Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 49 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, October 14.

CONCERTS

Vancouver hip-hop and R&B artist Teon Gibbs plays a pay-what-you-can gig at Guilt & Co.

Local musician Hank Pine kicks off his residency at the WISE with a show culminating in a rock opera. 

Dutch Robinson leads a jazz quartet that includes local legends Ron Johnston, Cameron Hood, and Buff Allen at Guilt & Co.

Quintet led by trumpeter Peter Juric performs rock, R&B, and swing at Surrey's Northwood United Church.

Local blues-rockers the Steve Kozak Band plays the Sunday Blues Revue at the Columbia in New Westminster.

BENEFITS

Kids aged 8-16 can channel their inner superhero at the HIP Heroez Obstacle Course Challenge at Swangard Stadium, with proceeds to the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation in support of Pediatric Orthopedic Hip Health.

ETCETERA

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

FOOD & DRINK

Local cook, actor, and pasta aficionado Peter Ciuffa hosts an Italian cooking class on Pizza Roman Style at Kitsilano Community Centre.

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

FORUMS

Rick Cluff moderates a Vancouver Mayoral Debate at Christ Church Cathedral with invited candidates Hector Bremner, Ken Sim, Kennedy Stewart, Shauna Sylvester, and Wai Young.

Learn simple but powerful yoga postures to balance and stabilize your system at Yoga for Beginners at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture.

KIDS' STUFF

Haunted Harvest Fair at North Van's Sutherland High School features two haunted houses, bouncy castles, face painting, live music, treats, and a craft fair.

COMEDY

Long Island comedian Mike .Quu performs an evening of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

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.

Open House at the Port Moody Arts Centre includes one-hour adult art classes, from drawing and mixed media to painting techniques.

Join Valentina Acevedo Montilla for a tour in Spanish of the current Contemporary Art Gallery exhibitions.

LITERARY

Local writers and poets Mauro Azzano, Jay Black, Ken Cameron and Bryce Raffle showcase their work at the Vancouver Public Library.

Author Ian Stuart Sharpe talks about his new book of historical fiction and fantasy, The All Father Paradox, at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

MUSIC

The Pacifica Quartet performs works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Beethoven at the Vancouver Playhouse.

THEATRE

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Interface: The Woven Artwork of Jaad Kuujus at the Bill Reid Gallery explores the intricate textile works and cedar weavings of the Kakwaka’wakw and Haida artist.

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

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.

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

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

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 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

VIFF Repeats at Vancity Theatre feature screenings of Bathtubs Over Broadway, Amateurs, The Price of Everything, 3 Faces, and One Cut of the Dead (above).

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.

Screenings at the Rio Theatre of entries in the Blood N Guts 48-hour Horror Film Competition.

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