Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 68 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, March 2.

CONCERTS

The Horizon School Of Music Launch Party at North Van's Bluedog Guitars features performances by guitarists Don Alder, Kelly Brown with Uno Mas, and Kris Schulz (above).

Atlanta punk rock/garage band the Coathangers plays the Imperial Vancouver.

The Impressions Big Band performs the music of Ray Charles at the Vancouver Public Library's Alice MacKay Room.

The Wetfoot Festival at Red Gate Arts Society features performances by local acts AutoHeart, Toads on a Wire, the Angels, Cry of Silence, SOLA Music, Savaggio, Indigo Royals, Friends With The Help, Gnarfunkel, and Hot Tub.

American rapper and Internet personality Bhad Bhabie plays Venue.

The Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir celebrates its 15th anniversary at Christ Church Cathedral.

Nine-member choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo plays the Chan Centre with Malian guitarist Habib Koité and lutist Bassekou Kouyate.

The Milk Crate Bandits perform New Orleans-inspired jazz at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

Brooklyn-based Afrobeat band Antibalas plays the Rickshaw Theatre.

Quebec indie-pop singer-songwriter and pianist Coeur de Pirate plays the Commodore Ballroom.

BENEFITS

The Western Front’s 46th Anniversary Fundraising Gala & Auction features a live auction, music, dinner, and cocktails, with proceeds to the Western Front’s art and music programs.

ETCETERA

VidLaser show at the BCIT Planetarium features music by Pink Floyd, Gorillaz, and Radiohead.

FOOD AND DRINK

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

Seedy Saturday at Richmond's Thompson Community Centre is an annual celebration of local seeds, food, and gardening.

FORUMS

Heritage 101 is a one-day workshop at the Cultch Historic Theatre that explores the history of heritage conservation, the guiding charters and regulations, and the regulatory environment at City Hall.

PechaKucha New Westminster Vol 22 at the Anvil Theatre features local craft beef, wine, music, and 10 PechaKucha talks.

KIDS' STUFF

Vancouver Performing Stars bring their production of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach to the Cultch Historic Theatre.

SPORTS

For their season home-opener the Vancouver Whitecaps take on Minnesota United in Major League Soccer action at BC Place Stadium.

COMEDY

Whose Live Anyway? at the River Rock Show Theatre features improv comedy by Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff Davis, and Joel Murray.

The Comic Strip features standup comedy by Efthimios Nasiopoulos, Gavin Clarkson, and headliner Aaron Charles Read at Tyrant Studios.

Comedypants at the Avant Garden features up-and-coming local standup comedians.

Local comedian Patrick Maliha performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

The List at Little Mountain Gallery features standup and improv comedy hosted by Randee Neumeyer.

Comedian Bryan O'Gorman performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

The ninth annual North Shore Art Crawl invites the public to explore North Shore artists' studios & galleries from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove.

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.

DANCE

The Karen Flamenco Dance Company presents traditional flamenco group dances, accompanied by live flamenco guitar and singer, at the Improv Centre on Granville Island.

Vancouver Contemporary Chinese Dance Co. presents Rhythm of Drum—Spirit of Dance, an evening of original cross-cultural dance works by choreographer Chengxin Wei, with guest artists Uzume Taiko.

LITERARY

Launch at Massy Books of of Ayelet Tsabari's memoir The Art of Leaving sees the author in conversation with Gurjinder Basran.

Reading at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts from Algiers, Third World Capital, Elaine Mokhtefi's memoir about her years as an activist in the U.S., Europe, and Africa.

MUSIC

The Laudate Singers and organist Edward Norman perform music by Brahms, Britten, Poulenc, Messiaen, and Gabriel Jackson at West Vancouver United Church.

Chor Leoni PopCapella at the Vancouver Playhouse features hits by Joni Mitchell, Sting, David Bowie, and Billy Joel performed a capella.

THEATRE

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of The Good Bride, Rosemary Rowe's one-woman comedy about Christian faith and feminism.

Théâtre la Seizième presents the world premiere of its dark comedy Le Soulier, written by Quebec playwright David Paquet.

Performance at Norman Rothstein Theatre of The 39 Steps, a cheeky parody of Hitchcock’s slick and stylish mysteries.

Performance at the York Theatre of Children of God, a musical about the children of an Oji-Cree family who are sent to a residential school in northern Ontario.

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.

Final performance at the Surrey Arts Centre of Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell, which reinterprets Mitchell’s iconic songs through a new generation.

Performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Church Basement Ladies, a comical celebration of the church-basement kitchen and the women who work there.

Constance Markievicz fights for Ireland’s freedom in Changed Utterly, a theatre verbatim play with songs and poems, at Jericho Arts Centre.

Performance at the Metro Theatre of the political farce Up and Coming.

Performance at Presentation House Theatre of Metamorphosis, which depicts the constantly changing nature of our existence through the metaphorical grace of puppets.

Performance at Pacific Theatre of Jesus Freak, about a family whose tolerance is put to test when a member comes home from college and announces she’s become a Christian.

Performance at Havana Theatre of Better Than This, an original musical revue which chronicles the evolution of women’s roles in musical theatre.

GALLERIES

Affinities: Canadian Artists and France at the Vancouver Art Gallery features works from the Gallery’s collection focusing on influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Surrealism on Canadian artists during the first half of the 20th century. Featured artists include J.W. Morrice, Emily Carr, Maurice Cullen, Paul-Émile Borduas, Rodney Graham, Mary Scott and Lucy Hogg.

French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 at the Vancouver Art Gallery features paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists such as Cézanne, Chagall, Degas, Manet, Matisse, Morisot, Renoir, and Rodin.

A Handful of Dust at The Polygon features photographs from the last 100 years, focusing on the theme of dust.

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 Polygon 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.

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.

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

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 Vancity Theatre of director Gaspar Noé's psychological horror-musical Climax, in which French dancers at an all-night celebration are drawn into a hallucinatory nightmare.

The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival features outdoor adventure films from around the world at various Vancouver venues.

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