48 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, October 23

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 48 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, October 23.

       

      CONCERTS

      English rock band the Boxer Rebellion plays the Biltmore, touring in support of latest album Ocean by Ocean.

      Finnish death-metal band Demilich plays the Red Room Ultrabar, with guests Hooded Menace, Vastum, and Temple of Abandonment.

      Southern California rock band Bad Suns plays the Imperial, with guests Coin.

      Canadian brother-and-sister musical duo Matthew and Jill Barber plays Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

      American guitarist-vocalist Dan Bern plays the WISE Hall, with guests Jack Garton and the Demon Squadron.

       

      BENEFITS

      Yoga class at Brainstation Vancouver raises money for KidSport Vancouver, which ensures that kids in financial need have access to the positive experience of sport and physical activity.

      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.

       

      ETCETERA

      Indie record labels from across Metro Vancouver take part in a day of live music, beer, food, and vinyl at New Westminster's Steel and Oak Brewing Co.

      Shop from over 30 local vendors at the Elemental Trends Fall Harvest Market at the Croatian Cultural Centre.

      Women's expo at the Four Seaons Hotel focuses on fashion, beauty, health, fitness, food, home, business, and career.

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      Celebrate B.C. Craft Beer Month in Port Moody with tours of Moody Ales, Twin Sails Brewing, Yellow Dog Brewing, and the Parkside Brewery.

       

      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.

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

       

      SPORTS

      The Vancouver Giants take on the Tri-City Americans in Western Hockey League action at Langley Events Centre.

       

      DANCE

      Dance Allsorts at the Roundhouse Community Centre features a mixed program of contemporary dance, showcasing new works by project20 and Lesley Telford.

       

      COMEDY

      Streetfight features an hour of head-to-head short-form improv by 10 comedians at Havana Theatre.

       

      LITERARY

      Final day of the 2016 Vancouver Writers Festival, which features such authors as Sharon Olds (above), David Bergen, Craig Davidson, Jim Lynch, Riel Nason, Cordelia Strube, Amy Stuart, Fred Wah, Adam Haslett, Sam Wiebe, Robert Olen Butler, and Clea Young.

       

      MUSIC

      The Postmodern Camerata performs works by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Terry Riley, and Dominick Argento at Dunbar Heights United Church.

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

       

      GALLERIES

      Bill Reid Creative Journeys at Bill Reid Gallery marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii.

      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

      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.

      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 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 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.

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

       

      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.

      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.

      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

      The last day of the Vancouver Polish Film Festival at Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema featuresscreenings of Planet Single (above), Strange HeavenGenerations, and Mother of Kings.

      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.

       

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