50 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, November 27

Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 50 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, November 27.

CONCERTS

Canadian jazz singer-songwriter Christie Grace plays Frankie's, accompanied by pianist Michael Creber, woodwinds player James Danderfer, guitarist Bill Coon, bassist Rene Worst, and drummer Buff Allen.

The Lazy Jacks and Doug the Fiddler and Friends perform sea shanties and take part in a fiddle jam session at Old Hastings Mill Store Museum.

BENEFITS

Vote on your favourite gingerbread creation and get your photo with Santa at Grouse Mountain, with proceeds to SOS Children’s Village B.C.'s programs and homes for local foster children and homeless youth.

The ongoing Lights of Hope Christmas lights display at St. Paul's Hospital raises funds for the St. Paul's Foundation.

Take a self-guided tour of five homes on Vancouver's Westside and help support kids in the community through Kids Help Phone.

Have your pets professionally photographed with Santa at Tisol Pet Supply and Nutrition, with proceeds to Dhana Metta Rescue Society.

The Langley Ukulele Ensemble perform a holiday concert in support of the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society at North Van's Holiday Inn and Suites.

ETCETERA

The Vancouver Christmas Market continues at Jack Poole Plaza, featuring traditional German cuisine, mulled wine, gingerbread, German beer, a Christmas pyramid, a large heated tent overlooking the North Shore, entertainment, a carousel, and vendors selling gifts and treasures.

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.

Portobello West market at Creekside Community Recreation Centre includes over 85 vendors, drinks, live music, and food trucks.

Shop for anything from LPs to old fashioned tools, vintage gig posters to hand-crafted underpants at the WISE Hall Flea Market.

Shop for arts and crafts, baked goods, Christmas goodies, and refreshments at the Scandinavian Community Centre's Scandinavian Craft Fair.

FOOD & DRINK

Blue Heron Creamery chef Karen McAthy teaches you how to make dairy-free cheese at Homestead Junction.

FORUMS

Join the Stanley Park Ecology Society at Lost Lagoon Nature House for a two-hour walking exploration to learn about bird identification and behaviour.

KIDS' STUFF

The Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra and Bard on the Beach founder Christopher Gaze present a kid-friendly concert of classical music by Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninoff at the Orpheum.

Local troupe Vancouver Puppet Theatre presents three short puppet shows at the Silk Purse Arts Centre.

Last day of the Disney ice show--featuring characters from Cars, Toy Story 3, The Little Mermaid, and Frozen--continues at the Pacific Coliseum.

Help Santa search for his missing elves during an exhilarating simulated flight-ride experience across Canada and on to the North Pole at Flyover Canada.

Family-friendly entertainment with Pinocchio, Geppetto, and Jiminy Christmas at Surrey Arts Centre's Pinocchio the Pantomime.

DANCE

SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations performs Balinese choreographer Wayan Dibia's new production Pralaya at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

GALLERIES

Fear, Hope, and Longing III, an exhibition of David A. Haughton's paintings of Vancouver Island's western coast, is showing at Visual Space Gallery.

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.

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.

LITERARY

First day of the annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, which features meet-the-author opportunities, readings, workshops, and panel discussions at the Jewish Community Centre. Participating authors include Tom Wayman (above), Irvin Yalom, B.A. Shapiro, Daniel Kalla, Noah Leavitt, Glenda Leznoff, Ella Zeltserman, and Michael Wex.

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

The West End Chamber Choir performs Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Mozart's Six Nocturnes at St. Paul's Anglican Church.

Burnaby Lyric Opera's annual Christmas concert fundraiser at Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for the Arts features highlights from Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel.

The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra Senior Orchestra performs music of the Russian ballet, including works by Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, at Burnaby's Michael J. Fox Theatre.

Opera Pro Cantanti presents its rendition of Verdi's Nabucco at Cambrian Hall.

The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra Junior Orchestra performs works by Tartini, Vivaldi, and Vaughan Williams at Burnaby's Michael J. Fox Theatre.

THEATRE

Performance at the York Theatre of East Van Panto: Little Red Riding Hood, Theatre Replacement's pantomime that sees Little Red Riding Hood battling bike thieves, distracted drivers, and the Big Bad Wolf.

Opening at the Waterfront Theatre of Carousel Theatre for Young People's A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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.

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

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 Presentation House of Baking Time, a play for kids 3-and-up about a pair of bakers who encounter mischievous doughy characters and venture through forests of breadstick trees and magical floury storms. 

ATTRACTIONS

Grouse Mountain resort features a Skyride to the peak with views of Vancouver and the Pacific Ocean, as well as skiing and snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating, mountain ziplines, and the Peak of Christmas.

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.

MOVIES

The European Union Film Festival continues at the Cinematheque with screenings of Santa from Lithuania and Kaisa's Enchanted Forest (above) from Finland.

Last day of the three-day Vancouver Turkish Film Festival at Vancity Theatre features screenings of the films Cold of Kalandar and 61 Days.

Vancouver filmmaker and animator Gord Stanfield premieres his feature film The Glove at the Rio Theatre.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of writer-director Matt Johnson's Operation Avalanche, about two young CIA agents who go undercover at NASA to investigate a possible Russian mole during the Cold War.

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