Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 80 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, February 3.

CONCERTS

American alt-rock band Portugal: The Man plays the second of two nights at the Vogue Theatre, with guests Hollerado.

German electronica-rock band Milky Chance plays the first of two nights at the Commodore, with guest Lewis Capaldi.

Denver-based electronica music producer Stélouse plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

Toronto prog-metal band Intervals plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Jason Richardson, Nick Johnston, and Night Verses.

Tina Turner impersonator Luisa Marshall performs at New Westminster's Massey Theatre.

Local heavy-rock band Modern Day Poets plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Bridges to Royal, Joshua Job, and Jessica Barbour.

Canadian roots-folk trio Lonesome Ace Stringband plays White Rock's Blue Frog Studios.

Sarah Jickling and Greg McLeod from My Good Bad Luck Band are featured in Mind and Music Matters, an evening of whimsical indie-pop at the Roundhouse Community Centre.

Jazz musician Remi Bolduc takes on the music of Montreal-born jazz pianist Oscar Peterson at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

The African Roots Ultimate Experience at the WISE Hall features performances by Adama Bilorou, Laso Sanou, and Akra Soumah.

Coastal Jazz presents New York organist Brian Charette in the second of two nights at Frankie's Jazz.

Jazz trio composed of pianist Emie R. Roussel, bassist Nicolas Bédard, and drummer Dominic Cloutier plays Studio 16.

ETCETERA

The three-day Taboo…The Naughty but Nice Sex Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre features provocative and educational seminars, entertainment, shopping, fashion shows, and live demonstrations.

The three-day Body, Soul, and Spirit Expo at the Croatian Cultural Centre brings together holistic, natural living, and spiritual teachings.

Winter Wander event taking place at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, the Museum of Vancouver, and the H.R MacMillan Space Centre features food trucks, crafts, and performers. 

Saturday Night at Prohibition features era-appropriate cocktails, canapés, and stories of Vancouver’s Prohibition era.

Browse through 40 tables of coins, stamps, and collectibles at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.

Over 30 local makers and artists sell handmade goods at New Westminster's River Market.

FOOD & DRINK 

The Dine Out Vancouver Festival features 17 days of guided dining adventures, cocktail master classes, B.C. VQA wine brunches, neighbourhood food tours, global guest-chef collaboration dinners, and special menus at participating restaurants.

Ocean Wise executive chef Ned Bell presents a three-course menu featuring dishes from his cookbook Lure at the Vancouver Aquarium's Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café.

FORUMS

Brush up on the basics of advanced yoga-teacher training in a two-day course with Sjanie McInnis and Rebekka Walker at Vancouver School of Yoga.

Learn how to share a favourite picture book using felt pieces, puppets, and play activities at an Early Language and Literacy Workshop at Vancouver Public Library's Kensington branch.

KIDS' STUFF

Celebrate the renovation and grand reopening of Play Central at Central City with free crafts, games, music, face-painting, and balloon twisting.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Tampa Bay Lightning in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

Canadian comedian Alex Nussbaum performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Canadian comedian Nick Beaton performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Canadian improv comedians The Comic Strippers portray a fictional male-stripper troupe at the York Theatre.

Comedy show LMG News features newsdesk updates and jokes about the community at Little Mountain Gallery.

ARTS ETCETERA

Join CAG executive director Nigel Prince for a guided tour of the Brent Wadden exhibition Two Scores at the Contemporary Art Gallery.

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival showcases visionary, genre-bending, startling, and original work by international, Canadian, and local artists at various Vancouver venues.

Spend an evening alongside artists and art-lovers while taking in your choice of eight shows at Club Push, running at the Fox Cabaret and New Westminster's Anvil Centre.

DANCE

As part of the Global Dance Connections series, the Dance Centre presents Daina Ashbee in a performance of Pour a Scotiabank Dance Centre.

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and TAIWANfest present a performance by Taiwan's Legend Lin Dance Theatre at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

LITERARY

Meet with other writers for encouragement and support of your current writing project at Vancouver Public Library's Dunbar branch.

MUSIC

Russian-Swiss harpist Sasha Boldachev performs at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

Early Music Vancouver and the Vancouver Chopin Society present a concert at Christ Church Cathedral featuring Polish classical pianist Janusz Olejniczak.

In composer Juliet Palmer's project at the Western Front, vocal soundscape combines with diagnostic ultrasound recordings, giving voice to the rhythms of the circulatory and respiratory systems.

The Beijing Guitar Duo, composed of guitarists Meng Su and Yameng Wang, plays Pyatt Hall.

Baroque chamber music ensemble La Modestine presents a concert of French music from the time of Louis XIV at Hodson Manor.

THEATRE

Keltie Forsyth directs She Kills Monsters, a dramatic comedy featuring homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and '90s pop culture, at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Performance at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre of Topdog/Underdog, a modern fable of African-American brothers sharing a seedy, one-room apartment and looking for easy money in cards.

Canadian premiere at the Firehall Arts Centre of Shit, Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius's play about the lives of three incarcerated underclass women.

Presentation House Theatre and Mexico’s Marionetas de la Esquina present the Canadian premiere of playwright Amaranta Leyva's puppet show Sleeping Beauty Dreams.

The Sidekick Players Club presents the final performance of Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's play about the lifelong correspondence of two childhood friends, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

United Players presents Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim's musical about friendship, compromise, and the high price of success, at Jericho Arts Centre.

Final performance at North Van's St. Martin's Hall of Shaken Not Stirred: A James Bond Panto, a family-friendly tale full of spies, kidnapped princesses, and a secret sinister organization.

Dark Glass Theatre presents a performance at Pacific Theatre of Ruined, the story of a bar that strives to remain neutral ground during the Congolese civil war.

The North Vancouver Community Players present Sylvia, director Kathleen Denkewalter's version of A.R. Gurney's comedy about a man who brings a stray dog home, at the Theatre at Hendry Hall.

Studio 58 continues its 52nd season with Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Sarah Rodgers.

Vagabond Players presents Drinking Habits, a play that sees two nuns secretly make wine to keep their convent open, at Bernie Legge Theatre.

Align Entertainment presents Legally Blonde, the Broadway musical about a woman who thwarts stereotypes and sorority-sister scandals to become a Harvard law graduate, at Michael J. Fox Theatre.

GALLERIES

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.

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.

Two Scores is a solo exhibition of work by Canadian artist Brent Wadden at Contemporary Art Gallery.

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.

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.

More than 55 paintings and sculptures are featured in Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, the first-ever retrospective of Murakami's work in Canada, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

MUSEUMS

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 the Rio Theatre of Alberto Vázquez‘s darkly comic fantasy based on his own graphic novel and short film. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children.

Screenin at Vancity Theatre of Shirley: Visions of Reality, Gustav Deutsch's film in which 13 paintings by Edward Hopper tell the story of a woman whose thoughts, emotions, and contemplations observe an era in American history.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Our Time Will Come, director Ann Hui's film about a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé, who link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of The Square, director Ruben Östlund’s satirical, Palme d'Or-winning drama about a curator who hires a public relations team to build some buzz for his renowned Swedish museum.

The Rendez-Vous French Film Festival continues until Feb. 11, featuring screenings of French films at various Vancouver venues.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Shadowman, Oren Jacoby's 2017 film about the heyday and subsequent fall from grace of street-art pioneer Richard Hambleton.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Still Night, Still Light, writer-director Sophie Goyette's film about three sensitive souls who heed the call of the images and melodies that haunt their days and nights.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of the classic 1942 romance Casabalanca, about an American expatriate who meets a former lover in Morocco during the early days of World War II.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Happy End, Michael Haneke's film about a wealthy French family headed by a king-like paterfamilias who is losing his wits.

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