48 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, October 19

Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 48 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, October 19.

 

CONCERTS

American shock-rock legend Alice Cooper plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Hamilton-based roots rocker tours Terra Lightfoot plays the Media Club, with guest Dante Hadden.

Nashville country singer-songwriter Margo Price plays the Imperial, touring in support of debut album Midwest Farmer's Daughter.

American pop singer, violinist, and composer Kishi Bashi plays the Fox Cabaret.

Irish punk band Stiff Little Fingers plays the Commodore, touring in support of latest album No Going Back.

 

BENEFITS

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

 

FOOD & DRINK

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.

Learn to safely preserve veggies from your garden using mason jars and a water-bath canner at Gardenworks in Burnaby.

 

FORUMS

Joe Dolce discusses the history and future of cannabis at Banyen Books & Sound.

Presentation at UBC's C.K. Choi Building deals with the essence of nationhood in the post-colonial Indian drama following an interdisciplinary approach.

Barry Po discusses the current and future applications of augmented and virtual reality at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

Talk about your worst job and learn about your workplace rights under the Employment Standards Act and other B.C. laws at VCC Downtown.

Evening at The Art of Loving covers erotic techniques and products that will enable you and your partner to enjoy a heightened level of pleasure.

Class at VanDusen Botanical Garden explores how to incorporate ferns into your garden, offering interesting textural contrast to other plants.

Marc Lee discusses lessons from the climate-justice project at St. Anselm's Anglican Church.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Fright Nights at Playland features 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.

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

 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Giants take on the Saskatoon Blades in Western Hockey League action at Langley Events Centre.

 

TAKE ACTION

Democrats Abroad present a live broadcast at Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar of the final U.S. presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.

 

COMEDY

Sara Bynoe hosts an event at Cottage Bistro where performers put their comedic spin on some of the worst writing in print.

Evening of comedy at the Rio Theatre inspired by cult-hit card game Cards Against Humanity features new Clinton and Trump cards.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Discuss photographic techniques and creative composition while you visit some of Vancouver's landmarks on a Historic Gastown Photowalk.

 

DANCE

I Care What You Think at the Shadolt Centre for the Arts invites the audience explore how the perfect dance exists in the spaces between, around, and within us all.

 

LITERARY

Claudia Casper reads from her novel The Mercy Journals--which examines what the continent of North America will look like in 50 years--at Capilano University.

 

MUSIC

The Vancouver Recital Society presents the Danish String Quartet in a program of works by Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, and Beethoven at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Spacemelt at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall features clarinetist Sam Davidson, recorder player Terri Hron, drummer Ben Brown, pianist Lisa Miller, and visual artist Michael Markowsky.

 

GALLERIES

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

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

 

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.

 

THEATRE

Performance at Studio 16 of Théâtre la Seizième's Straight Jacket Winter, in which a couple travels from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter and attempts to integrate into their new city.

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.

Performance at the Cultch of Fight Night, which puts five actors into the position of candidates struggling to get the audience’s sympathy and their vote.

Performance at Firehall Arts Centre of Mamahood: turn and face the strange, Nicolle Nattrass's one-woman show, which tells the story of an extremely deprived first-time mother who dares to tell the tale of her descent into motherhood as she travels to an alternate time and place.

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

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.

Boca del Lupo presents Red Phone, an audience-to-audience experience utilizing the intimacy of a phone call and the technology of a teleprompter to connect strangers at the Fishbowl.

 

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.

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.

 

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of local director Alex Lasheras's psychological thriller Cadence as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival's VIFF Repeats series.

Frames of Mind presents a screening at the Cinematheque of The Farewell Party, a humanistic film that walks the line between comedy and tragedy.

 

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