58 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, October 21

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 58 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, October 21.

       

      CONCERTS

      Eight-piece psychedelic soul revue King Khan and the Shrines plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Gabriella Coh.

      American indie-pop singer-songwriter Børns plays the Orpheum Theatre, with guests Twin Shadow.

      Balkan composer and bandleader Goran Bregović performs all-time favourites and new songs from his latest album Three Letters from Sarajevo.

      Country-blues artist Ana Bon-Bon's music saloon & social Sundays for Sinners takes place at the Princeton Pub & Grill.

      Arcade Fire member Richard Reed Parry performs material from his new solo album Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1.

      The Rogue Folk Club presents Newfoundland folk artist Matthew Byrne at the St. James Hall.

      Australian reggae-R&B vocalist Meiwa plays a pay-what-you-can gig at Guilt & Co.

      Ontario singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell, aka Bird City, plays the WISE Hall.

      Queen tribute band performs the legendary group's greatest hits at Surrey's Bell Performing Arts Centre.

      Vancouver hard-rock band Default, featuring frontman Dallas Smith, plays the Commodore Ballroom.

      Vancouver R&B/fusion keyboardists Max Zipursky and Jonny Tobin lead their band at Guilt & Co.

      Singer-songwriter showcase at Hood 29 features Bruce D Miller and a group of his masterclass songwriting students.

       

      BENEFITS

      The Parkinson Wellness Centre Grand Opening in New Westminster features guest speakers, prizes, food, silent auction, and art installation. 

       

      ETCETERA

      The Vancouver Mycological Society presents its 39th annual Mushroom Show at the VanDusen Botanical Garden Floral Hall.

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

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

      The Retro Design and Antiques Fair at the Croatian Cultural Centre features 185 tables of collectible items for sale.

       

      KIDS' STUFF 

      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.

      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.

            

      COMEDY

      The Best Kind Comedy Tour features standup comedy by Colin Hollett, Mike Lynch (above), and Brian Aylward at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      The Scrawny Show is a monthly stand-up comedy show hosted by Cory Lupovici and Jo-el Oxales at the Anza 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.

      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

      Immigrant Lessons dance and art collective's latest work at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre tells the personal stories of a group of immigrants navigating Canadian culture.

        

      MUSIC

      Players and Singers presents performances at Hycroft Manor of Henry Purcell's  Dido and Aeneas

       

      THEATRE

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

      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.

      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.

      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.

      Sacrificium Society of Production presents City of Weed, an original scripted stage play, performed in Cantonese with English subtitles.

       

      GALLERIES

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      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

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      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.

      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.

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

      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 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 the Cinematheque of the Oscar-winning stop-motion animation comedy Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

      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 Ingmar Bergman's minimalist chamber-drama Saraband, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of writer-director Panos Cosmatos' hallucinogenic revenge odyssey Mandy, starring Nicolas Cage.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Ingmar Bergman's brutally honest dissection of the disintegration of a marriage, Scenes from a Marriage.

       

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