Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 60 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, May 19.

CONCERTS

American country singer-songwriter Brent Cobb and Them play the Biltmore Cabaret, with guest Savannah Conley.

Eighth annual Kick Cancer's A$$ fundraiser at the Rickshaw Theatre features Funkdoobiest, Antipolitic, Cocaine Moustache, Junk, Awkward A/C, and Shayne the King of Magic.

Tim Hecker performs ambient-experimental soundscapes at Fortune Sound Club, with guest Kara-Lis Coverdale.

Coastal Jazz presents the second night of James McRae's two-night tribute to Gordon Lightfoot at Frankie's Jazz.

The Steve Kozak Band performs blues-rock tunes at the Eclipse Lounge at Hastings Racecourse.

Chant masters Deva Premal and Miten perform with flutist Manose, bassist Joby Baker, and percussionist Rishi at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Nigerian Afro-pop artist Ycee performs at the Korean Cultural Centre.

Seventies-inspired rockers the Lone Palms play the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Harlequin Gold, Blue J, and Okay Mann.

Rock bands the Maneuver, Caulk, and the Break play the Flamingo Lounge in Surrey.

BENEFITS

Rooftop patio party at the Penthouse Event Suites features the sounds of Skylar Love, Armistice, and DJ Krista, with all proceeds to the Vancouver Dyke March.

ETCETERA

The Richmond Night Market features dozens of food stalls, a dinosaur park, paddle boats, a baby playground, music, martial arts, and dancing.

The 72nd annual Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair features saddle-bronc riding, bareback riding, and bull riding, at Cloverdale Fairgrounds.

Death-defying American magician David Blaine performs the second of two nights at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

FOOD AND DRINK

The Fort Langley Beer & Food Festival at Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada features live music, craft breweries, and local food vendors.

KIDS' STUFF

Playland at the PNE features over 30 rides, including the Revelation, the Hellevator, the Beast, Hells Gate, the Flume, and the 60-year-old wooden rollercoaster.

COMEDY

Vancouver comedian Damonde Tschritter performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Canadian comedian Efthimios Nasiopoulos performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Kyle Bottom and David Thomas Newham host The Comic Strip, featuring standup comedy by Ivan Decker, Sophie Buddle, and Myles Anderson, at Tyrant Studios.

ARTS ETCETERA

Final day at the Cultch of the IGNITE! Youth Arts Festival, which features music, dance, spoken word, one-act plays, and visual-arts.

Artists of the Lapiztola Oaxaca Artist Collective from Mexico guide participants in a hands-on workshop to create paper stencils, the foundation of the street art they create as a form of protest and communication, at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. SOLD OUT.

Douglas Coupland’s new radical art installation at the Vancouver Aquarium, Vortex, takes an imaginative journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, immersing viewers in the ocean-plastic pollution crisis.

Tagore Spring Festival 2018 at Surrey City Hall features live music, dance, and poetry.

DANCE

Coastal City Ballet closes its 2017/18 season at Vancouver Playhouse with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, German choreographer Irene Schneider’s ballet based on Shakespeare’s classic romance.

LITERARY

Fern Gabriel of the Kwantlen First Nation shares stories that are hundreds--and even thousands--of years old, passed through generations of First Nation peoples, at Burnaby Arts Council Deer Lake Gallery.

The three-day Creative Ink Festival at Delta Burnaby Hotel features panels, presentations and workshops, with guests of honour Kevin Hearne and C.C. Humphreys.

MUSIC

The Vancouver Classical Guitar Society presents Liel Amdour in an intimate concert of Spanish music and contemporary-classical composers, including works by Rodrigo, Albeniz, Akiva, Torroba, and Dyens.

Spring choral and orchestral concert at South Surrey's Mount Olive Lutheran Church features works by Bach, Vivaldi, and Albinoni under the direction of Johan Louwersheimer. 

THEATRE

Performance at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way, an original play giving voice to those who have lived within Canada’s long shadow of colonialism.

ITSAZOO presents the Western Canadian premiere of David James Brock’s drama WET, set during the height of Canada’s involvement in the Afghanistan War, at the Russian Hall.

Urban Ink presents the world premiere of Les Filles du Roi, a new Canadian musical by Corey Payette and Julie McIsaac, at the York Theatre.

Midtwenties Theatre Society presents the final performance of its original coming-of-age drama Molly Misbegotten at Havana Theatre.

Louise Porter stars in Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell’s one-woman comedy about a bored housewife who is offered a trip to Greece by her best friend, at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Mamma Mia!, a feel-good musical featuring the music of ABBA, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

The tale of how Narnia and Middle Earth came to be is chronicled in Tolkien, a new play by artistic director Ron Reed at Pacific Theatre.

Sonder House Productions presents the final performance at the Cultch of True West, Sam Shepard's classic 1980 tale of sibling rivalry.

Xtreme Theatre presents the final performance of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, performed by students ages 13 to 17, at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Theatre.

Pacific Theatre presents the final performance at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre of Suitcase Stories, director Colleen Lanki's play about a woman who leaves her home in South Korea and takes off to Canada.

Performance at the Orpheum Annex of Soldierland, a new play about the psychological effects of war on individuals and communities and the crippling changes it brings to society.

GALLERIES

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.

The Blue Hour at the Contemporary Art Gallery features photographs by Joi T. Arcand (above), Kapwani Kiwanga, Colin Miner, Grace Ndiritu, and Kara Uzelman.

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.

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.

Shigeru Ban, a new exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite location, features the full-scale version of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Kobe Paper Log House.

MUSEUMS

Arts of Resistance: Politics and The Past In Latin America at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC exhibition illustrates how Latin American communities use traditional or historic art forms to express contemporary political realities.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 Vancity Theatre of writer-director Eisha Marjara's humanist movie Venus, which explores questions of identity and 21st-century relationships.

Screening at the Cinematheque of The Stormy Man, director Umetsugu Inoue’s musical about a rowdy young hoodlum out to make it as a drummer in the Ginza jazz world.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Lu Over the Wall, cult anime director Masaaki Yuasa's all-ages fairy tale about three teens whose attempts to form a pop band attract an unexpected guest vocalist: a mermaid named Lu. 

Screening at the Cinematheque of Umetsugu Inoue’s first film, The Winner, about a punk kid who gets serious about boxing after getting beat up.

Free screening at Vancity Theatre of Ma vie de courgette, the animated family film about a child sent to an orphanage after the accidental death of his alcoholic single mother.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Five Seasons - The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, a meditative doc that elucidates revolutionary landscape designer Piet Oudolf's ideas about the beauty of plants.

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