54 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, May 12

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      Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 54 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, May 12.

       

      CONCERTS

      American pop superstar P!nk plays Rogers Arena, performing on her Beautiful Trauma World Tour 2018.

      Minneapolis rapper Prof plays the Biltmore Cabaret, with guests Willie Wonka, Cashinova, and Mac Irv.

      Coastal Jazz presents New York jazz pianist Tardo Hammer and his trio in the second of two nights at Frankie's Jazz Club.

      The Desert Daze Caravan II at the Commodore features performances by Ariel Pink, DIIV, Nick Hakim, SUUNS, and JJUUJJUU.

      New York City hip-hop artist Joey Bada$$ plays the Vogue Theatre, with guests Boogie and Buddy.

      Local singer-songwriter Emily Rowed plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Nashlyn, Willolux, and Sheldoncole.

      Seattle soul-funk band Polyrhythmics plays the WISE Hall, with guests Coco Jafro.

      The Carbons and Anything But play a double album-release party at the Fox Cabaret.

       

      BENEFITS

      Little Mountain Gallery fundraiser features comedy by Randee Neumeyer,  Blind Tiger Comedy's house teams, Carmelahhh Comedy, Grad School Improv, Nathan Hare and Graeme Achurch, Gavin Matts and Ryan Williams, and host Caitlin Howden.

      Specialty whisky tastings, readings, auctions, and live music at the Lynn Valley Library, with proceeds to the Trish McMordie Memorial Fund and the Youth Services Department of the North Vancouver District Public Library.

      Pretend-singing, dancing, cash bar, silent auction, and free popcorn at CBC Studio 700, with all proceeds to Tara Cheyenne Performance.

       

      ETCETERA

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

        

      FORUMS

      The Canadian Association for Neuroscience presents a lecture at Science World with gambling and addiction experts Dr Catharine Winstanley and Dr. Luke Clark.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Spring Festival at Point Grey Village features live music, drinks, treats, henna tattoos, food trucks, magic shows, and martial arts demonstrations.

      Ridgeway Elementary School Spring Fair in North Van features bouncy castle, pony rides, face-painting, carnival games, and food.

      CircusWest presents its newest theatrical circus creation inspired by the impossible worlds of MC Escher at the PNE Garden Auditorium.

      In Girls Learning Code at Burnaby's Traction on Demand, girls aged eight to 13 work together to build a video game that addresses a social or environmental issue and works towards change.

      Take a ride on a hovercraft, discover micro-organisms in the pond, explore quantum physics, and learn how fire, ash, and magma made the Earth at Beaty Biodiversity Museum's Science Rendezvous.

       

      COMEDY

      American comedian Chad Daniels performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

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

      Local Asian-Canadian improvisers create a show inspired by East Asian legends and culture and the kung fu movies of yesteryear at Havana Theatre's Fistful of Kicks.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      The free Art Smash Street Party Celebration at The Chain & Forge features live mural creation, public disco with music from local DJs, food trucks, B.C. craft breweries, and live dance performances.

      Art show at St. Augustine's Anglican Church Hall features watercolours by Lynn Onley, Bill Morton and Ruth E. Douglas.

       

      DANCE

      New Works at Night at the Waterfront Theatre features the work of three local artists who explore essential questions of what it is to be human.

      Concert of Japanese dance at Scotiabank Dance Centre celebrates the life and work of dancer Fujima Yūko, the first teacher of TomoeArts' artistic director Colleen Lanki. 

      Ballet BC concludes its 32nd season with a program of choreography by Cayetano Soto ("Beginning After") and Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar ("Bill") at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

         

      MUSIC

      The New Orford String Quartet--a Canadian classical ensemble composed of violinists Jonathan Crow and Andrew Wan, violist Eric Nowlin, and cellist Brian Manker--performs at Kay Meek Centre.

      The Vancouver Cantata Singers present cantatas and motets by Bach, plus an anniversary commission by B.C. composer Jocelyn Morlock, at Christ Church Cathedral.

      Under the direction of conductor Peggy Hua, more than 60 members of the B.C. Chinese Orchestra will perform a wide variety of Chinese traditional instruments at Richmond's Gateway Theatre.

       

      THEATRE

      ITSAZOO presents the Western Canadian premiere of David James Brock’s drama WET, set during the height of Canada’s involvement in the Afghanistan War, at the Russian Hall.

      Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts and Punctuate! Theatre present a performance at the Cultch of Bears, a comically dark, unapologetically political play about pipelines.

      Pacific Theatre and Northern Lights Collective present Almost, Maine, a play about the residents of a town who find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways, at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

      Midtwenties Theatre Society presents the world premiere of the original coming-of-age drama Molly Misbegotten at Havana Theatre.

      Louise Porter stars in Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell’s one-woman comedy about a bored housewife who is offered a trip to Greece by her best friend, at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

      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.

      A Wing and a Prayer presents Marion Bridge, a play about three estranged sisters who return home to Cape Breton to care for their dying mother, at Kay Meek Centre.

       

      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.

      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.

      Living, Building, Thinking: art & expression at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early 19th century to the present day.

       

      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.

      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.

      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 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.

       

      MOVIES

      The DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs until May 13 at various Vancouver venues. Screenings tonight include Georg Koszulinski's White Ravens: A Legacy of Resistance at Vancity Theatre.

      Heavy-metal legend Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden fame is featured in the concert documentary Scream for Me Sarajevo at the Park Theatre.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of first-time director Coralie Fargeat's acclaimed horror flick Revengestarring Matilda Lutz.

       

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