49 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, March 15

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      Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 49 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, March 15.

       

      CONCERTS

      Americana trio Dirtwire plays the Rickshaw, with guests Subscura and Erica Dee.

      Canadian roots fiddler Ashley MacIsaac performs in the traditional Cape Breton style at West Van's Kay Meek Centre.

      CelticFest Vancouver continues through March 18, featuring music by numerous Celtic artists at various Vancouver venues.

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      The East Side Beer Fest at WISE Hall features craft beers from all over the world along with samplings from Commercial Drive food purveyors, with proceeds to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society.

       

      FORUMS

      At a Carbon Talks lecture at SFU Harbour Centre, Jacqueline Cramer discusses what a municipal approach to a circular economy looks like, what are its opportunities and barriers, and which examples should be followed.

      Saori N. Katada analyses the motivations of China, Japan, and the U.S. and their strategies and interactions in shaping the regional economic order at SFU Harbour Centre.

      Paul Kingsbury lectures on the lived spaces of paranormal investigations, conferences, and community events in the Pacific Northwest at a forum at SFU Surrey.

      Taruna Agrawal of the Carla Lewis Law Corporation speaks about immigration law and the local tech sector at Lighthouse Labs.

      Nine PhD students from UBC's Public Scholars Initiative have seven minutes to talk about their environmental research and how we can establish healthier human-nature relationships, at UBC Robson Square.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Beginner Robotics workshop at West Vancouver Memorial Library sees participants working in pairs to program a Sphero SPRK+ robot.

       

      COMEDY

      At the Rio Theatre's Ladies Against Humanity, Vancouver women perform comedy based on the cult-hit card game Cards Against Humanity.

       

      LITERARY

      Readings at Vancouver Public Library by non-fiction authors Alexandra Shimo (Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve), Kevin Donovan (Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation), and Paul Watson (Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition).

      Author Lori McNulty reads from her debut short-story collection Life On Mars at Book Warehouse on Main.

      Fiona Odgren discusses the Mahatma Letters, which record the correspondence between two Mahatmas of the Himalayan brotherhood and two influential British men in India in the 1880s, at Banyen Books and Sound.

       

      DANCE

      The Vancouver International Dance Festival continues, featuring performances at various Vancouver venues by world-class dance artists.

       

      GALLERIES

      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.

      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.

      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.

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

       

      MUSIC

      Soprano Jane Long and harpsichordist Christina Hutten perform arias by George Frideric Handel at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

      Music in the Morning presents the Romanian-born Israeli classical violinist Miriam Fried at Vancouver Academy of Music.

      William Rowson conducts trumpeter Chris Botti and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of pop classics and jazz standards at the Orpheum Theatre.

       

      MUSEUMS

      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.

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

      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.

       

      THEATRE

      Opening night at the Cultch of Peninsula Productions' Belfast Girls, about five young women who escape the Irish famine in 1850 aboard a ship bound for Australia.

      Opening night at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts of What A Young Wife Ought To Know, about a young working-class wife who has a lot to learn about love, sex, and birth control.

      Western Gold Theatre presents a performance at PAL Theatre of its staged reading of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night, directed by Anna Hagan.

      Carousel Theatre for Young People presents a kid-friendly stage version of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat at the Waterfront Theatre.

      Douglas College Studio Theatre presents a performance of Out of the Garden, which tells the story of Eve in four different eras, tracking the journey out of the Garden of Eden and the evolution of sexuality in western civilization.

      Way Off-Broadway Wednesday presents a performance at Heritage Grill of The Hatter, Andrew Wade's show about a once-mad man trying desperately to find his way home.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

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

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

      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.

      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 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.

      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 Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition features over 250 privately-owned bikes from around the world.

      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.

       

      MOVIES

      Frames of Mind presents a screening at the Cinematheque of Granny's Dancing on the Table, which tells of intergenerational abuse using both live action and stop-motion puppet animation.

      The Vancouver Iranian Film Society presents a screening at Vancity Theatre of Mohey, Davood Khayyam's film about a woman who becomes involved in international money laundering and black-market deals.

      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.

      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.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of director Ceyda Torun's documentary Kedi, which uses specially crafted camera rigs and an extreme measure of observational patience to capture all of the hard-to-reach places where cats go in Istanbul.

       

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