44 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, February 3

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 44 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, February 3.

       

      CONCERTS

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      Hip-hop artist gnash plays Venue, with guests Mallrat and Guardin.

       

      EVENTS 

      The two-day Wellness Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre features more than 250 exhibitors and 100 demonstrations, plus workshops and celebrity chefs.

          

      FOOD AND DRINK

      Yoga on Tap at Steamworks Brewing Co. in Burnaby includes an all-levels yoga practice led by Modo Yoga Burnaby and craft beer.

      Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market on the PNE Grounds features local produce, craft alcohol, artisanal foods, and food trucks.

       

      FORUMS

      Raquel Horowitz leads a class exploring all styles of yoga at Semperviva Yoga Kits Beach Studio.

       

      COMEDY

      Performance at the York Theatre by Sooshi Mango, an Australian comedy group made up of brothers Carlo and Joe Salanitri and their best mates Andrew Manfre and Michael Kambouridis.

      Jokes N Tokes is a marijuana-themed comedy show at Cannabis Culture Lounge hosted by Andrew Packer.

      Instant Theatre presents competitive improv comedy at Havana Theatre's East Van Improv League.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      ‘HOW FAR DO YOU TRAVEL?’ BUS DISPLAYING DIYAN ACHJADI, ‘NONSERIE (IN COMMUTE)’, 2017/2018

      Artist Diyan Achjadi speaks about her work aboard her wrapped bus as it tours through the city, leaving from the Contemporary Art Gallery.

      Final day of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, which features startling theatre, innovative dance, and genre-defying music at various Vancouver venues.

      Douglas Coupland’s 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

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      Vancouver choreographer Joshua Beamish brings alive a 1700-year-old Chinese love story in the contemporary ballet, The New Butterfly Lovers, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

      MACHiNENOiSY Dance Company presents Fragile Forms, a site-specific, 360-degree contemporary dance performance, at New Westminster's Anvil Centre.

       

      LITERARY

      Author Kevin Spenst leads workshop participants through an exploration of chapbooks at Historic Joy Kogawa House.

           

      THEATRE

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      The Arts Club Theatre Company and Crow’s Theatre present True Crime, a mind-twisting encounter created by Torquil Campbell and Chris Abraham, at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

      Studio 58 presents Cabaret, a play set in 1929 Berlin at the notorious Kit Kat Club, at Langara College.

      Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Circle Game, Re-imagining the Music of Joni Mitchell, by Andrew Cohen and Anna Kuman.

      Performance at the Historic Cultch of Mrs. Krishnan's Party, in which a boarder invites a few friends into the back room of a corner shop to celebrate Onam.

      Performance at the Metro Theatre of the mystery-comedy Murder On Reserve.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Thornton Wilder's play of forbidden young love and mistaken identity, The Matchmaker, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

       

      GALLERIES

      Krista Belle Stewart's site-specific installation Eye Eye is on display at SFU's Teck Gallery.

      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.

      10,000 Ships at the Polyon Gallery showcases a photographic archive created by local photographer and "ship-spotter" Rod Logan.

      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.

      Polit-Sheer-Form Office at Vancouver Art Gallery's Offsite is the first Canadian exhibition by the Chinese contemporary art collective.

      Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery includes works Marianne Nicolson and Althea Thauberger with Siku Allooloo, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Darryl Dawson, Jaymyn La Vallee, Diane Roberts, Sara Siestreem, Juliana Speier, Nabidu Taylor, Kamala Todd, William Wasden Jr., Tania Willard and Lindsey Willie.

      The Vancouver Art Gallery presents The Metamorphosis, an exhibition drawn from its collection that examines transformation and change.

      The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Canada by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

       

      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.

      Shakeup: Preserving What We Value at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC explores the convergence of earthquake science and technology with Indigenous knowledge and oral history.

      Marking the Infinite at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features nine leading Aboriginal women who are revered matriarchs and celebrated artists from remote regions of Australia.

      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.

      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.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      North Vancouver's Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding, lessons, chairlifts, terrain parks, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

      West Vancouver's Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

      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.

      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.

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

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

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

       

      MOVIES

      Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of masked and anonymous performance artist Narcissister's personal documentary/performance film hybrid Narcissister Organ Player.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of writer-director Boots Riley's 2018 comedy Sorry to Bother You, about a black telemarketer who discovers a magical key to professional success--which propels him into a macabre universe.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Alfonso Cuaron's Roma, Oscar-nominated drama about a middle-class household in Mexico City in 1970.

       

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