33 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, February 28

Looking for something to do on Tuesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 33 events happening in or around Vancouver on Tuesday, February 28.

 

CONCERTS

American rock singer-songwriter and Black Veil Brides vocalist Andy Black plays the Rickshaw, with guests William Control and Palaye Royale.

Swedish dream-pop band the Radio Dept. plays the Biltmore, touring in support of new album Running Out of Love.

Austin-based experimental indie-pop band the Octopus Project plays the Biltmore, with guests Sound of Ceres from Colorado.

American rapper Vince Staples plays the Vogue Theatre, with guest Kilo Kish.

 

FORUMS

EMMA Talks event at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts features presentations by recording artist Kinnie Starr and journalist Andrea Warner.

Panel discussion on Intellectual Freedom and the Arts at the Vancouver Public Library explores the freedom of expression issues faced by writers and artists.

A panel of Vancouver podcasters will answer questions on podcasting at the Alliance for Arts and Culture.

 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Detroit Red Wings in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

 

TAKE ACTION

Protest U.S. president Donald Trump and his sons Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump at the official opening of Vancouver's Trump Tower. The Trump Welcome Party includes music and speakers.

March against Donald Trump's presidency at the official opening of Vancouver's Trump Tower. Signs and posters encouraged.

 

COMEDY

The Fictionals mash up comedy and music with guest musicians Rhejis Wicks and Jesse Harder at Cafe Deux Soleils.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Cavalia presents Odysseo, a multimedia performance that uses equestrian arts, stage arts, and high-tech theatrical effects to examine the centuries-old relationship between human and horse, under the white big top at Olympic Village.

The Chutzpah Festival, a celebration of Jewish performing arts featuring dance, theatre, comedy, and music by local, Canadian, and international artists, continues at various Vancouver venues.

Final day at the Fairmont Pacific Rim of Japan Unlayered, an exhibition curated by master Japanese architect Kengo Kuma that presents Japanese traditions alongside contemporary design.

 

DANCE

The Coastal First Nations Dance Festival kicks off at the Museun of Anthropology at UBC, featuring new Indigenous stories, songs, and dances from a diverse array of Indigenous performance groups from Canada, Alaska, New Zealand, and the Pacific Rim.

The Outliner features new choreographic work by Isadora Award-winner Jennifer Mascall at the Orpheum Annex.

 

GALLERIES

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.

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.

Sonny Assu creates a new series of digital tags on a body of Emily Carr paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

 

MUSEUMS

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.

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

 

THEATRE

Théâtre la Seizième presents opening night at Studio 16 of Bonjour, la, bonjour, Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay's tragic story of forbidden love, directed by Gilles Poulin-Denis.

 

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, mountain ziplines, and the Peak of Christmas.

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.

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

Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding lessons from the Mt. Seymour Ski and Snowboard School, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

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

 

MOVIES

The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival presents the Vancouver premiere of the Mexican border suspense-thriller Desierto at the Cinematheque.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of My Life As a Zucchini, director Claude Barras's stop-motion animated film about a young boy who is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Titmouse 5 Second Animation Night at the Rio Theatre gives Titmouse animators the chance to bring to life whatever strange, beautiful, disturbing, and funny ideas they’ve had all year as a short-format cartoon.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck's documentary examines the issue of race in America through the too-short lives of Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X.

 

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