The Vancity Original Beach Soccer Blast is a 5 on 5 beach soccer round robin tournament taking place at Spanish Banks beach. 

Spanish Banks, 4707 NW. Marine Drive, Aug 9-11, 9am–5pm

Vines Art Festival is a celebratory, provocative, intersectional festival of performing arts and land justice set on outdoor earth-stages.

Vines Art Festival, 1862 Venables, Free

It's a lineup of heavy hard rock bands led by The Hunter and The Potter at the Railway. With guests Muscle and Gall, Zen Junkie, and Kane Incognito.

Railway Stage and Beer Café, 579 Dunsmuir, 8pm, $10

Alternative/Indie band Summer Salt tour with songs from their new EP, Honeyweed. With guests Dante Elephante and Motel Radio.

Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main, 7pm, $20

It's the final day of the Vancouver Bach Festival winding up with Henry Purcell’s four Odes to the Christian saint of musicians, Hail! Bright Cecilia. There will be a Pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm.

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Road, 7:30pm, From $18

Multi-instrumentalist and looping artist Alex Maher performes at the Portside Pub.

Portside Pub, 7 Alexander, 11pm, Free

Experience traditional Mexican music when Mariachi Los Dorados plays the CBC's Musical Nooners concert series.

CBC Vancouver Outdoor Stage, 700 Hamilton, Noon, Free

27 artists will be inking at lightning speed over two days at the Vancouver Mural Festival Flash Tattoo event.

65 East 6th Avenue, 12pm, Price varies by artist

Catch the Academy-nominated film, Exit Through the Gift Shop in the park on an outdoor screen at this all-ages and licenced showing.

Jonathan Rogers Park, 110 West 7th, Dusk, Free

Fort Heart Productions presents six short plays from Metropolitan Opera by Joe Pintauro as their second annual Summer Shorties Edition.

VFS Cafe, 390 West Hastings, 6:30pm, $20

Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos (The Finger Man) is a sordid, stylish thriller about a safe-cracker assumed to be the snitch among a group of crooks.

The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe, 8:30pm, $12

Delve into the facinating life of the newsman who became the face of interrogative journalism in Mike Wallace Is Here. UBC journalism professor Peter Klein and Kathryn Gretsinger will lead a conversation on broadcast journalism after the film. Read our review.

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour, 7pm, $13

In Honeyland a woman utilises ancient beekeeping traditions to cultivate honey in the mountains of Macedonia. When a neighbouring family tries to do the same, it becomes a source of tension as they disregard her wisdom and advice. Read our review.

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour, 3:15pm, $13

After he’s attacked on the street at night by a roving motorcycle gang, timid bookkeeper Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself in The Art of Self-Defense.

Rio Theatre, 1660 East Broadway, 8:30pm, $12.50

Crankworx Whistler celebrates 16 years of mountain bike culture 10 days of elite and amateur racing.

Whistler Blackcomb, Aug 9-18, Free

There's only 2 weeks left for Disney’s Newsies at the Maklin Bowl. Based on the 1992 Disney film of the same name, Newsies is a musical set in 1899 about exploited children and teens working in media who band together and unionize.

Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park, 8pm, From $30

Hip Hop outfit GothBoiClique come to Vancouver on the Love Gang Forever Tour. Featuring Cold Hart, Horse Head with YAWNS, Fish Narc and special guests Lil Zubin and Fantasy Camp.

Fortune Sound Club, 147 East Pender, 6:30pm, From $33

Sophie Buddle hosts the Barely Legal comedy revue with stand ups Graham Clark, Erica Sigurdson, Aaron Read, Dino Archie, and more.

Slice of Life Gallery & Studios, 1636 Venables, 9pm