76 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, May 27

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      Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 76 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, May 27.

       

      CONCERTS

      American indie-rock band the Shins plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

      Coastal Jazz presents vocalist/trumpeter Bria Skonberg at Frankie's Jazz.

      The second annual Modified Ghost Festival at the Rickshaw features metal bands Municipal Waste, Razor, and Nails.

      Los Angeles punk duo Girlpool plays the Biltmore, touring in support of new album Powerplant.

      Eight-piece Vancouver funk-fusion band Five Alarm Funk plays the Commodore, performing tunes from new album Sweat.

      Quiet City and Vancouver New Music present Game of Drones, a 12-hour-long piece of continuous music performed by 47 musicians at the Revue Stage.

      Old-school hip-hop music, live MCs, a scratch DJ, live bass, and beatboxing at the Media Club's Loose Leaf Sessions.

      Country-punk band Getaway Sticks plays Pat's Pub & Brewhouse, with guests Car 87, PotBelly, Walkalone, and Skumshine.

      Lust For Life presents local indie-rock bands Ponytails and Wanannawanna coheadlining the Railway Stage and Beer Café.

       

      For a minimum $5 donation, shred your personal documents and help raise money for the West Vancouver Memorial Library.

       

      ETCETERA

      Browse through 40 tables of coins, stamps, and collectibles at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, with free appraisals available.

      Local burlesque lovers will be selling their gently worn and new costume items, lingerie, shoes, and accessories at the Vancouver Burlesque Centre.

      Community market at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre with local vendors selling pre-loved clothing and local handmade goods.

      Take in a curated group of local makers, creators, and doers in New Westminster at Queensborough Landing's Pop-Up Shop.

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      Vancouver Craft Beer Week continues to June 4, featuring events at various venues showcasing beers from Andina Brewing Company, Backcountry Brewing, Category 12 Brewing, Deep Cove Brewers, Fernie Brewing Company, Hearthstone Brewery, Icicle Brewing, KPU Brew Program, Lighthouse Brewing, Merridale Cidery and Distillery, Parallel 49 Brewing, Red Collar Brewing, Steamworks Brewing Co., Tofino Brewing Company, and Vancouver Island Brewing.

      The one-day Ridge Meadows Craft Beer Festival offers samples of over 60 brews carefully matched to food crafted by the chef and his team at Pitt Meadows Golf Club.

       

      FORUMS

      Full-day Search Engine Optimization Workshop at Brainstation Vancouver on how to build an SEO strategy to help improve your website's search rankings.

      Discuss youth, safety, seniors, the environment, and nature at a community workshop at Surrey's Kwomais Lodge.

      User Experience Design Workshop at Brainstation Vancouver offers a hands-on experience working with basic tools used by UX designers.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Playland features midway games, fair food, an arcade, a shooting gallery, a climbing wall, a haunted mansion, family rides like Teacups and Merry-Go-Round, and extreme rides like Corkscrew, The Beast, Hell's Gate, Revelation, and Wooden Roller Coaster.

      Wesbrook Village Kids Day features free family yoga, kids' crafts, face painting, bouncey castles, and kids' sports.

      Teens aged 13 to 17 can choose a block of two art workshops led by professional teachers, then come together at the end of the night for a performance jam at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

       

      SPORTS

      The Vancouver Whitecaps take on the D.C. United in Major League Soccer action at BC Place Stadium.

       

      Canadian comedian and spoken-word artist Richard Lett performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      American comic, actress, and writer Ali Wong performs the third of three nights of standup at the Vogue Theatre.

      American comedian Rich Vos performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      Sketch comedy at the Dusty Flowershop explores the quirky characters that live inside one woman.

      Comedy by Byron Bertram, Aaron Read, Yumi Nagashima, Jonny Paul, and Ed Hill at the British Ex-Servicemens Association.

      Highbrow fusion of Shakespeare served with a side of improvisational mischief at Havana Theatre's Shakespeare After Dark.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Bard on the Beach, provides an in-depth look at the festival experience and Bard’s 28th season at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

      Art! Vancouver International art fair at the Vancouver Convention Centre features work by over 120 artists.

      The Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival features the Turtle Island shorts program, a screening of All Our Father's Relations, new-media presentations, youth and international programs, an indigenous-justice program, and music by Kelly Fraser, DJ Kookum, Mourning Coup, and Snotty Nose Rez Kids.

      Geekenders present a nerdlesque tribute to Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back at the Rio Theatre, featuring performances by Draco Muff-Boi, Veronica Vamp, Jayne Fondue, Stephen Blakley, Trixie Hobbitses, Tylr Bourbon, David Ten-Inch, Kitty Glitter, Lithium Little, Androsia Wilde, Seam Fit-It-In, Rainbowglitz, Fanny Oakley, Ginger Femmecat, Cadence Winter Matthews, and Sasja Smolders.

      More than 50 artists share their works in garden studios, cafés, shops, and community centres at the West of Main Art Walk.

      Curator Grant Arnold tours the exhibition Pictures from Here with some of the artists in the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition.

       

      DANCE

      Dance filmmaker Daniel Conrad leads a full-day workshop at Cineworks designed for filmmakers, choreographers, and dancers aspiring to make dance film.

      Arts Umbrella Dance Company presents performances created by international and Canadian choreographers at the Vancouver Playhouse.

      The Dance Centre's Global Dance Connections series presents Wen Wei Wang's new work Dialoguea creation for five male dancers that investigates communication and the fundamental urge to connect, at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

       

      LITERARY

      Get deals on books, DVDs, CDs, and LPs at the last day of the Vancouver Public Library's Spring Used Book Sale, with proceeds to support special library projects and programs.

       

      THEATRE

      Corey Payette's musical Children of God at the York Theatre tells the story of the children of an Oji-Cree family who are sent to a residential school in northern Ontario. 

      Mom's the Word Collective presents the final performance of Mom's the Word 3: Next 1/2 Empty at the Granville Island Stage.

      The rEvolver Theatre Festival runs until June 4 at the Cultch, featuring productions by Luciterra Dance Company, Ode. Movements Society, rice & beans theatre, Skinny Walrus Project, Heist and Theatre Outré, Ramshackle Theatre, and Wild Women Theatre.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Million Dollar Quarteta jukebox musical inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

      Arts Umbrella Theatre and Music presents the final day of the Expressions Theatre Festival, featuring five diverse and distinctive productions by young artists, at the Waterfront Theatre.

      Pacific Theatre presents a performance of Outside Mullingar, a quirky story about a pair of introverted misfits from families that live on neighbouring farms.

      Staircase Theatre presents the world premiere at PAL Studio Theatre of Scott Button’s dark thriller The Hunger Room, which explores loneliness, disconnection, and violence.

       

      MUSIC

      Steven Reineke conducts the Vancouver Symphony and vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Sy Smith, and Montego Glover in a program of songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington at the Orpheum Theatre.

      Amabilis Singers, violist Beth Nickel, and organist Roy Campbell present James Whitbourn's rarely heard composition Luminosity, as well as works by Lauridsen, Luengen, Lukaszewski, Ticheli, and Vasks at Holy Rosary Cathedral.

      Erato Ensemble presents Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, as well as works by William George, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Reynaldo Hahl, and Parsegh Ganatchian at St. Andrew's–Wesley United Church.

      The Postmodern Camerata performs music by composers Rita Ueda, John Cole, and Thomas Beckman at the Orpheum Annex.

      Ensemble Etoile Choir Society presents traditional and contemporary songs from Canada and Great Britain at Canadian Memorial United Church.

      The Vancouver Peace Choir presents a concert of works by Stephen Chatman, Leonard Enns, David Archer, Russell Wallace, and a commissioned work by Vancouver Peace Choir alumnus Chris Sivak at St. James Anglican Church.

      The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra performs Wagner's Flying Dutchman Overture and Saint-Saens's Cavatine for Trombone and Orchestra and Symphony No. 3 at Shaughnessy Heights United Church.

       

      GALLERIES

      Pictures From Here at the Vancouver Art Gallery features photographs and video works by Vancouver-based artists Roy Arden, Karin Bubaš, Christos Dikeakos, Stan Douglas, Greg Girard, Rodney Graham, Mike Grill, Arni Haraldsson, Fred Herzog, Barrie Jones, Evan Lee, N.E. Thing Co., Marian Penner Bancroft, Henri Robideau, Sandra Semchuk and James Nicholas, Althea Thauberger, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Paul Wong, Cornelia Wyngaarden, and Andrea Fatona.

      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.

      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

      Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC examines the physical traces of words, both spoken and recorded, that are unique to humans.

      The Lost Fleet at the Vancouver Maritime Museum investigates the unjust 1941 seizure of 1,200 Japanese-Canadian fishing vessels following the bombing of Pearl Harbour through a collection of historic photographs, models of Japanese-Canadian-built fishing boats, fishermen’s tools, and replica documents.

      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.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      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.

      The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library.

      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 Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor.

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

      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.

      Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.

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

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

       

      MOVIES

      Demme Jam: A Tribute to Jonathan Demme at the Vancity Theatre starts out with a DJ set of tracks from Demme's music movies in the atrium lounge and then moves into the theatre for a video jukebox celebration of favourite scenes and sequences from his movies.

      Bike-in Movie Night at the Queen Elizabeth Plaza, features an open-air screening of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Movie starts at dusk; brings a chair or blanket.

      Screening at the Vancity Theatre of director Charles Wilkinson's documentary Vancouver: No Fixed Address, which dissects the compromises that come with putting down roots in one of the most liveable cities in the world.

      24 Hour Movie Marathon at the Cinemateque features a carefully-curated lineup of (top-secret) movies from a variety of genres, eras, and places. Event include prizes, special guests, craft-beer happy-hour, treats, and a power nap zone; blankets and pillows recommended.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Chasing Trane, John Scheinfeld’s documentary about the artistic path of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.

      Director and executive producer Daniel Attias (The Sopranos, True Detective, and Entourage) shares experiences from his diverse and remarkable career at Vancity Theatre.

       

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