Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 80 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, November 17.

CONCERTS

Nashville rock band All Them Witches plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Handsome Jack.

Vancouver blues-rock duo the Harpoonist & Axe Murderer play the second of two nights at the Fox Cabaret, with guests Twin Bandit.

Electronic music showcase Sequential Circus at Open Studios features performances by AVR, BIG ZEN, lazy d, RiDylan, Sara Gold, and tokiomi.

Yao + Trésor Otshudi perform at Studio 16 as part of Coup de coeur francophone de Vancouver.

Local indie band the Starlight Pines plays a release party for new album City Lights.

Kelowna rockers the Fallaways play the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests the Carbons, Friday Night Fires, and Honeyvelvet.

Jazz singer Steve Maddock is backed up by Sharon Minemoto (piano), Craig Scott (drums), and Dave Guiney (bass) at New Westminster's Queens Avenue United Church.

Trumpeter Trevor Whitridge leads his swinging quintet at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre's Hot Club Swing.

Deanna Knight and the Hot Club of Mars perform swing music of the 1920s and '30s at Port Moody's Gallery Bistro.

Social swing-dancing to Company B Jazz Band at New Westminster's Anvil Centre.

Local dance band EddyD & the Sex Bombs plays LanaLou's Restaurant, with guests the Vanrays.

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

BENEFITS

The annual Lights of Hope charity Christmas-lights display on St. Pauls Hospital features more than 100,000 lightbulbs and supports the St. Paul’s Foundation.

West Coast Area Girl Guides presents a holiday craft fair at St. Philip's Anglican Church to fundraise for their 2019 service trip to India.

The Crofton House Winter Bazaar is a features crafts for sale, midway games, and food trucks, with proceeds to KidSafe, a local children's charity.

ETCETERA

The MEC Snowfest at Mountain Equipment Co-op Vancouver features a gear swap, clinics, and product demos.

Vintage and Makers Market at the Ukrainian Hall features perogies, a tarot reader, weird crafts, unusual art, and vintage clothing.

The Swedish Cultural Society hosts a two-day Swedish Christmas Fair, with 30 vendors offering traditional Swedish goods for gift-giving.

FORUMS

Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride moderates a panel discussion on promoting mental health in the music industry with psychologist Dr. Chris Stevens, recording artist and mental-health advocate Catherine MacLellan (above), and BRANDLIVE president Catherine Runnals.

First day of a two-day indie-film producers' workshop with Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker Joella Cabalu at Cineworks.

Ten presenters from a range of fields share their interesting projects, inspirations, and passions at Pecha Kucha New Westminster Vol 21 at the Queensborough Community Centre.

Walk and learn about mosses, lichens, and liverworts with nature enthusiast and science educator Brian Herrin at Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Montreal Canadiens in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

The Dirty Betty Show features a night of song parody, comedy, and dancing at Little Mountain Gallery.

David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris host standup comedy by Ola Dada, Gavin Clarkson, and headliner Levi McCachen at Tyrant Studios' The Comic Strip.

American comedian Brian Posehn performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Comedian Todd Ness performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

The Radical blends rapid-fire humor with character-driven storytelling at Presentation House Theatre's Saturday Night Improv.

Comedians debate pop-culture characters in Geeks versus Nerds at XY.

Stand-up vs improv comedy at Little Mountain Gallery's Bloodfeud.

Weekly standup comedy by professionals and up-and-comers, including headliner Colin Sharp, at Goldie's Pizza's Comedy Basement.

ARTS ETCETERA

The 22nd annual Eastside Culture Crawl is a four-day celebration of visual arts, design, and crafts taking place at artists' studios, homes, and garages throughout Vancouver’s Eastside.

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 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 two-day Heart to Home Holiday Market at the Surrey Art Gallery featues one-of-a-kind gifts ranging from photographs and jewellery to ceramic mugs and fused glass bowls.

A Vintage and Maker's Market at Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral features 30 vendors with varied wares.

DANCE

Indigenous and Non-Indigenous dance artists explore cultural teachings in Med'Cine at Presentation House Theatre.

Karen Flamenco Dance Company dancers perform their latest production, Pinocchio, at the Improv Centre.

THEATRE

Final performance at the Shadbolt Centre of the Arts of Mine, a new work by Theatre Replacement about mothers and sons.

Capilano University's Exit 22 Productions presents a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, Sense and Sensibility, at Blueshore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre of Beautiful-The Carole King Musical, which tells the inspiring true story of the pop legend’s rise to stardom.

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

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.

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

Final 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.

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.

Final performance at Studio 1398 of The How and the Why, a play about evolution, feminism, and family.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's holiday confection filled with classic Jane Austen charm, at the Granville Island Stage.

First Impressions Theatre presents Ring of Fire, a celebration of the life and music of Johnny Cash, at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

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.

Batia Suter: Parallel Encyclopedia Extended at Polygon Gallery is an installation of photographic reproductions that highlight the proliferation of digital images.

Polit-Sheer-Form Office at Vancouver Art Gallery's Offsite is the first Canadian exhibition by the Chinese contemporary art collective.

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.

Looking at Persepolis: The Camera in Iran 1850-1930 at Polygon Gallery features contemporary video and photographic works by Hannah Rickards and Batia Suter.

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.

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.

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.

Marking the Infinite at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features nine leading Aboriginal women who are revered matriarchs and celebrated artists from remote regions of Australia.

In/Flux: Art of Korean Diaspora at the Museum of Vancouver features selected works of Jin-me Yoon, Junghong Kim, and Jin Hwa Kim, artists originally from the Republic of Korea now based in the Vancouver area.

ATTRACTIONS

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

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.

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

Afternoon screening at Vancity Theatre of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, filmed in Ray Harryhausen's patented "SuperDynaMation" technique.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Ingmar Bergman's 1980 film, From the Life of the Marionettes.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Rob Stewart's Sharkwater: Extinction, which exposes the billion-dollar illegal shark-fin industry and the political corruption behind it.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of South Korean director Lee Changdong’s thriller Burning, based on the short story by Murakami Haruki.

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of Margarethe von Trotta's new documentary Searching for Ingmar Bergman.

Film scholar Michael van den Bos presents an array of special-effects sequences from classic movies at Vancity Theatre's The Art of Astonishment.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of director Christian Petzold's WWII drama Transit, about a German refugee who assumes a dead writer’s identity.

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