Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 94 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, November 25.

CONCERTS

Rogue Folk Club Fundraiser at St. James Hall features music by Stephen Fearing (above), Marin Patenaude and Ben Rogalsky & the East Van Country Band, and the Gabriel Dubreuil Trio.

Scottish pop-rock band Mogwai plays the Commodore.

Folk duo Saratoga coheadlines Studio 16 with folk-rock singer-songwriter Joey Robin Haché.

Vancouver rockabilly band Cousin Harley plays the Rickshaw, with guests the Rocket Revellers and the Wheelgrinders.

New York trumpet player and composer Jeremy Pelt plays the second of two nights with his quintet at Frankie's Jazz.

Don Stewart presents the second of two nights of holiday concerts at PAL Theatre, with guests Kenny Wayne and the Ron Johnston Quintet.

Cuban-Canadian jazz singer-songwriter Adonis Puentes and his band perform an album release concert at the Russian Hall.

Reggae-pop artist Sean Kingston performs at the Harbour Events Centre, with guest Peter Jackson.

BENEFITS

Seasonal self-guided tour of five West Side homes that are decorated for the holidays, with proceeds to the Kids Help Phone.

Frontlines Fundraiser for Climate Justice at the Hive Vancouver features an art show, live music, DJs, dancing, and drinks, with proceeds to the Kwantlen Nation Healing Lodge & Elder Eagle Eyes.

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.

FORUMS

UBC English prof. Richard Cavell speaks on the life and work of Marshall McLuhan at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Day of practical, experiential, and reflective sessions of sharing, informing, and imagining around end-of-life matters covering the entire death continuum at West End Community Centre.

CHRISTMAS

The Vancouver Christmas Market at Jack Poole Plaza features more than 75 vendor huts, authentic German food and drink, a carousel, a 30-foot-tall walk-in Christmas tree, live entertainment, and family-friendly activities.

The Peak of Christmas at Grouse Mountain features holiday light installations around Blue Grouse Lake, Christmas movies, crafts, sleigh rides, skating, a gingerbread village, reindeer, storytime, and breakfast with Santa.

See thousands of lights adorning the Capilano Suspension Bridge, canyon, Treetops Adventure, and Cliffwalk at Canyon Lights.

The three-day Deer Lake Craft Festival features works by over 60 artisans including glass blowers, sculptors, potters, woodworkers, and fashion and jewellery designers.

The two-day West End Community Centre Holiday Craft Fair features items created by 50 talented crafters.

St. Philip's Anglican Church Christmas Fair features gifts, attic treasures, preserves, Christmas cakes, a silent auction, baking, a children's corner, and handmade crafts.

Fair Trade Christmas Market at St. Andrew's United Church features fair-trade gifts, decorations, and products.

Strathcona Winter Craft Fair at the Strathcona Community Centre features over 50 vendors selling a wide variety of items.

Very Nerdy Christmas Swap Meet at the Scottish Cultural Centre features action figures, movies, electronics, music, comics, and sci-fi collectibles.

Dunbar Holiday Craft Fair at the Dunbar Community Centre features more than 140 makers selling apparel, home décor, small-batch food items, and stationery.

KIDS' STUFF

Disney On Ice at the Pacific Coliseum features Disney characters from films like Finding Dory, Inside Out, Frozen, Toy Story, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and Tangled.

Join Santa on a flight across Canada and on to the North Pole as he searches for his missing elves at Christmas at Flyover Canada.

The CandyTown Christmas Festival in Yaletown features crafts, balloon animals, roving musicians, costumed characters, an ice-sculpture demonstration, a holiday market, food trucks, and horse-drawn carriage rides.

Christmas on the Drive in Grandview Park features pictures with Santa, horse-drawn carriage rides, a sing-along, a craft zone, a caricature artist, balloon twisting, and face painting.

Watch the lighting of Surrey's 55-foot Christmas tree and enjoy a Canada 150 zone, road hockey, a market, ice-carving demonstrations, face painting, photos with Santa, food vendors, and over 30 musical and family performances at Surrey City Hall.

COMEDY

American comedian Tom Rhodes performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Canadian comedian Byron Bertram performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Christmas Queen 4: Secret Santa, a holiday-themed comedy show that sees the Queen and Santa exchange bodies in a Freaky Friday-style magical sleight-of-hand.

Graham Clark presents a comedy show that features segments inspired by popular game shows at the Fox Cabaret.

Comedy by headliner Simon Kaufman, Aaron Charles Read, San Aung, Jackie Hoffart, and Damian Johnson at the British Ex-Servicemens Association.

Instant Theatre presents a highbrow fusion of Shakespeare and improvisational mischief at Havana Theatre.

ARTS ETCETERA

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. 

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.

The two-day North Shore Artists Guild 70th anniversary Art Show and Sale at the Pipe Shop Venue features over 100 artists displaying their work.

We Are Canadians, Too! at the Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza features live performances, a multicultural barbecue, visual arts, workshops, and activities for the whole family.

Seasons: A Magical Musical at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts features contemporary dance, magic, and an original score performed by the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra.

DANCE

Company 605, led by artistic codirectors Lisa Gelley and Josh Martin, presents dance performances at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Henry Daniel's Nomadas at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts is an audio/video installation and live performance that takes inspiration from the current large-scale movements of bodies across international spaces.

The four-day Biennial Dance in Vancouver at Scotiabank Dance Centre features works by Aeriosa, Co.ERASGA, Karen Jamieson, Margaret Grenier, Karen Jamieson Dance, Dancers of Damelahamid, Lesley Telford, Inverso, Mahaila Patterson-O'Brien, Marissa Wong, TWObigsteps Collective, Meredith Kalaman, Shay Kuebler, Radical System Art, Wen Wei Dance, Ziyian Kwan, and dumb instrument Dance.

DanceHouse presents local dance company Action at a Distance in the world premiere of choreographer and artistic director Vanessa Goodman's Wells Hill at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Coastal City Ballet presents an evening of dance at the Vancouver Playhouse that features excerpts from Sleeping Beauty and choreography inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean film. 

LITERARY

The 33rd annual JCC Jewish Book Festival at the Jewish Community Centre brings together prominent and emerging Jewish writers and non-Jewish writers with Jewish-interest subject matter in literature, the arts, philosophy, theology, history, and current events. This year's featured authors include Nathan Englander, Ruby Namdar, Elan Mastai, Rachel Kadish (above), Gavriel Savit, Pnina Granirer, Dana and Jacob Attias, and Stephen Tobolowsky.

MUSIC

Vancouver New Music presents New York City-based pianist Uri Caine with a string quartet and the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre.

Conductor Lawrence Renes leads pianist Barry Douglas and the Vancouver Symphony in a performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major at the Orpheum.

The Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble and guest artists Gerardo Avila and Angela Brown use mime, magic, jokes, stories, and music in Monkey King and Folktales at the Orpheum Annex.

Opera Mariposa and Heroic Opera present Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera at Canadian Memorial United Church.

THEATRE

Rumble Theatre presents The Society for the Destitute presents Titus Bouffonius--a play about what happens when five performers on the edge of civilization decide to put on a contemporary version of Titus Andronicus--at the Cultch.

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.

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.

Metro Theatre presents the final 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.

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.

Final performance at Frederic Wood Theatre of Wives and Daughters, about a 17-year-old girl whose life gets turned upside down when a stepmother and stepsister move in with her and her father.

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.

Room One-O-One Productions presents the final performance of Leslie Mildiners one-man stage adaptation of the 1939 novel by George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, at Kay Meek Centre.

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.

First Impressions Theatre presents the final performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Honky Tonk Angels, Ted Swindley's musical comedy which celebrates women and their ability to survive, dream, and overcome.

Gateway Theatre presents actor Beverley Elliott in Sink or Swim, an evening of songs and stories inspired by her life.

SpeakEasy Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of The Shipment, Young Jean Lee's provocative play about the Black identity, at the Cultch.

The Vagabond Players present a traditional holiday pantomime based on the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Onegin--Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille's musical about a dissipated rogue whose romantic charms stir the passions of the residents of a country estate--at Granville Island Stage.

Pacific Theatre presents Almost, Maine, director Kaitlin Williams's play about the joys and perils of romance, set in a small town in Maine.

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents Joseph Robinette's adaptation of the C.S. Lewis book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, about four siblings who step through a wardrobe into an enchanted land, at Waterfront Theatre.

GALLERIES

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.

Polygon Gallery's inaugural exhibition, N. Vancouver, explores how a specific locale can be reflected through existing and newly commissioned artworks by artists from Vancouver and beyond.

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).

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

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

The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC takes visitors on a journey through the past 200 years of Salish wool weaving.

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.

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.

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

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

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, as well as ziplines, a wildlife refuge, 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

Screenings at the Cinematheque of The Fixer and Les Ogres (above) as part of the 20th Annual European Union Film Festival.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Latiesha Ti'si'tla Fazakas and Natalie Boll's documentary Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters, which explores the life, career, and legacy of the late Kwakwaka’wakw artist.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Faces Places, Agnès Varda's film about the people and the villages that define rural France. In French with English subtitles.

The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association and the Canadian Labour International Film Festival present screenings of The Vancouver Asahi and The Orange Story at Tonari Gumi.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Jane, Brett Morgan's documentary about the National Geographic cameraman who was sent to film Jane Goodall's pioneering work with chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park in the 1960s.

Screening of the documentary Angry Inuk, in which a tech-savvy generation of Inuit discusses perceptions of seal hunting and the need for a sustainable economy, at the Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew branch.

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.

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