80 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, October 22

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      Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 80 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, October 22.

       

      CONCERTS

      East Van Opry at the Rio Theatre features roots-country music by Petunia and the Vipers (above), Dawn Pemberton, Carolyn Mark, Sam Parton, Khari Wendell McClelland, Twin Peaks, the Burying Ground, Elliot C. Way, the Wild North, Kitty & the Rooster, JJ Lavallee, Fagan Furlong, the Vicious Cycles, Big Top, Viper Central, and the East Van Country Band.

      Canadian folk-pop brother-and-sister duo Matthew Barber and Jill Barber plays the Vogue.

      L.A. rapper Schoolboy Q plays the PNE Forum, with guest Joey Bada$$.

      Spanish classical and flamenco guitarist Pepe Romero plays the Chan Centre.

      Florida rock band Jacuzzi Boys plays the Cobalt, tours in support of new album Ping Pong.

      The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk vocalist-guitarist Roy Forbes at St. James Hall.

      Transylvanian-born, New York City-based pianist-composer Lucian Ban teams up with American violist Mat Manieri at the Western Front to re-imagine Sun Ra, Butch Morris, Transylvanian doinas, Enesco and Bartok pieces amongst original compositions.

      Roots and blues singer-songwriter and slide-guitar specialist Martin Harley plays the second of two nights at Kay Meek Centre.

       

      BENEFITS

      Rockin' for Research presents Sunset at the Taj Mahal at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, featuring music by the Famous Players Band, with proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

      Spinal Chord Gala at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre features choral music by the Vancouver Cantata Singers, hors d'oeuvres, desserts, and a silent auction, with proceeds to ICORD and the Vancouver Cantata Singers.

      Oktoberfest Pub Night at the Richmond Curling Club features silent and live auctions, music, dinner and drinks, and a candy/dessert bar, with proceeds to the Richmond Animal Protection Society.

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

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      The B.C. Uncorked Food and Wine Festival at Port Moody's Heritage Woods Secondary School showcases wines from 50 B.C. wineries, matched with cuisine provided by 10 local restaurants and caterers.

      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 how to make four different recipes using a basic brioche dough at a baking class at the Uncommon Cafe.

       

      ETCETERA

      Dress up in your silliest costume and hit the trails at Lynn Headwaters Park for either a five- or 10-kilometre race, sponsored by MEC North Vancouver.

      Fall for Local presents a bi-annual Pop Up Market for independent businesses to showcase their brands and sell their goods at Lonsdale Quay.

      The Union LGBT Wedding Show at Beaumont Studios showcases LGBT-positive wedding professionals in an inclusive environment.

      Learn how to create your own natural medicine cabinet using non-alcohol ingredients as bases at Homestead Junction.

      The self-guided Laneway House Tour features examples new and old of gentle densification on heritage properties.

      Show and sale of fine art and crafts made from natural or synthetic fibers at South Surrey Recreation Centre.

      Craft your own cures with a person of First Nations descent as she guides you through the medicinal qualities and traditional uses of our native plants at Stanley Park Pavilion.

      Mister Nickel hosts a night of spooky burlesque at New West's Columbia Theatre, featuring performances by Nite Mare, Veronica Vex, Scarlet Delirium, Malvina Masvino, Precious Metal, Rosie Thornbush, Racy Cake, Diamond Minx, and Mr Yoyothrower.

       

      FORUMS

      Forum at the Museum of Vancouver explores art as a catalyst for sparking community imagination around belonging, trust, and social resiliency in urban centres.

      Samantha Sivertz reviews plant characteristics needed to identify conifers and how to use an identification key out in the field at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Vancouver jazz singer and children's entertainer Jennifer Gasoi takes the audience on a musical tour at Waterfront Theatre.

      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 atHalloween at Flyover Canada.

      Felting class at Port Moody Arts Centre where kids ages eight to 14 can learn how to create a Halloween decoration for the home.

      Surrey's Spooktacular Newton features trick-or-treating, petting zoo, crafts and games, a spook theatre, a photo booth, and surprise dance performances.

      Meet ghoulish characters at Richmond's Gulf of Georgia Cannery and help investigate who is haunting the cannery and why.

       

      SPORTS

      The B.C. Lions take on the Edmonton Eskimos in Canadian Football League action at BC Place.

      The Vancouver Giants take on the Swift Current Broncos in Western Hockey league action at Langley Events Centre.

      Wise Pro Wrestling presents matches between Leatherface, Kenny Lush, Joey Ryan, Jeff Cobb, and El Phantasmo at the Rickshaw Theatre.

       

      COMEDY

      Legendary English comedians and Monty Python alumni John Cleese and Eric Idle perform the third of three nights at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

      Vancouver comedian Phil Hanley performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      American comedian and actor Alonzo Bodden plays the second of two nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      Standup comedian and New Yorker cartoonist Jacob Samuel hosts a night of comedy at Hot Art Wet City Gallery featuring Chris James, Brent Constantine, Maddy Kelly, Brad Dorion, and Gavin Clarkson.

      Beverley Elliott, Fatima Dhowre, Hector Riva, and Chelsey Stuyt tell four true stories and one big lie at the Drive Coffee Bar on Commericial.

      Shakespeare After Dark fuses Shakespeare with improvisation at Havana Theatre.

       

      DANCE

      Vision Impure artistic director Noam Gagnon presents a provocative new work at Scotiabank Dance Centre that explores how our bodies and sense of self can continuously morph and evolve.

      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

      The Vancouver Writers Festival continues, featuring such authors as Gail Anderson Dargatz (above), Wade Davis, Michael Koryta, Yann Martel, Teva Harrison, Sam Wiebe, Sarah Glidden, Madeleine Thien, Michael Helm, M.G. Vassanji, Lindy West, Joy Kogawa, Ivan Coyote, Kenneth Oppel, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Billie Livingston.

      Students from SFU's creative-writing programs read works of fiction, speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel.

      Night of spoken-word and music mashups that pay tribute to Johnny Cash and his album Live From Folsom Prison at Seven Dining Lounge.

       

      MUSIC

      Jun Märkl conducts violinist Stefan Jackiw and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of works by Hosokawa, Mendelssohn, and Debussy at the Orpheum Theatre.

      The Postmodern Camerata chamber ensemble performs works by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Terry Riley, and Dominick Argento at St. Paul's Anglican Church.

      The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra performs works by Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, and Brahms with guest pianist Sunny Yu Que at Shaughnessy Heights United Church.

       

      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.

      Ceramics by Judy Chartrand at Bill Reid Gallery present her own personal history and insights into life in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

      Layers of Love at the Bill Reid Gallery features wearable art by Clarissa Rizal and Sho Sho Esquiro.

       

      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

      ITSAZOO presents Hidden, a site-specific horror event at UBC Botanical Garden that guides audiences through a re-enactment of infamous and unsolved murders.

      A transit cop attempt to solve her husband’s murder and finds herself mixed up in Vancouver’s criminal underground in Three Stories Up at Ukrainian Hall.

      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 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 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.

      Live stage production of George Romero's cult-classic film Night of the Living Dead at CBC Studio 700.

      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

      Edgewater Casino offers 24-hour gaming, over 60 table games, a poker room, a high-limit section, 500 slot machines, restaurants and lounges, and live entertainment, including concerts and televised UFC events.

      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.

      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 at the Cinematheque of Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, which serves as both an illuminating treatise on being witness and a slowly-unfurling, affecting portrait of a mother and daughter.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Vitaly Mansky's Under the Sun, which examines life behind North Korea’s Iron Curtain as it chronicles an average Pyongyang family whose eight-year-old daughter is being inducted into the state’s Korean Children’s Union.

      The Vancouver Polish Film Festival continues at Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, featuring screenings of Jarocin. Rock for Freedom, Fragments, Blindness, The Red Spider, Chemo, Kamper Strange Heaven, Mother of Kings, Generations, and Planet Single.

       

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