48 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, April 5

Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 48 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, April 5.

 

CONCERTS

Mali world-blues ensemble Tinariwen plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, with guests Dengue Fever.

Swedish metal band Katatonia plays Venue, with guests Caspian and Uncured.

Icelandic rock band Kaleo performs the second of two nights at the Orpheum Theatre.

Detroit rock band Electric Six plays the Rickshaw, with guests Residual Kid and the Prettys.

Celebrate the grand opening of the Railway Stage and Beer Café with a free concert by Canadian indie-rock band the Zolas.

 

ETCETERA

Langara College's aboriginal community development class presents an intercultural day to celebrate diversity and bring up the topic of reconciliation. 

 

FOOD & DRINK

Learn how to make three kinds of small French cakes at a cooking class at the Uncommon Cafe.

 

FORUMS

At UBC Robson Square, UCLA history prof Nile Green discusses a visit in 1815 of six Iranian students to London, which opens a window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age.

Explorer Frank Wolf talks about his recent 44-day canoe expedition from La Ronge, Saskatchewan, to Baker Lake, Nunavut. at North Van's Deep Cove Outdoors.

Dr. Ann Chinnery explores the ways we are called to responsibility not by a perceived similarity between the other and ourselves, but by an encounter with the other’s fragility and weakness, at SFU Harbour Centre.

Katolen Yardley gives an experiential talk on incorporating herbal medicine into your lifestyle at Banyen Books and Sound.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Kids aged eight and over can take part in a free, 90-minute camp to explore a Minecraft world through code and to take part in the global Hour of Code movement at the Microsoft Store Pacific Centre.

 

TAKE ACTION

Defense lawyer Don Bayne and Critical Muslim Voices' Hasan Alam discuss the unjust imprisonment of Canadian professor Hassan Diab in a forum at Vancouver Public Library.

 

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.

 

LITERARY

Indigenous media artists Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett discuss their experiences using digital forms of expression at Vancouver Public Library.

Mix and mingle with the 2017 B.C. Book Prize nominees at the Emerald.

Meet librarians and get recommendations for springtime reading adventures at Richmond Public Library.

 

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Performance 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.

As part of Boca del Lupo's Micro Performance Series, Pi Theatre presents the climate-change play Genetic Drift at the Fishbowl on Granville Island.

Way Off-Broadway Wednesday presents the dark comedy No, You Can't Return Discount Shrimp! at New Westminster's Heritage Grill.

August Fourth Productions presents Dale Wasserman’s 1963 stage adaptation of the Ken Kasey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at PAL Theatre.

 

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.

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.

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 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

Screening at the Rio Theatre of The Northlander, an Indigenous post-apocalyptic sci-fi film about a hunter who must travel across a desert valley to protect his tribe against a band of heretics.

Screening of the Rio Theatre of Ghost in the Shell, the 1995 anime film about a cyborg policewoman and her partner who hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.

DIM Cinema pays tribute to Peter Hutton--the influential American filmmaker and educator who died last June--at the Cinematheque.

 

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