Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 48 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, October 6.

CONCERTS

Blues artist Jontavious Willis, a protégé of Taj Mahal, plays St. James Hall.

Canadian rock legend Burton Cummings plays New Westminster's Massey Theatre.

Southern blues-rockers the North Mississippi Allstars play the Imperial Vancouver.

British northern-soul group the Waterboys plays the Commodore Ballroom.

BENEFITS

The CIBC Run for the Cure is a 5km or 1km walk or run at Concord Pacific Place that raises funds for breast-cancer research. 

ETCETERA

The Pumpkin Patch at Richmond Country Farms features pumpkins, a live band, a wagon ride, and an animal farm.

Keynote speaker Marsha Lederman will offer remarks at a High Holidays Cemetery Service to mourn those who perished during the Holocaust at New Westminster's Schara Tzedeck Cemetery.

FOOD AND DRINK

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

FORUMS

Becoming Vegan coauthor Vesanto Melina offers tips on creating a personalized approach to a whole food plant-based diet.

Aili Storen leads a yoga workshop for those who want to deepen their practice by finding stability and confidence in inversions at Semperviva Yoga Kits Beach Studio.

KIDS' STUFF

The Family Drag Brunch & Dress Up at Vancity Culture Lab features fashion, makeup, and runway lessons for kids and adults from Vancouver drag queens.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Whitecaps take on Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer action at BC Place Stadium.

COMEDY

Canadian comedian Sugar Sammy performs a standup show at North Van's Centennial Theatre.

Inside Man: Volume 2 is improv comedy on the theme of masculinity at Little Mountain Gallery.

Canadian comedian Evan Desmarais performs standup at Keto Caveman Cafe.

The Anxiety Show: F*$% Body Shaming is alternative comedy with a mental-heath focus at Kino Cafe.

The Sunday Service is improv comedy with a standup guest at the Fox Cabaret.

ARTS ETCETERA

Amy Shostak leads an improv-comedy workshop for moms at China Cloud.

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.

THEATRE

Final 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 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.

Final 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.

GALLERIES

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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 directors Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang’s documentary Our Time Machine (above) at SFU Goldcorp.

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