80 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, December 10

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 80 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, December 10.

       

      CONCERTS

      Vancouver soul-R&B singer-songwriter Emily Chambers performs at Frankie's Jazz with an eight-piece band.

      Sunday Soul Brunch at the Emerald features music by Dawn Pemberton and the Good Almighty.

      Bellingham-based folk-roots singer-songwriter Robert Sarazin Blake plays the WISE Lounge.

      Vancouver jazz bassist Jen Hodge performs Christmas tunes with her band at Surrey's Northwood United Church.

       

      BENEFITS

      The third annual Run To Give YVR is an eight-kilometre charity run at Olympic Village Square that raises funds for the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre.

      See more than 30 gingerbread creations designed by students, professionals, and amateur culinary artists at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, with proceeds to Make-A-Wish B.C. and Yukon.

      Singles Party at Surrey's Barons Manor features music by DJ Carlos, speed dating, dancing, food, and a silent auction, with proceeds to a local food bank, the Alzheimer Society of B.C., and the Children's Wish Foundation.

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      Learn how to make cream puffs, profiteroles, chouquettes, and eclairs at Trout Lake Community Centre.

       

      FORUMS

      Clara Roberts-Oss leads a yoga workshop at Semperviva Yoga Kits Beach Studio that includes mantra, pranayama, meditation, and heating vinyasa practice.

       

      CHRISTMAS

      The Peak of Christmas at Grouse Mountain features holiday light installations around Blue Grouse Lake, Christmas movies, crafts, sleigh rides, skating, a gingerbread village, reindeer, storytime, and breakfast with Santa.

      The Vancouver Christmas Market at Jack Poole Plaza features more than 75 vendor huts, authentic German food and drink, a carousel, a 30-foot-tall walk-in Christmas tree, live entertainment, and family-friendly activities.

      See thousands of lights adorning the Capilano Suspension Bridge, canyon, Treetops Adventure, and Cliffwalk at Canyon Lights.

      Van Dusen Botanical Garden's Festival of Lights features outdoor light displays, dancing light shows, stories with Santa, live entertainment, a fireside lounge, the Make-A-Wish candle grotto, and sing-alongs.

      Make It! Vancouver's Handmade Market at the PNE Forum features more than 265 Canadian artists, makers, and crafters selling clothing, art, home decor, gourmet goodies, and baby and kid items.

      Lights at Lafarge features outdoor light displays, live entertainment, roving performers, hot chocolate and cookies, photos with Santa, family-friendly crafts, a holiday market, and choirs at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park.

      Annual Lights of Hope display at St. Paul's Hospital features over 100,000 sparkling lights and raises funds for the St. Paul's Foundation.

      Join Santa on a flight across Canada and on to the North Pole as he searches for his missing elves at Christmas at Flyover Canada.

      The two-day Got Craft? Holiday Edition at the Maritime Labour Centre features over 80 local artisans selling items like sustainably produced party supplies, experimental wall hangings, and punny stationary, with swag bags for the first 50 people through the door.

      The two-day Fall For Local Holiday Market at The Pipe Shop venue is where you can shop from over 80 brands, make a holiday wreath, and wrap your gifts at a free gift-wrapping station.

      The two-day 15th annual Shiny Fuzzy Muddy fine art, craft, and design show at Heritage Hall hosts over 30 B.C.-based artists.

      The two-day Eastside Flea Holiday Market at the Ellis Building features over 50 Vancouver vendors, plus food trucks, a DJ, artisan showrooms, seasonal drink specials, and pinball.

      The Christmas Artisan Fair and Silent Auction at St. John's Shaughnessy Church features knitwear, framed photos, ceramics, greeting cards, goodies, and gift baskets.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Physics of Winter science show at UBC's Hebb Theatre explores winter-themed questions like why do the seasons change and how do icicles form.

      Free Chanukah Party at the Jewish Community Centre features live entertainment, arts, crafts, traditional Chanukah foods like latkes and sufganiyot, and music by Tzimmes.

      Kids grades three to five can learn about comic panels and speech and thought balloons at a free introduction to cartooning at Vancouver Public Library's Terry Salman branch.

       

      COMEDY

      The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Christmas Queen 4: Secret Santa, a holiday-themed comedy show that sees the Queen and Santa exchange bodies in a Freaky Friday-style magical sleight-of-hand.

      Instant Theatre presents a battle between two improv-comedy troupes at Havana Theatre.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Join Katharine Meng-Yuan Yi at the Contemporary Art Gallery for a free tour of the current exhibitions in Mandarin.

      Cirque du Soleil presents Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities, a new production that takes you into the curio cabinet of an ambitious inventor who defies the laws of time, space, and dimension, at Concord Pacific Place. 

      Fight for Beauty at Fairmont Pacific Rim features public art projects undertaken with world-class creatives, architecture from architects who are artists in their own right, and fashion by some of the greatest designers in recent history.

       

      DANCE

      The Arts Umbrella Dance Company presents an all-ages retelling of Tchaikovsky's holiday classic The Nutcracker at the Vancouver Playhouse.

      Noor Dance Co and Ammara Dance Co present a showcase of Middle Eastern dance at the Red Gate Revue Stage.

       

      LITERARY

      Poets Jami Macarty and Marguerite Pigeon will read from their latest works at the Vancouver Public Library.

        

      MUSIC

      The Laudate Singers and guest harpist Joy Yeh present Britten's Ceremony of Carols alongside music by Bruce Sled and Kristopher Fulton at North Van's St. Andrew's United Church.

      Roedde House Classical Series presents Lyrichord, an evening of music by tenor William George and guitarist Stanton Jack, at Roedde House Museum.

      Conductor William Rowson, host Christopher Gaze, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, EnChor and director Gerald van Wyck, and the UBC Opera Ensemble and director Nancy Hermiston present a concert of carols, Christmas classics, and audience sing-alongs at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church.

      The Welsh Society of Vancouver presents the Dylan Thomas classic A Child's Christmas in Wales, with live original music and favourite carols, at Cambrian Hall.

       

      THEATRE

      Performance at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts of Bah Humbug!, in which Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol comes to life in modern-day East Vancouver.

      Some Assembly Theatre Company presents the final performance at Performance Works of writer-actor Nicholas Harrison's play How Star Wars Saved My Life.

      Theatre Replacement's East Van Panto: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a kid-friendly production at the York Theatre that sees the title character flee the wicked Queen of North Vancouver across the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, landing at the PNE.

      The Daisy Theatre presents Little Dickens, Ronnie Burkett's take on Charles Dickens's holiday classic A Christmas Carol, at the Cultch.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre of The Day Before Christmas, Stacey Kaser and Alison Kelly's play about a perfectionist who's desperately holding fast to her Christmas traditions.

      The Vagabond Players present a traditional holiday pantomime based on the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre.

      Carousel Theatre for Young People presents Joseph Robinette's adaptation of the C.S. Lewis book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, about four siblings who step through a wardrobe into an enchanted land, at Waterfront Theatre.

      Pacific Theatre presents Almost, Maine, director Kaitlin Williams's play about the joys and perils of romance, set in a small town in Maine.

      The White Rock Players Club presents a performance of director Alex Lowe's kid-friendly pantomime The Hunchback of Notre PANTO at Coast Capital Playhouse.

      The North Vancouver Community Players present director Miles Lavkulich's version of Linda Sharp's play The Doctor of Oz: A Self-Help Panto, about a girl who travels to a magical land of self-help, at the Theatre at Hendry Hall.

      Gateway Theatre presents a stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens's classic tale of a miser who changes his ways after he is visited by ghosts.

      Performance at the Cultch's Vancity Culture Lab of The Realistic Joneses, Will Eno's play in which a man and a woman and their neighbours face life-altering problems.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, a stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning animated film.

      The Geekenders present a Back to the Future musical spoof at the Rio Theatre featuring songs from Beauty and the BeastBat Boy, and Huey Lewis and the News.

       

      GALLERIES

      Polygon Gallery's inaugural exhibition, N. Vancouver, explores how a specific locale can be reflected through existing and newly commissioned artworks by artists from Vancouver and beyond.

      Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 90 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture highlighting both the richness of the Royal Collection and the complex relationship that the British monarchy has had with artists for the last three and half centuries.

      Intangible at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art exhibition spotlights six Coast Salish artists influenced by tradition as well as contemporary inspiration.

      Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting at the Vancouver Art Gallery offers insight into two distinctly different modes of painting that have come to dominate contemporary painting in Canada.

      True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery highlights the enduring legacy of Scandinavian design principles in Canada through works by Niels Bendtsen, Bocci, Karen Bulow, Kjeld and Erica Deichmann, Thor Hansen, Andrew Jones, Janis Kravis, molo, Carl Poul Petersen, Rudolph Renzius, and Marion Smith.

      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).

      Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents the latest findings of Vancouver-based artist Sawyer's ongoing research project that deftly reconstructs the life and work of the genre-defying, fictional artist Brettschneider.

      Emily Carr: Into the Forest at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a collection of Emily Carr's forest paintings that highlight her continued exploration of the natural environment.

       

      MUSEUMS

      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.

      Amazonia: The Rights of Nature 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.

      City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism at the Museum of Vancouver explores the history of Vancouver's street protests through over 650 images of street demonstrations, protests, and riots from the early 1900s to present day.

      The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC takes visitors on a journey through the past 200 years of Salish wool weaving.

      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

      North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, as well as ziplines, a wildlife refuge, helicopter tours, paragliding, dining, and the Grouse Grind.

      Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding, lessons, chairlifts, terrain parks, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

      Celebrate winter with free skating in the heart of downtown Vancouver at Robson Square Ice Rink.

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

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

      The new Parq Vancouver features two luxury hotels, a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

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

      Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, gardens, beaches, and West Coast rain forest, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8 kilometre seawall.

      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.

       

      MOVIES

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Jane, Brett Morgan's documentary about the National Geographic cameraman who was sent to film Jane Goodall's pioneering work with chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park in the 1960s.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Nahid, writer-director Ida Panahandeh's drama which explores Iran's unusual concept of temporary marriages.

      The 19th annual Animation Show of Shows at the Rio Theatre features 16 animated shorts from around the world. 

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Faces Places, director Agnès Varda's film in which she hits the road in search of the people and their villages that define rural France and make it what it is.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of God's Own Country, Francis Lee's film about a man who slowly opens up to the possibility of happiness with the help of a ruggedly handsome Romanian farmhand.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Tom of Finland, director Dome Karukoski’s biopic which traces LGBTQ icon Tom of Finland's obsessions back to World War II, when the young artist-to-be served in the military.

       

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