77 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, October 15

by Steve Newton on October 14th, 2016 at 2:00 PM

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Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 77 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, October 15.

CONCERTS

The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian alt-country singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith at the Rio.

American punk-rock bassist CJ Ramone, formerly of the Ramones, plays the Rickshaw with guests toyGuitar and the Shit Talkers.

Local pop singer-songwriter kele fleming launches her new album no static at the Cultch.

Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf plays the second of two nights at the Fox Cabaret, with guests Scattered Clouds.

Spanish finger-picking guitarist El Twanguero coheadlines with local rockabilly guitarist Paul Pigat at the Blueshore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Calgary pop-punk band tours Chixdiggit plays the Cobalt on its 25th anniversary tour.

Metal band the Devin Townsend Project plays the Vogue, with Between the Buried and Me.

British-born musician, producer, and DJ Quantic plays the Imperial.

Canadian rock bands Our Lady Peace and I Mother Earth coheadline the Abbotsford Centre, with guests the Standstills.

Absolute Journey Tribute from Toronto performs at the Edgewater Casino's Stadium Club.

Chicago-based rock 'n' roll band North By North plays the Fairview Pub, with guests Thee Magic Circle, the Godspot, and Milkers Wanted.

BENEFITS

Circus-themed haunted house at Beaumont Studio raises money for the B.C. Women's Hospital and Care Centre Foundation.

The Arts Umbrella's 34th annual Splash fundraiser at Performance Works features an auction, food, music, and art in support of accessible arts-education programs.

Kitsch n' Sync presents a dinner-theatre and sketch-comedy show at New Westminster's Columbia Theatre in support of the Parkinson Society British Columbia.

Night of music bingo, live music, and a silent auction at Burnaby Lake Rugby Club supports Thank You for the Music, which delivers programs and projects that overcome the barriers communities face accessing music.

Highlights of Theatre Replacement's annual fundraiser at West 7 Studios include live and silent auctions, a 50/50 draw, and the launch of an East Van Panto-themed beer.

ETCETERA

The third annual Vancouver Halloween Parade and Expo at UBC Robson Square features arts, cosplay, comics, anime, films, and games.

Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tours feature gruesome tales of Vancouver's past with visits to Mountain View Cemetery and the city's first morgue, housed in the Vancouver Police Museum.

Diwali Fest continues, featuring cabaret-style performances, Diwali Fest Theatre, and community events such as culinary demonstrations, storytelling sessions, pop-up performances, and workshops on rangoli design and Bollywood dancing.

The Deja Vu Vintage Market at the Pipe Shop features over 30 vendors specializing in home and garden décor, collectibles and furnishing, jewelry, and handmade gifts.

The East Van Bazaar features over 40 local vendors, collectors, crafters, and creators at the Hall on the corner of Venables and Commercial.

Antique and Collectible Show at the Cloverdale Fairground features over 100 tables of coins, stamps, postcards, ephemera, furniture, and First Nations art.

Helen Cain leads a Heritage Vancouver tour that explores the community vision, planning, urban design, development, and current issues shaping the future of False Creek South.

FOOD & DRINK

The Apple Festival at UBC Botanical Garden features tastings, demonstrations, activities, music, over 60 varieties of apples to buy, and approximately 50 varieties of apple trees for sale.

The 12th annual Taste of Yaletown features an array of sharing dishes matched with wine and cocktail pairings, with partial proceeds from each meal donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

Culinary evening at the Italian Cultural Centre features a four-course dinner of Italian-inspired cuisine, interwoven with stories of travels to Tuscany.

FORUMS

Learn specific strategies and insights for writing strong funding and exhibition applications at a workshop with Annie Briard at Burnaby Art Gallery.

KIDS' STUFF

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.

Take a spooky journey across Canada as you graduate from the Haunted Witches Academy at Halloween at Flyover Canada.

The Momentum Youth Arts Festival at New Westminster's Massey Theatre features music, visual arts, dance, and workshops.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Calgary Flames in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

Irish-Canadian standup comedian, actor, and writer Tommy Campbell performs the second of two nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Texas standup comedian Sean Kent performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Geeks versus Nerds Vancouver presents debates at Seven Dining Lounge on the greatest blue-collar fighter of the macabre and who would run the most killer Halloween party.

Teams of standup and improv comedians compete at Little Mountain Gallery at an event hosted by Matty Vu and Malcolm McLeod.

Six guest actors and six improvisers perform six mashed-up scenes from six different plays at Havana Theatre.

DANCE

In collaboration with the Vancouver Diwali Festival 2016, Karen Flamenco presents a performance of Mozart's classic opera The Magic Flute at Vancouver Playhouse.

Dances for a Small Stage 34 kicks off the season with a performance at the ANZA Club that features a range of popular dance styles.

Out Innerspace Dance Theatre presents Major Motion Picture, which explores surveillance, propaganda, and belief through eccentric and lawless characters at Firehall Arts Centre.

LITERARY

The fifth annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair at the Vancouver Art Gallery features books, magazines, zines, print ephemera, talks, performances, and artists' projects.

Book launch at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden of Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton.

Authors Christian Fink-Jensen and Randolph Eustance-Walden present the Vancouver launch of Aloha Wanderwell at Havana.

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.

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.

The exhibition Betrayal at Babylon features works by Keith Langergraber at the Burnaby Art Gallery.

MUSEUMS

Works by Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupton that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples on display at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

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

Karina Canellakis conducts violinist Karen Gomyo and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of works by Mozart, Berg, and Rachmaninoff.

The Vancouver New Music 2016 Festival at the Orpheum Annex features a variety of musicians and sound artists who are developing both mechanical and algorithmic systems to generate sound works, compositions, and installations.

The Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble performs new music written by four Canadian composers at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives.

The West Coast Symphony Orchestra performs works by Tchaikovsky and Schumann at New Westminster's Queens Avenue United Church.

Violinist Anne Stride and guitarist Frank Bond perform music by Bach, Kreisler, Jobim, and Chick Corea at Coquitlam's Place Des Arts.

Vocalist, actress, and ethnomusicologist Julia Ulehla will discusses possibilities of song, voice, and encounter at China Cloud, with concert by the Dálava band.

THEATRE

Pangburn Philosophy presents Mulan the Musical, which uses Chinese drum music, traditional kung fu, and dance to tell the story of one girl's determination to save her family.

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

Performance at the York Theatre of Piya Behrupiya, the Company Theatre's Bollywood-influenced adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director Dean Paul Gibson's version of Annie Baker's play The Flick at Granville Island Stage.

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

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

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

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

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.

Matchmaker Productions presents The Concierge of Vancouver, which satirizes the Vancouver housing crisis, at Studio 1398.

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.

UBC Theatre and Film presents Christopher Marlowe's Edward II at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Performance at Studio 58 of Love, the Sea, which weaves together collected letters from Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries to explore the moment after the end.

Preview at Presentation House Theatre of Sean O'Leary's Walt Whitman's Secret, which mines the life of the American poet for insights about creativity, sexuality, and love.

ATTRACTIONS

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

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

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