Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 86 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, October 20.

CONCERTS

Canadian rocker Todd Kerns from Age of Electric and Slash's band celebrates his induction into the  B.C. Walk of Fame with a show at the Roxy Cabaret.

Carolyn Mark and Geoff Berner host performances at the Rio Theatre by the Myrtle Family Band, Christie Rose, Khari McClellan, Desirée Dawson, Shiho Mizumoto & Paul Silveria, Hank Pine, the Wranglers, Kelly Haigh & Jimmy Roy, Jeff Scroggins, Las Estrellas de Vancouver, and the East Van Opry house band.

White Rock blues band Mud Bay celebrates 40 years with a show at Blue Frog Studios.

Scottish indie-rock band the Twilight Sad plays the Fox Cabaret.

Caravan World Rhythms presents the Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir at the Orpheum Theatre.

Canadian blues/reggae/rock band Big Sugar, featuring singer-guitarist Gordie Johnson, plays the Commodore Ballroom.

Best In Vancouver - Night Five at the Railway Stage and Beer Café features performances by Major Fantasy, Travis James, Sleepy Gonzales, and Friday Night Fires.

Swedish electropop singer-songwriter Tove Styrke plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

Local psych-Latin fusion group Los Duendes plays a pay-what-you-can gig at Guilt & Co.

Bandleader Josh Roberts and friends perform at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre's Hot Club Swing.

Local blues-rockers the Steve Kozak Band play the Eclipse Lounge at Hastings Park Racecourse.

Local boogie-rock acts Rich Hope and La Chinga play a double album-release party at the Rickshaw Theatre.

BENEFITS

The Richard Quan Blues Band performs a benefit in support of Muscular Dystrophy Canada at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

The Heart for Africa Evening of Hope fundraising gala at the Fairmont Pacific Rim supports the Project Canaan Academy Education Fund.

The Cayford Gala at South Hall Banquet Palace supports the Forward Foundation, which provides experiences for terminally ill young adults ages 18 to 39.

Boobyball Wild West Vancouver at the Imperial supports Rethink Breast Cancer’s mission to raise awareness for the cause.

ETCETERA

Join storytellers for a two- or three-hour program of spine-chilling stories at Fort Langley National Historic Site's Grave Tales.

The two-day Great Canadian Fitness Festival at the PNE Forum is an interactive multi health and fitness trade show.

Wander Britannia Shipyards with a costumed interpreter telling eerie ghost stories of Stevestons cultural Halloween traditions at the Historic Halloween Ghost Tour.

New West Craft at River Market features over 25 artists and makers selling handmade goods.

The Vancouver Fall Home Show continues at the Vancouver Centre Centre, featuring various lifestyle gurus, industry experts, and HGTV stars.

FOOD & DRINK

Chefs in the Hood at the Law Courts Inn features chefs from Gastown, Commercial Drive, Kitsilano, Surrey, Chinatown, Yaletown, East Van, and Richmond representing their neighbourhoods with various food stations.

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

FORUMS

The Surrey Hospice Society hosts an event at KPU Surrey aimed at connecting audiences with answers as they relate to death and dying.

Ten speakers address a diverse range of societal challenges and offer fresh solutions at a Vancouver Get Inspired Talks event at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

KIDS' STUFF 

Mama G tells inspiring stories about being who you are and loving who you want at Spartacus Books.

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre's 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend features various science- and space-related activities.

The Tsawwassen Mills Monster Maze features Halloween makeup and nail art and spooky science for kids.

The Mighty Harvest Glow at Langley's Milner Village Garden Centre features a pumpkin patch, corn maze, and family playgrounds.

The Great Big Boo at Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford Cinemas is a 50-minute, non-scary live show that follows two kids on a quest to save Halloween.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Boston Bruins in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

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.

Canadian comedian Pete Zedlacher performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris host standup comedy by Darcy Boon Collins, Gavin Banning, and headliner Simon King at Tyrant Studios.

Geeks versus Nerds - Ep 45: Broom & Doom at XY is a comedy debate show with a spooktacular Halloween showdown.

ARTS ETCETERA

Buy, collect, and trade the art of 50 mostly local artists reproduced on one-inch buttons at Arts Factory's Hot One Inch Action.

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.

The Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society presents The Taboo Revue Burlesque Variety Show at the WISE Hall.

The South Surrey & White Rock Art Society presents a two-day show and sale of original artworks in a variety of media and styles at the South Surrey Recreation & Arts Centre.

DANCE

Joe Ink and Vancouver dance luminary Joe Laughlin present the world premiere of Laughlin’s first-ever full-length solo show at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

Karen Flamenco Dance Company presents Pinocchio, a narrative involving puppetry, magic, music, and dance, at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Ballet Kelowna presents a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, choreographed by John Alleyne, at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre.

LITERARY

T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss shares indigenous stories from her diverse heritage at Vancouver Public Library's Dunbar branch.

MUSIC

Vancouver Opera presents Franz Lehár’s comedic operetta, The Merry Widow, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Muzewest and Showcase Pianos present a performance by violinist YuEun Kim and pianist Wayne Weng at Spirit of Life Lutheran Church.

Thirteen-year-old violin and piano prodigy Spencer Tsai performs Chopin’s "Piano Concerto in E Minor" at New Westminster's Queens Avenue United Church.

The Vancouver New Music Festival continues at the Annex, featuring contemporary string quartets from Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

The West Coast Harp Society presents the first annual Vancouver Harp Day at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver,

THEATRE

Final performance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts of I Can't Remember the word for I can't Remember, a one-woman play mining the missing files of memory.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 its final performance of 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.

World premiere at Presentation House Theatre of So, How Should I Be?, Linda A. Carson's play about the impact that social and mass media, community, friends and family has on body image.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Sweat, Lynn Nottage's examination of a community that is formed and dissolved amidst the changing landscape of America, at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Performance at Havana Theatre of Monster Theatre’s The Shakespeare Show, Or; How an illiterate Son of a Glover Became the Greatest Playwright in the World.

Performance at The Theatre at Hendry Hall of And Evermore Shall Be So, which explores the events surrounding a murder that took place four years previously.

With A Spoon and Rumble Theatre present a performance at Pacific Theatre of The Wolves, a play about a teenage girls' soccer team whose members grapple with discovering their identities as individuals and a team.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 Good Manners, Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s contemporary fairy tale set in São Paulo, Brazil.

Screening at the Cinematheque of director-star Barbara Loden's Wanda, about a lonely woman in a dreary Pennsylvania town who sets out on a crime spree with an abusive lover.

Free screening at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre of Anaarkali of Aarah, about a village dancer who devises a plan to clear her name after being sexually assaulted by a drunken politician while performing in front of a crowd.

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of James Crump’s documentary Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco.

Drive-in Nights at River District features screenings at River District Vancouver of Hotel Transylvania 3 and The Strangers.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Iranian writer-director Mani Haghighi's farcical black comedy Pig.

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