74 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, November 5

Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 74 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, November 5.

 

CONCERTS

American rapper A$AP Ferg plays the Vogue, with guests Playboi Carti and Rob $tone.

Vancouver indie-folk rockers Echo Nebraska play Blue Light Studio, showcasing tunes from debut EP Send the Ships.

All-male a cappella quartet QW4RTZ plays Norman Rothstein Theatre as part of the 22nd Coup de cœur francophone de Vancouver.

American punk-rock band NOFX plays the second of two nights at the Commodore, with guests Pears, Useless ID, and Modern Terror.

Local jazz vocalist Steve Maddock performs a tribute to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. at New Westminster's Queens Avenue United Church.

 

BENEFITS

Fourth annual storytelling event at Moose's Down Under Restaurant features four true tales from members of the blind and low-vision community, with proceeds to VocalEye programs that provide people with vision loss greater access to arts and culture.

Sample food and wine, enjoy live music, and bid on silent-auction items at the Rocky Mountaineer Train Station's Sparkle 2016, with proceeds to the Starlight Children's Foundation Canada.

YMCA Megathon fundraiser at the Robert Lee YMCA features zumba, spin, and yoga classes, as well as weight-lifting challenges.

Royal City Gogos presents a craft sale at New Westminster's Unifor Hall that raises funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign, in support of African grandmothers caring for children orphaned by AIDS.

 

ETCETERA

Professional wrestling collides with burlesque in a mashup at the WISE Hall featuring Sinn Bodhi (above), Randy Myers, Cherry On Top, Melody Mangler, Bambi Hall, the Nasty Nuns, Zombie Apocalypse, Gnar Kelly, the Great Kasaki, Veronica Vex, and Justine Sane.

The Vancouver Health Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre includes keynotes by health-industry experts, demonstrations, and current products and services in fitness, nutrition, and alternative-healing practices.

Buy baking, knitting, jewellery, spices, soaps, crafts, photography, and other seasonal items at a Christmas Fair at St Augustine's Anglican Church.

Meet face-to-face with representatives from franchise businesses and speak one-on-one with franchise experts at the Vancouver Convention Centre during the Franchise Show Vancouver.

FlyOver America is a 10-minute flight-simulation ride at Flyover Canada that features beautiful landscapes of the U.S., including Hawaii, Alaska, and New York.

 

FOOD & DRINK

Join 18 craft breweries in raising funds for the Craft Council of British Columbia's youth program while enjoying music by electronica duo Not You at Performance Works.

Meet local and international tea merchants, tea connoisseurs, tea-plant specialists, and cultural experts at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden's Vancouver Tea Festival.

Watch a cooking demonstration at the Uncommon Cafe and enjoy your dinner with wine. Dishes include butternut squash crispy filo ravioli, veal in a cream sauce, and spiced poached pears.

 

FORUMS

TEDxSFU conference at the Vancouver Playhouse features 10 speakers from diverse backgrounds--including human-rights activist Tara Teng--exploring what it means to step outside the parameters of familiarity and explore unchartered ideas and spaces.

UBC sociology prof. Rima Wilkes moderates a discussion on the global refugee crisis at the Liu Institute for Global Issues.

Eco futurist Guy Dauncey presents a positive view of the future, addressing the challenges of climate change, at Ladner's Cedar Park Church.

The UBC Changemaker Showcase at the UBC Student Nest helps participants identify their passions, generate ideas, and connect to peers and professionals.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Kids can learn how to make a friendship bracelet at a free workshop at Katami Designs Studio and Gallery.

 

SPORTS

The B.C. Lions take on the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Canadian Football League action at BC Place Stadium.

The Vancouver Giants take on the Lethbridge Hurricanes in Western Hockey League action at Langley Events Centre.

 

COMEDY

Canadian standup comedian Ian Bagg performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Canadian comic and actor Tom Green performs the second of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Professional and up-and-coming comedians, including feature act Dylan Rhymer, perform standup at Goldies Pizza.

Canadian standup comedian Chris Locke performs at Little Mountain Gallery, with guests Graham Clark, Ryan Beil and Aaron Read, Sophie Buddle, Ryan Williams, and Sean Devlin.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Two-day Taiwanese Puppet Festival at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features performances by puppetry ensembles the Happy Puppetry Company and Puppet & Its Double Theatre. 

The 13th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival features twelve days of music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, spoken word, forums, workshops, and public art at various Vancouver venues.

Artist Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk demonstrates the creative and technical processes for creating her 3D bots at Cityscape Community Art Space.

 

DANCE

Ballet BC presents two new works by Cayetano Soto, as well as the choreographer's Sortijas and Fugaz, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Dance project performed in the outdoor courtyard at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts sees a wayward group land on an unknown shore after 451 days at sea.

 

GALLERIES

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

Ceramics by Judy Chartrand at Bill Reid Gallery present her own personal history and insights into life in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Still Here at Gallery Gachet is a collection of photographs and art from gay and bisexual men affected by suicide.

Bill Reid Creative Journeys at Bill Reid Gallery marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii.

Walker Evans: Depth of Field at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 200 black and white and colour prints from the 1920s through to the 1970s.

 

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.

 

MUSIC

Opening night of the Modulus Festival, which features performances at various Vancouver venues by Turning Point Ensemble (above), Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, Bozzini Quartet, Rachel Iwaasa, Standing Wave Ensemble, and Music on Main All-Star Band.

UBC Opera Ensemble and members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra present Menotti's opera The Consul at UBC's Old Auditorium.

The Vancouver Cantata Singers perform Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei at Ryerson United Church.

The Lions Gate Youth Orchestra joins the Lions Gate Sinfonia for an evening of music by Mozart, Brahms, Bach, and Michael Conway Baker at North Van's Centennial Theatre.

Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a program at the Orpheum that sees Raiders of the Lost Ark played on the big screen alongside a performance of the John Williams score.

Chamber singers from Trinity Western University performs Bach's Der Herr Denket an uns at Langley Canadian Reformed Church.

 

THEATRE

Preview at the Firehall Arts Centre of Miss Shakespeare, a play about the creative journey of the Bard's daughter. 

Performance 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.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bakersfield Mist, Stephen Sachs's story about a down-on-her-luck woman who invites an art dealer to authenticate a long-lost painting by the renowned Jackson Pollock. Running at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

United Players presents director Michael Fera's version of Henrik Ibsen's drama Ghosts at Jericho Arts Centre. 

The Renegade Arts Co. present the musical The Who's Tommy--about a pinball-playing, "deaf, dumb, and blind boy" who triumphs over adversity--at the Shop Theatre.

Performance at Douglas College Studio Theatre of Caryl Churchill's Love and Information, which explores the relationship between our emotions and our intellect.

Professor emeritus Norman Young returns to UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre stage with theatre alumni and students from the UBC Theatre Program for fundraising performances of Beckett 16 benefiting the Peter Loeffler Student Prize.

Writer and star Tetsuro Shigematsu presents Empire of the Son--the story of one immigrant family and its intergenerational conflicts--at the Vancity Culture Lab.

Performances at the Cultch of Indian Ink Theatre Company's The Elephant Wrestler, about a poor tea seller who attempts to solve the interwoven mysteries of love, tragedy, and joy.

ITSAZOO presents Hidden, a site-specific horror event at UBC Botanical Garden that guides audiences through a re-enactment of infamous and unsolved murders.

Performance at Presentation House Theatre of Ages of the Moon, Sam Shepard's darkly funny play about two friends who are reunited by mutual desperation on the eve of a lunar eclipse.

Performance at PAL Theatre of Fighting Chance Productions' Now or Later, Christopher Shinn's play about a son who jeopardizes his father's presidential campaign.

Fugue Theatre presents an in-concert, work-in-progress presentation of the new Canadian trilingual musical Les Filles du Roi at the Orpheum Annex.

Musician Chase Padgett tells the story of the rise, demise, and resurrection of a fictional guitar player in Nashville Hurricane at Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Mitch and Murray Productions presents Lisa D'Amour's Detroit--a play about a fledgling suburbanite friendship that soon veers out of control--at Studio 16.

Little Thief Theatre & Actors Co. presents Glass Jaw, an original Canadian work written by Miranda MacDougall, at Eastside Boxing Club.

A performance of moments from the life of Nikkei World War I veteran Zennosuke Inouye at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.

 

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 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.

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

The 10-day-long Vancouver Jewish Film Festival continues at Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Jim Jarmusch's music documentary Gimme Danger, about rock band Iggy and the Stooges.

The third annual Rio Grind Film Festival features an assortment of new and award-winning international, Canadian, indie, cult, sci-fi, and horror shorts, features, and documentaries.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of director Keiichi Hara's 2015 anime film Miss Hokusai.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Nettie Wild's environmental documentary Koneline: our land beautiful.

 

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