68 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, November 3

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      Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 68 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, November 3.

       

      CONCERTS

      Toronto indie-rockers Sun K play LanaLou's Restaurant, with local guests YEP.

      Canadian rap superstar Drake plays the first of two nights at Rogers Arena, with guests Migos.

      New York City instrumental post-rock trio City of the Sun plays the Fox Cabaret, with guests Leon of Athens.

      Hamilton alt-rock band the Dirty Nil plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

      Texas trip-hop duo Voodoo Boogaloo plays the Roxy Cabaret, with guests the Pool Sharks.

      Best in Vancouver--Night Eight at the Railway Stage & Beer Café features performances by She Hangs Brightly, the Quixotic Neurotics, the Hunter and the Potter, and Hazel Blackburn.

      Cassandra Maze plays a live looping Asymmetry release party at Blue Light Studios.

      Vancouver percussionists coax new sound out of unlikely places at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

      Klô Pelgag + Vaero perform at Norman Rothstein Theatre as part of Coup de coeur francophone de Vancouver.

      Vancouver rockers China Syndrome play Pat's Pub and Brewhouse, with guests the Top Boost and the Tower of Dudes.

       

      BENEFITS

      Out On Screen Fall Gala at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre supports the Out In Schools program and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

      The 18th annual 65 Roses gala at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel raises awareness and funds in support of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

        

      FOOD & DRINK

      Coquitlam Beer Festival

      The Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival at Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club showcases over 40 breweries and 8 local restaurants and caterers.

      The TriCity International Food & Wine Festival at Coquitlam's Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club showcases 175 wines paired with intriguing foods.

      Night at the Museum: BC Ale Trail Edition is a night of craft beer and beer-inspired food at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

       

      FORUMS

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      Dza Kilung Rinpoche, the fifth reincarnation of H.H. Jigme Ngotsar Gyatso, introduces the themes of his new book The Relaxed Mind at Green College Coach House.

      Make your own copper arrowhead pendant at a workshop with instructor Aaron Nelson-Moody/Tawx’sin Yexwulla (Squamish/Scottish) at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.

      Awesome Talks at the Post at 750 features Thierry Pécou (composer & conductor), Graham McKenzie (artistic director of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), and Laura Bowler (vocalist & composer).

      Arctic historian Doreen Larsen Riedel presents some of the lesser known facts about the St. Roch and it's unique design at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

      Why I Design breaks down walls between disciplines and between designers and the public at the Museum of Vancouver.

      Demonstration of traditional Coast Salish drumming by Brandon Gabriel - Kwelexwecten at Deer Lake Gallery.

      Distinguished experts from various universities discuss the topic of Syrian Refugees In Turkey at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

      The two-day Franchise Canada Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre is aimed at those interested in owning their own business.

       

      SPORTS

      The B.C. Lions take on the Calgary Stampeders in Canadian Football League action at BC Place Stadium.

           

      COMEDY

      David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris host The Comic Strip at Tyrant Studios, featuring comedy by Ari Matti, Rachel Schaefer, and headliner Yumi Nagashima.

      Canadian comedian Eddie Della Siepe performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Facebook/Sweet Soul  Burlesque

      Sweet Soul Burlesque presents performances at the Rio Theatre by April O'Peel, Ariel Helvetica, Cherry Ontop, Melody M Mangler, Lola Danielle Frost, and Cara Milk.

      The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival features 12 days of music, stories, songs, poetry, films, theatre, dance, spoken word, workshops, art talks, and history walks at the Firehall Arts Centre.

      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.

      Diwali in B.C. is a multicultural, multi-disciplinary, inclusive festival with performances taking place at various Vancouver venues.

      Fundraising Arty Party at the Fort Langley Community Hall includes jazz band the Lava Lights, dancing, an appetizer/dessert buffet, and a silent auction of original art.

      The Federation of Canadian Artists presents the opening of Shape and Form, a collaborative exhibition with the Sculptors’ Society of British Columbia.

       

      DANCE

      Karen Flamenco Dance Company dancers perform excerpts from their latest production, Pinocchio.

       

      LITERARY

      Launch at Massy Books of Tegera, a collection of collaborative poems and prose written by Terriann Walling, Ramazan Saral, and George Gerard.

         

      THEATRE

      Thelma Gibson, photo by Ken Tabata

      Vancouver Moving Theatre presents a performance at Firehall Arts Centre of East End Blues & All That Jazz, which celebrates the contributions of Vancouver’s East End black residential community and the legendary Gibson family. Part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival.

      Mitch and Murray Productions proudly presents the Vancouver premiere at Studio 16 of Sex With Strangers, a drama about love, lust, and the nature of identity in our digital-dominated era.

      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 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.

      Performance at the Historic Theatre of The Ones We Leave Behind, which explores themes of isolation and abandonment and poses the question: are the greatest walls the ones we build within ourselves?

      Performance at the Waterfront Theatre of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O'Brien's kitschy musical-theatre rock 'n' roll gothic thriller.

      Performance at Metro Theatre of Busybody, a crime comedy in which a cleaning lady finds the dead body of her employer. 

      Final performance at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts of They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay!, a political farce about consumer backlash against high prices.

      Final performance at Langley's SAMC Theatre of The Game of Love and Chance, a tale of secret identities and affairs of the heart from playwright Pierre Carlet de Marivaux.

      Performance at Havana Theatre of Monsterkill 5: Remonsterkilled (Or, We Were The Empty Set), a play about life and death--and life and death in a whack-em-up videogame.

      Performance at Vancity Culture Lab of The Believers Are But Brothers, a one-man show that explores the smoke-and-mirrors world of online extremism, anonymity, and hate speech.

       

      GALLERIES

      Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) artist Dana Claxton addresses the oppressive legacies of colonialism through photography, film, video and performance in Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      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 Bill Reid Gallery explores the intricate textile works and cedar weavings of the Kakwaka’wakw and Haida artist.

       

      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.

      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.

      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.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

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

      At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

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

      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.

      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.

      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.

       

      MOVIES

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of This Mountain Life, filmmaker Grant Baldwin’s portrait of the local mountain men and women in B.C.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of Shut Up and Play the Piano, a documentary about Canadian musician Chilly Gonzalez.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Maria by Callas, Tom Volf’s film about legendary American soprano Maria Callas.

      Screenings at the Pacific Cinematheque of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Prison.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Bel Canto, about an opera singer caught up in a South American hostage siege.

       

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