Happy New Year! We’re already a week into the 2020s, and the year’s entertainment scene is off to a roaring start.
Canyon: Hundreds of thousands of lights span the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Park, as Canyon Lights keep a little bit of sparkle into the dark winter nights, until January 26th.
Exhibition: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents Out of Concealment, a solo exhibition by Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, an innovative re-imagining of supernatural beings from the oral traditions of Haida Gwaii, until April 5, 2020.
Bigfoot: It’s your last chance to catch, Lights on the Lake at Harrison Hot Springs Village Sasquatch-Themed lakefront light display before it wraps up this weekend, January 12th 2020.
Real-Estate: Firehall Arts Centre kicks off the year with a World Premiere Production of House and Home, a comedic look at the state of Vancouver’s real estate market, running January 11 – 25.
Pottery: The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC’s presents the thought-provoking, Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary, until March 29, 2020.
Music: From January 11 – 16, the VSO New Music Festival features new, brilliant and extraordinary works of the 21st Century with the artists who originally created them.
Laughs: Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy, at the historic Columbia Theatre in New Westminster, welcomes actor-comedian Derek Gaines for 6 shows January 9 – 12
Rock: We Will Rock You the Musical brings the music of Queen to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for three shows Friday evening, Saturday matinee and evening.
Lake: Coquitlam’s Lights at Lafarge is Metro Vancouver’s largest free Christmas light display filling the 1.2km trail around Lafarge Lake until January 19, 2020.
Drama: The Cultch Historic Theatre is presenting the Vancouver premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s award-winning play Infinity, from Volcano Theatre (Toronto), until January 19th.