Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 53 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, September 16.

CONCERTS

Final day of the Westward Music Festival features performances by headliners We Are the City (above), Saba, Fatima Al Qadiri, Roni Size, Sophie, and Andy Shauf at various Vancouver venues.

American gospel and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer Leon Bridges plays the PNE Amphitheatre, with guests Khruangbin.

Christian rock band NEEDTOBREATHE plays Abbotsford Centre, with guests Johnnyswim and Forest Black.

The Rogue Folk Club presents singer-songwriters Craig Cardiff & Raine Hamilton at the St. James Hall.

The Accordion Noir Fest XI Wrap Party at the WISE Hall features Wendy McNeill & friends.

Guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer Chance Hayden performs a pay-what-you-can gig at Guilt & Co.

BENEFITS

Canuck Place Adventure Race features at 15-km mountain bike and six-km trail run at Jericho Beach Park East, with proceeds to Canuck Place, which supports children with life-threatening illnesses and their families all across B.C.

The VOKRA Walk for the Kitties is five-km fun walk at Jericho Beach, with all proceeds going directly to the Vancouver Orphaned Kitten Rescue Association.

Community Fundraising BBQ at Pacific Spirit United Church (formerly Dunbar Ryerson United Church) includes lunch, games, and live music.

The annual Terry Fox Run takes place at various Metro Vancouver locations, with proceeds to support cancer research.

ETCETERA

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

The two-day Fraser Valley Pet Expo, an event focused on building healthy relationships between pets and their people, takes place at the Cloverdale Agriplex.

Granville Island Brewing Bike Ride is a guided tour around the city, starting at the Mobi by Shaw Go at Stadium-Chinatown Skytrain Station and ending with a drink at Granville Island Brewing.

FASHION

The two-day First Pick Handmade at Heritage Hall features fall and winter collections from over 30 Canadian indie fashion and accessory designers.

FOOD & DRINK

The family-oriented Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival takes place at Concord Pacific Place.

FORUMS

The Georgia Straight presents day two of the Grassroots Expo for the Cannabis Curious at SFU Harbour Centre, moderated by Straight cannabis editor Piper Courtenay (above) and featuring some of Canada’s leading cannabis producers, distributors, dispensaries, and brands.

Indian journalist Niranjan Takle speaks at a SANSAD Forum with Dionne Bunsha and Peter Klein at Surrey City Centre Library.

Percussionist Trichy Sankaran leads a free South Indian Rhythm Workshop at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

KIDS' STUFF

The Southlands County Fair at the Southlands Riding Club features pony rides, a petting farm, old-fashioned games, equestrian entertainment, arts and crafts market, face painting, food trucks, and a silent auction.

Final day of this year's Playland at the PNE, featuring over 30 rides, including the Revelation, the Hellevator, the Beast, Hells Gate, the Flume, and the 60-year-old wooden rollercoaster. 

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.

LITERARY

Order of Canada recipient Pat Carney reads from her collection of short stories, On Island, at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

MUSIC

Turning Point Ensemble kicks off its season with the world premiere of The Mute Canary, a new one-act opera by 86-year-old Rudolf Komorous, at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

THEATRE

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

The Vancouver Fringe Festival on Granville Island features performances by nearly 100 theatre artists and companies over 11 days.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Simon Stephen's adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Nicola Cavendish, Lynda Boyd, and Beatrice Zeilinger star in Marion Bridge, Daniel MacIvor's play about three estranged sisters who make the trip home to Cape Breton to care for their dying mother, at Kay Meek Arts Centre.

Performance at Jericho Arts Centre of David Hare's new translation of the Bertolt Brecht masterpiece, The Life of Galileo, directed by Michael Fera.

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

ATTRACTIONS

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.

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

The 137-metre-long Kits Pool, Vancouver's only saltwater swimming pool, is open daily until September 23.

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

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 David Batty's documentary about Britain in the sixties, My Generation, narrated by Michael Caine.

Film Club screening at the Cinematheque of Steven Spielberg's 1982 family hit E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Cakemaker, director Ophir Raul Graizer's tender story of hidden love, challenged faith, and unwittingly shared grief.

Sing-along screening at the Rio Theatre of director Robert Wise's 1961 musical West Side Story.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Under the Tree, director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's comedy-drama about a typical spat between suburbanites that spirals violently out of control.

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