Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 39 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, June 3.

CONCERTS

American indie rock band BRONCHO plays the Biltmore Cabaret, with guess Paranoyds and VALEN.

Finnish death-metal band Insomnium plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Oceans of Slumber and Gross Misconduct.

BENEFITS

The RBC Race for the Kids at Queen Elizabeth Park raises money for the B.C. Children's Hospital.

Champions Martial Arts Academy holding a block party on North Van's East 1st Street to raise money for The Fur-Bearers, which help Canadian wildlife.

Fundraising walk around the Stanley Park seawall, with all proceeds to Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter.

Final day of the Vancouver International Children's Festival, which features performances from around the globe for kids of all ages at Granville Island.

ETCETERA

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

The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival at Concord Pacific Place features a variety of local food trucks, an artisan market, and live entertainment.

Enjoy a guided walk in Stanley Park and learn about Indigenous medicines, places and stories with T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss, the Indigenous storyteller in residence.

Japan Market at UBC Robson Square features unique Japanese crafts and products such as jewelry, soap, postcards, notebooks, dry flowers, ceramics, kimono, charms, and hair accessories.

FOOD AND DRINK

The two-day Vancouver Craft Beer Festival at the PNE Grounds features live music, games, food trucks, and over 100 craft breweries and cideries pouring more than 300 beers and ciders.

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

American comedian Steve Hofstetter performs an evening of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

Experience the works of over 60 visual artists in garden studios, work spaces, galleries, and gathering places from Point Grey to Main Street and from Granville Island to 41st Avenue at the West of Main Art Walk.

Explore 41 of Richmond’s heritage, arts, and cultural sites during Doors Open Richmond, a city-wide public celebration. 

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.

LITERARY

Open-mic storytelling event at the York Theatre where courageous adults share their childhood and teenage writing on stage.

MUSIC

Vancouver ProMusica presents one of Canada's top chamber-music groups, the Ad Mare Wind Quartet, at Pyatt Hall.

The Vivaldi Chamber Choir celebrates its 30th anniversary by performing Vivaldi's Gloriaat St. Helen's Anglican Church.

THEATRE

Upintheair Theatre presents the final day of the rEvolver Theatre Festival, a program of new works by distinct voices from across the Canadian live-theatre scene, at the Cultch. Shows today include writer-director Elysse Cheadle's Fuschia Future (above), an absurd portrait of life after loss told through music, existential angst, populist science, and verbatim text from Wikipedia.

Touchstone Theatre presents C'mon Angie!, Amy Lee Lavoie's play about questions of consent after a one-night stand, at the Firehall Arts Centre.

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

GALLERIES

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.

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 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.

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

MOVIES

Screening at the Cinematheque of Lucrecia Martel's La Ciénaga, a rumination on race, class, gender, and the spectre of Argentina’s colonial past.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Indian Horse, about a seven-year-old in late 1950s Ontario who is torn from his Ojibway family and committed to one of Canada’s notorious Catholic residential schools.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Zama, which tracks the fate of a hubristic Spanish magistrate stationed at a far-flung colonial outpost in 18th-century Paraguay.

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