The Lunar New Year Spring Festival continues as we also fall into Valentine’s weekend for more lovely picks of the week
Lunar: The Lunar Fest 2022 lanterns are still glowing until February 21, as 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.
Taiwan: Until Sunday February 13th, FlyOver Canada welcomes guests to celebrate the Lunar New Year whilst seeing spectacular Taiwan from above as Soar Over Taiwan, taking flight only until February 13th.
Hot: For one more week, the Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival (formerly Hot Chocolate Fest) continues to celebrate humble hot chocolate during the West Coast Winter.
Stars: February 12-20 at Presentation House, Constellations, a play by Nick Payne – a HUB Happening; emerging works presented by PHT Creative Hub members live in-person or online.
Music: Evergreen Culture Centre in Coquitlam hosts L’Art en Voyage, a musical trip around the world, this Saturday February 12th, at 7:30pm in-person and online.
Stage: Until February 11th, The Advance Theatre Festival produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, brings to the stage a the festival presenting dramatic readings of five new plays over five days that are written and directed by historically marginalized voices.
Pack: Spend your Valentine’s with the Rat Pack! The Horse & Ryder Pub in Langley hosts dinner and a Tribute to the Rat Pack on February 14th, and on February 12th the George Preston Centre welcomes Langley Charitable Nights’ Dinner & Show Tribute to The Rat Pack & Ladies of Vegas with MAD Jazz LIVE
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
Books: Wrapping up tomorrow, February 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.
Festival: From February 11-27, 2022, VMF Winter Arts transforms the city’s downtown core into a free, interactive, open-air gallery and celebration of art and live entertainment
Play: The Cultch RE/PLAY, a new platform to showcases their ongoing digital programming, presents its first production TM from Ontroerend Goed (Belgium) until February 13, 2022
Jazz: Get ready for a toe-tapping, feel-good three days of extraordinary music as The Shadbolt Centre, Cory Weeds and The Cellar Music Group presents Jazz @ The ‘Bolt bringing audiences a weekend of music, February 11-13, 2022.
Matriarchs: Starting Monday, Olivia C. Davies, Artistic Director of O.Dela Arts, in partnership with The Dance Centre, presents the fourth edition of Matriarchs Uprising, a celebration of contemporary dance by female Indigenous artists, offers performances, master classes, workshops and circle conversations throughout the festival.
Opera: Vancouver Opera returns to the stage with it the next production in its 2021–2022 season, Cavalleria Rusticana in Concert, February 12 & 13.
Solo: It’s the final weekend as The Polygon Gallery presents Steven Shearer, wraps up February 13th, the acclaimed Vancouver artist’s first solo show in Canada in over a decade, the expansive exhibition showcasing Shearer’s personal archive of more than 74,000 images
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: Until 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).
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