Things to Do in Vancouver this Weekend: March 29, 2018

Have a very happy long weekend of hunting eggs in parks and on mountaintops, an indoor carnival, a visit from a filmmaker, a whole lot of music, two fabulous drag shows and a full blue moon.

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Friday March 30

PlayDome
Where: BC Place Stadium
What: Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break with six fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and over 45 rides and attractions all under one roof.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018

An Evening with Kevin Smith
Where: The Rio Theatre
What: Kevin Smith has written and directed numerous films, including Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Red State & Tusk, My Boring-A** Life and most recently Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat,Lazy Slob Who Did Good. He can be heard daily at Smodcast.com, a vast network of podcasts.This is your chance to get up close and personal with the man who brought the world these films.

VanDusen Great A-Maze-ing Egg Hunt
Where: VanDusen Botanical Gardens
What: Kids can enjoy an outdoor egg hunt in 6 different areas of the garden including the maze, participate in fun themed activities, and purchase tasty treats from on-site food trucks. Each child will receive a bag of chocolate at the end of their hunt.
Runs until: Sunday April 1, 2018

VanDusen AeroMexico Adult Egg Hunt
Where: VanDusen Botanical Gardens
What: Find an Aeromexico egg at VanDusen Botanical Garden, take a photo of it and post it on facebook, Instagram, or twitter with #AeromexicoEggHunt for a chance to win a trip for two to Mexico.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018

RupLoops – A Hip-Hop Concert for Young People & Families
Where: The Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island
What: Rup Sidhu is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, producer and composer. Specializing in vocal percussion and live looping, his sound blends the rhythms of poetry and spoken word with a dynamic range of cultural hybridity.

Pale Waves
Where: The Biltmore
What: British indie-pop.

Mount Eerie
Where: The Vogue
What: Experimental ambient Cascadian folk.

10 Years of Man Up
Where: The Imperial
What: Nearly every month for a decade, Man Up has come together with their myriad stories, struggles, and experiences, with the unifying desire to find connection, community, and some self-proclaimed “gay-as-heck entertainment”.

Seasons 2 Festival
Where: Pacific Coliseum
What: Established in 2011, Seasons Festival continues on into its 8th year with a renewed focus on the theme of emergence, celebrating Vancouver as an innovative hub of music, and highlighting new trends in the music industry.
Runs until: Saturday March 31, 2018

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Saturday March 31

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Easter Scavenger Hunt at the Vancouver Aquarium
Where: Vancouver Aquarium
What: A self-guided hunt featuring astonishing aquatic creatures and their eggs. Many of the creatures at the Vancouver Aquarium hatch their young in fascinating ways and the Aquarium’s eggs-perts have come up with a cracking-good way to share these spectacular stories.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018

Coronation 47 Black and White Ball
Where: Commodore Ballroom
What: Join this fundraiser from the 46th elected Monarchs of Vancouver BC as they close out the night with some of the most incredible drag performers from all across North America including Drag Race All Star Tatianna!

Vancouver Canucks vs. Columbus Blue Jackets
Where: Rogers Arena
What: It’s a hockey game.

 

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Sunday April 1

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Easter Brunch at Grouse Mountain
Where: Grouse Mountain
What: Enjoy a buffet brunch featuring delicious options for all ages plus face painting and an exciting Easter egg hunt led by the Easter Bunny.

Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch at the Sea to Sky Gondola
Where: Sea to Sky Gondola
What: Brunch, and egg hunt, and family crafts.

Jake Bugg
Where: Commodore Ballroom
What: An English singer-songwriter inspired by Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and the brothers Gallagher.

Nils Frahm
Where: The Vogue
What: Berlin-based composer, producer and celebrated performer known for combining classical and electronic music and for an unconventional approach to the piano.

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Celebrating VanDusen Gardens New Bird Garden
Where: VanDusen Gardens
What: There’s a new destination for birds and birders in Vancouver and it’s a special habitat for resident and migratory birds. To celebrate the garden, up to two children get in free with each paid adult, senior or youth.
Runs until: Thursday March 29, 2018

One Sings, The Other Doesn’t
Where: The Cinematheque
What: Bona fide living legend Agnès Varda, who turns 90 this year, drew a line in the sand with this spritely feminist musical-cum-manifesto about women’s reproductive rights, made at a time when a new law legalizing abortion in France was still at risk of repeal. (The law wouldn’t be made permanent until 1979.)
Runs until: Thursday March 29, 2018

Butcher
Where: The Cultch
What: Who is the Butcher? At a police station a mysterious old man is found wearing a foreign military uniform and a Santa hat. A butcher’s hook hangs around his neck, and gouged on the end is a business card with the words, “Arrest me,” scrawled on it. In her foreward to the play, former chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia and former Supreme Court justice, Louise Arbour asks, “where can victims find peace if justice is elusive? Can offenders find closure if punishment is not extended to them?”
Runs until: Saturday March 31, 2018

Seasons 2 Festival
Where: Pacific Coliseum
What: Established in 2011, Seasons Festival continues on into its 8th year with a renewed focus on the theme of emergence, celebrating Vancouver as an innovative hub of music, and highlighting new trends in the music industry.
Runs until: Saturday March 31, 2018

Little Miss Glitz
Where: Performanceworks
What: Little Miss Glitz sets the questionable beauty standards and parenting practices of reality TV’s Toddlers and Tiaras to music in a high-energy musical with a twist: there is no scripted winner. Each night, a panel of judges from the audience will determine who wins, leaving the cast to improvise the end of the show. Comedy flows freely as adults play the reluctant, bratty, and spoiled child contestants forced into competition by their overbearing and viciously over-competitive mothers.
Runs until: Saturday March 31, 2018

VanDusen Great A-Maze-ing Egg Hunt
Where: VanDusen Botanical Gardens
What: Kids can enjoy an outdoor egg hunt in 6 different areas of the garden including the maze, participate in fun themed activities, and purchase tasty treats from on-site food trucks. Each child will receive a bag of chocolate at the end of their hunt.
Runs until: Sunday April 1, 2018

Spring Break at the Space Centre
Where: HR MacMillan Space Centre
What: Do you have what it takes to be a Mars colonist or an asteroid geologist? Learn about living on Mars and the future of space exploration with family friendly activities running from 11:30am to 4:00pm, and the film Asteroid: Mission Extreme in the Planetarium Star Theatre.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018

Stanley Park Easter Train
Where: Stanley Park
What: Ride the Easter train, meet the bunny, and check out a bunny burrow maze.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018 (weekends+holidays)

VanDusen AeroMexico Adult Egg Hunt
Where: VanDusen Botanical Gardens
What: Find an Aeromexico egg at VanDusen Botanical Garden, take a photo of it and post it on facebook, Instagram, or twitter with #AeromexicoEggHunt for a chance to win a trip for two to Mexico.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018

PlayDome
Where: BC Place Stadium
What: Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break with six fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and over 45 rides and attractions all under one roof.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018

Chief Dan George: Actor and Activist
Where: North Vancouver Museum
What: An exhibition exploring the life and legacy of Tsleil-Waututh Chief Dan George (1899- 1981) and his influence as an Indigenous rights advocate and his career as an actor. The exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the George family.
Runs until: April 2018

FlyOver America
Where: FlyOver Canada
What: Glide, dive, swoop and soar over some of America’s must-see destinations. This exhilarating 10-minute flight ride showcases 25 incredible locations in a way you’ve never seen them before.
Runs until: Monday April 2, 2018

空 / Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: The exhibition pairs Canadian modernist Emily Carr with the founder of the New Ink Movement in Hong Kong Lui Shou Kwan. Looking across culture, geography and time to explore expressions of the sublime in landscape painting, the exhibition draws connections by exploring how each artist experimented with abstraction and spirituality in their respective depictions of nature.
Runs until: Sunday April 8, 2018

The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology
What: For generations Salish peoples have been harvesting the resources of their territories, transforming them into robes of rare beauty and power. Symbols of identity, they acted as legal documents and were visible signifiers of the presence of knowledge holders and respected people. Now mostly stored away in museums these masterworks are rarely seen. They have much knowledge to share and many stories to tell. Musqueam asked the Museum to bring these weavings to inspire weavers and share part of this rich legacy with all of us.
Runs until: Sunday April 15, 2018

Public Artwork by New Delhi-Based Artist Asim Waqif
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Inspired by environmental concerns and the pace of human consumption, Waqif will construct an immersive architectural experience from materials collected at re-purpose stores, transfer stations and landfills in the metro Vancouver area. Waqif’s architectural structure will also incorporate an interactive acoustic system using microphones, effects pedals and speakers. Visitors are encouraged to move through the installation maze allowing them to actively experience the architecture instead of passively observing it.
Runs until: Sunday April 15, 2017

Chelsea Hotel
Where: Firehall Arts Centre
What: Leonard Cohen’s powerful and inspirational music is the heartbeat for Chelsea Hotel. Through Cohen’s transcendent songs and the honesty of his lyrics, witness an eclectic cabaret of loves won and lost.
Runs until: Saturday April 21, 2018

Winter Farmers Market
Where: Nat Bailey Stadium
What: Each week you can look forward to finding locally grown vegetables and fruit, meat and seafood from local ranchers and fishermen, artisan cheese and bread, herbs and seasonal nursery items, baked goods, prepared foods and artisanal craft.
Runs until: April 21, 2018 (Saturdays)

The Humans
Where: Arts Club Theatre
What: When three generations of the Blake clan descend on a rundown lower Manhattan duplex for Thanksgiving dinner, much more is simmering than the gravy. As the holiday gaiety subsides, the pressures weighing on the family members reach a boiling point.
Runs until: Sunday April 22, 2018

N. Vancouver
Where: The Polygon Gallery
What: The show in the newly-opened gallery will pay tribute to the evolution of North Vancouver and will feature commissioned works by more than 10 artists, including Andrew Dadson, Gabrielle Hill, Althea Thauberger, Stephen Waddell and Tracy Williams, paired with existing work by Stan Douglas, Greg Girard, Fred Herzog, Curt Lang, and Jeff Wall, among others.
Runs until: Sunday April 29, 2018

In a Different Light
Where: Museum of Anthropology
What: More than 110 historical Indigenous artworks and marks the return of many important works to British Columbia. These objects are amazing artistic achievements. Yet they also transcend the idea of ‘art’ or ‘artifact’. Through the voices of contemporary First Nations artists and community members, this exhibition reflects on the roles historical artworks have today. Featuring immersive storytelling and innovative design, it explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to Indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands.
Runs until: Spring 2019

Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Featuring fifty-five remarkable works, some newly created for the presentation in Vancouver, this retrospective offers a critical and serious meditation on the current state of Japanese society in the midst of a complex, global world, while highlighting Murakami’s important role as a committed and often conflicted commentator on cultural production.
Runs until: Sunday May 6, 2018

Living, Building, Thinking: Art and Expressionism
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: The term Expressionism is invariably associated with the period of art and social activism in Germany between 1905 and 1937, encompassing visual art, literature, philosophy, theatre, film, photography and architecture. Explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early 19th century to the present day through the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art.
Runs until: Monday May 21, 2018

Haida Now
Where: Museum of Vancouver
What: This exhibition features an unparalleled collection of Haida art boasting more than 450 works created as early as 1890. Local Haida artists will share their insights and knowledge about the art pieces, providing visitors with the opportunity to experience a powerful way to engage with the worldview and sensibility of the Haida people while gaining greater appreciation for the role museums can play in the reconciliation movement.
Runs until: Saturday June 16, 2018

Bombhead
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What:  A thematic art exhibition organized by guest curator John O’Brian that explores the emergence and impact of the nuclear age as represented by artists and their art. Encompassing the pre- and postwar period from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, BOMBHEAD brings together paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photographs, film and video that deal with this often dark subject matter.
Runs until: Sunday June 17, 2018

Culture at the Centre
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology
What: Five Indigenous-run cultural centres in BC will be showcased representing six communities: Musqueam Cultural Education and Resource Centre (Musqueam), Squamish-Lil’wat Cultural Centre (Squamish, Lil’wat), Heiltsuk Cultural Education Centre (Heiltsuk), Nisga’a Museum (Nisga’a), and Haida Gwaii Museum (Haida). Covering a wide geographic expanse from Vancouver to the Nass River Valley, this marks the first time the participating communities will come together to share their diverse cultures in one space.
Runs until: Monday October 8, 2018

What are you up to this weekend? Tell me and the rest of Vancouver in the comments below.

 

 

 

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