40 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, March 22

Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 40 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, March 22.

CONCERTS

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Xenia Rubinos plays Alexander Gastown.

American R&B artist Allan Rayman plays the Rio, touring in support of new album Roadhouse 01.

Italian blues-rock singer-songwriter Zucchero plays the Vogue, touring in support of latest album Black Cat.

American indie dance-pop band Strfkr plays the Imperial, touring in support of latest album Being No One, Going Nowhere.

American hip-hop recording artist, singer, songwriter, and record producer Isaiah Rashad plays Fortune Sound Club, with guests Lance Swiiiwalker and Jay IDK.

BENEFITS

Local indie-pop singer-songwriter Sarah Jickling plays a fundaiser for Girls Rock Camp Vancouver at Café Deux Soleils, with guests Rocky Mountain Revival and Chelsea Johnson.

FORUMS

Journalist, author, and speaker Gwynne Dyer discusses the climate-change crisis and a possible way through it at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Learn some creative opening lines and the cues that signal that your attention is welcome at the Art of Loving's Fearless Flirting.

KIDS' STUFF

Opening at BC Place of the five-day Playdome, Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival, which features more than 45 rides and attractions, plus carnival snacks and games.

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.

MUSEUMS

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature at at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works, and ceramics both of everyday and of ceremonial use, representing indigenous, Maroon, and white settler communities.

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.

THEATRE

UBC Theatre presents a performance at Frederic Wood Theatre of Les Belles-Soeurs, Michel Tremblay's play about an unexpected windfall that ends up breeding resentment among a woman and her friends.

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents a kid-friendly stage version of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat at the Waterfront Theatre.

Performance at Douglas College's Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre of A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare's comedy of errors.

Opening night at the Firehall Arts Centre of Refuge, Mary Vingoe's provocative story of the pitfalls of seeking sanctuary in today’s suspicious world, directed by Donna Spencer.

Puppeteer provocateur Ronnie Burkett and his resident company of over 40 marionettes perform The Daisy Theatre at the Cultch.

Way Off-Broadway Wednesday presents Andrew Wade's story about the pursuit of honesty over happiness, The Most Honest Man in the World, at New West's Heritage Grill.

Pull Festival VI, Vancouver's annual 10-minute play festival, features six plays at Little Mountain Gallery.

ATTRACTIONS

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

Soar from coast-to-coast across the Canadian landscape with a 25-minute ride featuring effects such as wind and scents at FlyOver Canada.

The Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition features over 250 privately-owned bikes from around the world.

Lighthouse Park features 10 kilometres of hiking trails, picnic areas, guided walks provided by the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society, and the historical 1912 Point Atkinson Lighthouse.

Take a ride in an exterior glass elevator and get a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains at Vancouver Lookout.

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library. 

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

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.

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

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 Tony Palmer's documentary Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, which captures the late musician and poet at his creative peak, on his 1972 European concert tour.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Antarctica: Ice and Sky, director Luc Jacquet's portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Weirdos, Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald's quirky coming-of-age road movie set in 1976 Nova Scotia.

Screening at the Cinematheque of The Skyjacker's Tale, Jamie Kastner's documentary about Ishmael Muslim Ali (aka Ronald LaBeet), former petty crook, U.S. soldier, and Black Panther militant.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of director Ceyda Torun's documentary Kedi, which uses specially crafted camera rigs and an extreme measure of observational patience to capture all of the hard-to-reach places where cats go in Istanbul.

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