64 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, March 4

Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 64 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, March 4.

 

CONCERTS

Celebrate the francophone culture of B.C. with the three-day Festival du Bois, featuring live music by the Sybaritic String Band, Suroît, Mélisande, Nicolas Pellerin et les Grands Hurleurs, Podorythmie, Zal Sissokho and Buntalo, Jeremiah McLane, and Jocelyn Pettit at Coquitlam's Mackin Park.

Coastal Jazz presents singer-bassist and bandleader Katie Thiroux in the second of two nights at Frankie's Jazz.

Orange County, California, reggae-pop band Common Kings plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

A Night to Remember at the PAL Theatre features tunes from the '50s, '60s, and '70s performed by Patricia Duval, Bill Costin, Tim Stacey, Buff Allen, and Lorraine Foster.

Portland psychedelic-rock band Moon Duo plays the Cobalt, touring in support of latest album Occult Architecture Vol. 1.

Vancouver punk band the Real McKenzies celebrates its 25th anniversary at the Rickshaw, with guests Isotopes.

Vocalist Angela Verbrugge and pianist Dan Reynolds perform tunes from Tony Bennett's songbook at Port Moody's Gallery Bistro.

 

BENEFITS

The Western Front 44th Anniversary Gala Dinner and Art Auction features a long-table dinner, canapés, drinks, live performances, and a live auction of over 25 works donated by local and international artists, with proceeds to the Western Front's art and music programs.

Jump into the frigid waters at Kits Beach to raise funds for Special Olympics B.C. at the Polar Plunge.

The UBC MHAC Defeat Depression Run 2017, a five-kilometre walk-run at UBC, raises funds for community mental-health support and services.

 

ETCETERA

Seedy Saturday at Richmond's Thompson Community Centre is an annual celebration of local seeds, gardening, and education supporting a healthy community and local food system.

The three-day Wellness Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre features more than 250 exhibitors, plus guest speakers, workshops, a meditation garden, celebrity-chef demos, and free samples.

Fourth annual Terminal City Tabletop Convention at Burnaby's Bonsor Recreation Complex features tournaments, a game library, a silent auction, prizes, and a kids' library.

The two-day Outdoor Adventure and Travel Show at Vancouver Convention Centre features deals on outdoor gear and travel experiences and seminars with seasoned travelers and experts.

Camilo Dominguez performs his magic show Abracadabra at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

New arrivals, foreign workers, and international students can connect with providers of employment, education, immigration, and settlement services onshore in Canada at Vancouver Convention Centre.

 

FOOD & DRINK

Chef Rich Francis is featured in Cooking for Reconciliation, an event at Skwachays Lodge Hotel and Gallery that uses indigenous foods to create a better understanding of pre-colonial indigenous culture and the impact of colonization.

 

FORUMS

The TEDxStanleyPark Conference at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre features 13 talks that address a diverse range of humanity’s challenges and offer practical and optimistic solutions. Speakers include Elizabeth May, Vikram Vij, and Gordon Campbell.

Energy Connections 2017 at Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue brings together citizens, small and medium businesses, and government agencies to discuss the latest innovations in clean-energy generation, conservation, and efficiency.

One-day workshop at Mission to Seafarers explores the history of heritage conservation, the guiding charters and regulations, and the regulatory environment at City Hall.

Ruby's Ukes presents ukulele workshops at the Croatian Cultural Centre as part of the Vancouver Ukulele Festival.

 

TAKE ACTION

Hear Bill McKibben, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Chief Jackie Thomas, and Jess Housty speak about their experience in climate justice at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

The B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition and the B.C. Federation of Labour host a march and rally at the Vancouver Public Library's Robson side calling for a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy in B.C.

 

COMEDY

Standup comedian Brett Martin performs the third of three nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Vancouver standup comedian Kevin Banner performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Live horror-comedy radio show Phantom Signal at Little Mountain Gallery features tales of horror, madness, and general malaise.

Off Key: The Improvised Musical at Havana Theatre features original musicals based on audience suggestions.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Join artists Mariko Ando, Elisabeth Sommerville, and Richard Tetrault as they demonstrate their diverse methods of printmaking at Cityscape Community Art Space.

The Chutzpah Festival, a celebration of Jewish performing arts featuring dance, theatre, comedy, and music by local, Canadian, and international artists, continues at various Vancouver venues.

Visual artists open their studios and welcome you in to see how they work and what they do at the North Shore Art Crawl.

 

DANCE

The Vancouver International Dance Festival continues, featuring performances at various venues by Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Kitt Johnson, Kaeja d'Dance, Cie Virginie Brunelle, Kinesis Dance, Karen Jamieson, Margaret Grenier, Jane Osborne, Kim Stevenson, and Dairakudakan.

The Vancouver International Dance Festival presents the San Francisco-area contemporary-ballet company Alonzo King LINES Ballet in a live performance of Sand and Shostakovich at Vancouver Playhouse.

Kinesis Dance somatheatro presents the final performance at Scotiabank Dance Centre of In Penumbra, a new multimedia work inspired by the search for utopia. Part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

The Coastal First Nations Dance Festival continues at the Museun of Anthropology at UBC, featuring new Indigenous stories, songs, and dances from a diverse array of Indigenous performance groups from Canada, Alaska, New Zealand, and the Pacific Rim.

 

GALLERIES

Susan Point: Spindle Whorl at the Vancouver Art Gallery surveys Point’s entire career through more than a hundred artworks that take the spindle whorl as their starting point.

Oh, How I Long For Home Marianne Nicolson's installation at the Teck Gallery, addresses a persistent idea of the city as a conflicted promise for indigenous people.

Sonny Assu creates a new series of digital tags on a body of Emily Carr paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

 

MUSIC

David Danzmayr conducts pianist Jeremy Denk and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major and Shostakovich's Festive Overture and Symphony No. 12 in D Minor, The Year 1917 at the Orpheum Theatre.

The Laudate Singers perform Canadian choral music, including the world premiere of Eric Wettstein's The Wife at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.

Performances at the Silk Purse Arts Centre by students from the Capilano University Music Diploma and Jazz Studies programs.

In Spring Love, soprano Chandra Curry and pianist Carter Johnson present an evening of music by Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and Strauss at the Orpheum Annex.

 

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.

At the Museum of Vancouver, you can explore the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-to-wall displays of unconventional objects.

 

THEATRE

Zee Zee Theatre presents a performance of Elbow Room Cafe: the Musical, a candid look inside Vancouver’s most iconic eatery. Contains mature content.

Théâtre la Seizième presents a performance at Studio 16 of Bonjour, la, bonjour, Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay's tragic story of forbidden love, directed by Gilles Poulin-Denis. 

Theatre for Living presents a performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of šxʷʔam̓ət (home), director David Diamond's production about what reconciliation really means.

The School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU presents its version of Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet at Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre.

Performance at Jericho Theatre of Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, a raw telling of the familiar tale of the enmity between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.

Writer-director Emilio Merritt presents his play Transit, set in an immigration holding centre at Vancouver International Airport, at Blake Snyder Theatre at Go Studios.

Roger Bean's family-friendly off-Broadway hit The Marvelous Wonderettes is performed at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

Performing Stars Collective Society presents Busytown the Musical, a family musical based on the book What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry, at Jules Verne Theatre.

Metro Theatre presents a performance of Guilty Conscience, a play by Richard Levinson and William Link about a cheating husband who decides to get out of an unwanted marriage by murdering his wife.

 

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.

Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding lessons from the Mt. Seymour Ski and Snowboard School, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

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.

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.

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

The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.

 

MOVIES

Retrospective on Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi at the Cinematheque features screenings of Ugetsu (above) and The Life of Oharu.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Studio Ghibli's animated family classic My Neighbour Totoro.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of My Life As a Zucchini, director Claude Barras's stop-motion animated film about a young boy who is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Oscar Shorts: Live Action.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck's documentary examines the issue of race in America through the too-short lives of Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X.

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