Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 46 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, August 12.

CONCERTS

Baltimore dream-pop band Beach House plays the Orpheum Theatre.

Former member of the White Stripes, Jack White, performs tunes from new solo album Boarding House Reach at Rogers Arena.

The two-day Vancouver International Guitar Festival at Creekside Community Rec Centre features live music, master classes, and the opportunity to see, hear, and play some of the world’s finest handmade stringed instruments.

The Vancouver Mural Festival Walking Tour takes you through Vancouver’s largest display of public street art, departing from Kafka's Coffee and Tea.

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

FOOD & DRINK

Ambleside Artisan Farmer's Market at Ambleside Park features a variety of organic and non-organic produce, plus baking, syrups, jams, honey, salsas, and anti-pastas.

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 Odlum Brown VanOpen, Western Canada’s largest tennis event, takes place at West Vancouver's Hollyburn Country Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

CircusFest Express at Granville Island Public Market Circus features workshops, circus showcases, cabarets, and a dance party.

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.

Artful Sundays at Britannia Community Centre features the work of local artists, live music, artist workshops, and demonstrations.

LITERARY

Author Heidi Harrison reads from her new lesbian romance novel The Four Seasons at Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium.

THEATRE

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

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

Theatre Under the Stars presents a performance at Malkin Bowl of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.

GALLERIES

Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest at the Bill Reid Gallery sees guest curator Dion Kaszas of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation trace the deep-rooted traditions of Indigenous tattooing, piercing and personal adornment.

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.

Susan Hiller: Altered States at North Van's Polygon Gallery focuses on Hiller’s investigations into dream states, the inexplicable, and our collective unconscious via video installations and photographs.

Ayumi Goto & Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a dialogue between artists Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin, presented via their individual and collaborative performance art practice.

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.

Andi Icaza-Largaespada's new speculative photographic panorama, (untitled) a mountain bought but not yet named, is presented across the Contemporary Art Gallery's Nelson Street façade.

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.

Kevin Schmidt: We Are the Robots at the Vancouver Art Gallery sees the B.C.–based artist draw on conceptual and performance art while embodying the do-it-yourself sensibilities of an amateur inventor.

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.

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.

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 137-metre-long Kits Pool, Vancouver's only saltwater swimming pool, is open daily until September 16.

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.

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

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

Parq Vancouver features two luxury hotels, a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

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.

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.

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Summer 1993, writer-director Carla Simón's drama about a young orphan who is being driven away to the country to be raised by an aunt and uncle.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of The Sacrifice, famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky‘s haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Gurrumul, director Paul Damien Williams's portrait of Indigenous singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. 

Screenings at the Cinematheque of My Name is Julia Ross and Pushover as part of the Film Noir series.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of McQueen, filmmakers Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui's documentary about late fashion-designer Lee Alexander McQueen.

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