72 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, February 17
Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 72 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, February 17.
CONCERTS
The Chutzpah! Festival and Cap Jazz presents Mexico’s Troker, known for blurring jazz, rock, mariachi, metal, funk, and hip-hop, at the Rickshaw Theatre.
American heavy-metal band Avenged Sevenfold plays the Pacific Coliseum, with guests Breaking Benjamin and Bullet for My Valentine.
The 21st annual Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Langley campus features acoustic-guitar music by duos David Sinclair & Keith Bennett and John Gilliat & Rossi Tzonkov.
American pop singer-songwriter Jacob Sartorius plays the Vogue Theatre, performing on his Left Me Hangin' Tour.
Kelowna rock band the Fallaways plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Mitigo, Harbourside, and Bear King.
London singer-songwriter Bruno Major plays the Fox Cabaret, touring in support of his latest release A Song for Every Moon.
Nashville alt-folk band Judah and the Lion plays the Commodore, performing on its Going to Mars tour.
American electronica trio Autograf plays the Imperial, with guests Ramzoid and Cofresi.
Caravan World Rhythms and Vashaan Music Society present an evening of Persian and Turkish music at the Vancouver Playhouse.
BENEFITS
Fundraising gala at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver supports the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society, which trains and places certified assistance dogs with clients.
A Masked Affair at Odd Fellows Hall features music by T Riley and the Bourbon Rebels, with prroceeds to the Wish Drop-In Centre Society, which works to improve the health, safety, and well-being of women who are involved in Vancouver’s street-based sex trade.
ETCETERA
Lunar New Year at CF Pacific Centre features life-sized décor pieces, traditional lion dances, a traditional lion dance blessing, and an eye-dotting ceremony.
Gold Ocean Lunar Fest at the Terminal City Club features traditional Chinese New Year food, a tea ceremony, Chinese paper cutting and calligraphy, a Chinese fashion show, and a lucky red packet.
Celebrate Chinese New Year at the West End Community Centre with crafts and activities, a lion dance, martial arts demonstrations, music, and refreshments.
Celebrate Chinese New Year at Westbrook Village with a lion dance, lucky red envelopes, cultural performances, and family-friendly activities.
Set out with Stanley Park Ecology Society to learn more about coyotes in Stanley Park and track their movements during denning season.
FASHION
Fashion historian Ivan Sayers presents a show illustrating the highs and lows of 1920s fashion at Coquitlam's All Saints Parish Hall.
FORUMS
Yoga Date Night workshop at YYoga Downtown Flow explores duo asana, basic flying techniques, and a chance to develop you and your partner's Thai massage skills on each other.
KIDS' STUFF
A Birdy Told Me So at Performance Works is a show suited for kids five and up that blends storytelling with ventriloquism, puppetry, and singing.
SPORTS
The Vancouver Canucks take on the Boston Bruins in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
COMEDY
American comedian Jessimae Peluso performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.
Vancouver comedian John Beuhler performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.
Discuss if Jem and the Holograms or Josie and the Pussycats are the most rockin' adventure-seeking band at XY's Geeks Versus Nerds: Femageddon.
Vancouver improv and standup comedians compete for laughs at Little Mountain Gallery's Bloodfeud: Love-Feud.
ARTS ETCETERA
The 18th annual Chutzpah Festival features international, Canadian, and local artists performing dance, theatre, comedy, and music, with performances by Ezralow Dance, Roy Assaf Dance, MM Contemporary Dance, Idan Raichel, Troker, Perla Batalla, Mary Walsh, Jonathan Goldstein, Deb Filler, and Michael Rubenfeld.
The 17th annual Talking Stick Festival runs until February 24 at various Vancouver venues and focuses on the diversity of visual arts, dance, theatre, music, powwow, and film in both traditional and contemporary formats.
Circa 51 presents a cabaret-style circus showcase at New Westminster's Columbia Theatre that explores the many facets of love.
Night of adults-only puppetry at Performance Works features Mind of A Snail and Shirley Gnome.
LITERARY
Director and cinematographer Vic Sarin signs copies of Eyepiece: Adventures in Canadian Film and Television at Indigo Books, Broadway & Granville.
MUSIC
The Vancouver Bach Choir presents a concert at the Orpheum Theatre featuring conductor Leslie Dala (above), the West Coast Symphony, and members of the Vancouver Bach Children's Chorus.
The Vancouver Chamber Choir, conductor Jon Washburn, and five guest conductors present music by Mozart, Bruckner, Durufle, Foss, Enkhbayar, Healey, Adams, Crossin, Bartok, Daunais, and Washburn at Dunbar Ryerson United Church.
The Richmond Orchestra invites young local musicians to rehearse and perform with a full orchestra at Fraserview MB Church.
THEATRE
Studio 58 continues its 52nd season with Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Sarah Rodgers.
Final performance at the York Theatre of Jabberwocky, a new puppet extravanganza for adults about the journey of a young male hare.
Dark Glass Theatre presents the final 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 the final performance at The Theatre at Hendry Hall of Sylvia, director Kathleen Denkewalter's version of A.R. Gurney's comedy about a man who brings a stray dog home.
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 the final performance of 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.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of Jitters, a comedy about four actors, a director, and a playwright with one grand dream of Broadway-bound success for their new Canadian play.
Final performance at Vancity Culture Lab of No Foreigners, which investigates malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash where fashion, food, and commodity tether communities to a vital sense of home.
Zee Zee Theatre presents the 10th anniversary remounting at Scotiabank Dance Centre of My Funny Valentine, the one-man show inspired by the 2008 murder of Lawrence King.
The White Rock Players' Club presents a performance at Coast Capital Playhouse of Don't Dress for Dinner, director Julianne Christie's version of Marc Camoletti's sex-farce sequel to Boeing Boeing.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Granville Island Stage of Fun Home, a musical about a woman who struggles to understand her father while also dealing with her own coming out.
West Moon Theatre presents the final performance of Next to Normal, the story of a mother and her worsening bipolar disorder and how it affects her family, at Studio 16.
Monster Theatre presents Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, a whodunnit told with puppets, a Performance Works.
In Broken Tailbone, writer-performer Carmen Aguirre leads a Latin-American dance lesson at the Cultch that flows into her stories of intimacy, politics, culture, and the forgotten origins of the salsa.
ABB Collective presents Fool for Love, Sam Shepard's play about two transient lovers who unearth secrets of their disturbing past, at the Shop Theatre.
Gateway Theatre presents a performance of Salt-Water Moon, director Ravi Jain's version of David French's story of love, loss, and reconciliation.
Seven Tyrants Theatre presents the Vancouver premiere of A Steady Rain, Keith Huff's play about a lifelong bond tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago, at Penthouse Theatre Studio.
Arts Club on Tour presents the second and final performance at West Van's Kay Meek Centre of Onegin, Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille's musical about a dissipated rogue whose romantic charms stir the passions of the residents of a country estate.
Second and final performance at the Waterfront Theatre of the comedy Pourquoi tu pleures…?, perfomed in French with English surtitles, and featuring the return to Vancouver of Christian Bégin and the company Les Éternels Pigistes.
GALLERIES
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.
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.
空/Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses works by Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan to explore how each artist experimented with modernist movements and mysticism through their respective depictions of nature.
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
Celebrate winter with free skating in the heart of downtown Vancouver at Robson Square Ice Rink.
West Vancouver's Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.
At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.
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.
Take a ride in an exterior glass elevator and get a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains at Vancouver Lookout.
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.
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.
The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.
Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.
MOVIES
The KDocs Documentary Film Festival at Vancity Theatre features screenings of Birth of a Family, Generation Revolution, Shadow World (above), and Black Code.
Screening at the Cinematheque of Nicolas Roeg's 1973 horror classic Don't Look Now as part of the retrospective series Out There: The Visionary Cinema of Nicholas Roeg.
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