42 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, October 25

Looking for something to do on Tuesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 42 events happening in or around Vancouver on Tuesday, October 25.

CONCERTS

American punk-rock band Against Me! plays the Commodore, with guest David Hause.

Chicago hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper plays the first of two nights at Thunderbird Arena.

Australian electropop musician Hayden James coheadlines Fortune Sound Club with London electronica artist Elderbrook.

BENEFITS

Circus-themed haunted house at Beaumont Studio raises money for the B.C. Women's Hospital and Care Centre Foundation.

FOOD & DRINK

Experience the taste of Central America through a series of Cuban-style rums, complemented with specially prepared Ahi Tuna, at Legacy Liquor Store's Fall Rum Release.

The 12th annual Taste of Yaletown features an array of sharing dishes matched with wine and cocktail pairings, with partial proceeds from each meal donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

ETCETERA

Learn about Ancestry Library Edition at a hands-on genealogy workshop at Vancouver Public Library.

KIDS' STUFF

Fright Nights at Playland features seven haunted houses, two live shows, 15 rides, and 90 monsters roaming the grounds.

The Stanley Park Ghost Train celebrates the Day of the Dead with a ride through a tunnel of flames and a haunted graveyard, live music, and theatrical performances.

Take a spooky journey across Canada as you graduate from the Haunted Witches Academy atHalloween at Flyover Canada.

At VanDusen Glow in the Garden kids can walk through the woods and see lights, hear ghoulish music, and observe glowing pumpkin characters before enjoying Halloween crafts.

Story time and mini-pumpkin painting are part of a Moms and Tots Workshop at Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Ottawa Senators in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

The Fictionals present a night of eerie laughs, mini chocolate bars, ghost stories, and a real-life Ouija board at Café Deux Soleils.

LITERARY

Bev Sellars, author of They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School,shares her story of abuse, endurance, and resilience at an Indian residential school in Williams Lake at Surrey Centre Public Library.

Learn how you can unravel and write your own childhood and adult memories at Vancouver Public Library's Kitsilano Branch.

Micro readings from within the Langara community are featured at Kino Cafe as part of the Strangers on a Train Reading Series.

Discussion at the Alliance for Arts and Culture of what's going on with the new Amazon policies and how authors can navigate these changes for their benefit.

MUSIC

The Turning Point Ensemble launches its season with a performance by EMC+ ensemble contemporain de Montréal at the Orpheum Annex.

The VSO Chamber Players perform music by Plog, Piazzolla, and Schubert at West Van's Kay Meek Centre.

GALLERIES

Photographs by Vancouver-based artistStephen Waddell, printed to a large scale using traditional silver gelatin materials, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Photographs by Henry Callahan of the streets of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico, Portugal, and Wales on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

An Agreeable State of Uncertainty at the Vancouver Art Gallery features photographs, drawings, prints, and paintings by artists such as Weegee, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Leon Golub, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Jack Shadbolt, and Fred Herzog.

Works by Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen and Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

MUSEUMS

The Museum of Anthropology at UBC hosts an exhibition that features the carvings of Papua New Guinea's Iatmul people.

At the Museum of Vancouver, you can explore the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-to-wall displays of unconventional objects.

THEATRE

Opening at the York Theatre of The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe, a mix of classical clowning and contemporary circus centered on, in, under, and around a magnificent grand piano.

Performance at Granville Island of the Virtual Stage's Dead in the Water, an interactive-theatre adventure in which audience members must defeat a strange new breed of mutant zombie-vampires.

Performance at Firehall Arts Centre of Mamahood: turn and face the strange, Nicolle Nattrass's one-woman show, which tells the story of an extremely deprived first-time mother who dares to tell the tale of her descent into motherhood as she travels to an alternate time and place.

Performance at the Cultch of Fight Night, which puts five actors into the position of candidates struggling to get the audience’s sympathy and their vote.

Writer-director Mily Mumford's stage-noir thriller Frankenstein, 1945--which examines the monsters created by us and within us--runs at Studio 1398.

Trinity Western University’s School of the Arts, Media and Culture presents the British comedy Smash.

ATTRACTIONS

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

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

The VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.

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.

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

The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

MOVIES

Local comedians Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha, and Shaun Stewart--the Gentleman Hecklers--provide live comedic commentary at a screening at the Rio Theatre of John McTiernan's sci-fi/horror flick Predator.

Screening at the Vancity Theatre of The Lovers and the Despot, a documentary which chronicles the story of film director Shin Sang-ok and actor Choi Eun-hee, who were kidnapped by late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Mel Brooks's classic horror spoof Young Frankenstein, starring the late Gene Wilder.

The New York Portuguese Short Film Festival at the Cinematheque features screenings of "That's How It Was", "Isa", "Feral", "God Will Provide", "The Robbery", "The Carnations and the Rock", "My River", "I'd Rather Not Say", and "Law of Gravity".

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