59 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, October 27

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 59 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, October 27.

       

      CONCERT

      Canadian rockers Sloan play the Commodore Ballroom on their Navy Blues Tour.

      Idaho indie-rockers Built to Spill play the Rickshaw Theare.

      California K-pop/synth-pop artist Tiffany Young plays the Vogue Theatre.

      Local indie-pop band Glass Forest plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests MONOWHALES, ease, and Emma Alves Music.

      Daphne Roubini and Andrew Smith perform original tunes and reinterpreted folk classics at the ANZA Club.

      Scottish folk quartet the Paul McKenna Band plays St. James Hall.

      Israeli pop superstar Rami Kleinstein performs at the Norman Rothstein Theatre as part of the Chutzpah Festival.

       

      ETCETERA

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      The Art and Collectible Show at the Vancouver Flea Market features 80 vendors from all over the Lower Mainland.

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

       

      FOOD AND DRINK

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      First night of a two-evening class at Burnaby's Mon Paris Patisserie for anyone who wants to learn to make chocolate from scratch.

      Japanese Food Fair at the Vancouver Buddhist Temple features homemade Japanese food.

       

      FORUMS

      Yoga instructor Lisa Dumas leads a Worrier to Warrior Workshop at Semperviva Sun Studio, an empowering experience offering a toolbox of techniques to calm the mind.

      Learn core concepts, skills, and techniques to ensure you are getting the most from your yoga practice at a Yoga Essentials workshop at YYOGA Downtown Flow.

      Teresa Campbell shares insights and tools from her 20-year experience as a full-spectrum doula and embodiment guide at a workshop at Semperviva Yoga Sea Studio.

      Healing Intergenerational Trauma workshop at Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue combines recent research and understanding in the fields of epigentics, neurobiology, trauma healing, and attachment theory.

      Use silhouettes, found objects, scrap materials, and puppets to explore a variety of visual storytelling techniques at a Shadow Theatre Workshop at Mobil Art School.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Children’s entertainer Norman Foote performs as part of the Halloween Howl at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre.

      The Stanley Park Ghost Train takes kids into the mystical and magical world of Alice in Nightmareland, with tombs, tombstones, crypts, and catacombs.

      Children can get into the Halloween spirit with games at crafts at Eat, Drink and Be Spooky at Maple Ridge's Haney House Museum.

      Halloween Party at Rocky Mountain Flatbread features a pizza making station, creepy-crawly candy bar, drinks and potions bar, and face painting.

      Mr. I’s Slightly Spooky Songs and Stories Concert at Coquitlam's Place des Arts is a musical event for ages 2 and up.

       

      TAKE ACTION

      The two-day International Che Guevara Conference at the Russian Hall features discussions and debates on the ideas of the Cuban revolution and how it has impacted Latin America and the world.

                    

      COMEDY

      Cult Classic Comedy at the Havana Theatre features improv based on cult-classic horror movies.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

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      Join Contemporary Art Gallery visitor coordinator Jocelyn Statia for an afternoon tour of the current exhibitions showing work by Ingrid Koenig, Sreshta Rit Premnath, and Olivia Whetung.

      The three-day Burnaby Artists Guild Art Show & Sale at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts features the work of Marjorie Wong.

      The two-day Artbreakers Illustration Market at Heritage Hall features some of Vancouver's finest talent in illustration, art, and design.


      DANCE

      ProArteDanza, founded by former National Ballet of Canada dancer and renowned choreographer Roberto Campanella, performs at the Norman Rothstein Theatre as part of the Chutzpah Festival.

       

      LITERARY

      Poet Trevor Carolan and guitarist Henry Young perform at the launch of Carolan’s new collection In Formless Circumstance: Poems from the Road and Home at Christ Church Cathedral.

      The Vancouver Writers Fest features local and international writers taking part in literary events and immersive conversations on various stages on and around Granville Island.

       

      MUSIC

      Vancouver Opera presents a performance of Verdi's classic romantic tragedy La Traviata at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

      The Gallery Singers perform music by Antonio Lotti, John Tavener, Heinrich Schütz, Claudio Monteverdi, and Carlo Gesualdo at Holy Trinity Anglican Church.

       

      THEATRE

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      Performance at the Historic Theatre of Hold These Truths, starring Joel de la Fuente as Gordon Hirabayashi, a U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who fought against the mass incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during WWII.

      Performance at CBC Studio 700 of Dracula: A Modern Radio Play, Adam Darts' adaptation of the classic horror story by Bram Stoker.

      Performance at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre of Cost of Living, a Pulitzer Prize–winning play about relationships and living with physical disabilities.

      Performance at North Van's Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of the suspense drama Bear Witness, about a young woman who takes her baby out for a stroll and witnesses a murder.

       

      GALLERIES

      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.

      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.

      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.

      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

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

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

      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.

      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 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.

       

      MOVIE

      Screening at St. Philip's Anglican Church of the 1925 silent film Phantom of the Opera, with music from the Casavant pipe organ performed by Michael Murray.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Close-Up, director Abbas Kiarostami’s true-life story of a poor young Iranian man who insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy family by posing as a celebrated filmmaker.

      Afternoon screening at the Rio Theatre of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary 1960 horror flick, Psycho.

       

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