62 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, October 26

Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 62 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, October 26.

 

CONCERTS

As part of the Straight Series, L.A.-based rockers Young the Giant play the first of two nights at the Commodore, with guests Ra Ra Riot.

Swedish prog-metal band Opeth plays the Orpheum Theatre, with guests the Sword.

Chicago hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper plays the second of two nights at Thunderbird Arena.

Southern California punk-rock band Face to Face plays the Rickshaw.

California thrash-metal band The Shrine coheadlines with New Jersey hip-hop group Ho9909 at the Cobalt.

 

BENEFITS

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

 

FOOD & DRINK

Learn how to make cream puffs, profiteroles, chouquettes, and eclairs at the Uncommon Cafe.

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.

Eat a seasonal meal paired with beer by Parallel 49 Brewing at Dubh Linn Gate.

 

ETCETERA

Hear gruesome tales of Vancouver's past, visit Mountain View Cemetery, and climb the stairs to the city's first morgue on a Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour.

Take a 90-minute walking tour through the back streets and alleys of Gastown and explore Vancouver's gruesome history with the Lost Souls of Gastown.

Make connections with businesses from across the region at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Show, taking place at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.

Get an overview of the different crowdfunding platforms at the Vancouver Public Library Fraserview Branch.

 

FASHION

Fashion Influencer Birthday Party at Mine & Yours features a complimentary braid bar, cocktails, a DIY choker station, and the unveiling of the top four picks for hottest local style influencers.

 

FORUMS

Explore the $9-million, 21-year restoration project for Christ Church Cathedral at BCIT Downtown Campus.

Two-day supportive cancer-care workshop at InspireHealth provides practical information to help you optimize your overall health and wellbeing.

Georgetown University government prof Hans Noel and University of Madison-Wisconsin political science prof Byron Shafer discuss how the Republican nomination battle changed the future landscape of nominations and elections. Lecture takes place at UBC's Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre.

Talk at the Integrative Naturopathic Medical Centre will focus on cancer prevention, as well as the integrative cancer philosophy of the centre's cancer program.

Nerdy bar-lecture series at the Fox Cabaret features discussions on archaeology, aphantasia, and a guide to working with people outside of your field.

Dr. Nigel Haggan speaks on "The Poetics of Partnership" as part of St. Anselm's Anglican Church's Earth and Spirit speaker's series.

Town-hall discussion of the Site C Dam at Roundhouse Community Centre features speakers Grand Chief Stewart Philip, Emma Gilchrist, Ben Parfitt, and Morag Keegan-Henry.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Juno-winning children's entertainer Norman Foote and his Very Scary Big Voice Orchestra present a Halloween concert at Centennial 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 at Halloween at Flyover Canada.

At VanDusen Glow in the Garden kids can walk through the woods and see lights, hear ghoulish music, and observe glowing pumpkin characters before enjoying Halloween crafts.

 

COMEDY

American actor and comedian Anjelah Johnson performs a standup show at the Vogue Theatre.

Vancouver comedians go head-to-head in a battle of wit and insults at Little Mountain Gallery.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Opening of the 13th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, featuring twelve days of music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, spoken word, forums, workshops, and public art at various Vancouver venues.

The Inclusion Art Show and Sale at Heritage Hall features the recent creations of more than 200 artists who are working independently or in studios supported by Community Living agencies across Metro Vancouver.

 

DANCE

Toque Flamenco performs live flamenco music and dance at Kino Flamenco Tapas Bar.

 

LITERARY

Alix Born, Burcu Ozdemir, Carol Shilibeer, Duncan Shields, J.P. Lorence, Kyla del Rosario, Lozan Yamolky, Mark Moraes, Sebastien Wen, and Siobhan Barker share spooky stories at Café Deux Soleils. 

Ariadne Sawyer and Anita Aguirre Nieveras host World Poetry's seventh anniversary and a celebration of poet Candice James at New Westminster Public Library.

 

MUSIC

As part of the Wednesday Noon Hours concert series, baroque violinist Marc Destrubé (above), viola de gamba player Natala Mackie, and harpsichordist Michael Jarvis perform works by Rebel, Erlebach, Buxtehude, and Duphly at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

 

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.

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.

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

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bakersfield Mist, Stephen Sachs's story about a down-on-her-luck woman who invites an art dealer to authenticate a long-lost painting by the renowned Jackson Pollock. Running at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Standing Room Only Theatre presents the opening at CBC Studio 700 of Twelve Angry Jurors, a play that sees 12 jurors decide on the fate of a young boy.

Performance at the York Theatre of The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe, a mix of classical clowning and contemporary circus centered on, in, under, and around a magnificent grand piano.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

At Studio 16 Théâtre la Seizième presents Straight Jacket Winter, about a couple who travel from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter and attempt to integrate into their new city. 

Writer-director Mily Mumford's stage-noir thriller Frankenstein, 1945--which examines the monsters created by us and within us--runs at Studio 1398.

Trinity Western University’s School of the Arts, Media and Culture presents the British comedy Smash.

 

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 Vancouver Iranian Film Society presents a screening at Vancity Theatre of I, Soheil Beiraghi's taboo-breaking drama about an independent woman who becomes involved in smuggling alcohol.

Screening at the Vancity Theatre of The Lovers and the Despot, a documentary which chronicles the story of film director Shin Sang-ok and actor Choi Eun-hee, who were kidnapped by late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.

 

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