Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 49 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, April 28.

 

CONCERTS

Van Django performs at St. James Hall as part of the April in Paris gypsy-jazz event.

Victoria musician Ora Cogan blends elements of shoegaze, folk, dark-wave, and experimental at the Lido.

Jazz Vespers at North Vancouver's St. Andrew's United Church features Vancouver gospel singer Marcus Mosely.

The Cory Weeds Quartet, featuring saxophonist Weeds, plays Surrey's Northwood United Church.

Rock 'n' roll band Gleneagle plays a homecoming show at the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Yvette, Molly Aspinall, and Bryan Michael.

Jason Scott presents Diamond Forever, his tribute to Neil Diamond, at North Van's Two Lions Public House.

 

FORUMS

Join Güliz Ünlü for a presentation on intercellular and inter-species communication at Banyen Books & Sound.

    

COMEDY

Comedy for the Dogs (For the Blind), benefiting the CNIB guide-dog program, features visually impaired comedians Megan Milton, Alex Sparling and Darryl Lenox (above).

Instant Theatre presents an improv-comedy battle at Havana Theatre.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

TOM HSU, AN URGE TO PROPOSE FORBIDDEN THOUGHTS AND PLAYING WITH FIRE, 2019. INSTALLATION MOCK-UP

Learn more about the works and artists of one of the Capture Photography Festival’s major public art projects, the Canada Line Public Art Project, at Waterfront Station.

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.

Jocelyn Statia leads a tour of the current exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery.

LA-based artist Mona Kuhn discusses her work included in the a Handful of Dust exhibition at the Polygon.

 

DANCE

DUST/PHOTO LUKAS HYRMAN

International Dance Day Vancouver features performers by Francesca Frewer and Erika Mitsuhashi, Kinesis Dance somatheatro, and Sujit Vaidya and Isabelle Kirouac at various Vancouver venues.

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

 

LITERARY

Passion for Astronomy: A Tale of Two Authors sees popular-science author Dr. Elizabeth Tasker and YA novelist Ria Voros discuss their work at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.

 

MUSIC

The Bergmann Duo performs at a celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday at West Van's Kay Meek Arts Centre.

Soprano Elspeth McVeigh is featured in a program of early French and Italian music at Visual Space Gallery.

Legends Across the Ages at CBC Studio 700 is a program of art songs featuring the members of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program.

Burnaby Lyric Opera presents pieces from various operas at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

   

THEATRE

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.

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

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.

 

GALLERIES

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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

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

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.

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

 

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Bella Ciao!, director Carolyn Combs' Commercial Drive-shot drama about home, displacement, community, and solidarity, starring Carmen Aguirre.

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 It Follows director David Robert Mitchell's L.A. crime thriller Under the Silver Lake.

Screenings at the Cinematheque of Mexican writer-director Alonso Ruizpalacios's shaggy-dog heist flick Museo.

 

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