Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 58 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, June 2.

CONCERTS

Welsh pop singer-songwriter Tom Jones, known for hits like "What's New Pussycat?" and "It's Not Unusual", plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Vancouver singer-songwriter and Hey Ocean! member David Beckingham makes his solo debut at the Fox Cabaret, with guests Twin Bandit.

San Francisco-based jazz vocalist and songwriter Jacqui Naylor performs the second of two nights at Frankie's Jazz.

Vancouver-based quintet Black Gardenia performs a blend of vintage jazz, country, folk & blues from the '20s to '40s at the Silk Purse Arts Centre.

Australian psych-rock/reggae-fusion band Ocean Alley plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

Local band Brehdren blends jazz, indie pop, and prog-rock at the Railway Stage & Beer Café, with guests the Brass Action and Space Chimp.

British punk-rockers GBH play the Rickshaw Theatre.

BENEFITS

Live music, kids' zone, and barbecue at Hastings Mill Park, with proceeds to Easter Seals House. where children and families can stay when they come to Vancouver for medical attention.

Carnival games, food, silent auction, garage sale, crafts,  flower sale, and cookie hunt at Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House, with proceeds to support seniors, children, and youth programs.

ETCETERA

The Richmond Night Market features dozens of food stalls, a dinosaur park, paddle boats, a baby playground, music, martial arts, and dancing.

Sins of the City Walking Tour at the Vancouver Police Museum takes participants on a journey into Vancouver's sinful past.

FOOD AND DRINK

The two-day Vancouver Craft Beer Festival at the PNE Grounds features live music, games, food trucks, and over 100 craft breweries and cideries pouring more than 300 beers and ciders.

KIDS' STUFF

Pop-Up Adventure Playground at Ambleside Park features outdoor adventure play and a meet-and-greet with Olympic gold medal-winning trampolinist Rosie MacLennan.

Marpole Community Day at Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre features amusement rides, inflatables, games, activities, food concession, silent auction, and stage performances. 

Playland at the PNE features over 30 rides, including the Revelation, the Hellevator, the Beast, Hells Gate, the Flume, and the 60-year-old wooden rollercoaster.

The Vancouver International Children's Festival features performances from around the globe for kids of all ages at Granville Island.

Lord Roberts Community Fun Fest at Lord Roberts Elementary School features bouncy castles, carnival games, face painting, a photo booth, sock-puppet crafts, a bake sale, BBQ, and live entertainment by Barb Shaw, Kids' Karaoke, Thomas Beckman, the Quixotic Neurotics, Omar Khan, Jimmy Baldwin, and the Goodfoot.

Adults Are So Last Year at the Western Front features artist-led activities and workshops for all ages, including music and hand-drawn-animation workshops and roving performances by Greenhorn Community Music Project.

Spring Fair at McBride Annex School features games for kids of all ages, food, bouncy castle, giant slingshot, silent auction, face-painting, and music.

COMEDY

Controversial American comedian Kathy Griffin performs at the Orpheum Theatre on her Laugh Your Head Off Tour.

American comedian Sean Kent performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Kyle Bottom and David Thomas Newham cohost The Comic Strip at Seven Tyrants Theatre, featuring headliner Katie Ellen Humphries.

ARTS ETCETERA

Experience the works of over 60 visual artists in garden studios, work spaces, galleries, and gathering places from Point Grey to Main Street and from Granville Island to 41st Avenue at the West of Main Art Walk.

Explore 41 of Richmond’s heritage, arts, and cultural sites during Doors Open Richmond, a city-wide public celebration. 

Guided tour, designed for people who are blind and partially sighted, of Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Douglas Coupland’s new radical art installation at the Vancouver Aquarium, Vortex, takes an imaginative journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, immersing viewers in the ocean-plastic pollution crisis.

DANCE

Lamondance presents MARBLED--featuring cutting-edge choreography from Lara Barclay, Heather Dotto, Heather Laura Gray, and artistic director Davi Rodrigues--at the Blueshore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Goh Ballet presents a performance at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts of Cinderella, featuring choreography by Maina Gielgud and music by Sergei Prokofiev.

LITERARY

Book signing at Mountain Equipment Co-op with author Stephen Hui to launch his new hiking guidebook 105 Hikes.

MUSIC

The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra presents a celebration of operatic favourites, with singers from the UBC Opera Ensemble, at Shaughnessy Heights United Church.

The Vivaldi Chamber Choir celebrates its 30th anniversary by performing Vivaldi's Gloria at St. Helen's Anglican Church.

The Chandler Children's Choir and the Vancouver Children's Choir presenting choral music from various countries and cultures at Dunbar Ryerson United Church.

The Vancouver Chamber Music Society presents quintets by Carl Maria von Weber and Antonín Dvořák at West Vancouver United Church.

The Richmond Orchestra and Chorus Association presents music by cinematic composer John Williams at Fraserview MB Church.

THEATRE

Touchstone Theatre presents C'mon Angie!, Amy Lee Lavoie's play about questions of consent after a one-night stand, at the Firehall Arts Centre.

Upintheair Theatre presents the rEvolver Theatre Festival, a program of new works by distinct voices from across the Canadian live-theatre scene, at the Cultch.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Mamma Mia!, a feel-good musical featuring the music of ABBA, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

The tale of how Narnia and Middle Earth came to be is chronicled in Tolkien, a new play by artistic director Ron Reed at Pacific Theatre.

North Vancouver Community Players present Kiss the Sun, Kiss the Moon--director Peter Zednik's version of Norm Foster's comedy about a pregnant teacher who befriends an adult man with developmental disabilities--at North Van's Theatre at Hendry Hall.

SHIFT Theatre presents the world premiere of Titillations, a play about boobs by Yvette Dudley-Neuman, at CBC Studio 700.

GALLERIES

The Blue Hour at the Contemporary Art Gallery features photographs by Joi T. Arcand (above), Kapwani Kiwanga, Colin Miner, Grace Ndiritu, and Kara Uzelman.

Bombhead at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a thematic exhibition exploring the emergence and impact of the nuclear age as represented by artists and their art.

Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman is a new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery featuring the paintings of Carr with 48 photographs by U.S.-born photographer Gunterman.

Shigeru Ban, a new exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite location, features the full-scale version of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Kobe Paper Log House.

MUSEUMS

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 print makers, collected as early as the 1890s.

Arts of Resistance: Politics and The Past In Latin America at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC exhibition illustrates how Latin American communities use traditional or historic art forms to express contemporary political realities.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

MOVIES

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Zama, which tracks the fate of a hubristic Spanish magistrate stationed at a far-flung colonial outpost in 18th-century Paraguay.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical, a warts-and-all portrait of socialist firebrand Harry Rankin, culled from a never-finished documentary from the '80s.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of the Australian drama Sweet Country, inspired by a real-life incident from the 1920s that exposes the deep racism underlying the country's foundational myth.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy, in which director Thomas Riedelsheimer once again teams up with the famous landscape artist.

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