41 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, March 5

Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 41 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, March 5.

 

CONCERTS

International Women's Day fundraiser at Studio Records features music by Krystle Dos Santos (above), the Argyle Embargo, MamaRudeGyal, Hollow Twin, and Red Heartbreaker, with proceeds to the WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre.

Celebrate the francophone culture of B.C. with the last day of Festival du Bois, featuring live music at Coquitlam's Mackin Park.

The 17-piece South Van Big Band performs live jazz music at the Fairview Pub.

 

BENEFITS

Fundraiser at Clough Club to benefit the Parkinson Society British Columbia features a self-guided tour through six local microbrews carefully paired for flavour combinations with six local handcrafted chocolates.

Individuals and teams can register to walk at Creekside Community Recreation Centre and raise funds in support of women, girls, and their families who live in poverty.

Fundraiser at the Imperial features a mocktail and canapé social, a short-film screening, and music by the Originals Band, HoneyBoy Wilson Trio, and Tonye Aganaba, with proceeds to Together We Can: Addiction Recovery and Education Society.

 

ETCETERA

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.

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.

 

FOOD & DRINK

Learn about everyday dinner ideas for the whole family that are simple, low budget, freezable, and made without fancy ingredients and tools at the Uncommon Cafe.

 

FORUMS

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

 

COMEDY

Late-night sci-fi comedy by Nikolai Witschl, Brad Duffy, Travis Bernhardt, Chelsey Stuyt, and Max Tennessen at Havana Theatre's The Outer-Middle Zone.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

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 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.

 

LITERARY

Daniel Pinchbeck discusses his new book How Soon Is Now? From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation at Banyen Books and Sound.

 

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

The Vancouver Recital Society presents cellist Harriet Krijgh and pianist Magda Amara in a program of music by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Early Music Vancouver presents British ensemble Stile Antico in a musical program at Chan Shun Concert Hall that explores the works of English Elizabethan musicians Philips, Dering, Dowland, Byrd, and White.

The Vancouver Chamber Music Society presents a performance of works by Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg, and Marcus Goddard at West Vancouver United Church.

The Vivaldi Choir performs the work of Sir Arthur Sullivan at St. Helen's Anglican Church.

 

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

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

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

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.

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

 

ATTRACTIONS

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

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.

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

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Positively Beautiful, director Diveena Cooppan's documentary about life, love, and friendship in South Africa amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis, with proceeds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers Campaign.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Toni Erdmann, Martin Ade's drama about a practical joking father who tries to reconnect with his daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.

Retrospective on Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi at the Cinematheque features screenings of Utamaro and His Five Women and The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of The Salesman, writer-director Asghar Farhadi's drama about a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

 

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