48 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, November 30

Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 48 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, November 30.

 

CONCERTS

Los Angeles–based rock band CRX, featuring Nick Valensi from the Strokes, plays the Biltmore.

American country-music duo Brothers Osborne plays the second of two nights at the Commodore.

 

BENEFITS

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

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. 

 

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 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.

Robbin McKinney presents a slideshow of images and video from cycling trips around the world at Studio 16.

 

FASHION

The Latest Scoop presents a show of its winter fashion collection at its new store in Gastown, with Olympian Krista Guloien as emcee.

 

FORUMS

Meet city councillor Adriane Carr at a town hall at Gordon Neighbourhood House and share your thoughts about issues in Vancouver.

Stephanie Simmons discusses how quantum technologies will fundamentally change our lives, and provides a snapshot of the worldwide race to build a prototype, at SFU Harbour Centre.

Talk on China at SFU Harbour Centre will discuss how political turmoil, new media, and other forces nurtured cultures of humor in a modernizing society, from the last days of empire to the digital age.

Music in the Morning presents veteran broadcaster, writer, and speaker Eric Friesen in conversation with Canadian mezzo-soprano Judith Forst at the Vancouver Academy of Music.

A psychiatrist guides you through the steps following a motor-vehicle accident, from completing forms to dealing with anxiety, doctors, and sleep disorders. Forum takes place at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

 

KIDS' STUFF

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.

 

COMEDY

Night of live improv comedy at the Rio Theatre themed around popular roleplaying fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons.

Standup comedy at the Fox Cabaret by Brad Dorion, Jacob Samuel, Mark Nesbitt, Levi McCachen, Ryan Williams, and Maddy Kelly.

 

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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.

 

DANCE

Watch an open rehearsal of choreographer and director Chick Snipper's Big Melt, a eulogy for the Canadian Arctic, at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

 

LITERARY

Chilliwack-based author and former rocker John Armstrong launches his new book A Series of Dogs at LanaLou's Restaurant with a reading and a performance by Vancouver indie band the Judys.

Ann Eriksson launches her novel The Performance, and Meredith Quartermain reads from her new novel U Girl, at Book Warehouse on Main.

The annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival continues at the Jewish Community Centre, featuring meet-the-author opportunities, readings, workshops, and panel discussions. Participating authors include Michael Wex, Ella Zeltserman, Tom Wayman, Irvin Yalom, B.A. Shapiro, Daniel Kalla, Noah Leavitt, and Glenda Leznoff.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Kuh Del Rosario talks about her personal journey as an artist, with a focus on her experience building the Elmo’s House Artist Residency in the Philippines, at Thrive Studio.

 

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

Vancouver Opera presents a new family-friendly production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s beloved fairytale opera Hansel and Gretel at the Vancouver Playhouse.

The Vancouver Recital Society presents American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato with the Il Pomo d'Oro Orchestra at the Orpheum Theatre.

Enchanting China: An Orchestral Extravaganza at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre features the Canadian premiere of the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra.

Long Yu conducts pianist Serena Wang and the China Philharmonic Orchestra at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

The VSO, cellists Cristian Márkos and Luke Kim, bassist Warren Long, violists Emilie Grimes and Andrew Brown, and violinists Byron Hitchcock, Yi Zhou, and Ann Okagaito perform works by Rossini, Haydn, Beethoven, and Verdi at Pyatt Hall.

 

THEATRE

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.

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.

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 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.

Seven Tyrants Theatre presents the Western Canadian premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks's darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, Tapdog/Underdog, at Studio 1398.

Realwheels Theatre presents a preview at the Cultch of Creeps, David E. Freeman's dark comedy about four disabled men who rebel against the way they've been treated and barricade themselves in a washroom.

 

ATTRACTIONS

Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

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 final day of the European Union Film Festival at the Cinematheque features screenings of Hanna's Sleeping Dogs (above) from Austria and Dual from Slovenia.

BBC Worldwide North America and Cineplex Events present screenings of Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks at various Metro Vancouver Cineplex theatres.

 

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