44 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, March 8

Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 44 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, March 8.

 

CONCERTS

Vancouver blues-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Colin James performs tunes from his new album Blue Highways at the Orpheum, with guest Tami Neilson.

Avant garde anti-pop music by the Leisure Principle and rap/hip-hop by Alpha Omega (featuring Prevail from Swollen Members) at the Media Club.

Nashville country trio the Cadillac Three plays the Commodore, performing on its Black Roses Tour.

Vancouver blues-rock band Rat Bastards performs classic covers at the Backstage Lounge on Granville Island.

 

BENEFITS

Women jazz musicians, including Laura Crema (above), play Frankie's Jazz at a benefit for Enterprising Women Making Art, which provides safe, income-generating opportunities for women in the Downtown Eastside.

 

ETCETERA

Learn how to make your own rope from reclaimed fabric scraps at The Studio at Creative Coworkers.

 

FOOD & DRINK

Learn how to make classic cream puffs, profiteroles, chouquettes, and eclairs at the Uncommon Cafe.

 

FORUMS

Adventurer Kevin Vallely describes a two-family paddle journey down the Mackenzie River at North Van's Deep Cove Outdoors.

Learn about 10 herbs that are workhorses of the garden at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

Researching the Globe at SFU Harbour Centre showcases SFU research activities that have the potential to impact beyond our borders.

Learn how to easily store, share, and create documents and photos using Dropbox and Google Drive at a Tech Talk at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

As part of International Women’s Day, experts in women’s health discuss the latest recommendations for breast health, gynecologic-cancer screening, mental wellness, and sexual health at the Jewish Community Centre.

Hear short presentations and engage in small-group discussions that explore the real and potential impact of women’s education at Hycroft Manor.

 

TAKE ACTION

Workshop on Fukushima at UBC's C.K. Choi Building focuses on current events at the stricken nuclear power plant, the condition of evacuees and their lives in surrounding communities, and the legal issues involved in re-starting Japan’s 41 nuclear power plants again.

 

COMEDY

Celebrate International Women's Day with a comedy show featuring sketch, standup, monologues, burlesque, and dancing at the Revue Stage. Performers include Burgundy Brixx and Kathleen McGee.

 

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.

 

LITERARY

Feminist literary festival Growing Room features appearances at various Vancouver venues by numerous authors and poets, including Amber Dawn, Carleigh Baker, Meghan Bell, Juliane Okot Bitek, Nicole Breit, Lorna Crozier, barbara findlay, Cynthia Flood, Hiromi Goto, Leah Horlick, Aislinn Hunter, Kyla Jamieson, Evelyn Lau, Jen Sookfong Lee, Christine Lowther, Audrey Thomas, and Betsy Warland.

A panel of professional children's authors and illustrators discuss how they broke into this competitive field and built their careers at Vancouver Public Library.

 

DANCE

The Vancouver International Dance Festival continues, featuring performances at various Vancouver venues by world-class dance artists.

 

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 Elektra Women's Choir welcomes Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian for a unique collaboration on International Women’s Day at the Chan Centre.

Wednesday Noon Hours concert features Flutist Christie Reside, violinist Nicholas Wright, and pianist Grace Huang performing works by CPE Bach and Martinu at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

 

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

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. 

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

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

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

BMSS Theatre presents The Wizard of Oz, a musical based on the book by L. Frank Baum, at Michael J. Fox Theatre.

Performance at Pacific Theatre of Spring Awakening, a rock musical about teenagers in late 19th-century Germany discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality.

 

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.

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

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

Screening at the Rio Theatre of the documentary Screenagers, which explores the amount of time teenagers spend looking at a screen, with proceeds to Vancouver's Fraser Academy School.

Opening gala at Vancity Theatre for the 12th annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, a celebration of cinema created by women that includes film panels, masterclasses, guest filmmakers, artist talks, pitch sessions, and an awards gala.

As part of International Women's Day, screening at the Rio Theatre of director Volker Schlöndorff’s 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian thriller, The Handmaid's Tale.

Retrospective on Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi at the Cinematheque features screenings of Ugetsu and Street of Shame.

As part of Music Therapy Awareness month, free screening at the Cultch of the documentary The Gift of Music: Stories of Music Therapy, followed by a panel discussion on the healing power of music.

 

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