82 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, September 28

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      Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 82 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, September 28.

       

      CONCERTS

      American roots singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

      American punk-rock bands Face to Face and Lagwagon play a coheadlining bill at the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Makewar.

      Icelandic pop band Of Monsters and Men plays the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre on its Fever Dream Tour.

      Swedish melodic death-metal band Amon Amarth plays the PNE Forum, with guests Arch Enemy, At the Gates, and Grand Magus.

      Vancouver rock band Blue Arbutus plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests In Signals, Friction Project, the Quixotic Neurotics, and Bicycle Gypsies.

      Eli Williams performs a tribute to Elvis Presley at Ladner's Genesis Theatre.

      First United Spiritualist Church Fundraiser features performances by local soul and gospel artists Bill Sample, Marcus Moseley, and the Hot Mammas.

      Park Sound Presents features performances by Rabbit Hole, Strange Tides, and Jason Sylvester at North Van's Park Sound Studio.

      Doom-punk band AK-747s celebrates 10 years at Pub 340, with guests NEEDS, Rebuild/Repair, and Crashing Into Things. 

      Indiana pop singer-songwriter Christian French plays the Biltmore Cabaret, with guest ASTN.

      Brooklyn-based psych-rock/jazz band Crumb plays Fortune Sound Club, with guests Divino Niño.

      Florida singer-rapper Dominic Fike plays Venue, with guest Deb Never. SOLD OUT.

      English indie-folk singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich plays Imperial Vancouver.

       

      BENEFITS

      Revered Vancouver scientist, broadcaster, and activist David Suzuki (above) is special guest at Night of the Grizzly, a gala fundraiser at the Vancouver Convention Centre in support of the cherished and ecologically important grizzly bear.

      The sixth annual Trigeminal Neuralgia Lantern Walk of Awareness is a dusky 5km walk along False Creek to raise awareness of the world’s most painful disease.

      Mingler at the Mills, a benefit for the Reach Child and Youth Development Society at Tsawwassen Mills, features microbrews from Four Winds, Steamworks, Steel & Oak, and Parallel 49, and wine from Delf Wines, Indigenous World Winery, and Select Wines.

       

      ETCETERA

      At the Vancouver Heritage Foundation's Grandview Heritage Tour explore a number of heritage spaces in the Grandview area, each telling a unique part of the story.

      Go behind the scenes, meet the faculty and staff, and learn about the programs at the Vancouver Film School Open House.

      Artisans will sell their handmade wares, vintage goods, and supplies at the Etsy: Made in Canada Pop-Up Market at Robson Square.

      Take a tour of the heritage orchard, play heritage games, and try some of the heritage apples and fruit preserves at Maple Ridge's Haney House Museum.

      More than 50 retailers--including Hudson’s Bay, Toys R Us, T&T Supermarket, Roots Canada, and H&M--take part in the 12th annual Metropolis at Metrotown Job Fair.

      Learn four key survival skills from knowledgeable guest presenters at A Survivalist's Guide to a Zombie Apocalypse at Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada.

       

      FOOD AND DRINK

      The Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival at the Hard Rock Casinoo Vancouver showcases over 50 local craft breweries, cider houses, and distilleries, along with beer-friendly snacks.

      The Trout Lake Farmers Market at John Hendry Park features seasonal produce, local meat, seafood, eggs & dairy, craft beer, wine & spirits, artisanal prepared food, and handmade craft.

       

      FORUMS

      Parenting 2.0 Summit at the Vancouver Public Library features presentations by Dr. Vanessa Lapointe (above), David Loyst, Gila Golub, and Australia's Maggie Dent.

      Mycologist Willoughby Arevalo leads a participatory, field-based mushroom workshop at Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre.

      The Vancouver International Travel Expo at the Vancouver Convention Centre features over 200 exhibitors offering deals from airlines, cruise lines, tour operators, and resorts. 

      UBC professor in Forest and Conservation Sciences Dr. Lori Daniels and professional forester and biologist Bruce Blackwell lead a panel discussion on Living With Wildfires at the Archives of North Vancouver.

      Join an illustrated walk and hear little known stories of Lynn Valley’s past at Shaketown at North Vancouver's Community History Centre.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      FAMILY DAY AT GRIFFIN IN AUGUST

      An afternoon of participatory art-making for kids of all ages (and adults) at North Vancouver's Griffin Art Projects.

      Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia presents a performance at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre of The Rainbow Fish, in which themes of opposites, friendship, responsible decision making, and relationship skills are examined.

       

      SPORTS

      The B.C. Lions take on the Montreal Alouettes in Canadian Football League action at BC Place Stadium.

       

      TAKE ACTION

      Women Who Named the Unnamed at Surrey City Hall is a celebration of the achievements of women activists and artists, with a focus on Pakistani women (including human-rights activist Asma Jahangir, above) and women from aboriginal and South Asian communities (including Deanne Reder and Sunera Thobani).

                       

      COMEDY

      The Comic Strip at Tyrant Studios features standup comedy by Efthimios Nasiopoulos, Ola Dada, and headliner Katie-Ellen Humphries.

      Canada's Smartest Comedy at Little Mountain Gallery features standup by Rod Crawford, Andrea Jin, Steven Puddister, Hocus Focus, Jon Gagnon, and host Tyler Middleton.

      Stereotypical students join forces to avoid detention in Back to School TheatreSports at the Improv Centre on Granville Island.

      Chedda Boys Improv Comedy features fast and loose improv at Havana Theatre.

      Edmonton comedian Brett Forte performs the second of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      The Vancouver Improv Festival features 14 improv-comedy performances, plus workshops, at the Cultch Historic Theatre.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Pop-Up Magazine: The Escape Issue at the Vogue Theatre features multimedia stories accompanied by illustration, animation, photography, and an original score. Performers include poet Sarah Kay (above), comedian Jordan Carlos, writer Albert Samaha, musician Left at London, and photographer Lucas Foglia.

      Recto VRso @Vancouver at the Centre for Digital Arts is a two-day digital arts and virtual-reality exhibiton featuring 12 artworks and artists.

      The Arts & Culture Creative District End Of Summer Party at Vancouver Biennale Headquarters features art experiences, craft beer gardens, studio tours, music, and an interactive puzzle scavenger hunt.

      Art Crawl Burnaby Heights visits local artists at venues along Hastings Street from Delta to Carleton Ave.


      DANCE

      Karen Flamenco presents a one-hour show featuring traditional flamenco music, dance, puppetry, and magic at the Improv Centre on Granville Island.

      In Reading the Bones at the Roundhouse Community Centre, Kokoro Dance conveys the trials and vulnerability of different stages of life and being.

      Flamenco Rosario performs at the Waterfront Theatre as part of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. SOLD OUT.

       

      LITERARY

      The two-day LiterAsian festival at Chinatown House spotlights Asian-Canadian literature, history, and culture. Featured authors include Rita Wong, C.E. Gatchalian, May Q. Wong, Philip Huynh, and Sally Ito (above).

       

      MUSIC

      The Orontes Guitar Quartet performs at Pacific Spirit United Church, with all proceeds to War Child, which helps rebuild the lives of children in war-torn countries.

      Violinist and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra musical director Emerita Jeanne Lamon leads 16 members of the Victoria Baroque Players in a performance of works by Telemann, Rebel, Geminiani, and Delalande at Christ Church Cathedral.

       

      THEATRE

      David Cooper

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of A Thousand Splendid Sons, a sweeping tale set in which two women’s lives intersect through fate in war-torn Afghanistan.

      Performance at New Westminster's Anvil Centre Theatre of Herringbone, a darkly comic off-Broadway hit set in 1929 in the heart of the Great Depression.

      Black Mirror meets The Handmaid's Tale in Hysteria, a production from Direct Theatre at Havana Theatre.

      United Players present a performance of Ben Power's A Tender Thing, which posits: What if Romeo and Juliet didn't die in the Capulet family vault?

      FIrst Impressions Theatre presents a performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of the adult romantic-comedy Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at the Granville Island Stage of The Birds & the Bees, a Canadian comedy about love, lust, beekeeping, and the artificial insemination of turkeys.

      UBC Theatre & Film presents its final performance at Frederic Wood Theatre of BECKETT 19: or some such semblancedirected by Gerald Vanderwoude.

      Five youth share their experiences coping with mental health, racism, connection, and disconnection in the transdisciplinary performance Away With Home at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

      Walk through a pop-up city of stories on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza in Trophy, where, inside each tent, a person tells the true story of a moment in their life when everything changed.

       

      GALLERIES

      Robert Doisneau, Le Petit Balcon, 1953. © Robert Doisneau.

      Without a Word at the Polygon presents a selection of portrait photographs from the private collection of Bill Wu, including works by Berenice Abbott, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Graciela Iturbide, and Mary Ellen Mark.

      Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and lithographs from the artist’s pre- and postwar career.

      Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty at the Vancouver Art Gallery features photography, sculpture, collage, and installation, including new massive murals created in 2019.

      Robert Rauschenberg 1965-1980 at the Vancouver Art Gallery features rarely seen prints, drawings, collages, sculptural works, and large-scale works from one of the most experimental periods in the artist's career.

      Views of the Collection: The Street at the Vancouver Art Gallery focuses on the street as a source of inspiration and site for the production and enactment of culture, with works by Roy Arden, Kati Campbell, Robert Capa, Robert Frank, Fred Herzog, Hong Chan Park, Judy Radul, Jack Shadbolt, Danny Singer, and Ian Wallace.

       

      MUSEUMS

      Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC illustrates the role puppets have played in the transmission of cultural knowledge, stories, and values.

      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.

      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 printmakers, collected as early as the 1890s.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      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.

      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 Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean.

      Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven cable bridges suspended in trees, the Living Forest exhibit, totem-pole collection, Cliffwalk, and Treetop Adventure. 

      The B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and Museum features permanent galleries devoted to Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, a rock-climbing wall, a virtual sports simulator, and history galleries.

      Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

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

      The Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition features more than 250 privately-owned bikes from around the world.

      Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8-kilometre seawall and totem park featuring eight poles by First Nations artists.

      Nitobe Memorial Garden is a traditional Japanese garden located at the University of British Columbia with waterfalls, stone lanterns, audio guides and tours, and a ceremonial teahouse.

      Vancouver Lookout features a ride in an exterior glass elevator and a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains.

       

      MOVIES

      The Vancouver International Film Festival features screenings of over 320 films at the Vancity Theatre, Cinematheque, Rio Theatre, and other venues. Screenings today include Chinese directors Amp Wong and Zhao Ji's romantic adventure White Snake at the Vancouver Playhouse.

       

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