76 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, March 25

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      Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 76 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, March 25.

       

      CONCERTS

      Indie-folk singer-songwriter Passenger plays the Orpheum Theatre, performing tunes from new album Young as the morning, old as the sea.

      Canadian indie-rock band Mother Mother plays the first of five shows at the Commodore, with guests guests K.Flay.

      Acadian folk-trash singer-songwriter Lisa LeBlanc plays the Biltmore, with Alexandria Maillot.

      Nova Scotia folk singer-songwriter Dave Gunning plays St. James Hall.

      American country duo Dan + Shay plays the Vogue Theatre on its Obsessed Tour.

      B.C. folk-rock band Shred Kelly plays the Fox Cabaret, with guest Sam Weber.

      Vancouver indie-rock band Bright Red Kite plays the Backstage Lounge, with guests Boy Breaking Glass, the Belief Experiment, and Jared and the Social Worker.

      New York City-based soul singer-songwriter Nick Hakim plays Alexander Gastown, touring in support of his debut album Green Twins.

      Scottish rock band Teenage Fanclub plays the Rickshaw, touring in support of latest album Here.

      Danish classical-folk singer-songwriter Agnes Obel plays the Imperial, tours in support of latest album City of Glass.

      Percussionist and educator Sal Ferreras and his Latin Orchestra perform salsa at the Chan Centre, with proceeds to the Lipstick Project.

       

      BENEFITS

      Take part in a board game, tabletop, and Magic: The Gathering tournament and help raise money for parrot-rescue society Greyhaven.

      Art auction at the Vancouver Academy of Music raises money for Compassion Globally, which works to stop global violence against women.

       

      ETCETERA

      See and buy orchids at VanDusen Botanical Garden during the Vancouver Orchid Society's two-day show and sale.

      Buy pop-culture collectibles, toys, art, comics, electronics, games, music, movies, and action figures at the Scottish Cultural Centre.

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

      The three-day Vancouver Gem and Mineral Show at the PNE Forum features unique gems, fine crystals, rare fossils, handmade jewellery, and lapidary art.

       

      FASHION

      Showcase of Pyrrha jewellery at Nordstrom Pacific Centre includes an appearance by designers Danielle and Wade Papin.

       

      FORUMS

      Join B.C. bee expert Brian Campbell at VanDusen Botanical Garden for an introduction to honeybees and how to keep a hive of honeybees in an urban environment.

      John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, presents stories and lessons he’s learned in his decades-long career of relationship management at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.

      Multicultural Women’s Conference and Fair at the Croatian Cultural Centre includes a tradeshow of exhibitors from the social services, educational, and employment sectors; day-long motivational speakers’ sessions, and opportunities for networking.

      Learn practical cannabis product knowledge directly from product makers CannaReps at Harbour Centre.

      Join Tamsin Baker and Phil Henderson at West Point Grey Community Centre to learn about South Coast species at risk, with a focus on Vancouver and Jericho Beach Park.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Kids of all ages can experiment through hands-on activities featuring paint, clay, fabric, music, and dance at Vancouver Art Gallery's Family FUSE Weekend.

      Playdome, Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival, continues at BC Place, with more than 45 rides and attractions, carnival snacks, and games.

      Monster Theatre presents a new, kid-friendly adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Massey Theatre.

      Wander two km of lantern-lit trails at Pacific Spirit Regional Park's Night Quest and explore like owls, squirrels, coyotes, and other nocturnal critters.

      Bilingual folk singer-songwriter Ginalina performs family-friendly songs at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

      Story Theatre Company's new production at ArtStarts features short stories and poems full of wisdom. 

       

      COMEDY

      Solo and group sketches at Dusty Flower Shop by Kat Single-Dain, Candy Roberts, Ashley Whitehead, Christache, Nonny P, Alastair Knowles, Aaron Malkin, Travis Bernhardt, and Patrick Kearns. 

      Comedian Chris Quigley performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      Canadian comedian Dave Nystrom performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      A team of improvisers performs comedy based on the unfulfilled wishes of the audience at Havana Theatre.

      Debate who is the best mascot of the '90s and which team of aliens best defends Earth from their own kind at Seven Dining Lounge's Geeks vs. Nerds.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      The Geekenders present burlesque takes on horror author Stephen King's novels and characters with We All Float Down Here at the Rio Theatre.

      The Youth Council Francophone of B.C. presents a talent show of dance, music, standup comedy, and visual arts performed by Francophone youths at Jules Verne High School.

       

      DANCE

      Vancouver premiere at the Queen Elizabeth of Travis Wall's dance work about a man’s fight to find his creative voice in the aftermath of losing his one true love.

      The Vancouver International Dance Festival continues, featuring performances by Kitt Johnson ("Post No Bills") at Roundhouse Performance Centre and Karen Jamieson & Margaret Grenier ("light breaking broken") at Woodwards Production Studio.

      Justine A. Chambers and Alana Gerecke lead a movement and dance workshop at West Vancouver's St. Monica's Parish.

       

      LITERARY

      Print Ready 2017 at Dynamo Arts Association showcases over 30 publications, plus paintings, prints, sculpture, and digital media installation.

       

      MUSIC

      William Rowson leads the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Ana Sokolović's Jeu des portraits, Kaija Saariaho's Lichtbogen, Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Aequilibria, and Harry Stafylakis's Arc of Horizon at the Orpheum Annex.

      Douglas College Choirs perform works by Britten, Pärt, Brahms, Debussy, and Mendelssohn at New Westminster's Queens Avenue United Church.

       

      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.

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

      Performance at Studio 58 of The Refugee Hotel, writer-director Carmen Aguirre's dark comedy about eight Chilean exiles who struggle with the effects of fleeing their homeland.

      Performance 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.

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

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

      United Players present a performance at the Jericho Arts Centre of The Train Driver, Athol Fugard's exploration of guilt, suffering, redemption, and the powerful bonds that grow between strangers.

      The Sidekick Players present a performance at Tsawwassen Arts Centre of Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay about the jury at a murder trial of a young man accused of the fatal stabbing of his father.

      Pacific Theatre presents opening night of Valley Song, about a South African man who tills land he will never own while his granddaughter dreams of the Johannesburg stage.

      Fabulist Theatre presents Songs For a New World--a song cycle exploring themes of immigration, war, motherhood, poverty, and the singular moments that transform our lives--at PAL Theatre.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

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

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

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

      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.

      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.

      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 Hello Destroyer, Kevan Funk's drama about the repercussions of hockey violence. 

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Sieranevada, writer-director Cristi Puiu's three-hour, deadpan domestic comedy.

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

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas's mystery-thriller about a woman who stocks up on clothing for her supermodel boss while she searches for a sign from her deceased twin.

      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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