50 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, April 9

Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 50 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, April 9.

 

CONCERTS

Beatboxer, musician, and comedian Reggie Watts plays the Vogue Theatre, touring in support of his new Netflix comedy special Spatial.

Canadian folk-jazz vocalist Cari Burdett performs at Frankie's Jazz on her Spring Fling Tour.

German big-band vocalist Max Raabe and his ensemble Palast Orchester plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

The Cap Global Roots Series and Rogue Folk Club present English blues-folk singer-songwriter Jack Broadbent at WISE Hall.

Coastal Jazz presents a solo show at Pyatt Hall with American jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger Bill Frisell.

Rock bands Hinds and Twin Peaks coheadline the Rickshaw, with guests White Mystery.

 

BENEFITS

The Canucks Autism Network hosts a family-friendly event in celebration of Autism Awareness Month at Jack Poole Plaza.

 

ETCETERA

The family-friendly Sakura Days Japan Fair at VanDusen Botanical Garden showcases the Japanese cultural arts, cuisine, and businesses of the local community.

The two-day Kerrisale Antiques Fair at Kerrisdale Cyclone Taylor Arena features over 250 booths and tables of antique and estate jewellery, furniture, pottery and glass, memorabilia, books, native arts, and classic dolls and toys.

 

FASHION

Tenth annual Nifty For Fifty indie-design sale at Heritage Hall features 30 designers offering items priced at $50 or less.

 

FOOD & DRINK

Artisan pasta maker and actor Peter Ciuffa shows how to make pasta or ravioli at Kitsilano Community Centre.

Indoor community market at Richmond's Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site features local food and artisan merchants.

 

FORUMS

Erin Moon helps yoga students take a step-by-step approach to common transitions and poses that can be a pain in the back at Stretch Yoga Studio.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Drivers go head-to-head at the Pacific Coliseum driving trucks, speedsters, and ATVs at the three-day Monster Jam Triple Threat Series.

Participate in a variety of all-ages, drop-in style art activities related to the three current exhibitions at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

 

TAKE ACTION

Pints Not Pipelines fundraiser at Performance Works includes local craft beer, food trucks, and live music, with proceeds to Pull Together, which benefits First Nations lawsuits against the Kinder Morgan transmountain tar sands pipeline.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Christine Germano

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.

 

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.

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.

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.

 

MUSIC

Justin Freer conducts the Vancouver Symphony in a performance of John Williams's score of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets while the film plays on a big screen at the Orpheum Theatre.

Capilano University's 120-voice choir and the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra perform works by Mozart at BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Flutist Jeff Pelletier, clarinetist Julie Begg, and pianist Karen Lee Morlang perform music by Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Debussy, Franz Doppler, and Daniel Dorff at Roedde House Museum's Kaleidoscope.

 

THEATRE

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

Final 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 give the final performance of The Daisy Theatre at the Cultch.

Hardline Productions presents the final performance 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.

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.

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.

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.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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, and mountain ziplines.

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

Soar from coast-to-coast across the Canadian landscape with a 25-minute ride featuring effects such as wind and scents at FlyOver Canada.

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

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.

Take a ride in an exterior glass elevator and get a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains at Vancouver Lookout.

The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.

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.

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.

 

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Inland Empire, writer-director David Lynch's film about an actress who starts to adopt the persona of her character in a film as her world starts to become nightmarish and surreal.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Kedi, Ceyda Torun's film about Istanbul and its unique people as seen through the eyes of a cat.

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

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Jon Nguyen's doc David Lynch: The Art of Life, which grants viewers intimate access to the enigmatic auteur while he works in his painting studio.

 

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