Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 68 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, November 19.

CONCERTS

Benefit concert at the Commodore raises funds for Spirit of the West vocalist John Mann, who has early-onset Alzheimer's. SOLD OUT.

The 50-voice Marcus Mosely Chorale performs at Surrey's Northwood United Church.

Paul Silveria, the Bottom Shelf Bourbon Trio, the Honky Tonk Dillitantes, Emily Rose, Paul and Shiho, and Booth Shot Lincoln with Max Evans perform at a Stolen Gear Fundraiser at LanaLou's.

Ardent Tribe and the Copper Crow Blues Band raise money for a young man suffering from muscular dystrophy at the Anza Club's Bands for Boden.

Philadelphia pop-punk band Radiator Hospital plays the Astoria Pub, with guests Alimony and Tim the Mule.

Performance at the WISE Hall by folk-country band the Tired Sunday Choir and guests Bad Strangers.

Jazz standards performed by pianist Michael Creber, bassist Paul Rushka, drummer Dave Robbins, and vocalist-percussionist Maria Ho at Frankie's Jazz.

BENEFITS

Annual Lights of Hope display at St. Paul's Hospital features over 100,000 sparkling lights and raises funds for the St. Paul's Foundation. 

ETCETERA

The Vancouver Vinyl Record Show at Heritage Hall features numerous vendor tables selling vinyl records, CD's, and rock 'n' roll memorabilia.

CHRISTMAS

The four-day Christmas at Hycroft features over 25 artisans selling handmade goods, a visit from Santa, live entertainment, and traditional treats at Hycroft Manor.

Three-day holiday craft fair at Britannia Community Centre features local artisans, live music, and food and drink, with proceeds to Britannia HUB programs for inner-city programming.

Eastside Flea Holiday Market at the Ellis Building features over 50 Vancouver vendors, food trucks, a DJ, artisan showrooms, seasonal drink specials, and pinball.

North Vancouver Holiday Bazaar at Carson Graham Secondary School features 100 local vendors selling handmade goods, plus food trucks.

Krafted Market at the South Delta Recreation Centre features handmade kids apparel, Christmas décor, decorative crochet, vegan soy candles, knit scarves, greeting cards, and bead bracelets.

Over 35 local artisans and small businesses offer their wares to holiday shoppers at a craft fair at North Vancouver's Ridgeway Elementary School.

FOOD & DRINK

Eat homemade perogies, cabbage rolls, borshch, and kovbassa on a bun at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre's Perogy Lunch Weekend.

FORUMS

At the free Live Well with Diabetes event at Radisson Hotel Vancouver Airport, expert speakers focus on essentials for the home pantry, navigating the grocery store, and dining out.

KIDS' STUFF

The 18th annual Hyde Creek Salmon Festival in Coquitlam features a live storyteller and interactive costumes, kids' crafts, light refreshments, a guided nature walk, exhibitors, and vendors.

Teens can take part in lantern-making workshops and art activities based on a miniature art show at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

Educators Bonnie Davis and Cherrie Tam speak on different aspects of child development at a family event at the Wonder of Learning that includes free music and movement demo classes.

TAKE ACTION

Jordan Quinn of Socialist Alternative Seattle speaks at a rally at SFU Harbour Centre to mark 100 years since the Russian Revolution.

COMEDY

Evening of comedy at Big Rock Brewery features Ivan Decker, with guests Kevin Von Helvete, Maddy Kelly, Leah Howie, Sam Tonning, and Rachel Schaefer.

Instant Theatre presents a battle between two improv-comedy troupes at Havana Theatre.

ARTS ETCETERA

Fight for Beauty at Fairmont Pacific Rim features public art projects undertaken with world-class creatives, architecture from architects who are artists in their own right, and fashion by some of the greatest designers in recent history.

Explore the visual arts, design, and crafts of East Vancouver as you visit artist studios, homes, and garages during the four-day Eastside Culture Crawl. Event includes intimate workshops and demonstrations in pottery, live chainsaw carving, natural textile dying, and glassblowing.

Cirque du Soleil presents Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities, a new production that takes you into the curio cabinet of an ambitious inventor who defies the laws of time, space, and dimension, at Concord Pacific Place.

DANCE

Kasandra "La China" leads the Kasandra Flamenco Ensemble in a performance of flamenco dancing at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

LITERARY

Paul Conway and Leslie Robbins-Conway present a Stephen Leacock Talk-and-Tell for authors, writers, and storytellers at SFU Harbour Centre.

Vic Sarin presents a book launch celebrating the release of his new memoir Eyepiece: Adventures in Canadian Film and Television at Vancity Theatre.

Hear stories and songs about Canadian humourist and author Stephen Leacock at St. Helen's Anglican Church.

Join children's author and Buddhist teacher Rebecca Hazell for a children's storytime launch of her new book The Sweeper: A Buddhist Tale at Banyen Books and Sound.

MUSIC

The Vancouver Recital Society presents classical pianist Paul Lewis in a performance of works by Beethoven, Haydn, and Brahms at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos leads the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the soundtrack of dinosaur flick <i>Jurassic Park</I> while the film plays on the big screen at the Orpheum Theatre.

Choralation A Cappella presents an afternoon of songs by Pentatonix, Toto, Stan Rogers, and Gustav Holst at St. James Hall, with proceeds to St. James Music Academy.

THEATRE

Studio 58 presents the Canadian premiere at Studio 58 of Wilderness, Seth Bockley and Anne Hamburger's play about six troubled teens who are kidnapped by desperate parents and sent to a remote wilderness therapy camp as a last resort.

Alley Theatre, in partnership with Neworld Theatre, presents the final performance at the Orpheum Annex of The Ridiculous Darkness, Wolfram Lotz's radio play that combines Heart of Darkness with Apocalypse Now.

Final performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre of the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, which tells the story of New Jersey pop sensations Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the final performance at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of King Charles III, Mike Bartlett's political satire about what happens when Queen Elizabeth II dies and her son Charles ascends the throne.

Metro Theatre presents a performance  of Calendar Girls, Tim Firth's story about a group of women from Yorkshire who rally around their grieving friend by baring their torsos to raise money for a cancer ward.

Final performance of Theater Crossing’s psychological version of Stevenson's classic tale The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House.

United Players presents a performance at Jericho Arts Centre of Taken at Midnight, director Michael Fera's version of Mark Hayhurst's play about a lawyer who is famous for defending opponents of the Nazi movement.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, Indigenous playwright Drew Hayden Taylor's account of the Sixties Scoop, in which Indigenous children were taken from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families.

Solo Collective Theatre presents a performance of Satellite(s), a play based on Caroline Adderson's book about Vancouver's housing landscape, Vancouver Vanishes, at Performance Works.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre of The Day Before Christmas, Stacey Kaser and Alison Kelly's play about a perfectionist who's desperately holding fast to her Christmas traditions.

GALLERIES

Intangible at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art exhibition spotlights six Coast Salish artists influenced by tradition as well as contemporary inspiration.

Bill Reid Creative Journeys at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art celebrates the three phases of the artist's creative journey, Pre-Haida (1948-1951), Haida (1951-1968) and Beyond Haida (1968-1998).

Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 90 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture highlighting both the richness of the Royal Collection and the complex relationship that the British monarchy has had with artists for the last three and half centuries

Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting at the Vancouver Art Gallery offers insight into two distinctly different modes of painting that have come to dominate contemporary painting in Canada.

Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents the latest findings of Vancouver-based artist Sawyer's ongoing research project that deftly reconstructs the life and work of the genre-defying, fictional artist Brettschneider.

Emily Carr: Into the Forest at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a collection of Emily Carr's forest paintings that highlight her continued exploration of the natural environment.

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.

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works, and ceramics both of everyday and of ceremonial use, representing indigenous, Maroon, and white settler communities.

The Lost Fleet at the Vancouver Maritime Museum investigates the unjust 1941 seizure of 1,200 Japanese-Canadian fishing vessels following the bombing of Pearl Harbour through a collection of historic photographs, models of Japanese-Canadian-built fishing boats, fishermen’s tools, and replica documents.

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.

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, as well as ziplines, a wildlife refuge, disc golf, helicopter tours, paragliding, dining, and the Grouse Grind.

The new Parq Vancouver features two luxury hotels, a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

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

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library.

Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, gardens, beaches, and West Coast rain forest, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8 kilometre seawall.

The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor.

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

Lighthouse Park features 10 kilometres of hiking trails, picnic areas, guided walks provided by the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society, and the historical 1912 Point Atkinson Lighthouse.

Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.

MOVIES

Final day of the four-day Rio Grind Film Festival, which features screenings of horror, sci-fi, action, fantasy, cult, and animated flicks, including Irish director Brian O'Malley's gothic horror film The Lodgers.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Divine Order, Petra Volpe's film about a housewife and mother in a village in Switzerland that has remained impervious to the sexual revolution of early 70s. In German with English subtitles.

Screening at the Cinematheque of A Sixth Part of the World, The Tailor From Torzhok, and Bed and Sofa as part of the series Revolutionary Rising: Soviet Film Vanguard.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Paradise, Andrei Konchalovsky's drama explores the Holocaust through the stories of both a Nazi oppressor and  Jewish victim.

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