80 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, October 29

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 29.

 

CONCERTS

North Carolina indie-folk/roots act Hiss Golden Messenger plays the Fox Cabaret.

Adults-only Halloween party at the Commodore features DJ Flipout spinning hits.

Acoustic guitarist Trace Bundy performs a fundraising concert at Blueshore Financial in support of the DuncanAfrica Society, which fights poverty by creating guitars by hand in their trade school in Uganda.

Australian indie-folk quintet Boy and Bear plays the Commodore, with guests Cobi.

L.A.-based hip-hop artist K. Flay plays the Biltmore, touring in support of latest EP Crush Me.

Michigan hip-hop artist Waldo plays Alexander Gastown, with guest DJs Marlon J. English, Flipout, and Cherchez.

The Joe Trio--violinist Cameron Wilson, cellist Charles Inkman, and pianist Allen Stiles--performs unique arrangements of pop, jazz and rock tunes at North Van's Centennial Theatre.

 

BENEFITS

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

Haunted house themed around a spooky museum of unnatural history. with proceeds to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of B.C. & Yukon.

 

FOOD & DRINK

At Coast Coal Harbour Hotel's Spirits of Japan event, experience products from Artisan Sake Maker, Axis Planning, CMC Sake + Wine Merchants, Jizake Japan, Kanaya Shuzouten, Kanazawa Wines, Odd Society Spirits, the Parkside Brewery, Powell Street Craft Brewery, and PureSake4U.

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

The four-day Vancouver Home + Design Show at the Vancouver Conventon Centre features ideas, advice, and inspiration from more than 350 brands and local companies, and industry personalities like HGTV’s Mia Parres and Rob Evans of The Expandables.

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.

Circus of the Damned Halloween party at the Vancouver Rowing Club features DJs, dancing, costumes, and happy hour.

 

FORUMS

Learn how different materials enhance your soil, foster a healthy soil ecosystem, and grow strong plants with greater resistance to pests and disease at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

Improve your digital photography skills using your iPhone, Android, iPad, or other smart device at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

 

KIDS' STUFF

All-ages, family-friendly show at the WISE Hall by the comedy-musical duo Koo Koo Kanga Roo.

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.

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.

Kids can see spooky fairy tales come to life and sample treats from a haunted bakery at Burnaby Village Museum's Haunted Village.

Family-friendly afternoon of spooky science at SFU features creepy creatures, hands-on science activities, and physics and chemistry shows.

Family concert at ArtStarts features a unique collaboration between Scottish bagpipe player Joe MacDonald and Korean sitar player Andrew Kim.

VPL writer in residence Sam Wiebe leads a teen radio-play workshop at Vancouver Public Library.

 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Washington Capitals in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

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

 

TAKE ACTION

Conference at SFU Harbour Centre examines struggles for autonomy in Canada, the history of the Rojavan Revolution, and environmental protection.

 

COMEDY

Toronto standup comedian Casey Corbin performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Canadian comic Kathleen McGee performs the second of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Halloween Monster Match at the Improv Centre features costumed performers, DJs, a costume parade, and a complimentary glass of witches brew.

Instant Theatre presents its season-opening improv-comedy show at Havana Theatre, featuring original music by Geoffrey Walter.

The Comedy Basement at Goldie's Pizza features professional and up-and-coming comedians.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

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

 

DANCE

Long Island City–based dance company Jessica Lang Dance performs Thousand Yard Stare--a piece that evokes humanity, loss, and longing--at the Vancouver Playhouse.

 

LITERARY

Get deals on thousands of books--with nothing priced over $2.50--at the annual Vancouver Public Library Book Sale.

 

MUSIC

Carlo Montanaro leads pianist Andrew von Oeyen and the Vancouver Symphony in a performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Overture and Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Eric Wilson leads soloists and chamber ensembles from the UBC Strings Division at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

Evening of praise and worship at Surrey's Chandos Pattison Auditorium, featuring original song compositions created by members of the Couples for Christ community.

 

GALLERIES

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

Works by Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen and Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

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.

 

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 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.

At the Rio Theatre the Geekenders present Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, about a man and a woman who get stranded at the castle of a transvestite scientist.

Preview at PAL Theatre of Fighting Chance Productions' Now or Later, Christopher Shinn's play about a son who jeopardizes his father's presidential campaign.

Opening at Pacific Theatre of the one-woman show Suitcase Stories, about a woman who leaves her home in South Korea and takes off for Canada, simply because her brother had a map of Toronto.

Performance at Presentation House Theatre of Ages of the Moon, Sam Shepard's darkly funny play about two friends who are reunited by mutual desperation on the eve of a lunar eclipse.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Metro Theatre presents Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's story of a pair of sisters who are thrust out of their estate and onto the charity of others.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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.

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

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

Halloween Vampires at the Cinematheque features screenings of revisionist vampire films The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Hunger, and Near Dark.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Marcin Wrona's Demon, which tells the story of a bridegroom who is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration.

Screening at Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema of The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, which unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives.

Original Ghostbusters Halloween quote-a-long and screening party at the Rio Theatre.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Nettie Wild's environmental documentary Koneline: our land beautiful.

At the Vancouver Film School Open House, learn about its education model, student experience, and reputation.

Screening at the River District Drive-in of John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic, Halloween.

Screening at the River District Drive-in of Monsters Inc., the animated film about two monsters who discover that human children aren't quite what they seem.

 

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