45 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, March 12

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 45 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, March 12.

       

      CONCERTS

      American roots-blues band the Wood Brothers plays the Imperial, touring in support of latest album Paradise.

      Irish folk musician Sharon Shannon incorporates reggae, Cajun, Portuguese, and French Canadian stylings at St. James Hall.

      Fourteen-voice Toronto a cappella group Countermeasure performs pop, jazz, contemporary, and original songs at White Rock's Blue Frog Studios.

      Local rockers Eye Bender play tunes from debut CD at the Backstage Lounge, with guests Whiskeyjacks.

      Black-metal bands Archgoat and Blasphemy coheadline the Rickshaw, with guests Valkyrja, Weregoat, and Hellfire Deathcult.

      CelticFest Vancouver continues through March 18, featuring music by numerous Celtic artists at various Vancouver venues.

       

      ETCETERA

      The Eastside Flea Market at the Ellis Building features over 50 local vendors, five artisan showrooms, a food truck, an outdoor courtyard, music, and pinball.

      Walk through the forest of Stanley Park with an experienced guide of Coast Salish descent and learn about the traditional and present-day indigenous relationships with local flora and fauna.

       

      FORUMS

      Learn how to cope with stress at a workshop led by registered clinical counsellor Maedean Y. Myers at the YMCA Vancouver Program Centre.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Conductor Bramwell Tovey leads pianists Iman Habibi and Deborah Grimmett and the Vancouver Symphony in a kid-friendly exploration of the instruments of a symphony orchestra.

       

      COMEDY

      Comedy at the Belmont Bar by headliner Efthimios Nasiopoulos, with support by Sam Tonning, Chris Gaskin, Mark Hughes, Jane Stanton, and Kyle Carpenter.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Kitty Nights presents 10 performances of innovative burlesque at the Biltmore Cabaret, with go-go dancing at intermission and a postshow dance party.

      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

      Sunshine Coast authors Nathaniel G. Moore and Amber McMillan appear for a reading and signing at the Paper Hound.

      Final day of the feminist literary festival Growing Room, which features appearances at various Vancouver venues by numerous authors and poets.

      Readers bring to life the works of their favourite deceased poets as part of the Vancouver Public Library's Dead Poets Reading Series.

       

      DANCE

      Watch over 40 Arts Umbrella Dance Company members dance for 10 hours during a fundraiser for their upcoming 2017 European tour.

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

       

      GALLERIES

      Pacific Crossings at the Vancouver Art Gallery features works from well-known Hong Kong artists created after their relocation to Vancouver throughout the 1960-90s.

      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.

      Retainers of Anarchy at the Vancouver Art Gallery features new work from Howie Tsui that considers wuxia as a narrative tool for dissidence and resistance.

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

       

      MUSIC

      The Borealis String Quartet presents a musical journey across the northern hemisphere, from 20th century northern Europe to present-day British Columbia, at the Orpheum Annex.

      The Gallery Singers welcome spring with German Baroque favourites, including J. S. Bach's Jesu, meine Freude, at Holy Trinity Anglican Church.

      The UBC Opera Ensemble performs a concert of opera arias and song favourites at the UBC Old Auditorium.

      Cellist Stefan Hintersteininger performs works by Handel, Mozart, MacDonald, and Kapustin at Roedde House Museum.

       

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

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

      Noche Flamenca’s artistic director Martin Santangelo's adaptation of Sophocles’s classic play Antigone melds flamenco and ancient Greek tragedy at Chan Shun Concert Hall.

      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.

      Western Gold Theatre presents a performance at PAL Theatre of its staged reading of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night, directed by Anna Hagan.

       

      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.

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

      At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

      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.

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

       

      MOVIES

      The 12th annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival features a screening of Stingray Sisters at Vancity Theatre, followed by Q&A with filmmakers and panel discussion.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of She Shared It, a documentary on women tech entrepreneurs, shot on location in Silicon Valley, NYC, Europe, Vietnam, and Mississippi. Includes a post-film Q&A session.

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

      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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