Chinese Cultural Performance Weekend

This special event will invite renowned dance groups in town to perform at Aberdeen Center. The groups include Vancouver Academy of Dance, BC Chinese Music Association, and Colors of Dance Academy.

It starts at 1:30 pm
Aberdeen Centre 4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond
tel: 604.270.1234
www.aberdeencentre.com

Artist Zahra Hosseinkhan, Orchids.

The collection Orchids done in oil colour brings forth unique designs and colours of beautiful orchid creations in nature. This enables the viewers to become aware of the beauty and their intricacy. Each design allows the viewers to appreciate what nature can offer in even the smallest flower. Lastly, it is the beauty of life and nature that inspires and uplifts my soul, and my joy is found through expressing it through art of painting using color and form.

Richmond City Hall Galleria is located at 6911 No 3 Road.

For more information visit:

www.richmondartgallery.org/cityhall

Animal paintings from the permanent collection

Rufus Lin Gallery 415-5811 Cooney Road, Richmond

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am to 5 pm

"Experience Japanese ways of seeing and modes of expression"

Rufus Lin Gallery of Japanese Art, an art museum specializing in curating and exhibiting contemporary Japanese artists, is pleased to announce its first exhibition for the year 2012, entitled “Animal paintings from the permanent collection”, featuring 15 imaginative paintings depicting cats in kimonos, rabbits, goldfish and more. All paintings are by artists currently active in Japan and this exhibition has been specially curated, drawing from the Gallery’s rich and varied permanent collection.

For more information contact: Rufus Lin Gallery

Phone: 604-303-6330

or visit www.rufuslingallery.com

1st Annual Sculpture Challenge

Deadline for entry is February 27; those accepted will be notified by email.

City Hall, 6911 No 3 Rd, Richmond

Calling all Richmond kids ages 10 - 15 years.

The Community Arts Council of Richmond invites you to enter this sculpture challenge. There is no cost to enter.  You will be asked to create, outside the classroom, an Eco-friendly original, modern sculpture created from recycled, re-used or re-purposed materials. 40+ entries will be accepted on a first come first accepted basis provided the entry form is complete including a photo and description.

6 cash prizes will be awarded in 2 categories.

Entry forms and further information are available on our website.

Successful entrants will be on display from March 13 - 23 at the Atrium at Richmond City Hall.

This event is for children (Ages 6-12), youth (Ages 13-17)

For more information contact: The Community Arts Council of Richmond

Phone: 604-241-4091

or visit www.richmondartscouncil.org

Stuart McCall & Neil Wedman, Fantasy Gardens

Feb 4 - Artist Talk from 1–2 pm

Stuart McCall and Neil Wedman will be in the gallery to talk about their work.

The Richmond Art Gallery

This exhibition by Stuart McCall and Neil Wedman is comprised of two separate bodies of work—drawings and photographs. The artworks were made years apart but are linked by an indelible local history in the subject of Bill Vander Zalm’s Fantasy Garden World.

Richmond Art Gallery

7700 Minoru Gate

Phone: 604-247-8300

website: www.richmondartgallery.org

Tempting Providence

Time:  8 pm

Gateway Theatre

6500 Gilbert Road, Richmond

Mainstage

Price: Adult $45, Student $30, Group rate $39-$41

The first British settlers to arrive in Newfoundland found the climate too harsh and headed south to Virginia. It took sterner stuff in the form of London-born nurse, Myra Bennett, to endure the region’s bleak weather and conquer its stubborn inhabitants. Nurse Bennett traveled by foot, horse, dogsled, and boat to deliver babies, set bones, and extract teeth on an isolated 320-kilometer stretch of roadless coast. Tempting Providence is an intriguingly-staged story of courage and strength based on the remarkable life of the outport nurse who became known as “the Florence Nightingale of the North.”

By Robert Chafe. A Theatre Newfoundland Labrador production.

For more information contact: Gateway Theatre

Phone: 604-270-1812

or visit www.gatewaytheatre.com

Meet Writer-in-Residence Caroline Adderson

Time: 7:00 to 8:30 pm

Minoru Place Activity Centre (Seniors Centre)

7660 Minoru Gate, Richmond

Price: This event is Free.

Seating limited. To r.s.v.p., please call 604-276-4300 or visit richmond.ca/register and quote #225701.

Meet Richmond’s first Writer-in-Residence, Caroline Adderson, the celebrated author of three novels (A History of Forgetting, Sitting Practice and The Sky Is Falling), two collections of short stories (Bad Imaginings and Pleased To Meet You), as well as books for young readers (Very Serious Children, I, Bruno, Bruno For Real, Middle of Nowhere, and Jasper John Dooley: Star of the Week).

Enjoy short readings, hear about her writing career and learn about the range of free public programs she will present during her two months in residency at the Minoru Place Activity Centre, Richmond Arts Centre and Richmond Public Library. This event will be followed by a short reception with light refreshments served.

Caroline’s work has received numerous prize nominations including the International Dublin IMPAC Award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize and two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes. A two-time BC Book Prize (Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize) and three-time CBC Literary Award winner, Caroline was also the recipient of the 2006 Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement. Find out more at www.carolineadderson.com

For more information contact: City of Richmond Community and Cultural Development

Phone: 604-276-4000

or visit www.richmond.ca

Steveston Farmers & Artisans Market

10 am to 3 pm

Place: Gulf of Georgia Cannery

12138 Fourth Ave, Richmond

Inside the Cannery

Make it, bake it, grow it! All good stuff at the market.  It's moved indoors the Gulf of Georgia Cannery for the winter months. Do your shopping at the market and present friends and family with original and well priced gifts.

For more information contact: Steveston Community Centre

visit www.sfam.ca

Phone: 604-238-8080

Tickle Me Pickle Comedy Show

Time: 7 pm

Price: tickets are $2.

Richmond Cultural Centre

7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond

The Battle of The Sexes ended in an oddly satisfying (and unplanned) draw, as the boys and girls each nabbed three points. Come out for an evening of family friendly improv.

Richmond Cultural Centre

for more information visit: www.richmond.ca

tel: 604-247-8300

Edo: Arts of Japan's Last Shogun Age

Richmond Museum is pleased to present this travelling exhibition from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.  The exhibit examines the society of Edo Japan (1603 - 1868), and explores the vast and unique influence this epoch had on the arts and culture of Japan through art and artefacts from the period.

Richmond Museum

7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond

tel: 604-247-8300

www.richmond.ca

DOXA Film Screening: Pink Ribbons, Inc.

Time:  7 pm

Place: City Hall

6911 No 3 Rd, Richmond

Council Chambers

Price: Advance tickets $10 (plus order fee $2)

DOXA Documentary Film Festival's Motion Pictures Film Series presents Pink Ribbons, Inc. by Léa Pool.  DOXA Documentary Film Festival's Motion Pictures Film Series with support from the City of Richmond is exceptionally pleased and proud to present Léa Pool's stunning new film Pink Ribbons, Inc. Based on the incendiary book from Samantha King, Pool's film clearly delineates the corporate co-option of breast cancer with precision and fury.  "Indignant and subversive, Pink Ribbons, Inc. resoundingly pops the shiny pink balloon of the breast cancer movement/industry, debunking the "comfortable lies" and corporate double-talk that permeate the massive and thus-far-ineffectual campaign against a disease that claims nearly 60,000 lives each year in North America alone." - Variety

DOXA's presentation of the film will be followed by a panel discussion with experts in the field to address the issues examined in the film.

For more information visit http://doxafestival.ca/news/motion_pictures/pink_ribbons.html

or City of Richmond Community and Cultural Development

Phone: 604-276-4000

or visit www.richmond.ca

Let's make stuff

This event runs from 1 to 4 pm.

Adults only. 

Free for RAG members, and $5 for non-members.

This event offers a relaxed, social approach to learning and improving on one's artistic technique or to kick start that project you've been procrastinating on. Bring your new or continuing projects to work on alongside your fellow artists, along with all of your materials and get to work. 

Richmond Art Gallery

7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond

tel: 604-247-8300

www.richmondartgallery.org

Children's Arts Festival

Time:  Friday, February 17 9 am to 3 pm, Saturday, February 18 10 am to 4 pm.

Richmond Cultural Centre

7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond

Price:  $10/child/creativity class + access to performances and hands-on activities. $5/child for access to performances and hands-on activities without a creativity class.

It’s back and bigger than ever! Richmond’s creatively interactive festival connecting children of all ages with professional artists is set to burst forth with dozens Creativity Classes with accomplished artists leading kids in dance, drama, puppet making, cartooning, guitar, hip hop and more.

Pre-registration is essential for these workshops and, for $10/class, children will also get to experience performances and many fun, hands-on Imagination Stations to explore hand drumming, lantern making and other activities throughout the Cultural Centre.

For those wishing to enjoy the Children’s Arts Festival without registering for a Creativity Class, a $5 wrist band will get them drop-in access to all of the performances and Imagination Stations.

This event is for children (Ages 6-12)

For more information contact: City of Richmond Community and Cultural Development

Phone: 604-276-4000

or visit www.richmond.ca/artscentre

“Requiem'” - Mozart. Richmond Orchestra & Chorus Association

7:30 pm

Adults: $18, Senior/Students: $15, Children (6-12) $6

Tickets available through Long & McQuade 604 270-3622 or through ROCA 604-276-2747

Fraserview MB Church

11295 Mellis Drive, Richmond.

With soloists: Natasha Neufeld (soprano), Fabiana Katz (mezzo), Kevin Zakresky (tenor), Aaron Durand (bass) and Bassoon Concerto with soloist Marc de Geus.

Our Community Partner for this concert - Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. www.heartandstroke.bc.ca

for more information contact the Richmond Orchestra & Chorus Association

www.roca.ca

tel: 604-270-3622

Long & McQuade Lesson Centre Open House

Time: 11 am to 4 pm

Place: Long & McQuade Music Education Centre

6760 No.3 Road, Richmond

Unit 220 (2nd Floor) where Music Lessons take place.

Price: This event is Free

Our lesson studio will be open to the public of all ages and visitors coming through our doors will get to:

• Try out several instruments.

• Have a tour of the Studio.

• See live musical performances at 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm put on by our teachers and students.

• Receive a gift for signing up for music lessons (if they choose to register).

• Enjoy a hot beverage (coffee or tea).

You do not have to register for lessons to still come and enjoy the day. There will be a variety of instruments to try, such as a grand piano, electric guitar, hand drums and more. The performance will be about 15 minutes in length and staff will be available to answer questions and provide more information about the programs we run in the studio.  This event is for all ages!

For more information contact: Long & McQuade Musical Instruments

Phone: 604-270-3620

or visit www.long-mcquade.com

Digital Bird Photography Workshop

Time: 1 to 4 pm

Place: Richmond Nature Park

11851 Westminster Hwy, Richmond

Price: Registration required - $35

Learn tips and tricks on how to take pictures of fast moving birds in the wild. This workshop includes a presentation, hands-on instruction and a photo session in the Richmond Nature Park’s Wildlife Garden.

This event is for adults (Ages 18-54)

For more information visit www.richmond.ca/parksrec/ptc/naturepark/about

Richmond Nature Park

Phone: 604-718-6188