Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 74 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, October 13.

CONCERTS

Mad Dogs & Vancouverites: A re-imagining of the classic Joe Cocker album at Kay Meek Arts Centre features performances by CR Avery, Steve Dawson, Roy Forbes, Rich Hope, Khari Wendell McClelland, Ndidi Onukwulu, Dawn Pemberton, and Matt Andersen (above).

American country singer-songwriter Luke Bryan plays BC Place Stadium, with guests Sam Hunt, Jon Pardi, and Carly Pearce.

Vancouver guitarist Paul Pigat performs with his rockabilly band Cousin Harley at Ladner's Genesis Theatre..

The City Soul Choir performs under the direction of Brian Tate at Temple Sholom.

Vocalist Krista Wallace and the Fat Jazz big band perform at South Surrey's Crescent Legion 240.

Vancouver grunge-rock band Rampant Lion plays the Railway Stage & Beer Café, with guests  Cobra Ramone and the Deep Cove.

American indie-rock singer-songwriter Meg Myers plays Venue.

Glam rockers CLONE play LanaLou's Restaurant, with ambient popsters the Furniture and indie-rockers Rat Silo.

Vancouver blues-rock singer-guitarist Wailin' Al Walker leads his band at the Fairview Pub.

Vancouver psychedelic country-soul band Real Ponchos celebrates the release of its latest album at the Rickshaw Theatre.

Vancouver rock 'n' roll cowboy surfers the Modelos, featuring guitarists Joe Rotundo and Mike Kenney, play Guilt & Co.

BENEFITS

Light the Night at Lumberman's Arch is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada’s annual walk and fundraising event.

Stack the Rack gala benefit for Qmunity includes wine tastings, canapes, silent auction, and live music at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

The New West Hospice Society's annual fundraising and friend-raising event takes place at the Upstairs River Market.

The Burns Bog Society celebrates 30 years of keeping the bog and other peatlands safe at a fundraising dinner at Eaglequest Golf at Coyote Creek.

Game-themed trivia night at Lamplighter Public House benefits B.C. Children's Hospital.

ETCETERA

Roundhouse Productions' laser-video show at BCIT Planetarium features music  by Pink Floyd, Radiohead, and Gorillaz. 

Day two of the Fan Expo Vancouver at the Vancouver Convention Centre features an appearance by Lou Ferrigno of The Incredible Hulk fame.

FOOD & DRINK

Vancouver Seasonal Release Brewery Tours include visits to local craft breweries like Luppolo Brewing Company, Strathcona Beer Company, and Bomber Brewing. 

The UBC Farm Farmers' Market features produce grown steps from the market stalls, treats and crafts from vendors, music, and free farm tours.

KIDS' STUFF

Kids can learn about Halloween's origins in nature at Richmond Nature Park's Once Upon a Pumpkin.

Author Jane Whittingham celebrates the launch of her latest picture book, A Good Day for Ducks, at Book Warehouse.

Ocean Health Fair on the plaza outside the Vancouver Aquarium features hands-on artifacts, ocean activities for children, tips and tricks on living a reduced-waste lifestyle, and up-cycling art activities.

TAKE ACTION

Election Rally for the #CityWeNeed at SFU Harbour Centre features Seattle city councillor Kshama Sawant and COPE councillor candidate Jean Swanson.

COMEDY

Final day of the Vancouver International Improv Festival features a performance by Orange Tuxedo at Performance Works.

The Radical blends rapid-fire humor with character-driven storytelling at Presentation House Theatre's Saturday Night Improv.

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. performs the second of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Erin Jeffery emcees F is for Funny at the Anvil Centre, featuring comedy by Katie Nordgren, Ash Dhawan, Naomi Yamato, Syd Bosel, Ed Hill, Jan Bannister, and headliner Fatima Dhowre.

David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris host standup comedy by Gavin Clarkson, Harris Anderson, and headliner Ivan Decker at Tyrant Studio's The Comic Strip.

Comedian Kate Davis performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Vancouver TheatreSports League presents a seasonal celebration of all things eerie with four different shows--Monster Matches, Cult Fiction, Scared Witless, and WTF--at the Improv Centre's Spooktober.

ARTS ETCETERA

Curious Imaginings--an immersive sculpture exhibition featuring the hyper-realist, fantastical creatures of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini--continues at Strathcona’s historic Patricia Hotel.

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.

Artists present works that reflect ideas of reclaiming, reworking, or revisiting, as it is related to a common idea in theatre, at Metro Theatre.

LITERARY

Storyteller Jo Dworschak assembles her favourite bi-racial & multi-cultural storytellers to share insight on the perils and positivity of being a "mixed" Canadian in Whitish at Havana Theatre.

Journalist and author Christopher Lloyd presents a Q&A and signing for his book Absolutely Everything!: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention at Indigo Broadway & Granville.

MUSIC

The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Joan Blackman perform works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn at Shaughnessy Heights United Church.

Roses and Daggers at St. Helen's Anglican Church features tenor Carlos Vela-Martinez, soprano Olesia Shewchuk, and pianist Stella Hadjineophytou in songs from "Showboat", "Phantom of the Opera", and "Little Shop of Horrors".

Maria Jung, Eve-Lyn de la Haye. and Lawrence de la Haye commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I through voice, clarinet, and piano at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

Erato Ensemble presents a concert filled with music from or about the past, including Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock and Dvořák's Songs My Mother Taught Me at the Orpheum Annex.

THEATRE

A Vancouver Guldasta at Vancity Culture Lab focuses on a Punjabi family in Vancouver in the early 1980s as they navigate through the experience of trauma and violence occurring in Punjab.

A Brief History of Human Extinction at Historic Theatre follows the last woman, man (and otter) on earth after a plague has rendered the surface of the planet uninhabitable.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Mustard--Pat Sandler's darkly comic tale about growing up, moving on, and finding magic where you least expect it--at Granville Island Stage.

Studio 58 presents the Risky Nights Production of I Know What I Saw, a student play that examines how people's biases colour their worldview.

Neworld Theatre presents Incognito Mode: A Play About Porn, a generational exploration of pornography in the digital age, at Studio 58.

Seven Tyrants Theatre opens its first season with Samuel Beckett’s absurdist one-man work, Krapp's Last Tape, at Tyrant Studios.

Final performance at Studio 16 of the dark comedy Baby-Sitter, which echoes the concerns of the #MeToo movement and shakes up male-female relationships.

The Snapshots Collective presents the ghoulish site-specific musical-thriller Sweeney Todd at Mrs. Lovett's Pie Shop.

Sidekick Players open their 22nd season with Burn, a new murder-mystery by Ottawa playwright John Muggleton, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

Stage 43 Theatrical Society presents the kickoff to its 2018-2019 season with M*A*S*H at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

Rebel Women is a theatre verbatim play at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre in which the women’s actual words and songs are used to create the play.

Touchstone Theatre presents the B.C. premiere at Firehall Arts Centre of Kill Me Now, Canadian playwright Brad Fraser's play about a single dad caring for his severely disabled teen son.

GALLERIES

The Vancouver Art Gallery presents the Canadian premiere of Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, the first-ever fashion exhibition in the Gallery’s history, which traces the evolution of China’s foremost couturière over 10 years.

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.

Discover the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection through an exhibition of nearly 90 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures in A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects.

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.

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

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.

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.

ATTRACTIONS

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.

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 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

Vancouver premiere at the Hive Vancouver of Changing the World, One Wall at a Time, a documentary feature film on Education Is Not A Crime, the world’s largest street art and human rights campaign.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky’s visionary masterpiece about a man clinging desperately to his faith in God and art in a world of overwhelming cruelty and barbarism.

Drive-in Nights at River District features screenings at River District Vancouver of the romantic musical films Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again and Dirty Dancing.

VIFF Repeats at Vancity Theatre feature screenings of Dressage, Studio 54, Seder-Masochism, Barefoot, and Microhabitat.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., director Stephen Loveridge's intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician known as M.I.A.

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