30 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, July 1

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 30 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, July 1.

       

      CONCERTS

      Surrey Canada Day at Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre features coheadliners Serena Ryder (above) and Brett Kissel, with guests Toque, Warren Dean Flandez, DJ Flipout, and Krystle Dos Santos.

      Final day of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival features performances at Ironworks by Darrifourcq/Hermia/Ceccaldi and Paul Plimley, Clyde Reed, and Kenton Loewen, at Guilt and Co. by the Dirk Quinn Band, and at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre by Lindha and Fabian Kallerdahl, John Gross & Billy Mintz, and Freedom Muzik.

      Canada Day at Swangard Stadium features free performances by Said the Whale, the Boom Booms, and DJ Khanvict, plus a fireworks display.

      The Crab Park Festival features performances by the VanRays, the Wheelgrinders, and the Red Stars (aka Royal City Wreckers) with Bob Mercer.

      The Ultimate East Van Canada Day Party at the WISE Hall features Rush cover band Xanadudes and April Wine cover band September Sangria.

         

      ETCETERA

      Canada Day at Canada Place features food, fireworks and family fun, plus performances by Kutapira, Early Spirit, En Karma, Leisure Club, Weaves, and mainstage headliner JoJo Mason.

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

       

      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

      Mark Steffens

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

        

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Matthew Choy

      Ten artists exhibit their work in a celebration of Canada Day at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

      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.

          

      THEATRE

      Tim Matheson

      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.

       

      GALLERIES

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

      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.

       

      MUSEUMS

      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.

      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.

      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

      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.

      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

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

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

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