Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 75 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, October 5.

CONCERTS

English electropop singer-songwriter Charli XCX plays the Commodore Ballroom, with guest Brooke Candy.

American indie-pop singer-songwriter Kishi Bashi plays the Imperial Vancouver.

Canadian indie-pop band Tegan and Sara, composed of identical twin sisters Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin, plays the Vogue Theatre.

American rapper Logic performs at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, with guest J.I.D.

Celtic-rock band from Scotland, Skerryvore, plays North Van's Centennial Theatre.

Juno-winning Vancouver blues band Powder Blues plays Ladner's Genesis Theatre.

American pop singer-songwriter Ashe plays the fortune Sound Club, with guest Charlie Burg.

Sami vocalist Mari Boine performs traditional yoik chants of her Indigenous ancestry and Norwegian folksong at the Chan Centre.

BENEFITS

The Vancouver Ballet Society hosts its annual fundraising event at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, with all proceeds to support VBS programs.

Salsa Dancing For Hope at the Backstage Lounge raises funds for Venezuelan refugees.

Mari Dickey leads a candlelight yoga class at YYOGA Downtown Flow that raises funds for Backpack Buddies, which helps feed hungry kids.

ETCETERA

Opening day of the Pumpkin Patch at Richmond Country Farms, which features pumpkins, a live band, a wagon ride, and an animal farm.

FOOD AND DRINK

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.

Hops + Harvest at Aldergrove's Laurica Farm features regionally sourced food from Big Feast Bistro paired with seasonally inspired beers from Driftwood Brewery.

Brühaüs at CRAFT Beer Market is a two-day, Oktoberfest-inspired festival featuring German-inspired eats, big beers, costumes, and Bavarian music.

FORUMS

Three-hour women's personal awareness and self-defence workshop at Burnaby's Fortius Sport & Health.

Free seminar at the Pan Pacific Hotel on the main topics of interest concerning the renunciation of your U.S. citizenship.

Erin Jacob and Risto Duggan take a therapeutic approach to yoga in a class at STRETCH.

Trotskyist League Forum at the Roundhouse Community Centre marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution.

KIDS' STUFF

Meet Karla Kehler, author of the children's book Maya Papaya, at Indigo Langley.

Kick it old-school on rollerskates to your fave '90s tunes at a Pop-Up Roller Rink at the Shipyards in North Van.

At the Maker Space launch party at ArtStarts Gallery kids can try their hands at drawing, printmaking, drafting, sewing, prototyping, and photography. 

SPORTS

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

COMEDY

Standup comedians Charlie Demers, Dan Quinn, and Toby Hargrave perform at Comedy Triple Bill at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre.

Canadian comedian Sugar Sammy performs a standup show at Surrey's Bell Performing Arts Theatre.

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

Indigenous comedian Steph Tisdell delves into issues of identity and colonialism over two nights at the Cultch Historic Theatre.

Audience drawings inspire Alicia Tobin's comedy at Little Mountain Gallery.

Comedypants is a monthly standup-comedy showcase at Avant Garden hosted by Alistair Ogden.

The Comic Strip features standup comedy by Byron Bertram, Gavin Clarkson, and headliner Jon Gagnon at Tyrant Studios.

All You Can Eat Laundry is a comedy variety show hosted by Maddy Kelly at Little Mountain Gallery.

Vancouver TheatreSports League improvisers present edgy, uncensored improv comedy for adults at The Late Show at the Improv Centre.

The Women of Comedy at the York Theatre features performances by Martha Chaves, Australia’s Steph Tisdell, Toronto-based Nour Hadidi, and Vancouver's Erica Sigurdson.

ARTS ETCETERA

Join Mary Tasi and Wade Baker of Sky Spirit Consulting for a walking tour of artworks on the first section of the Spirit Trail in North Van.

Knit City Vancouver is a two-day fibre-arts festival at the PNE Forum featuring more than 100 vendors specializing in knitting, weaving, and dyeing supplies.

Performance at the Historic Cultch Theatre by Virago Nation, Vancouver’s all-indigenous burlesque troupe.

Islamic History Month event at the Vancouver Public Library features art, music, and poetry while exploring what it means to be Muslim in relationship with Indigenous communities.

DANCE

The World of Dance Live Tour at the Queen Elizabeh Theatre features performances by The Kings, Unity LA, and Luka and Jenalyn.

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

Plastic orchid factory and Boca del Lupo present I Care What You Think at Performance Works.

LITERARY

Author William Ging Wee Dere gives an illustrated talk on his new book Being Chinese in Canada at Vancouver Public Library.

MUSIC

The Vancouver Philharmonic opens its season with a program of works by MacCunn (Land of the Mountain and Flood), Bruch (Concerto for clarinet and viola), and Dvořák (Symphony No. 8).

THEATRE

Performance at Havana Theatre of What We're Up Against, a dark comedy about a woman who tries to break the glass ceiling.

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.

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.

Final performance at Studio 16 of Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, a romantic thriller set in occupied Vichy France.

Performance at Presentation House Theatre of Fragile, in which live animation and detailed paper models provide a look at the intricate mechanisms of the everyday.

Vagabond Players present a performance at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre of Terror By Gaslight.

Naked Goddess Productions presents a performance at Jericho Arts Centre of Dancing Lessons, about a professor with autism who approaches his neighbour for a dancing lesson.

Performance at the Metro Theatre of Ken Ludwig's A Comedy of Tenors, about the last frantic hours before a Three Tenors-style concert in Paris.

Performance at West Van's Kay Meek Arts Centre of Bed & Breakfast, a comedy about being out and finding home.

GALLERIES

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.

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

Transits and Returns at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores the dynamic between place and movement in the work of twenty-one Indigenous artists from around the Pacific.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Potter’s House of Horrors, one of the Lower Mainland’s largest Halloween attractions, features two ultra-scary haunted houses and one geared for kids 12 and under.

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 Canadian horror flick Blood Quantum (above), about a zombie outbreak in rural Quebec, at the Rio.

For all the latest Metro Vancouver event announcements and updates follow @VanHappenings.