Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 52 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, February 16.

CONCERTS

American blues-rockers the Robert Cray Band play Coquitlam's Hard Rock Casino Vancouver.

NYC ska legends the Toasters play the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Los Furios and Cawama.

Deth Day Metal Massacre at the Astoria Pub features performances by metal bands Aggression, Expain, Gross Misconduct, and Blackwater Burial.

Sixties-inspired garage band the Eleven Twelves plays LanaLou's Restaurant, with guests Massy Ferguson and Provincial Champion.

A Bowie Celebration at the Commodore features David Bowie's former bandmates Mike Garson (keyboards), Earl Slick (guitar), and Carmine Rojas (bass), plus guitarist Charlie Sexton and vocalists Bernard Fowler and Corey Glover.

FASHION

African Fashion & Arts Movement Vancouver at the Scottish Cultural Centre features African designers from the Lower Mainland and across Canada.

FOOD AND DRINK

The Riley Park Winter Farmers Market at Nat Bailey Stadium features produce from over 70 farms, plus coffee and food trucks.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Warriors take on the Saskatchewan Rush in National Lacrosse League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

Actor, writer, and comedian Whitney Cummings performs a the Vogue Theatre as part of JFL NorthWest.

American comedian, actor, and musician Fred Armisen performs at the Vogue Theatre as part of JFL NorthWest.

The Comic Strip at Tyrant Studios features standup comedy by Peter Hudson, Darcy Boon Collins, and headliner Levi McCachen.

Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani performs a standup show at the Chan Centre as part of JFL NorthWest.

The Girls Gotta Eat Podcast performs a live show at the Fox Cabaret as part of JFL NorthWest.

Stand up comedians and improvisers battle it out for comedy glory at Little Mountain Gallery's Bloodfeud: Hot as Fyre.

ARTS ETCETERA

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.

Little Bits of This and That features music and literary readings by local artists at Havana Theatre.

DANCE

Kasandra Flamenco Ensemble presents fiery flamenco with a Cuban twist at Presentation House Theatre.

MUSIC

Vancouver Opera presents a performance of its lush new production of Puccini’s La Bohème at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Amélie Fortin and Marie-Christine Poirier perform on one piano at Pyatt Hall.

The Vancouver Chamber Choir performs music by Bach, Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Willan, Wagner, Raminsh, Britten, and Orff at Shaughnessy Heights United Church.

The Richmond Orchestra presents a concert at Fraserview MB Church featuring the winners of the Richmond Music Festival.

THEATRE

Studio 58 presents Cabaret, a play set in 1929 Berlin at the notorious Kit Kat Klub, at Langara College.

Final performance at Richmond's Gateway Theatre of the satire Yoga Play, which asks what it takes to find authenticity in a world determined to sell enlightenment.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents The Shoplifters, Morris Panych's play about a career shoplifter whose life of petty crime is halted by an overzealous security guard and his affable mentor, at the Granville Island Stage.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Thornton Wilder's play of forbidden young love and mistaken identity, The Matchmaker, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

The Arts Club Theatre Company and Crow’s Theatre present True Crime, a mind-twisting encounter created by Torquil Campbell and Chris Abraham, at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Performance at White Rock's Coast Capital Playhouse of A Comedy of Tenors, playwright Ken Ludwig's comedy of mistaken identities and bedroom hijinks.

Classic Chic Productions presents its final performance of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, featuring an all-female cast, at the Historic Cultch Theatre.

Performance at West Van's Kay Meek Centre of Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell.

GALLERIES

Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery includes works Marianne Nicolson and Althea Thauberger with Siku Allooloo, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Darryl Dawson, Jaymyn La Vallee, Diane Roberts, Sara Siestreem, Juliana Speier, Nabidu Taylor, Kamala Todd, William Wasden Jr., Tania Willard and Lindsey Willie.

10,000 Ships at the Polyon Gallery showcases a photographic archive created by local photographer and "ship-spotter" Rod Logan.

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.

Krista Belle Stewart's site-specific installation Eye Eye is on display at SFU's Teck Gallery.

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

The Vancouver Art Gallery presents The Metamorphosis, an exhibition drawn from its collection that examines transformation and change.

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Canada by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

MUSEUMS

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.

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.

Shakeup: Preserving What We Value at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC explores the convergence of earthquake science and technology with Indigenous knowledge and oral history.

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

West Vancouver's Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

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.

North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, plus ziplines, skiing and snowboarding, a sliding zone, snowshoeing, and a skating pond.

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

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.

North Vancouver's Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding, lessons, chairlifts, terrain parks, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

MOVIES

Screening at the Cinematheque of Melvin Van Peebles's 1971 blaxploitation classic Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Free Solo, which documents the death-defying pursuits of rock-climber Alex Honnold.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn's inventive mix of vampire horror and blaxploitation.

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of Tommy Wiseau's bizarre cinematic oddity, The Room.

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