50 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, March 30

Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 50 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, March 30.

 

CONCERTS

Canadian indie-rock band Mother Mother plays the fifth of five shows at the Commodore, with guests Young Blood and Little Destroyer.

Vancouver improv-jazz ensemble Inhabitants plays the WISE Hall, with guests Leah Abramson and Waxwing.

 

BENEFITS

Annual spring-lunch fundraiser at the Vancouver Convention Centre celebrates the importance of mentorship, with keynote speaker Dr. Shimi Kang and proceeds to the Big Sisters.

Fundraiser for Colon Cancer Canada at the Permanent features food by the Roaming Dragon, local drinks, a silent auction, and live entertainment.

 

FORUMS

William Walters of Carleton University discusses how artists, activists, and critical cartographers have grappled with the opacity of deportation at SFU Harbour Centre.

Global thought leaders, real-estate influencers, and industry innovators explores issues surrounding density, development, and urban planning as part of the Vancouver Playhouse's RED Talks.

Talk on health care at C.K. Choi Building by Karen Eggleston, faculty member at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, and the director of the center’s Asia Health Policy Program. 

A New Pacific Nexus: Canada, Latin America and Asia at the Law Courts Inn showcases how Canada’s strategic position plays a key role as an international hub between Asia and Latin America.

Discuss the growing influence of right-wing movements that are inward-looking, intolerant, and discriminatory at St. Andrew's–Wesley United Church.

Panel discussion on women in tech at Brainstation Vancouver features Penny Wilson (Hootsuite), Reena Bains (Slack), Katie Drechsel (Saje Wellness), and Charla Pereira (Microsoft).

Learn social songs, drumming, and dance with traditional Lil’wat singer Russell Wallace at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

 

COMEDY

Comedian Sarah Tiana performs the first of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Comedian Jason Rouse performs the first of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

 

DANCE

Vancouver aerial-dance company Aeriosa brings together the athleticism of rock climbing and the grace and artistry of dance at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

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

B.C. Sports Hall of Fame curator and The Miracle Mile author Jason Beck presents stories from his book at the VPL's Peter Kaye Room.

 

GALLERIES

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

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.

 

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.

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.

 

THEATRE

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vagabond Players presents the Western Canadian premiere at Bernie Legge Theatre of Vinci, a play that sees Leonardo da Vinci's father and mother battle for his affections.

Opening at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Marion Bridge, Daniel MacIvor’s play about three estranged sisters who reunite in their family home on Cape Breton Island to say goodbye to their dying mother.

Performance at Studio 58 of Zoetrope: The Curiosity of Puppet Oddities, in which students use three-person, shadow, and object puppetry to tell a story of love and death.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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.

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.

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.

 

MOVIES

The three-day Just Film Festival at Vancity Theatre features 14 documentaries about social justice and human rights, including The Occupation of the American Mind.

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

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

Screening at the Rio Theatre of the hockey-enforcer documentary Ice Guardians, with partial proceeds to the Gino Odjick Foundation.

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.

 

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