Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 56 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, February 22.

CONCERTS 

Australian indie-rock quartet the Jungle Giants plays the Imperial Vancouver.

Local band the Brass Action plays its farewell show at the Astoria Pub, with guests You Big Idiot, Actionesse, and Mooshy Face.

Outsider-music legend Eugene Chadbourne plays Pat's Pub & Brewhouse, with guests Theremin Man and Ford Pier.

Soulsha performs a blend of Scottish, West African, and funk music at the Surrey Arts Centre.

Brian "Elvis" Simpson, "Major Al" Allen Fraser, and Robert Miller perform their tributes to Elvis Presley, David Bowie, and Buddy Holly at Burnaby's Maplewood Taphouse & Eatery.

Local rock band Mother Trucker plays the Wolf Bar in Maple Ridge, with guests Of Lesser Evil, Lou Danger and the Thrills, Quasicosm, and Psychtron.

Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues play the second of two nights at White Rock's Blue Frog Studios.

Day Two of the three-day Winter Jazz at Performance Works features performances by the David Sikula Quartet, the Watermill Project, SICK BOSS, and Jaimie Branch Fly or Die II.

Rich Hope, Vicious Cycles, and the Wild North play the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Johnny Wakeham and DJ Penny.

ETCETERA

The B.C. Home + Garden Show at BC Place Stadium features an appearance by renovation expert and TV personality Bryan Baeumler.

FOOD & DRINK

The Riley Park Winter Farmer's Market at Nat Bailey Stadium features produce from local farms, craft beverage producers, artisanal food makers, and food and coffee trucks.

FORUMS

The Stanley Park Ecology Society presents the Ancient Forest Alliance’s Andrea Inness in a talk at Lost Lagoon Nature House on Ancient Forest for Futures.

Boss Up! Vancouver is a one-day women’s event at the Pipe Shop in North Van that explores such topics as nutrition, fitness, mindfulness, and entrepreneurship.

KIDS' STUFF

Performance at Waterfront Theatre of BEEP, a story about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit, and learning how to mix things up.

SPORTS

Quinn Hughes and the Vancouver Canucks take on the Boston Bruins in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

JFL NorthWest features standup comedy, podcasts, improv, film and sketch performances at various Vancouver venues until February 25. Performers tonight include Josh Thomas as the York Theatre, Doughboys at the Rio Theatre, Ronny Chieng at the Vogue Theatre, Patton Oswalt at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and Esther Povitsky (above) at the Biltmore Cabaret.

Vancouver TheatreSports features two teams of players pitted against each other in competitive improv matches at Granville Island's Improv Centre.

Vancouver TheatreSports presents The Late Show, uncensored improv-comedy for adults, at the Improv Centre on Granville Island.

ARTS ETCETERA

Forget Me Not is a new Ronnie Burkett production at a secret location that lets each audience member hold a one-of-a-kind Burkett hand puppet and become part of a puppet chorus that propels the story as it unfolds.

The Talking Stick Festival is a celebration of Indigenous artistry from around the world, featuring theatrical performances, music, dance, visual art, film, and spoken word at various Vancouver venues through February 29.

DANCE

The Karen Flamenco Dance Company presents a one-hour production at the Improv Centre featuring live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry, and magic.

LITERARY

Activist, writer, and historian Blair Imani presents her second illustrated tome of radical history, Making Our Way Home, at 312 Main as part of Black History Month.

THEATRE

Performance at Presentation House of God's Lake, about people in remote Manitoba dealing with unresolved justice and a complex past.

Performance at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of Noises Off, a farce about the egos and insecurities of a second-tier acting troupe putting on a show.

The Sisters of Perpetual Sewing return in Tom Smith's Drinking Habits 2: Caught in the Act at Queen's Park's Bernie Legge Theatre.

Performance at the Granville Island Stage of Cipher, a play about a forensic toxicologist trying to solve a Vancouver Island cold-case murder.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Talking Sex on Sunday, a new musical comedy by Sara-Jeanne Hosie & Nico Rhodes in which women share fears and find the power of friendship.

Boone Dog Productions presents a performance of Steel Magnolias, a tale of camaraderie that follows six Southern belles and their steadfast friendships.

GALLERIES

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds at the Vancouver Art Gallery brings together a selection of drawings created by the acclaimed Inuk artist over the past two decades.

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries at the Vancouver Art Gallery is drawn primarily from the gallery’s permanent collection.

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.

Cindy Sherman at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores the development of Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day, with selections from each of her major series, including new and rarely seen works.

The Sodomite, Invasion Experimentation, Politics and Sexuality in the work of Jimmy DeSana and Marlon T. Riggs runs until April 25 at North Van's Griffin Art Projects.

The Vancouver Art Gallery's lineages and land bases features more than 80 artworks from the gallery’s permanent collection that challenge the modern Western assumption that nature and culture exist as two distinct realms.

MUSEUMS

Acts of Resistance at the Museum of Vancouver showcases the artwork of seven indigenous artist activists from the Pacific Northwest, whose designs flew from the Iron Workers Memorial bridge on July 3, 2018.

Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC showcases ceramic works by 11 B.C.-based artists expressing strong opinions on urgent social issues.

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.

Ship's Company: The Royal Canadian Navy at Work & Play at the Vancouver Maritime Museum features photography by Kathryn Mussallem celebrating the diverse humanity of Canadian naval forces. 

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.

ATTRACTIONS

West Vancouver's Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, plus ziplines, skiing and snowboarding, a sliding zone, snowshoeing, and a skating pond.

Granville Island in False Creek features a public market, artisan gift shops, studios, galleries, microbrewery tours, and is home to the Arts Club Theatre and Vancouver TheatreSports.

Hastings Racecourse features indoor and outdoor viewing of live thoroughbreed racing, simulcast betting, restaurants and lounges, and a gaming floor with over 600 slot machines. 

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.

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.

North Vancouver's Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding, lessons, chairlifts, terrain parks, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

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.

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

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.

West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park features 10 kilometres of hiking trails, picnic areas, guided walks, and the historical 1912 Point Atkinson Lighthouse with viewpoint.

Richmond's Steveston Village is an historic fishing village that's home to the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site, the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site, Fisherman’s Wharf, the Steveston Museum, the Steveston Tram, and London Heritage Farm.

MOVIES

Screenings at Vancity Theatre of the documentaries nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (above), Prey, Push, and Human Nature as part of the KDocs Film Festival.

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Mamoru Oshii's animated 1995 sci-fi/cyberpunk flick Ghost in the Shell.

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