Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 39 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, June 30.

CONCERTS

Canadian classic-rock cover band Toque, featuring singer-guitarist Todd Kerns, plays the Imperial, with guests the Wild.

Australian indie-pop singer-songwriter Vance Joy performs at Burnaby's Deer Lake Park on his Nation of Two World Tour.

American bluegrass/folk-rock band Trampled By Turtles plays the Commodore Ballroom, with guests Deer Tick.

The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival continues to July 1 at various Vancouver venues. Performances today include Maya Rae and the Miles Black Quintet at Pyatt Hall, the Hard Rubber Orchestra with Marianne Trudel at Performance Works, the Eric Revis Quartet at Ironworks, and the Jerry Douglas Band at the Vogue Theatre.

ETCETERA

The Back Gallery Project presents an opportunity to meet and greet The X-Files producer and director Chris Carter. 

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

Sins of the City Walking Tour at the Vancouver Police Museum takes participants on a journey into Vancouver's sinful past.

The Surrey Pride Festival at Holland Park features a photo booth, face painting, karaoke, vendors, food trucks, and meet-and-greets with glam performers.

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.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canadians take on the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes in Minor League Baseball action at Nat Bailey Stadium.

COMEDY

Canadian comedian Matt Billon performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Join The Radical and guest host Daniel Chai (The Fictionals) for an improv show celebrating Radical founder Gregory Milne's 40th birthday at Presentation House Theatre.

ARTS ETCETERA

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.

DANCE

An evening of contemporary dance performed by Modus Operandi, featuring new creations by Kate Franklin and Paras Terezakis, and a restaging of Shay Kuebler's work Annex, at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

THEATRE

The Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents performances of As You Like It (above) and a preview of Timon of Athens in Vanier Park.

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

World premiere at Studio 16 of This Is Now, a new Canadian musical written and scored by Vancouver's Kate MacColl.

Pearle Harbour's Chautauqua at the Cultch is an immersive show from Toronto that's part cabaret, part tragicomedy, part tent revival, and part drag.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Once--Enda Walsh's musical about a struggling Dublin street musician who chances upon a girl who challenges him to go for his dream--at Granville Island Stage.

GALLERIES

David Milne: Modern Painting at the Vancouver Art Gallery features close to 90 works in oil and watercolour, never-before-presented photographs, drawings, and memorabilia.

The Blue Hour at the Contemporary Art Gallery features photographs by Joi T. Arcand, 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.

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.

Cabin Fever at the Vancouver Art Gallery traces the history of the North American cabin as an architectural form and cultural construct.

MUSEUMS

Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives at the Museum of Vancouver delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city.

Richmond's Lipont Place hosts Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which focuses on the legendary RMS Titanic's compelling human stories through more than 120 authentic artifacts and extensive room re-creations.

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.

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.

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.

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

Free, all-ages screening at Vancity Theatre of the animated adventure Mune, le gardien de la lune, in French with English subtitles.

Adults-only screenings at Pacific Cinematheque of director Masaaki Yuasa’s cult anime phenomenon, Mind Game.

Fortieth anniversary sing-along screening of the 1978 musical Grease, starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of writer-director Bart Layton's heist film American Animals, starring Evan Peters, Ann Dowd, and Blake Jenner.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of RBG, Julie Cohen and Betsy West's intimate portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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