40 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, October 9

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 40 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, October 9.

       

      CONCERTS

      American rock band White Fang coheadlines the Cobalt with No Parents, with guests Birth Defects.

      Dutch house superstar Sander Van Doorn plays Venue, with guest Kryder.

      Belarus punk-rock band Brutto plays the Rickshaw, with guests Lyapis Trubetskoy.

      French heavy-metal band Gojira plays the Vogue, with guests TesseracT.

      American electronic-rock duo Phantogram plays the Commodore.

       

      ETCETERA 

      Kitty Nights Burlesque presents Octoberlesque at the Biltmore Cabaret, featuring eight burlesque performers, an intermission go-go dancer, and a post-show dance party with DJ Evilyn 13.

       

      FORUMS

      Discover the pilates method in free introductory classes with teacher, dance artist, and Dance Centre artist-in-residence Noam Gagnon.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Fright Nights at Playland is in full swing, featuring seven haunted houses, two live shows, 15 rides, and 90 monsters roaming the grounds.

      The Stanley Park Ghost Train celebrates the Day of the Dead with a ride through a tunnel of flames and a haunted graveyard, live music, and theatrical performances.

       

      COMEDY

      Instant Theatre presents improv comedy inspired by the worlds of film and music at Havana Theatre.

       

      LITERARY

      Meet Roz MacLean, the author and illustrator of The Body Book, a kids' picture book that celebrates all body types.

       

      GALLERIES

      Photographs by Henry Callahan of the streets of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico, Portugal, and Wales on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      Exhibition of mixed-media works by Mila Karavai at West Vancouver's Silk Purse Art Gallery.

      Installation by Andreas Bunke at SFU Gallery explores the interplay between technology, architecture, and the body.

      Photographs by Vancouver-based artist Stephen Waddell, printed to a large scale using traditional silver gelatin materials, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      An Agreeable State of Uncertainty at the Vancouver Art Gallery features photographs, drawings, prints, and paintings by artists such as Weegee, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Leon Golub, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Jack Shadbolt, and Fred Herzog.

      Works by Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen and Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      Marianne Nicolson's installation Oh, How I Long For Home at SFU's Teck Gallery addresses a persistent idea of the city as a conflicted promise for indigenous people.

       

      MUSEUMS

      The Museum of Anthropology at UBC hosts an exhibition that features the carvings of Papua New Guinea's Iatmul people.

      At the Museum of Vancouver, you can explore the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-to-wall displays of unconventional objects.

       

      MUSIC

      Mezzo soprano Fabiana Katz and guitarist Stephen Boswell present a Latin program at Roedde House Museum.

      Under the direction of David Boothroyd, the Burnaby Lyric Opera presents an excerpt from Richard Wagner's Die Walküre at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

       

      THEATRE

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director John Murphy's version of Ken Ludwig's zany whodunit Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

      Performance at Studio 58 of Angels in America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play set during the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York City.

      Vancouver-based Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles present James & Jamesy in the Dark, an adventure about discovery and creation, at the Waterfront Theatre.

      Motherload, a dark comedy about the reality of modern parenting, plays at the Cultch.

      Performance at the Jericho Arts Centre of Flare Path, Terence Rattigan's drama about life for the RAF bomber crews in wartime Britain.

      Performance at Studio 16 of Offside Theatre's Den of Thieves, Stephen Adly Guirgis's play about a recovering kleptomaniac.

      Pacific Theatre presents A Good Way Out, a compelling look into the precarious world of crime and compromise.

      Performance at Granville Island of the Virtual Stage's Dead in the Water, an interactive-theatre adventure in which audience members must defeat a strange new breed of mutant zombie-vampires.

      Performance at PAL Theatre of Western Gold Theatre's Comfort Cottages, the story of four single female friends of retirement age who are unsettled financially and emotionally.

      Bad Girls the Musical--which tells the story of a group of prison inmates and their battle against the entrenched old guard system--plays at Renegade Arts Studio.

      The Sidekick Players Club opens its 20th season with Norm Foster's Mending Fences at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

      Vagabond Players present the world premiere of Elizabeth Elwood's play Body and Soul at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.

      The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor.

      The VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.

      At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

      The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

       

      MOVIES

      Screening of the tense Canadian thriller Mean Dreams at International Village 9 as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. which runs until October 14 at various Vancouver locations.

       

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