Things To Do In Vancouver This Weekend

There are more haunted houses, haunted walks, and spooky events added to the many ways to celebrate Halloween this month! You can also start to celebrate Diwali this weekend, the 70s, the oceans, puppets, art, music, and/or the harvest moon through all the festivities going on over the next few days in Vancouver.

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Friday October 14

Grave Tales at Fort Langley
Where: Fort Langley
What: Join expert storytellers for spine-chilling tales of love, mysterious burials and old-school amputations from Fort Langley’s past. Be prepared to walk through various terrains, rain or shine, as you weave through the village of Fort Langley, from the misty cemetery to the deserted Hudson’s Bay Company fort where you’ll warm up around a cozy bonfire.
Runs until: Sunday October 30, 2016

Lost Souls of Gastown
Where: Gastown, Vancouver
What: As much a roaming theatre experience as it is a walking tour. Even more than a vivid account of Vancouver’s most dark, gothic early history, it is the tale of a tragic life. The fictional story of George Turle. A man who witnessed first-hand the terror of smallpox, who ran from the Great Fire as it licked the skin from his back, and who became entangled in one of Vancouver’s most notorious murders. The brutal killing of John Bray.
Runs until: Tuesday November 1, 2016

Halloween Parade and Expo
Where: Vancouver
What: This festival presents and produces arts, visual arts, dances and performances from diverse communities while reducing blood and gore themes to celebrate Halloween in family-friendly direction. Vancouver Halloween Parade and Expo is organized by a local non-profit organization, Vancouver International Halloween Festival Society.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

Halloween at FlyOver Canada
Where: FlyOver Canada
What: Join Broomelda and her class of witches and wizards, at the Haunted Witches Academy, and embark on some spooky adventures before buckling up for a special Halloween Ride at FlyOver Canada.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Haunted Circus
Where: The Beaumont
What: An all-new haunted house experience in support of BC Women’s Hospital+ Care Centre Foundation.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Toast to the Coast
Where: Vancouver Aquarium
What: The conversation will be anything but dry at the 10^th anniversary of the city’s most fascinating wine tasting. At Toast to the Coast, the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre’s annual fundraising gala, you’re encouraged to explore the immersive galleries while getting to know some of the province’s top chefs and wineries. Guests can expect pours that will treat the taste buds, and a delicious selection of Ocean Wise bites.

Piya Behrupiya (Twelfth Night)
Where: York Theatre
What: The Company Theatre, one of Mumbai’s most innovative theatre groups, has created a Bollywood-meets-Shakespeare musical adaptation of Twelfth Night. In the household of Olivia, two campaigns are being quietly waged – one by the lovesick lord Orsino against the heart of the indifferent Olivia; the other by an alliance of servants and hangers-on against the high-handedness of her steward, the pompous Malvolio. When Orsino engages the cross-dressed Viola to plead with Olivia on his behalf, a bittersweet chain of events follow.
Runs until: Saturday October 22, 2016

Diwali Fest
Where: Various Locations
What: Diwali is known as the festival of lights, a spiritual festival celebrated every autumn. Its spiritual significance is that of light over darkness, good over evil, and hope over despair. The festival is committed to incorporating the inclusion of all cultures and communities with its theme of unity in diversity, uniting people from different cultures through celebratory events and allow South Asian art forms to evolve through other cultural influences, while at the same time influencing others.
Runs until: Wednesday November 30, 2016

Vancouver International Puppet Festival
Where: Granville Island Revue Stage
What: An entire festival devoted to puppets. Through performances, events, workshops and dialogue, the goal is to create a space to showcase the unique work and talents of the Vancouver puppet community and to bring the talent of international puppeteers to Vancouver.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

I Mother Earth
Where: The Commodore
What: A Canadian alt-rock classic from the heyday of Much Music and MTV.

Launch Party: Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from a Decade that Changed the City
Where: The Fox Cabaret, 7:00pm
What: Don your best bellbottoms and highest platforms, and celebrate the official launch of a new book – 149 photos from the Vancouver Sun’s exclusive collection to explore the city’s most iconic era—from style icons on a blossoming and barely-recognizable Granville Street, to bathing beauties on Wreck Beach, to the infamous Gastown Riots.

Graham Clark Presents a Salute to Halloween
Where: Hot Art Wet City
What: Comedian Graham Clark’s Salute to Halloween! Celebrate the year’s best theme-day with hilarious horror movie clips, guests that will be a graveyard smash and of course… candy.

Love, The Sea | An Underwater Play
Where: Langara College
What: A show that weaves together collected letters from Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries to explore the moment after the end. Bringing together puppets, lights and sound this immersive experience takes the audience on an underwater journey to the heart of the woman who walked into the water with rocks in her pockets.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

Pareidolia Series by Katsumi Kimoto
Where: Kimoto Gallery (opening reception at 6:00pm)
What: New abstract works that capture the forest and the natural world.
Runs until: Saturday November 12, 2016

Andy Shauf (show 1 of 2)
Where: The Fox Cabaret
What: Sensitive indie-style music from Saskatchewan with really neat collage-style music videos. Playing with Scattered Clouds.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

BC Lions vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Where: BC Place Stadium
What: Have some football with two Canadian teams playing.

Mechanical Music: Vancouver New Music Festival
Where: Orpheum Annex
What: Musicians and artists showcase mechanical and algorithmic systems that generate sound works, compositions and installations.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

Untangled Figures by Guillaume Leblon
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Creating fictional landscapes or altering an existing space has long been Leblon’s favoured technique for fuelling uncertainty and doubt in order to undermine the stark purity and perfect finish of the museum.
Runs until: Sunday January 1, 2016

Russ
Where: The Vogue
What: An American hip hop recording artist and record producer.

Major Motion Picture
Where: Firehall Arts Centre
What: Seven powerful dancers and drawing on influences from Charlie Chaplin to Orson Welles.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

Benjamin Stevie
Where: The Biltmore
What: Ben Stevenson follows up his Juno Nominated debut with Cara Cara. Ben demonstrates how far along he’s come not just as a singer-songwriter but as an executive producer, enlisting a wide range of top tier musicians and vocalists to help showcase his vision.

Gorguts
Where: The Ricksaw
What: Canadian technical metal – playing with Intronaut, Brain Tentacles, and Anciients.

Mark Farina
Where: The Imperial
What: Featuring an extended house & mushroom jazz set.

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Saturday October 15

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Chopstick Fest
Where: Various locations
What: An event that honours Vancouver’s Chinese migration history through food by exploring culturally diverse, regionally specific and historically unique elements of Chinese cuisine. The festival includes a variety of regional Chinese cuisines from the nine major culinary areas of Mainland China and Taiwan as well as uniquely west coast fusions that embody the unique flavours of Vancouver.
Runs until: Sunday October 30, 2016

Vancouver Winter Extreme Show
Where: Grouse Mountain
What: A winter gear show and swap.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

The Valley Haunt
Where: 1311 Appin Road (North Vancouver)
What: Shipping containers of haunt all themed and ready to scare as you walk through! Suitable for ages 8+.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Mulan the Musical
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 2:00pm & 8:00pm
What: Cultures collide and legend is brought to life in the iconic, ancient tale that dates back over 1,600 years and tells the story of brave Mulan through a spectacular combination of Chinese drum music, traditional kung fu and dance. Tickets available at Tickets Tonight.

Splash! Art Auction and Fundraiser
Where: Performance Works
What: Arts Umbrella, Metro Vancouver’s premier non-profit arts organization for youth, will be hosting a gala of food, music and art, in support of accessible arts programming for youth. Art connoisseurs and casual collectors alike can bid on close to 100 pieces of artwork by prominent local and international artists, with a chance to discover exciting emerging talent.

Kiosk
Where: Venue
What: A world-rock band formed in Tehran in 2003, known for its blend of musical styles and its wry lyrics confronting Iranian cultural angst. The name of the band, Kiosk, stems from the original formation of the group in Tehran, when its members gathered together in any possible makeshift space or Kiosk to play their music without fear of arrest.

Karen Gomyo plays Berg
Where: The Orpheum
What: One of the top violinists in the world today, and a favourite of Vancouver audiences, Karen Gomyo makes her welcome return to the VSO, playing Berg’s lyrical and enchanting Violin Concerto. Rachmaninoff’s magnificent Symphony No. 2, filled with beautiful melodies (it has even inspired a pop song or two), will be performed under the capable baton of rising star conductor Karina Canellakis, in her Vancouver debut.

Devin Townsend Project
Where: The Vogue
What: From Strapping Young Lad, to appearances in Front Line Assembly, and many more projects, anything Devin Townsend touches is crunchy and fun.

New Music for Chinese Instruments, A Public Reading Session with Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble
Where: 555 Columbia, 3:00pm
What: Discover new music written by four brilliant Canadian composers as being presented for the very first time by the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble. The music written by Symon Henry (QC), Adam Hill (BC), Lucas Oickle (BC) and Denis Plante (QC) will be read and presented at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum. The free event facilitated by composer/scholar Alan Lau will be open to public and preceded by an introductory lecture on Chinese music and instruments.

Vancouver International Art Book Fair
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery Annex
What: At the heart of the fair is a selection of local, national and international artists, illustrators, designers, publishers, collectives and artist-run centres who display books, magazines, zines, chapbooks and print ephemera.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

Vancouver Canucks vs. Calgary Flames
Where: Rogers Arena
What: Two teams represented by two western Canadian cities play hockey for your entertainment.

Light the Night Vancouver
Where: Stanley Park, 4:00pm
What: Help make a difference in the lives of more than 110,000 Canadians affected by blood cancer. Hold your illuminated lantern high: red for supporters, white for patients and survivors and gold for loved ones lost.

Walk For Freedom
Where: Vancouver
What: Anti-human trafficking organization A21 are part of a global initiative to end modern day slavery. The walk will feature supporters in single file lines with black tape covering their mouths to represent the 27 million slaves without a voice.

Gazoline
Where: The Biltmore
What: An evening of diverse entertainment The show will open with Alex Toucourt and Julien m’a dit (as part of their Canadian tour with Alliance Française) sharing the stage and mixing their repertoires to bring us a musical set in the tradition of the great lyricists of French chanson. In the second part of the show, Gazoline, the alternative rock group from Quebec, will shake up the Biltmore Cabaret with the new wave accents of their latest album “Brûlensemble”.

The Mother and the Whore
Where: The Cimematheque
What: Voted the second greatest French film of all time (after Renoir’s The Rules of the Game) in a poll conducted by Time Out Paris, Jean Eustache’s monumental masterpiece — both the apotheosis and the end of the French New Wave — was a devastating dissection of sexual mores and social disenchantment in post-1968 Paris.
Runs until: Monday October 17, 2016

Quantic
Where: The Imperial
What: British born musician, producer and DJ performs a special live show, on tour to support his latest release “1000 Watts”.

Chixdiggit
Where: The Cobalt
What: Calgary pop-punk band, on tour to celebrate their 25th Anniversary.

Andy Shauf (show 2 of 2)
Where: The Fox Cabaret
What: Sensitive indie-style music from Saskatchewan with really neat collage-style music videos. Playing with Scattered Clouds.

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Sunday October 16

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The Strumbellas
Where: The Commodore
What: Alternative country bluegrassy indie folk.

The Women of Stanley Park
Where: Stanley Park, 10:00am
What: During Women’s History Month, join historical interpreter Jolene Castillou Cumming to hear about the famous and the forgotten women who lived in and visited Stanley Park in the early years.

Cole Pauls VABF Indigenous Comics Artist Talk
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery, 3:00pm
What: Tahltan First Nation artist Cole Pauls cross-examines traditional Indigenous art and storytelling with comic books and sequential illustration by highlighting contemporary First Nations comic artists and their work.

Debra Digiovanni
Where: The Biltmore
What: Comedian Debra DiGiovanni has been called the “Best Comedian to see after a Messy Break Up” and for three years running-she was named Canada’s favorite female comedian. Debra’s comedy has a sharp edge while maintaining a playful, happy air with a charm that lies in her unflinching honesty and openness. She was a finalist on the 5th season of NBC’s hit show Last Comic Standing season 7-making it to the Top 8 comedians.

Harvest Moon Indigenous Dinner
Where: Stanley Park, 5:30pm
What: An evening of Coast Salish food, music, and storytelling. Feast as you learn the ecology of the land through a First Nations perspective. (19+)

Ziggy Marley
Where: The Vogue
What: 5-time Grammy Award-winning reggae artist and eldest son of music icon, Bob Marley.

Brock House Wedding Show
Where: Brock House (3875 Point Grey)
What: An intimate boutique wedding show full of inspiration and information for your big day.

Concerto Extravaganza
Where: The Orpheum, 2:00pm
What: An inspirational showcase of young, upcoming talent that will feature the six winners of the 2016 Orpheum Theatre Concerto Competition, some of BC’s best & brightest musicians, performing masterful solo works backed by the more than 100 Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra instrumentalists.

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Ongoing

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Vancouver International Film Festival  (ends this weekend)
Where: Various locations
What:  In its 35th year, VIFF expands the frame to create multi-experiential streams that include some of the best cinema from around the world fused with related talks and events, giving audiences and creators a chance to discover, discuss and connect.
Runs until: Friday October 14, 2016

Mechanical Music: Vancouver New Music Festival (ends this weekend)
Where: Orpheum Annex
What: Musicians and artists showcase mechanical and algorithmic systems that generate sound works, compositions and installations.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

A Good Way Out (ends this weekend)
Where: Pacific Theatre
What: Joey is a hardworking mechanic who operates as the front man for a biker gang. He joined for protection, but a few bad decisions have him looking for an escape that may not exist. The world premiere of a fierce, compelling look into the precarious world of crime and compromise.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

Motherload (ends this weekend)
Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre
What: An intimate account of parenting in the modern age. Four prominent Canadian theatre artists and mothers bare their personal stories about what it takes to be a member of the world’s biggest club.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

Mean Time (ends this weekend)
Where: Centre A
What: Featuring a pair of works, The Remnant of My Volition (Force Majeure) (2014) and Frustration of Having More than Two Choices to Make in Life (2013). Artist Morgan Wong currently lives and works in Hong Kong. Shortlisted for the Sovereign Art Prize and featured in Hong Kong Basel Encounters, Wong has exhibited extensively in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Australia and Europe, but this exhibition marks Wong’s North American debut.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

Major Motion Picture (ends this weekend)
Where: Firehall Arts Centre
What: Seven powerful dancers and drawing on influences from Charlie Chaplin to Orson Welles.
Runs until: Saturday October 15, 2016

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories (ends this weekend)
Where: Museum of Anthropology
What: Vancouver artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent, is showcased in this provocative exhibition of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

James and Jamesy in the Dark (ends this weekend)
Where: Waterfront Theatre
What: Pixar meets Waiting for Godot in a daring, hilarious British comedy about creation. Comedians and 13-time Best-of-Fest winners James & Jamesy conjure an adventure around creation itself. Through their unique brand of British comedy, they inspire audiences to celebrate the beauty and richness of friendship.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

Vancouver International Art Book Fair (this weekend only)
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery Annex
What: At the heart of the fair is a selection of local, national and international artists, illustrators, designers, publishers, collectives and artist-run centres who display books, magazines, zines, chapbooks and print ephemera.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

Vancouver International Puppet Festival (this weekend only)
Where: Granville Island Revue Stage
What: An entire festival devoted to puppets. Through performances, events, workshops and dialogue, the goal is to create a space to showcase the unique work and talents of the Vancouver puppet community and to bring the talent of international puppeteers to Vancouver.
Runs until: Sunday October 16, 2016

The Mother and the Whore (ends this week)
Where: The Cimematheque
What: Voted the second greatest French film of all time (after Renoir’s The Rules of the Game) in a poll conducted by Time Out Paris, Jean Eustache’s monumental masterpiece — both the apotheosis and the end of the French New Wave — was a devastating dissection of sexual mores and social disenchantment in post-1968 Paris.
Runs until: Monday October 17, 2016

Piya Behrupiya (Twelfth Night)
Where: York Theatre
What: The Company Theatre, one of Mumbai’s most innovative theatre groups, has created a Bollywood-meets-Shakespeare musical adaptation of Twelfth Night. In the household of Olivia, two campaigns are being quietly waged – one by the lovesick lord Orsino against the heart of the indifferent Olivia; the other by an alliance of servants and hangers-on against the high-handedness of her steward, the pompous Malvolio. When Orsino engages the cross-dressed Viola to plead with Olivia on his behalf, a bittersweet chain of events follow.
Runs until: Saturday October 22, 2016

Trout Lake Farmers Market
Where: Trout Lake
What: This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market. Visitors come from near and far to sample artisan breads and preserves, stock up on free-range and organic eggs and meats, get the freshest, hard-to-find heirloom vegetables and taste the first Okanagan cherries and peaches of the season.
Runs until: Saturday October 22, 2016 (Saturdays)

West End Farmers Market
Where: Comox Street, 9:00am
What: Local produce, prepared foods and crafts, hot food and coffee. Take the dog for a walk and enjoy a market in your urban backyard.
Runs until: Saturday October 22, 2016 (Saturdays)

Roadside Harvest Festival
Where: Abbotsford, BC
What: There’s a beer-tasting 19+ corn maze. And if just that isn’t good enough for you, there’s also a kid friendly one, there are food trucks, and dogs are welcome and encouraged.
Runs until: Sunday October 23, 2016

Kits Market
Where: Kitsilano Community Centre
What: Each week the parking lot of Kits Community Centre fills with organic and conventional product, meat, cheese, seafood and plants as well as tasty baked goods, beautiful crafts and musical entertainment by local musicians. Kids can enjoy the playground and waterpark nearby and parents will find the best selection of organic produce around. Hot coffee and hot food available on site each week.
Runs until: Sunday October 23, 2016 (Sundays)

Prohibition City Walking Tour
Where: Chinatown
What: Delve into Vancouver’s dirtiest secrets on this scandal fuelled walking tour. Starting in the world of the saloon, you trace the story of prohibition in Vancouver while winding along the city’s most storied streets. You’ll hear tales of blind pigs, corrupt mayors, and enterprising bootleggers. Plus you’ll see first hand evidence of opium dens and walk down an alleyway once teeming with over 40 “bawdy houses.”
Runs until: Saturday October 29, 2016

The Flick
Where: Arts Club Theatre
What: Set in a run-down movie theatre, this Pulitzer Prize–winning comic drama follows three underpaid ushers who’ll do anything to keep the beloved and endangered local landmark running. As they share their hidden hopes for the future, an intimacy forms among these outsiders who at first glance have only one thing in common.
Runs until: Saturday October 29, 2016

The 4th Annual Boobies and Wieners Show
Where: Hot Art Wet City
What: The annual dirty and immature nude art show returns for a fourth year. “Four Play” features Serena Bon-Binky, Gwen D’arcy, Vince Hemingson, Erica Lapadat-Janzen, Gordana Ristic, Aleshia St Cyr, Pandora Young and Nikki Pecasso.
Runs until: Saturday October 29, 2016

Grave Tales at Fort Langley
Where: Fort Langley
What: Join expert storytellers for spine-chilling tales of love, mysterious burials and old-school amputations from Fort Langley’s past. Be prepared to walk through various terrains, rain or shine, as you weave through the village of Fort Langley, from the misty cemetery to the deserted Hudson’s Bay Company fort where you’ll warm up around a cozy bonfire.
Runs until: Sunday October 30, 2016

Chopstick Fest
Where: Various locations
What: An event that honours Vancouver’s Chinese migration history through food by exploring culturally diverse, regionally specific and historically unique elements of Chinese cuisine. The festival includes a variety of regional Chinese cuisines from the nine major culinary areas of Mainland China and Taiwan as well as uniquely west coast fusions that embody the unique flavours of Vancouver.
Runs until: Sunday October 30, 2016

An Agreeable State of Uncertainty
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Comprised of photographs, drawings, prints and paintings by artists such as Weegee, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Leon Golub, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Jack Shadbolt and Fred Herzog, these works were selected from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection by artist Stephen Waddell.
Runs until: Sunday October 30, 2016

Harry Callahan: The Street
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. In 2013, the Vancouver Art Gallery received the extraordinary gift of almost 600 Callahan photographs from the Larry and Cookie Rossy Family Foundation.
Runs until: Sunday October 30, 2016

Stephen Waddell: Dark Matter Atlas
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Over the past two decades the Vancouver-based artist Stephen Waddell has become widely known for his photographs and paintings that address urban space, particularly his depictions of the human figure in the modern city. This exhibition will feature a recent body of photographs in which Waddell has departed dramatically from the subject matter of his previous work by focusing on underground caverns in the United States, Canada and Lebanon—spaces once inaccessible that are now open to tourists.
Runs until: Sunday October 30, 2016

Fright Nights
Where: Playland
What: Misty, dark, dreary, and full of spooks and scares may not sound like everyone’s ideal night out, but to those of us who love Halloween, nothing could be better! Playland turns into an animated haunted carnival, including seven haunted houses and fifteen of its best rides; what better way to scream away all of your fears?
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Stanley Park Ghost Train
Where: Stanley Park
What: Each year, the Stanley Park Ghost Train takes riders of all ages on a journey through a mystical Halloween world. This year, the “Day of the Dead” theme encourages you to gather friends and family to remember loved ones and celebrate the festival of life. Visitors will be serenaded by a mariachi band of cockroaches and ride through a tunnel of flames presided over by the Aztec Lord and Lady of Death.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Halloween at FlyOver Canada
Where: FlyOver Canada
What: Join Broomelda and her class of witches and wizards, at the Haunted Witches Academy, and embark on some spooky adventures before buckling up for a special Halloween Ride at FlyOver Canada.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Haunted Circus
Where: The Beaumont
What: An all-new haunted house experience in support of BC Women’s Hospital+ Care Centre Foundation.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Zombie Syndrome: Dead in the Water
Where: Granville Island
What: The Virtual Stage presents an all-new, immersive theatrical outdoor adventure. The fifth annual installment in the company’s hit series will challenge audiences to travel by land and sea as they race to confront a monstrous hybrid of zombies and vampires.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Halloween Mystery Nights
Where: Downtown Vancouver
What: Use your superpowers for good to save the planet on a heroic adventure with your friends in Vancouver Mysteries’ newest game, Heroes and Villains, a comic book style adventure.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Potter’s House of Horrors
Where: Surrey, BC
What: Get scared at this all-out haunted house.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

The Signature of All Things
Where: VanDusen Gardens
What: Original artwork created by the Open Book Art Collective and inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel, The Signature of All Things.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

The Valley Haunt
Where: 1311 Appin Road (North Vancouver)
What: Shipping containers of haunt all themed and ready to scare as you walk through! Suitable for ages 8+.
Runs until: Monday October 31, 2016

Lost Souls of Gastown
Where: Gastown, Vancouver
What: As much a roaming theatre experience as it is a walking tour. Even more than a vivid account of Vancouver’s most dark, gothic early history, it is the tale of a tragic life. The fictional story of George Turle. A man who witnessed first-hand the terror of smallpox, who ran from the Great Fire as it licked the skin from his back, and who became entangled in one of Vancouver’s most notorious murders. The brutal killing of John Bray.
Runs until: Tuesday November 1, 2016

Pareidolia Series by Katsumi Kimoto
Where: Kimoto Gallery
What: New abstract works that capture the forest and the natural world.
Runs until: Saturday November 12, 2016

Trump Card Winner Takes All
Where: The Improv Centre
What: From now through November, everyone’s attention will be glued to a high-stakes game that will affect the world for generations to come – the US election. Vancouver TheatreSports League ups the ante with its own improvised election interpretation.
Runs until: Saturday November 19, 2016

Across The Top: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: This exhibit will transport you to the Arctic where you will learn about its environment and people; the many voyages of discovery; the search for John Franklin’s lost expedition (both historical and modern), and the ultimate discovery of HMS Erebus by Parks Canada.
Runs until: November 2016

Diwali Fest
Where: Various Locations
What: Diwali is known as the festival of lights, a spiritual festival celebrated every autumn. Its spiritual significance is that of light over darkness, good over evil, and hope over despair. The festival is committed to incorporating the inclusion of all cultures and communities with its theme of unity in diversity, uniting people from different cultures through celebratory events and allow South Asian art forms to evolve through other cultural influences, while at the same time influencing others.
Runs until: Wednesday November 30, 2016

Fall for Arts
Where: Whistler, BC
What: Festivals, art shows, markets, movie nights, and arts events all over the city.
Runs until: December 2016

Untangled Figures by Guillaume Leblon
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Creating fictional landscapes or altering an existing space has long been Leblon’s favoured technique for fuelling uncertainty and doubt in order to undermine the stark purity and perfect finish of the museum.
Runs until: Sunday January 1, 2016

All Together Now: Vancouver Collectors and Their Worlds
Where: The Museum of Vancouver
What: 20 beautiful, rare, and unconventional collections, with something for everyone including corsets, prosthetics, pinball machines, taxidermy, toys, and much more. In this exhibition both collector and collected are objects of study, interaction, and delight.
Runs until: Sunday January 8, 2016

White, Steel, Slice, Mask
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Working together for over a decade, the duo’s interdisciplinary practice typically instigates community-based models of participation in order to re-imagine a material record of the present. They investigate tactics of cultural representation while utilizing the methods of anthropology to examine various forms of collecting, interpretation and display.
Runs until: Sunday January 8, 2016

In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology
What: The Sepik River of Papua New Guinea is one of the largest river systems in the world, extraordinarily beautiful, but seldom visited. It is here that the Iatmul people, who live along its banks, have created internationally renowned works of art primarily inspired by stories of the majestic crocodile as the primordial creator. This unique exhibition will showcase the most comprehensive collection of contemporary Sepik art in North America for the first time. In addition to highlighting the exquisite carvings of Papua New Guinea’s latmul people, the exhibition will delve into their economic, cultural, and spiritual connections to the river system, drawing urgent attention to the logging and mining operations that pose environmental threats to the region.
Runs until: January 31, 2017

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