Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 56 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, November 25.

CONCERTS

Detroit punk band Choking Susan plays Pat's Pub & Brewhouse, with guests Wett Stillettos and Daddy Issues.

Kingston, Ontario guitar-rockers Headstones play the second of two nights at the Commodore Ballroom.

Vancouver jazz vocalist Jennifer Scott is accompanied by bassist Rene Worst, guitarist Bill Coon, and drummer Dave Robbins at Surrey's Northwood United Church.

Sing along to the songs of legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell at Princeton Pub & Grill.

Darlene Ketchum and her new band Wild Blue Herons perform original songs and jazz standards at North Van's Andrew’s United Church.

BENEFITS

The annual Lights of Hope charity Christmas-lights display on St. Paul's Hospital features more than 100,000 lightbulbs and supports the St. Paul’s Foundation.

ETCETERA

Drop-in for a tour of Richmond Nature Park’s wildlife garden on A Day for the Birds and learn how to make a bird’s garden habitat with responsible feeding practices.

FOOD AND DRINK

Learn to make Japanese natto (fermented soybeans) at Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre.

FORUMS

Certified nutritional practitioner Heather Woodruff leads a digestive healing workshop at Unity Yoga.

KIDS' STUFF

Experience the old-fashioned magic of Christmas at Burnaby Village Museum's Heritage Christmas.

Mindfulness class for children seven years and up at North Shore Meditation House includes meditation, stories, movement, art, music, and snacks.

Disney on Ice presents the skating show Dare to Dream, featuring characters from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Tangled and Cinderella, at the Pacific Coliseum.

COMEDY

Instant Theatre presents a battle between two groups of Vancouver improvisers at Havana Theatre.

ARTS ETCETERA

Feast of Fields at Kafka's Coffee and Tea is an art show featuring large comics scrolls by Sean Karemaker.

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 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.

Two-day Holiday Craft Fair at the West End Community Centre features items created by 50 crafters and artisans.

Join CAG visitor coordinator Jocelyn Statia for an afternoon tour of the current exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery.

DANCE

Al Mozaico Flamenco Dance Academy presents an evening of flamenco dance, music, and song at the Norman Rothstein Theatre.

THEATRE

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of The Enemy, a political drama adapted and directed by Donna Spencer. 

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre of Blind Date, Rebecca Northan's fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants fusion of clown, improv, theatre, and social experiment.

Pi Theatre presents the Canadian premiere at the Orpheum Annex of American playwright Taylor Mac’s work, Hir.

Seven Tyrants Theatre presents John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Doubt: A Parable, at Tyrant Studios.

Soul Samurai at Studio 1398 is a samurai revenge epic set in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan.

Performance at Jericho Arts Centre of Aeschylus’ tragedy from 463 BC, The Suppliant Women, which looks to find meaning in forced migration.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's holiday confection filled with classic Jane Austen charm, at the Granville Island Stage.

First Impressions Theatre presents Ring of Fire, a celebration of the life and music of Johnny Cash, at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents A Charlie Brown Christmas and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown at the Waterfront Theatre.

Stage musical presentation of The Little Mermaid presented by the Children's Theatre of Richmond Association at New Westminster's Massey Theatre.

GALLERIES

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

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.

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.

Batia Suter: Parallel Encyclopedia Extended at Polygon Gallery is an installation of photographic reproductions that highlight the proliferation of digital images.

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

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.

Looking at Persepolis: The Camera in Iran 1850-1930 at Polygon Gallery features contemporary video and photographic works by Hannah Rickards and Batia Suter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/Flux: Art of Korean Diaspora at the Museum of Vancouver features selected works of Jin-me Yoon, Junghong Kim, and Jin Hwa Kim, artists originally from the Republic of Korea now based in the Vancouver area.

ATTRACTIONS

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

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.

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.

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

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 Rio Theatre of Camp Death III in 2D, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, Tenacious D: Post Apocalypto, and One Cut of the Dead (above) as part of the Rio Grind Film Festival.

Screening at the Vancity Theatre of Maya Gallus's documentary The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution, followed by a panel discussion with female chefs.

Screenings at the Cinematheque of the Netherlands' Tonio, Belgium's The Ardennes, and Estonia's Rodeo: Taming a Wild Country as part of the 21st European Union Film Festival.

Screenings at Vancity Theatre of Edge of the Knife and Transit as part of the Indigenous International Film Festival.

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