Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 90 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, October 27.

CONCERTS

Vancouver-based singer-songwriter from Uganda, Ezra Kwizera, sings in various languages while infusing flavors of reggae, soca, and pop at Guilt & Co.

The Park Sound Halloween Show features performances by Laura K. Prophet, Porteau, & Tonight, and the Fancy Bees at Park Sound Studio.

Dutch pianist and composer Joep Beving plays the Biltmore Cabaret, touring behind his latest album Prehension.

Welsh alt-rock trio the Joy Formidable plays the Fox Cabaret.

Best in Vancouver--Night Six features performances at the Railway Stage and Beer Café by Aegis, the Band, the Maneuver, High Stakes, and Damsel.

Westwood Recordings presents Funkoween at the Commodore Ballroom, featuring Stickybuds & Skiitour and guests SIVZ.

BENEFITS

Crave, Dining for Dignity masquerade party at Squamish's West Coast Railway raises funds for the Squamish Helping Hands Society.

A Night At Studio 54 at Seaforth Armoury supports the Rotary Club of Vancouver's youth programs and the Ray-Cam Cooperative Community Centre's mentorship program for at-risk youth on the Downtown Eastside.

ETCETERA

Fright Nights at Playland features eight chilling haunted houses and 20 thrilling rides, including The Beast, the Hellevator, and the AtmosFEAR.

The Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour includes stops at Mountain View Cemetery and the site of the city of Vancouver’s first city morgue.

Lost Souls of Gastown is Forbidden Vancouver's walking tour/theatre piece that relives the dark history of the city's earliest years.

Join storytellers for a two- or three-hour program of spine-chilling stories at Fort Langley National Historic Site's Grave Tales.

Two-day Vancouver Baby & Family Fair at Canada Place features exhibitors, demonstrations, live entertainment, and attractions for the whole family.

Fall Craft Fair at New Westminster's Connaught Heights Pentacostal Assembly features bath products, jewelry, Christmas crafts, and other handmade items.

Bertini Events' Halloween Bash at the North Shore Winter Club features costume contest and live music by Johnny and the Walkers.

Potter’s House of Horrors in Surrey features two ultra-scary haunted houses and one attraction geared towards kids 12 and under.

FOOD & DRINK

Storied Cuisine: A Celebration of Women Entrepreneurs and Cultural Food at Massy Books features traditional dishes created by refugee women chefs from Venezuela, Mexico, and Palestine.

The UBC Farm Farmers' Market features produce grown steps from the market stalls, treats and crafts from vendors, music, and free farm tours.

FORUMS

Modern lifestyle brand goop brings its In goop Health wellness summit to the Stanley Park Pavilion.

The two-day Vancouver Health Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre features over 100 exhibitors offering the latest in health products, information, and services.

We Are All Lonely is a free forum on loneliness and social isolation at Knox United Church.

Shades of Blue/Shades of Loss is a two-part event at Christ Church Cathedral that helps participants explore grief through free workshops that include dance, poetry, and journaling.

Learn about, share, and celebrate the diversity and richness of the Muslim community with art, music, food, and history at Vancouver Public Libary.

Two-day cinematography workshop at Vivo Media Arts helps participants make better use of their camera and lighting gear to enrich storytelling.

KIDS' STUFF 

The Great Big Boo at Colossus Langley Cinemas is a 50-minute, non-scary live show that follows two kids on a quest to save Halloween.

Halloween activities at the Greater Vancouver Zoo include enrichment walks, a pumpkin smash tour, spooky train ride, and lots of candy.

Halloween Celebration at Trout Lake Community Centre features bouncy castle, Halloween games, and crafts.

The Tsawwassen Mills Monster Maze features Halloween makeup and nail art and spooky science for kids.

The Mighty Harvest Glow at Langley's Milner Village Garden Centre features a pumpkin patch, corn maze, and family playgrounds.

Halloween Hunt at City Square Mall features trick-or-treating, cookie decorating, face painting, and a magic show.

At the Capilano River Hatchery's Coho Commotion kids can watch salmon leaping and hear about their extraordinary lives.

At the Contemporary Art Gallery's Family Day kids of all ages are invited to drop-in for short exhibition tours and free art-making activities that respond to current exhibitions.

At the Surrey Nature Centre's Halloween in the Forest kids can meet the Forest Fairy & friends, carve a pumpkin, and learn about owls, bats, spiders and raccoons.

The two-day Halloween Spooktacular at Langley's Laughing Stock Ranch features pony rides, games, crafts, and a petting zoo.

Juno-winning artist Jessie Farrell sings songs from the CBC Kids' show The Gumboot Kids at North Van's Highlands Elementary School.

Carved: Halloween Circus Carnival at North Van's Pipe Shop features trick-or-treating, trampoline lessons, juggling, costume contests, bouncy castle, face painting, roving entertainment, and a scavenger hunt.

SPORTS

Sidney Crosby and the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins take on the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

Canadian comedian Steph Tolev performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Vancouver TheatreSports League presents a seasonal celebration of all things eerie with four different shows--Monster Matches, Cult Fiction, Scared Witless, and WTF--at the Improv Centre's Spooktober.

Stand-up comics perform never-before-seen comedic lists before improvisors bring those lists to life at Little Mountain Gallery.

Comedian John Perrotta performs the third of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris host standup comedy by Steev Letts, Myles Anderson, and headliner Sam Tonning at Tyrant Studio.

Sketch-comedy show featuring garbage-themed lessons about life and love at Little Mountain Gallery.

ARTS ETCETERA

The Parade of Lost Souls takes place in the Commercial Drive area, featuring live bands, art installations, clowns, and food trucks, with an after-party at the WISE Hall. 

The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival features 12 days of music, stories, songs, poetry, films, theatre, dance, spoken word, workshops, art talks, and history walks at the Firehall Arts Centre.

Curious Imaginings--an immersive sculpture exhibition featuring the hyper-realist, fantastical creatures of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini--continues at Strathcona’s historic Patricia Hotel.

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

Choreographers Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang combine hip hop, contemporary dance, and martial arts in Borderline--an exploration of democracy, immigration, manipulation, and the place of individuals in society--at the Vancouver Playhouse.

World-ranking dancers from around the world compete in the two-day Snowball Classic 2018 at Richmond's Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel.

Julianne Chapple’s Suffix interweaves movement, sound, lighting and film, probing the edges of the body’s mobility to the point of abstraction, and creating surreal imagery, at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

MUSIC

Queen of the Night Dinner & Concert Gala at Seymour Golf & Country Club features buffet dinner and the Laudate Singers performing choruses and arias from Don Giovanni, Tosca, Turandot, La Traviata, and La Bohème.

Vancouver Opera presents Franz Lehár’s comedic operetta, The Merry Widow, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

THEATRE

Mitch and Murray Productions proudly presents the Vancouver premiere at Studio 16 of Sex With Strangers, a drama about love, lust, and the nature of identity in our digital-dominated era.

The Snapshots Collective presents the ghoulish site-specific musical-thriller Sweeney Todd at Mrs. Lovett's Pie Shop.

Sidekick Players give the final performance of Burn, a new murder-mystery by Ottawa playwright John Muggleton, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

Final performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Rebel Women, a theatre verbatim play in which the women’s actual words and songs are used to create the play.

Touchstone Theatre presents its final performance at Firehall Arts Centre of Kill Me Now, Canadian playwright Brad Fraser's play about a single dad caring for his severely disabled teen son.

World premiere at Presentation House Theatre of So, How Should I Be?, Linda A. Carson's play about the impact that social and mass media, community, friends and family has on body image.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Sweat, Lynn Nottage's examination of a community that is formed and dissolved amidst the changing landscape of America, at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Final performance at Havana Theatre of Monster Theatre’s The Shakespeare Show, Or; How an illiterate Son of a Glover Became the Greatest Playwright in the World.

Performance at The Theatre at Hendry Hall of And Evermore Shall Be So, which explores the events surrounding a murder that took place four years previously.

With A Spoon and Rumble Theatre present a performance at Pacific Theatre of The Wolves, a play about a teenage girls' soccer team whose members grapple with discovering their identities as individuals and a team.

Performance at the Historic Theatre of The Ones We Leave Behind, which explores themes of isolation and abandonment and poses the question: are the greatest walls the ones we build within ourselves?

Performance at the Waterfront Theatre of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O'Brien's kitschy musical-theatre rock 'n' roll gothic thriller.

Performance at Delta's Oddfellows Hall of Theatre of the Dead: The Seance at the Hundred Year Old Hall.

Performance at Ukrainian Hall of Material Witness, a coproduction between Spiderwoman Theater of New York City and Aanmitaagzi, an Indigenous multi-disciplinary-arts company from Nipissing First Nation, Ontario.

Performance at Centennial Theatre of Right Here, Write Now, a musical that tells the story of a high school girl and her friends, getting ready for graduation.

Performance at Metro Theatre of Busybody, a crime comedy in which a cleaning lady finds the dead body of her employer. 

Performance at Langley's SAMC Theatre of The Game of Love and Chance, a tale of secret identities and affairs of the heart from playwright Pierre Carlet de Marivaux.

GALLERIES

Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) artist Dana Claxton addresses the oppressive legacies of colonialism through photography, film, video and performance in Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The Vancouver Art Gallery presents the Canadian premiere of Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, the first-ever fashion exhibition in the Gallery’s history, which traces the evolution of China’s foremost couturière over 10 years.

Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest at the Bill Reid Gallery sees guest curator Dion Kaszas of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation trace the deep-rooted traditions of Indigenous tattooing, piercing and personal adornment.

Discover the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection through an exhibition of nearly 90 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures in A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects.

Ayumi Goto & Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a dialogue between artists Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin, presented via their individual and collaborative performance art practice.

Interface: The Woven Artwork of Jaad Kuujus at Bill Reid Gallery explores the intricate textile works and cedar weavings of the Kakwaka’wakw and Haida artist.

Kevin Schmidt: We Are the Robots at the Vancouver Art Gallery sees the B.C.–based artist draw on conceptual and performance art while embodying the do-it-yourself sensibilities of an amateur inventor.

MUSEUMS

Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives at the Museum of Vancouver delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city.

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.

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.

Richmond's Lipont Place hosts Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which focuses on the legendary RMS Titanic's compelling human stories through more than 120 authentic artifacts and extensive room re-creations.

ATTRACTIONS

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

The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven cable bridges suspended in trees, the Living Forest exhibit, totem pole collection, CLIFFWALK, and Treetop Adventure.

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

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

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 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.

MOVIES

Screenings at the Cinematheque of Italian director Dario Argento's 1970s horror flicks The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red (above).

Drive-in Nights at River District features screenings at River District Vancouver of Frankenweenie and It.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of the comedy-horror musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with Geekenders Shadowcast and costumes encouraged.

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