48 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, April 2

Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 48 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, April 2.

 

CONCERTS

Gran Canaria-born timple player Germán López performs modernizations of traditional island melodies at Presentation House Theate.

Vancouver singer-songwriter Marisa Orth-Pallavicini performs the songs of folk artist Leon Rosselson at St. James Hall.

 

ETCETERA

Conjure the Night magic show at the Vancouver Playhouse features illusions by James Randi, Shawn Farquhar, Murray Hatfield, and Matt Dillahunty.

Past brides, decorators, craft artisans, and other vendors swap wedding-related goods at the Croatial Cultural Centre's Original Bridal Swap Vancouver.

Hanami Cherry Blossom Celebration at Trout Lake Community Centre features traditional performances, tea and food, a Japadog food truck, origami, and crafts for the kids.

 

FOOD & DRINK

Enjoy a Mediterranean brunch and tunes by Silk Road Music at Coquitlam's Pasta Polo.

Sakura Night Gala at Stanley Park Pavilion features Asian-fusion flavours by Ancora Waterfront Dining + Patio, Bella Gelateria, Benkei Ramen, Hapa Izakaya, Masayoshi, Prestons Restaurant and Lounge, Zakkushi, and Zen Japanese Restaurant. Part of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.

Dine on garden-fresh vegetables and Japanese dishes inspired by spring, paired with hand-selected cold sakes, at B-Bin.

Learn how to make freezer-friendly dishes such as chili, mini quiches, and granola at the Uncommon Cafe.

 

FORUMS

Join the David Suzuki Foundation and Ecojustice for an interactive forum about environmental rights and responsibilities at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Speakers include former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt and filmmaker-journalist Silver Donald Cameron.

Herring People at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art aims to raise awareness of the Pacific herring’s role in B.C.'s marine ecosystems, aboriginal communities, and commercial fisheries.

 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the San Jose Sharks in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

The Capture Photography Festival, which aims to nurture emerging talent, engage community, and spark public dialogue about photography as an art form and a vessel for communication, continues at various Vancouver galleries.

 

MUSIC

Classical pianist Robert Silverman performs works by Beethoven and Chopin at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, and is joined by his wife Ellen for four-hand pieces by Mozart and Moszkowski. 

James Gaffigan conducts violinist Henning Kraggerud and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Brucker's Symphony No. 7 in E Major and Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C Minor and Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major at the Orpheum Theatre.

Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs works by Haydn, Beethoven, Ravel, and Debussy at the Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall.

 

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

 

ATTRACTIONS

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

The Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, at Vancity Theatre and Roundhouse Community Centre, features films from around the world for kids and the young at heart.

Screening at the Cinematheque of works from Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, a cycle of films made between 1962 and 1972.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of director Claude Barras's acclaimed stop-motion animation film My Life as a Zucchini. 

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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