Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 53 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, November 10.

CONCERTS

Canadian guitar-rock bands The Pursuit of Happiness and the Northern Pikes play a coheadlining bill at the Commodore Ballroom.

Canadian pop-rock singer-songwriter Shawn Hook plays Surrey's Bell Performing Arts Centre.

Groove Night features performances by local acts Mostly Marley, Tiara, and Ember to None at the Railway Stage & Beer Café,

The Rogue Folk Club presents singer-songwriter from England, Martin Kerr, at St. James Hall.

Canadian singer-songwriter Chelsea Amber performs in support of Compassion Canada at Bez Arts Hub.

Poland's Independence Party at the Polish Community Centre features Spanish and Latin music by Tapaito.

ETCETERA

The Cloverdale Antique & Collectible Show at Cloverdale Fairgrounds Agriplex features vendors from all over Western Canada.

COMEDY

Vancouver comedian Graham Clark performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris host standup comedy by Ryan Gunther, Sophia Johnson, and headliner Aaron Charles Read at Tyrant Studios' The Comic Strip.

American comedian Godfrey performs the second of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Angry & Afraid is standup and sketch comedy designed to expose hate and fear at Little Mountain Gallery.

Soda Fountain is sketch comedy featuring Aidan Parker and Noa Kozulin, Rae Lynn Carson, Mark Chavez, and Kevin Lee at Little Mountain Gallery.

Fistful of Kicks is anime improv-comedy featuring local Asian-Canadian performers at Havana Theatre.

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.

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

The Vancouver Podcast Festival at the Vancouver Public Library features live shows by podcasters, panels, and a podfair.

The Circle Craft Christmas Market at the Vancouver Convention Centre features works by over 300 artisans, including clothing designers, potters, wood and metal workers, glass blowers, jewellers, and toy makers.

THEATRE

Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre presents Tetsuro Shigematsu's autobiographical one-man show, Empire of the Son, at Richmond's Gateway Theatre.

Performance at the York Theatre of SmallWaR, a companion piece to the 2016 smash-hit BigMoutH that looks at the man-on-the-ground and the consequences of what our leaders tell us.

Final performance at Havana Theatre of Best of Men, a decidedly unromantic one-act written and directed by Christiaan Westerveld.

Mitch and Murray Productions proudly presents its final performance 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.

With A Spoon and Rumble Theatre present the final 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.

Final 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 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.

Performance at the Cultch of Three Winters, in which a troupe of seven millennial actresses play WWII soldiers captured in the Stalag Luft III POW camp.

Performance at Presentation House Theatre of writer-performer Julia Mackey's Jake's Gift, which explores the legacy of remembrance and personalizes the story behind one soldier’s grave.

Fresh take on Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing, directed by BFA acting and MFA directing alumna Lois Anderson, at UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre.

Performance at Jericho Arts Centre of Aeschylus’ tragedy from 463 BC, The Suppliant Women, which looks to find meaning in forced migration.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

ATTRACTIONS

Parq Vancouver is a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

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 South Korean director Lee Changdong’s thriller Burning, based on the short story by Murakami Haruki.

The Cats Flippin Birds Film Festival at LanaLou's Restaurant features eclectic short films and live performances.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Josephine Decker’s "ecstatically disorienting" drama Madeline's Madeline.

Screenings at the Pacific Cinematheque of director Harmony Korine's julien donkey-boy and Trash Humpers.

Thirtieth anniversary screening at Vancity Theatre of Katsuhiro Otomo's Japanese animated post-apocalyptic cyberpunk film Akira.

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