90 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, November 19

Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 90 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, November 19.

 

CONCERTS

The 18th annual West Coast Guitar Night at the Cultch features acoustic, jazz, classical, folk, Brazilian, and flamenco guitar music by Les Finnigan (above), Kent Hillman, Hanh Nguyen, Edgar Avelino, Alexander Flock, John Gilliat, and Rossi Tzonkov.

Belgian pop singer Antoine Chance makes his Vancouver premiere at the Revue Stage as part of the 2016 Vancouver Coup de cœur francophone concert series.

Canadian indie-rock band Wintersleep plays the Commodore, tours in support of its latest album The Great Detachment.

Coastal Jazz presents a concert celebrating jazz legends at Frankie's, featuring the Dave Sikula Quartet.

Caravan World Rhythms presents an evening featuring Macedonian folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Stefce Stojkovski, with guests Grupa Dunbarov, Djeram Tamburitza Band, Zlatna Mountain, and David Bilides, at the WISE Hall.

American heavy-metal band Ghost Ship Octavius plays Venue, with guests Felix Martin and the Fine Constant.

San Francisco experimental doom band OM plays the Rickshaw, with guest Daniel Higgs.

Rage Against the Machine tribute band Calm Like a Bomb plays Pat's Pub and Brewhouse, with guests Meatplow and the Big Richards.

The Montreal Guitar Trio plays the second of two nights at West Van's Kay Meek Centre.

The Temptations Revue, featuring Nate Evans, plays the River Rock Show Theatre.

Tracey and Jil's Big 50 Bash at R's Turf Hotel Pub in Surrey features performances by the Rekkening, Rock N Roll Nightmare, Dark Origin, P.C.PURE, MuffDusters, and T.D.G., with partial proceeds to the Children of the Street Society.

 

BENEFITS

Browse a selection of handmade crafts at Surrey's Sunshine Ridge Baptist Church and help raise money for Chain of Love, which provides homes for abandoned and abused children in Brazil.

Watershed Artworks Gallery Shop cohosts a Christmas artisan market at the North Delta Rec Centre, with admission by donation to the Deltassist Christmas Hamper Program.

 

ETCETERA

Heritage Christmas at Burnaby Village Museum features light displays, vintage shop-window displays, a visit with Father Christmas, live entertainment, fresh heritage baking, kids' crafts, a sing along, and a scavenger hunt.

The 45th annual Deer Lake Craft Festival at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts features works by over 55 artisans, including glass blowers, sculptors, potters, woodworkers, and fashion and jewellery designers.

The 44th annual Christmas at Hycroft features live entertainment, unique boutiques, traditional treats, and visits with Santa.

The Crofton House Winter Bizarre features midway games and prizes, a cakewalk, a portrait studio, a tween parlour, a tea room, and booths selling merchandise.

Swedish Christmas Fair at the Scandinavian Community Centre features over 30 vendors offering a wide range of products to purchase for the family, home, Christmas celebration, and gift giving.

Browse the work of over 60 artisans in a variety of media and styles at a Fall Art Show and Sale at the South Surrey Rec Centre.

Pop-up craft fair at St. Thomas More Collegiate features more than 100 juried vendors, door prizes, baked goods, a bistro, a book fair, and kids' activities.

Over 28 curated artisans sell fashion, pottery, jewellery, art, home decor, body care, and baby items at Fort Langley Community Hall.

Eastside Flea Holiday Market at the Ellis Building features over 50 local vendors, three food trucks, a live DJ, seasonal drink specials, pinball, and pool.

Shop for items created by over 60 talented crafters at the West End Community Centre's Holiday Craft Fair.

International Games Day at West Vancouver Memorial Library features board games with a professional games master, plus Wii and Minecraft.

Shop for art cards, handmade woolen goods, jewellery, ceramics, photography, and baked goodies at a Xmas Craft Market at UBC's Great Dane Coffee House.

Keep Scottish heritage alive in Vancouver with an evening of rousing music, traditional dancing, and authentic national cuisine at the Diamond Ballroom.

FlyOver America is a 10-minute flight-simulation ride at Flyover Canada that features beautiful landscapes of the U.S., including Hawaii, Alaska, and New York.

 

FASHION

The fifth annual Vancouver Alternative Arts and Fashion Week at the Chinese Cultural Centre showcases designers, visual artists, performers, and musical acts.

 

FOOD & DRINK

The Tri-Cities Cask Festival at Burrard Public House includes over 15 breweries producing their own casks.

 

FORUMS

Join Vancouver relationship coach Tara Caffelle for a day of celebration, discovery, and reconnection with your mate at Burnaby Lake Pavilion.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the World Peace Forum, a discussion at SFU Harbour Centre will examine the current national and international situation and pay special attention to movements of resistance.

Forum at St. Paul's Anglican Church on how to make choices and affect decisions around your end of life and subsequent death.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Celebrate Santa's arrival to Lougheed Town Centre with dance performances, live music, cookie decorating, and photos with Saint Nick.

Parents can bring their children into the Melk studio to create their own screen printed and stencilled works of art at the East Side Culture Crawl's Crawling for Kids.

Media-literacy youth conference at Hootsuite HQ brings high-school students from across Metro Vancouver together to discuss critical issues in the media which impact their everyday lives.

Kids can enjoy complimentary hot chocolate, balloons, Lindt truffles, cookie decorating, face painting, music by vocal quartet Fandango (above), dancing by the Vanleena Dance Academy, a visit from Santa Claus, and a tree-lighting ceremony at Park Royal Mall's Light Up the Village.

 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Chicago Blackhawks in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

 

TAKE ACTION

March and rally against the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline begins at Vancouver City Hall and ends at Library Square.

 

COMEDY

Brooklyn-born standup comedian and actor Brian Scolaro performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Just for Laughs presents the second of two nights of standup comedy by Dane Cook, Vinny Fasline, and John Campanelli at the Vogue Theatre.

Vancouver standup comedian John Cullen performs the third of three nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Sara Bynoe hosts a comedic reading series at the Fox Cabaret that sees people read from their embarrassing old teenage notebooks.

New Yorker cartoonist Jacob Samuel hosts an evening at Hot Art Wet City Gallery in which comedians explore the follies of youth.

Bloodfeud at Little Mountain Gallery features two competing teams of standup and improv comedians.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

The annual Eastside Culture Crawl allows visitors to experience the visual arts, design, and crafts of East Van by visiting nearly 500 artist studios, homes, and garages.

Take a tour of Martine Syms's exhibition at Audain Gallery that draws from her archives to speculate on the influences on her actor's gestures.

See a mail-art project and hear an artist talk by Lois Klassen at VIVO Media Arts.

World premiere of an A-to-Z burlesque adventure at the Rio Theatre starring April O'Peel, Sparkle Plenty, Scarlet Lux, Vixen Von Flex, Ruby Slickeur, DJ KTel, What Surname, and Yuki Ueda.

 

DANCE

A mixed evening of live and filmed contemporary dance at Scotiabank Dance Centre explores self-awareness, self-exploration, breaking free from expectations, and shattering one's perspective.

Candance Froebe and Laura Bloomberg facilitate a transformational dance experience with DJs Medicine Fox and Abheeru at Just Dance.

Learn to swing dance to the live music of the Jen Hodge Quintet at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

 

GALLERIES

Stare exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery features photographic works that evoke a fixed and concentrated gaze on the part of artist and viewer.

Juxtapoz x Superflat exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery offers a unique insight into contemporary art and its place in cultural life.

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

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

Walker Evans: Depth of Field at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 200 black and white and colour prints from the 1920s through to the 1970s.

 

LITERARY

George Opacic, writer and human-resources specialist, explains the ins and out of taxes for writers at Richmond Public Library.

 

MUSEUMS

Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 130 diverse cultural garments, from Japanese kimonos, to colourful Indian saris, to the elaborate feather cloaks of the Maori people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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.

 

MUSIC

Stuart Chafetz conducts the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Broadway hits at the Orpheum Theatre.

Vancouver Pro Musica presents a concert of original musical works by British Columbia composers as part of the Western Front's Electroacoustic Festival.

The NOW Society presents the Assembly1 Festival, a creative music and improvisational gathering at the Western Front and Merge that includes three concerts and two workshops.

Canadian pianist Barbara Pritchard performs music by Canadian contemporary composers at the Canadian Music Centre.

The UBC Symphony Orchestra, UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble, University Singers, and violinist David Gillham perform the music of Oscar- and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Corigliano at the Chan Shun Concert Hall.

Andrea Young’s ensemble EXO/ENDO performs works by Ulrich Krieger, Erin Gee, and John Mutter at the Orpheum Annex.

Jon Washburn, Carrie Tennant, and Kevin Zakresky conduct the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Pacifica Singers, and the Vancouver Youth Choir in a concert of works by Britten and Whitacre at Ryerson United Church.

 

THEATRE

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Avenue Q--the musical story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college graduate who arrives in New York City looking for love, a job, and his purpose in life--at Granville Island Stage.

Performance at Studio 58 of Troilus and Cressida, in which director Kevin Bennett puts a modern spin on Shakespeare's drama that sees lovers yearn to be true and warriors strive to be brave.

Touchstone Theatre presents a performance at the Cultch of Brothel #9, director Katrina Dunn's story about a young woman who is sold into a brothel by her brother-in-law.

Performance at Performance Works of Vancouver playwright Katey Hoffman's comedy, Green Lake, which explores growing up at summer camp and reconnecting with family later in life.

Exit 22 Productions presents its first production of Doris Baizley's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol, at Blueshore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Theatre in the Raw presents performances at Russian Hall of The Threepenny Opera, the musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that satirizes bourgeois capitalism and modern morality.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Miss Shakespeare, a play about the creative journey of the Bard's daughter.

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.

The Renegade Arts Co. present the musical The Who's Tommy--about a pinball-playing, "deaf, dumb, and blind boy" who triumphs over adversity--at the Shop Theatre.

United Players presents director Michael Fera's version of Henrik Ibsen's drama Ghosts at Jericho Arts Centre. 

Mitch and Murray Productions presents Lisa D'Amour's Detroit--a play about a fledgling suburbanite friendship that soon veers out of control--at Studio 16.

First Impressions Theatre presents Always..Patsy Cline, a play based on the life of the legendary country singer-songwriter, at Deep Cove Shaw 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.

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

The VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.

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 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 European Union Film Festival continues at the Cinematheque with screenings of Gelo (above) and Irreplaceable.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Landfill Harmonica, about a garbage picker and a music teacher who create instruments from trash and help turn a group of impoverished local youths into the Recycled Orchestra.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of director Anna Biller's 2016 film The Love Witch, about a witch who’s looking for love and willing to dabble in the dark arts to attain it.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Aquarius, about a woman who proves to be a force to be reckoned with when she challenges corrupt real-estate developers.

The Directors Guild of Canada and VIFF present a talk at Vancity Theatre with director and executive producer Michael Lehmann, whose credits include Scream Queens, Californication, True Blood, American Horror Story, and Heathers.

 

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