Gifts They Carry Forward, Indigenous artists and knowledge holders share their gifts through the war canoe in this multi-sensory journey.
Skate: Until October at MOV: Boarder X is a travelling exhibition, featuring work by contemporary artists from Indigenous nations across Canada, drawing parallels to urban areas prohibiting skateboarding, related to the landscapes and territories we occupy