Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 66 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, April 27.

CONCERTS

Mokoomba performs traditional Tonga, Luvale, and Nyanja sounds laced with Congolese soukous and soul at Imperial Vancouver.

American pop superstar Ariana Grande plays Rogers Arena.

Rock project by songwriter and producer Timothy Showalter, Strand of Oaks, plays the Biltmore Cabaret, with guests Wild Pink.

Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

The Pat Chessell Band performs Celtic-fueled sounds with influences of roots, folk, and country at the Surrey Arts Centre.

Chicago tribute band West Coast Chicago plays the Eclipse Lounge at Hastings Racecourse.

Motown Meltdown at the Commodore Ballroom features 25 performers and a 12-piece band.

The Hot Club of Mars & the Lawless Firm perform at St. James Hall as part of the April in Paris gypsy-jazz event.

EVENTS

Video-laser show at Burnaby's BCIT Planetarium features music by Pink Floyd, Gorillaz, and Radiohead.

Celebrate 25 years of democracy in South Africa with music, food, and keynote speaker Prakash Diar at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture.

The Portobello West Spring Market at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre features works by more than 50 artisans.

FOOD AND DRINK

Hot Glass Cold Beer at Terminal City Glass Co-op features eight local craft breweries, glassblowing demonstrations, acrobatics, and a DJ. SOLD OUT.

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

Wine-tasting seminar at the Fine Art Bartending School Vancouver will take six very different wines and discuss each aspect of the grape variety.

Learn the ins and outs of how chocolate is made and how to temper chocolate easily at home at a workshop at Coho Commissary.

KIDS' STUFF

Create a mixed-media collage of found images, maps, and texts of Vancouver at the Contemporary Art Gallery's Family Day.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Whitecaps take on the Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer action at BC Place Stadium.

COMEDY

The Comic Strip at Tyrant Studios features standup comedy by Jacob Samuel, Ola Dada, and headliner Simon King (above).

A night of improv comedy with The Radical takes place at North Vancouver's Presentation House.

Comedy at Cravings features standup comedy hosted by Mike Greenwood at Cravings Restaurant.

AFA Comedy & Trivia Night Fundraiser at Moose's Down Under features comedy by Darryl Lennox, Dale Shuen, Jon Gagnon, and Alana the trivia host.

Coheadliners Dan Quinn and Kyle Bottom perform the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

L.A.-based comedian Sean Tweedley performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

Art in Action! features live painting by Amelia Alcock-White at Petley Jones Gallery.

Manifestations at the Arc features a multidisciplinary art exhibit and artist talks as part of the Capture Photography Festival.

The third annual Vancouver Opera Festival features nine days of voice, music, theatre and visual arts at various Vancouver venues.

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.

Livespace is a movement installation at Scotiabank Dance Centre that uses livestream video to explore the emotional states we experience in relation to technology.

IELE at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts is a dance performance inspired by Romanian folklore.

LITERARY

Author and journalist Alisa Smith launches her new noir book Doublespeak at Red Truck Brewery.

Local author Peter Toppings signs his self-published book The Birthday Quest for New Adventures at Indigo Books Robson.

MUSIC

Vancouver Opera presents Rossini’s masterpiece La Cenerentola at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Jonathan Darlington conducts the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Chorus in Gounod’s opera Faust at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

THEATRE

Let's Try This Standing at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is a new show by writer-performer Gillian Clark based on her recovery from a near-fatal accident.

Zee Zee Theatre presents Dead People's Things, a darkly comedic play about a millennial who inherits a house and all of its contents after her estranged hoarder aunt commits suicide.

A Jewish lawyer is assigned to defend a skinhead in Cherry Docs at Pacific Theatre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bed & Breakfast, Mark Crawford's comedy about being out and finding home, at the Granville Island Stage.

Final performance at Tsawwassen Arts Centre of The Best Brothers, a comedy about two middle-aged sons bickering over their free-spirited mother's funeral arrangements.

Performance at PAL Theatre of Mal and Cara, a comedy about a married Vancouver couple and a radical career change.

Final performance at Havana Theatre of Out Again at the Inn, a Leaping Thespians original comedy.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Lauren Yee's The Great Leap, a jump shot across borders, at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Le Petit Théâtre presents La Station Champbaudet, a classic French vaudeville play, with English surtitles, at Alliance Française de Vancouver.

Veda Hille's new solo show Little Volcano, a collaboration with Theatre Replacement, blends storytelling and live music at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

GALLERIES

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

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation Basketball: Photographs by Alana Paterson shows at the Polygon as part of the Capture Photography Festival.

A Harlem Nocturne at the Contemporary Art Gallery presents still and moving images extrapolated and translated from archival sources, featuring a newly commissioned video project drawn from Deanna Bowen’s research into histories of Black community within Vancouver.

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.

Displacement at the Vancouver Art Gallery sees contemporary works from the gallery's collection that use “displacement” as a tool to elicit viewer reactions of all kinds. Featured artists include Sonny Assu, Aganetha Dyck, Teresa Marshall, Ken Lum, Robert Therrien, Luanne Martineau, Patrick Traer, Renee van Halm, Holly Ward, Tim Paul, and Myfanwy MacLeod.

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

Influenced by fields of perceptual psychology, science and architecture, Mowry Baden’s works at the Vancouver Art Gallery incorporate objects both found and constructed that incite curiosity, wonder, and laughs.

Moving Still: Performative Photography in India at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 100 works that examine themes of gender, religion, and sexual identity.

MUSEUMS

There is Truth Here at the Museum of Vancouver focuses on rare surviving artworks created by children who attended the Inkameep Day School (Okanagan), St Michael’s Indian Residential School (Alert Bay); the Alberni Indian Residential School (Vancouver Island) and Mackay Indian Residential School (Manitoba).

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.

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.

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

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.

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

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.

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

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of the medieval horror film Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse.

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of The Raft, Marcus Lindeen’s documentary about the Acali Experiment of 1973, in which 11 strangers drifted across the Atlantic on a cramped raft as part of a study on the origins of violence and aggression.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, which explores the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label.

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