Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 47 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, April 29.

CONCERTS

The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society presents Southern California jazz group the Danny Green Trio at Frankie's Jazz Club.

Vocalist Linda Szentes performs with her jazz quartet Jazzlinks at North Van's St. Andrew's United Church.

Local rock quartet Marine Drive plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Gleneagle, Late Night Takeaway, and Ghulo.

BENEFITS

Yoga on Tap at Burnaby's Steamworks Brewery and Taproom features yoga practice and beer tasting, with proceeds to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organization on a mission to create a world full of trees.

Dress in yellow for the family-friendly Daffodil Dash Vancouver at Concord Pacific Place, with proceeds to the Canadian Cancer Society.

ETCETERA

The two-day Fall For Local Spring Market at the Pipe Shop in North Van features goods from over 85 brands, free DIY workshops, and food trucks.

Antiques and Collectibles Fair at Surrey's Sullivan Hall features a wide array of vendors selling 1950s kitsch, retro decor, antique jewellery, and ceramics.

FORUMS

The Truth Be Told Project at White Rock's Coast Capital Theatre is a night of creativity, courage, and true stories from people living well with mental illness.

TAKE ACTION

Social justice organizations join in together in solidarity at Grandview Park in an event that includes music, market, and community.  

COMEDY

Performance at the Vogue Theatre by Randy Rainbow, comedian, YouTube actor, singer, and writer from New York City, known for his popular series of political spoofs and song parodies.

ARTS ETCETERA

Kitty Nights Burlesque at the Biltmore Cabaret features performances by Ann Narky (above), Susie SweetCheeks, Manda Stroyer, China Divina, Pocket Phoenix, SandiLicious, Lady Aurora, and Seattle guests EmpeROAR Fabulous and Boom Boom L’Roux. 

DANCE

The Dance Centre presents three events for International Dance Day, with performances by Mozaico Flamenco (at Vancouver Public Library main concourse), students from Windermere Secondary School (at the Vancouver Art Gallery South Plaza), and Lesley Telford/Inverso (at Scotiabank Dance Centre).

Surrey’s only professional contemporary dance company, DISKORDANSE, performs at the Surrey Arts Centre in celebration of International Dance Day.

LITERARY

Final day of the eighth annual Verses Festival of Words features the Talking Stick Festival Community Stage, featuring Valeen Jules (above), jaye simpson, Tawahum Justin Bige, Olivia Davies, Christie Lee Charles, and host Molly Billows at the Native Education College Fireside Lounge.

MUSIC

Vancouver new-music ensemble Standing Wave presents a musical exploration of our interaction with different environments--the natural, social and political--at the Orpheum Annex.

The Vancouver Pops’ symphonic tribute to film composer John Williams, featuring his works from Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Jurassic Park, at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts.

The second annual Vancouver Opera Festival features an array of instrumental and vocal chamber music concerts at various Vancouver venues. Highlights include Canadian composer James Rolfe’s The Overcoat—a musical tailoring, a groundbreaking new co-production with Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company and Tapestry Opera at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

THEATRE

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents its final performance of Spirit Horse, a play about two youths who are caught between the traditional ways of their Stoney Nation heritage and the modern ways of the city, at Waterfront Theatre.

Métis Mutt at the Firehall Arts Centre uses standup comedy, original songs, storytelling, and multi-character vignettes to share the journey of a young Métis man who pulls himself out of a destructive cycle to carve out a creative life for himself.

Final performance at Vancity Culture Lab of The Explanation, James Fagan Tait’s exploration of the fluidity of gender and sexual identity.

Royal City Musical Theatre presents its final performance at Massey Theatre of Cabaret, the classic musical set in 1930s Berlin.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Me and You, Melody Anderson's comedy about sibling rivalry, at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Final performance at the Cultch of World Without Us, Ontroerend Goed's new play about the end of humanity--and what comes after.

Performance at the York Theatre of The History of the World (Based on Banalities), about a young man who embarks on a quirky voyage through his mother’s past, and that of the world.

Performance at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre of The Ladies Foursome, Norm Foster's story of friendship--over the course of eighteen holes.

Performance at Studio 16 of THIS, a new comedy by playwright and House of Cards head writer Melissa James Gibson.

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.

Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman is a new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery featuring the paintings of Carr with 48 photographs by U.S.-born photographer Gunterman.

Bombhead at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a thematic exhibition exploring the emergence and impact of the nuclear age as represented by artists and their art.

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.

Living, Building, Thinking: art & expression at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early 19th century to the present day.

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.

Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition at the Museum of Vancouver is guest-curated by Kwiaahwah Jones and features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers, collected as early as the 1890s.

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

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library.

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

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.

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

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

Vancouver film scholar Michael van den Bos presents Too Darn Hot!, a program of red-hot musical numbers from classic movies, at Vancity Theatre.

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc, in which French iconoclast Bruno Dumont depicts the preadolescence of the martyred heroine, from writings by French poet Charles Péguy.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, a documentary journey through the public and private worlds of the pop culture mega-icon. 

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of Léonor Serraille's Montparnasse Bienvenue, about a woman who arrives back in Paris after ten years, dumped by her famous photographer boyfriend, and totally adrift.

Two-day Persistence of Vision Film Festival 28 at Frederic Wood Theatre showcases the work of third- and fourth-year emerging artists in the UBC Film Production program at UBC Theatre and Film.

Screening at the Cinematheque of a restoration of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc. 

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