44 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, March 29

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 29.

 

CONCERTS

Canadian indie-rock band Mother Mother plays the fourth of five shows at the Commodore, with guests We Are the City and Little Destroyer.

German thrash-metal band Kreator plays the Rickshaw, with guests Obituary, Midnight, and Horrendous.

English spoken-word and hip-hop singer-songwriter Katie Tempest plays Fortune Sound Club, tours in support of latest album Let Them Eat Chaos.

 

FORUMS

Music in the Morning presents veteran broadcaster Eric Friesen in conversation with pianist Janina Fialkowska.

Hear inspirational words from KPMG executives, the Vancouver Canucks, and local start-up entrepreneurs at RED Academy's GradusTalks Dare to Dream.

Learn about registered education savings plans and how to get one at New Westminster's Qayqayt Elementary School.

Nerd Nite bar-lecture series at the Fox Cabaret features talks by Jared Stang, Paige Frewer, and Scott Pownall.

At VanDusen Botanical Garden, Egan Davis shares photos, stories, and lessons learned from volunteering at Sweden's Gothenburg Botanical Garden.

Forum at Trout Lake Community Centre provides analysis of the current levels of diversity on governance boards compared to population diversity, such as visible minority status.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Explore recreation activities for children and youth with disabilities at Trout Lake Community Centre's Leisure Fair.

 

COMEDY

Vancouver comedic performers present a night of improv-comedy based on popular roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons at the Rio Theatre.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

The Vancouver International Burlesque Festival presents The Buffies, an awards show at the WISE Hall honouring Vancouver's burlesque scene.

 

DANCE

SCA Repertory Dancers present Women Marching!, a contemporary dance concert at Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre featuring the work of Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre, Henry Daniel and Marla Eist, Judith Garay, Vanessa Goodman, and Wen Wei Wang.

 

LITERARY

Discuss human connections with authors Rebecca Rosenblum (So Much Love), Lori McNulty (Life on Mars), and Janet Rogers (Totem Poles and Railroads) at the VPL's Alice MacKay Room.

 

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

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.

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.

Hardline Productions presents the world premiere at Presentation House Theatre of Redpatch, Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver's historical drama about a young Métis volunteer soldier deployed to fight in World War I.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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.

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.

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 Julieta, director Pedro Almodovar's film about a woman who has never stopped searching for her missing daughter, based on stories by Alice Munro.

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.

Free screening at the Cinematheque of Bar Salon, Montreal iconoclast André Forcier's sex-and-booze-soaked absurdist comedy set in a seedy Montreal neighbourhood.

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 Franca: Chaos and Creation, director Francesco Carrozzini's intimate portrait of his mother Franca Sozzani, the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia since 1988.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of After the Storm, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu's tender look at a disintegrating family.

 

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