Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 66 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, February 1.

CONCERTS 

New York City R&B/soul singer-songwriter Emily King plays the Rio Theatre.

Local heavy-metal band Bison plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Bob Sumner, War Baby, Hashteroid, and Killer Deal.

Canadian soul-pop singer-songwriter Begonia plays the Fox Cabaret, with guest Sam Lynch. SOLD OUT.

Rod & the Mods, Brent Stewart's tribute to rock legend Rod Stewart, plays White Rock's Blue Frog Studios.

Delta hard-rock quartet Theory of a Deadman plays the second of two nights at the Commodore Ballroom.

Vancouver-based rock band Nine O'Clock Gun performs at Blue Light Studio as part of the Blue Light Sessions.

Dee Daniels joins the Marcus Mosely Chorale and the City Soul Choir in the 9th annual Stayed on Freedom Black History Month concert at Christ Church Cathedral.

BENEFITS

Experience creative charitable giving with local entrepreneurs at a fundraiser for KidsPlay that includes networking, food, a cash bar, and silent auction.

ETCETERA

Day One of the two-day Wellness Show, the largest health and lifestyle showcase in Western Canada, at Vancouver Convention Centre.

FOOD & DRINK

Day Two of the two-day Whisky Global tasting gala at Rocky Mountaineer Train Station, where whisky lovers can learn about fine whisky while enjoying food and live music. 

   

FORUMS

Paper artist Rachael Ashe leads a workshop on techniques for cutting, sculpting, folding, and transforming paper at Rachael Ashe Studio.

Explore the beauty, challenges, and connections of the big carnivores with biologist and wildlife photographer Darren Colello at North Van's Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre.

Early Music Workshop at St. Faith's Anglican Church explores music ranging from Orlando di Lasso to Jerome Kern.

The Digital Media Youth Expo at Argyle Secondary School is an educational fair where students and parents can meet with representatives from Lower Mainland post-secondary schools.

KIDS' STUFF

Family Art Workshop at ArtStarts explores different ways to express colour, tone, and brightness.

COMEDY

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

Off Key Improv performs original musicals based on audience suggestions at Havana Theatre's Missed Connections.

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

ARTS ETCETERA

Turning Point Ensemble and Wen Wei Dance combine their talents in Flying White, a new signature piece premiering at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Celebrate the opening of Black History Month with an afternoon of dance, performance, music, and art at Vancouver Public Library.

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival features 27 works from 24 companies--including six world premieres by local artists--at various Vancouver venues until February 9.

The Unity Centre Association for Black Cultures celebrates Black History Month with family-friendly performances and art at Surrey City Hall. 

DANCE

Performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre by all-male ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

The Karen Flamenco Dance Company presents a one-hour production of traditional flamenco music and dance at the Improv Centre on Granville Island.

LITERARY

Author Linden Carroll signs and discusses her novels Olive and Full Circle at Chapters Coquitlam.

MUSIC

Laura Kuhlman, Gayle Neuman, and Phil Neuman of the Oregon Renaissance Band perform selections from the 14th to 16th centuries at St. Faith's Anglican Church.

THEATRE

Final performance at Pacific Theatre of Gramma, a poetic new tale of human connection in the loneliest of circumstances.

Final performance at Chan Centre's Telus Studio Theatre of The Changeling, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s sensual and dark 17th-century English tragedy.

Final performance at Metro Theatre of Always a Bridesmaid, which explores the relationships between four southern belles who promised to be the bridesmaids for each other.

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.

Students direct and perform three scripts written by other students at Trinity Western University's New Generations theatre festival.

Multi-media show The Believers Are But Brothers weaves together a story of masculinity, fantasy, violence, and reality at Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Backbone Theatre Collective presents Spine, Clara Brennan's fierce and timely one-woman play, featuring Kate Besworth.

Performance at GO Studios of 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, a comedic drama set in 1956 when communists threaten an idyllic town.

Performance at the Theatre at Hendry Hall of Becky's New Car, a comedy by Stephen Dietz, directed by Peter Zednik.

Performance at Burnaby's Michael J. Fox Theatre of Shrek the Musical, about a hulking green ogre who, mocked and feared his entire life, retreats to an ugly swamp.

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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.

MUSEUMS

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 five 2020 Oscar-nominated documentary shorts, including films from the South Korea, the U.K., and the U.S.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Color Adjustment, director Marlon Riggs's analysis of racial bias, discrimination, and stereotyping in American TV. 

Afternoon screening at the Rio Theatre of Louie Schwartzberg's 2019 time-lapse documentary Fantastic Fungi.

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