70 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, July 22

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      Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 70 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, July 22.

       

      CONCERTS

      Former Murderdolls frontman Wednesday 13 plays the Rickshaw, with guests Invidia, Hellchamber, and Gabriel and the Apocalypse.

      Vancouver rock band Piggy plays Pub 340, with guests Richard Dugay, Rebel Priest, and the Hater Game.

      Showtime Australia presents a musical tribute to and full-scale stage production honouring Michael Jackson at the Vogue Theatre.

      Victoria metal band Holocaust Lord plays Pat's Pub & Brewhouse, with guests the Golers and the Press Gang.

      Uptown Live on the streets of downtown New Westminster features free performances by Daniel Wesley, Coco Jafro, Buffalo Jones, Echo Nebraska, Lion Bear Fox, GB Roots, Youngblood, Star Captains, Barefoot Mountain, and the New Groovement.

      Second day of the three-day Mission Folk Music Festival, which features folk, world, blues, and roots artists from across Canada and around the world at Fraser River Heritage Park.

      Second day of the two-day Rocket From Russia Fest, which features performances at the Media Club by various Vancouver punk bands.

      Opening day of The Drum is Calling Festival, a nine-day festival of indigenous and diverse arts and culture featuring performances at various Vancouver venues by Buffy Sainte-Marie, DJ Shub, Chantal Kreviazuk, Crystal Shawanda, Midnight Shine, William Prince, George Leach, and Kinnie Starr.

       

      BENEFITS

      The Deighton Cup at Hastings Racecourse features luxury and performance cars, a catered picnic luncheon, and craft cocktails, with proceeds to Variety-the Children's Charity and imagine1day.

      Music at Grace Memorial United Church by Ross Douglas, Elisa Thorn, Silk Road, Quatro, and the Highs and Lows Choir, with proceeds to Highs and Lows, a low-barrier choir for people with mental-health concerns.

       

      ETCETERA

      Over three days on Granville Island 40 artists working in different disciplines will gather around outdoor and indoor stages, public spaces, terrace bars, food trucks, and the kids’ zone for Canada 150: Canada Goes Pacific. Performers today include Ouache!, Troupe du Wetr, Gérald Laroche, Simane Wenethem, Mamselle Ruiz, and Sonido Pesao (above). 

      The North Burnaby Community Fair at Kensington Park Outdoor Pool features a local cover band, midway rides for kids, a bouncy castle, carnival games, and the Burnaby Lions Club barbecue.

      Bring your broken or unwanted small appliances and power tools for recycling and enjoy free food and games at Trout Lake Community Centre's RecycleFest 2017.

      The two-day Surrey Fusion Festival at Holland Park features over 70 acts on four stages, and over 45 pavilions representing the diverse cultures of various nations.

      The Osprey Festival at North Van's Maplewood Flats Conservation Area features workshops, guided walks, speakers, live music, kids' entertainment, and food.

      Shop for vintage sporting goods, stamps and coins, glassware, jewellery, militaria, memorabilia, postcards, photos, tin toys, and signs at the Antique and Collectible Market at Surrey's Sullivan Hall.

      Learn about flora and fauna on a guided intermediate hike at North Vancouver's Dog Mountain.

      The fourth annual, two-day Thai Festival at the Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza features free performances, workshops, arts and crafts, fruit carving, food, games, and prizes.

      Newton Days in Surrey features crafts by Studio Seventy Three, a kids' zone, hot dogs by Taste of Heaven, and fresh fruit and veggies from Zaklan Heritage Farm.

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      Visit four local ice-cream parlours in Railtown, Chinatown, and Gastown and sample six cold treats during the Gourmet Ice Cream Tour, which meets up at the Railtown Cafe.

       

      FORUMS

      End of Life Caregiving Workshop at New Westminster's Douglas College designed for family members or friends who have been or will be called upon to provide care, support, and advocacy for someone who is facing the end of their life.

      Learn about the intertidal zone and how tides, sun exposure, beach walkers, and climate change might affect this habitat at Lost Lagoon Nature House.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Highlights of Playland include 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.

      Kids can take in a reading of A Day in Canada and explore identity and what it means to be from a place at an Artstarts Explores workshop at Artstarts.

       

      COMEDY

      Six actors and six improvisers perform six scenes from five different plays at Havana Theatre's Actor's Nightmare.

      Vancouver comedian Damonde Tschritter performs the second of two nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      Vancouver comedian and impressionist Patrick Maliha performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      First day of the two-day African Descent Festival at Thornton Park, which features food vendors, crafts, live painting, drumming workshops, dance workshops, fashion shows, and performances by Kárà-Kátà (above), Dawn Pemberton, Mostly Marley, Mr. Metro, Ndidi Cascade, Mad Riddim, Mr. Fantastik, Steve Sacky, Kesseke, Jacky Yenga, Venom, Jabulile Dladla, Woodshed Supply Co, DJ Micheal Fraser, Bluetones, and Street Beat Entertainment.

       

      DANCE

      Kokoro Dance presents its annual butoh performance on the shores of Wreck Beach.

      Celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary with visual art and an interactive dance performance with Alt-Shift dance collective at Waterfront Park.

       

      LITERARY

      Mashed Poetics, a night of music and spoken-word mashup at Seven Dining Lounge, pays tribute to Metallica's classic 1988 album ...And Justice for All.

       

      MUSIC

      Cor Flammae presents music by Hussein Janmohamed, Shane Raman, Jeffrey Ryan, Stephen Smith, Zachary Wadsworth, Caroline Shaw, David Conte, Gian Carlo Menotti, Mari Esabel Valverde, and Francis Poulenc at Christ Church Cathedral.

      Opera Opulenza presents Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Offenbach's opera about a poet who recounts his loves and losses, at the York Theatre.

       

      THEATRE

      The Red Gate Revue Stage hosts a performance of Midtwenties Theatre Society's production of This Is Our Youth.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bittergirl: The Musical, which charts the romantic breakups of three women and the lively antics that ensue. Held at the Granville Island Stage.

      Performance at Jericho Arts Centre of David Pownall's Master Class as part of the Ensemble Theatre Company Summer Festival.

      Performance at Havana Theatre of Girls! Girls! Girls!, Greg MacArthur's play, set in the cutthroat world of high-school gymnastics, in which four teenage chums seek revenge for a loss on the vaulting horse.

      Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents a version of William Shakespeare's drama The Merchant of Venice set in modern-day Venice.

      Theatre Under the Stars presents an open-air production of The Drowsy Chaperone at Malkin Bowl.

      Broadway Across Canada presents Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

      Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents a version of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, set in 1959 Italy, where a group of actors and filmmakers celebrates the wrap of their latest movie.

      Fighting Chance Productions presents Forbidden Broadway, a play that satirizes classic Broadway musicals like Les Miserables and Wicked, at XYYVR Lounge.

       

      GALLERIES

      Bill Reid Creative Journeys at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art celebrates the three phases of the artist's creative journey, Pre-Haida (1948-1951), Haida (1951-1968) and Beyond Haida (1968-1998).

      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.

      Claude Monet's Secret Garden at the Vancouver Art Gallery showcases 38 paintings that span the career of the French artist who is regarded as a master of the Impressionist movement.

      Xi xanya dzam at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art features traditional masks, carvings, baskets and moosehide, contemporary prints, sculptures and jewellery by Primrose Adams, Dempsey Bob, Rena Point Bolton, Mandy Brown, Joe David, Robert Davidson, Alvin Mack, Mary Michell, Earl Muldon, Susan Point, and Norman Tait.

      The first major Canadian exhibition of photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures, and films by Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry is at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      Twenty-five works by contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore complement the exhibition Claude Monet’s Secret Garden at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      Persistence at the Vancouver Art Gallery draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists Julia Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Shelagh Keeley, and Germaine Koh.

       

      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.

      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.

      In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 110 historical indigenous artworks and explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands

      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.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      Big Splash Waterpark in Tsawwassen, formerly Splashdown, features newly renovated pools and hot tubs, new slides such as Kamikaze and Solar Splash, a sports bar and grill, and complimentary shuttle service to and from downtown Vancouver.

      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.

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

      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.

      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.

      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.

       

      MOVIES

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of the 1981 animated film Heavy Metal, which mashes up six stories of science fiction and erotic fantasy with music by Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Grand Funk Railroad, and Nazareth.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin's 1925 comedy about an unnamed prospector who seeks his fortune in the mountains, but ends up finding love instead.

      Screening at the Vancity Theatre of Brett Haley's The Hero, in which Sam Elliott plays an ailing Hollywood cowboy star who's grappling with his own mortality.

      Free Top Docs screening at Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew branch of Kip Anderson's documentary Cowspiracy.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film about a psychologist sent to a space station in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of director Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, which tells the story of early 20th-century white settlement in the northern B.C. town, as told through rediscovered nitrate film prints.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of From the Land of the Moon, Nicole Garcia's drama about a farmer's daughter whose burning desire embarrasses and shames her conservative family in the years after World War II. In French with English subtitles.

       

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