40 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, July 8

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 40 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, July 8.

       

      CONCERTS

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      San Francisco singer-songwriter Jake Brewer plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guest Olie G.

      The Hot Flash Summer Dirty Jazz Swing Dance Party at the WISE Hall features performances by the Burying Ground, the Staggers & Jaggs, and Three For Silver

      Victoria-based jazz vocalist Susannah Adams performs at Frankie's Jazz.

      George Michael impersonator Gotta B George Michael performs as part of Greek Summerfest on Boundary Road.

      Vancouver singer Angela Verbrugge performs vocal jazz favourites at the Sylvia Hotel.

       

      ETCETERA

      Carnaval del Sol at Concord Pacific Place features live music, art, dance, sports, and poetry in celebration of Latin American culture. Performers include Locarno (above).

      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 90-minute tour of Strathcona.

      Pakistani Festival 2018 at the Vancouver Art Gallery features freshly made Pakistani food, a fashion show, and a live performance by Pakistani artist Faakhir Mehmood.

      Block Party on Commercial Street (between Victoria diversion and Stainsbury) features entertainment, kids' activities, chainsaw carving demo, bike repair/wash station, and rummage sale.

       

      FORUMS

      Clara Roberts-Oss leads a yoga class at Semperviva Yoga Kits Beach Studio that includes mantra, pranayama, and meditation, as well as a heating vinyasa practice.

       

      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 Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball action at Nat Bailey Stadium.

        

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Ocean Wise

      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.

      The eighth annual Indian Summer Festival runs to July 15 at various Vancouver venues, featuring a wide range of artists, from the inheritors of ancient oral storytelling traditions to genre-defying musicians, acclaimed novelists, and provocative visual, performance and culinary artists.

       

      DANCE

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      The Dancing on the Edge Festival features over 30 performances--with artists from Canada, Belgium, and South Korea performing in full-length and mixed-bill programs, as well as site-specific works--at various Vancouver venues.

       

      MUSIC

      Under the baton of conductor Jonathan Girard (above), the UBC Chamber Orchestra performs Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 “Classical" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major at Chan Shun Concert Hall.

      Summer Serenade at West Van's St. Stephen's Anglican Church features chamber music by Telemann, Mozart, Beethoven, and Piazzolla.

         

      THEATRE

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      The Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents performances of As You Like It (above) and 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

      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.

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

      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.

      Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest at Bill Reid Gallery traces the deep-rooted traditions of Indigenous tattooing, piercing and personal adornment.

       

      MUSEUMS

      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.

      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.

      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

      The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven cable bridges suspended in trees, the Living Forest exhibit, totem pole collection, CLIFFWALK, and Treetop Adventure.

      Big Splash Waterpark in Tsawwassen features various slides--including the new Boomerango--pools and hot tubs, a clubhouse, private-party cabanas, a sports bar and grill, and complimentary shuttle service from Bridgeport Skytrain Station.

      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.

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

      The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

       

      MOVIES

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman’s harrowing account of an artist’s descent into madness.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science-fiction art film  Stalker.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, Mouly Surya's revenge movie which coopts Western tropes to feminist ends.

       

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