Things To Do This Weekend In Vancouver

It’s a time of feasting, a time of art, a time of laughing and a time for mourning. This weekend, have all of the feelings. Mourn the Starman’s return home with celebrations around the city, drown it all in a delicious flood of  food and beverages with the Dine Out Vancouver Festival, contemplate life with one of the many art shows across the city, or laugh it off with a comedy show.

 

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Friday January 15

Dine Out Vancouver Festival
Where: Various locations
What: Canada’s largest food and drink festival dishes up 17 days of culinary events and experiences. Try a 3-course meal at hundreds of Vancouver restaurants at $20, $30, and $40 price points. Stay at one of the hotels participating with special rates and full-experience packages. Check out one of the many events – this weekend there’s beer pairings, tea pairings, a brunch crawl, tours, classes and more!
Runs until: Sunday January 31, 2016

Dirty Dancing
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
What: Nobody puts Baby in a corner! It’s the summer of 1963, and 17-year-old Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman is on vacation in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents. Mesmerized by the racy dance moves and pounding rhythms she discovers in the resort’s staff quarters, Baby can’t wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of Johnny Castle, the resort’s sexy dance instructor. Passions ignite and Baby’s life changes forever when she is thrown in to the deep end as Johnny’s leading lady, both on-stage and off.
Runs until: Sunday January 17, 2016

Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: Through a varied collection of painting, photography and sculpture, Vancouver-based artist Tracy McMenemy seduces the viewer into endless and ongoing passage of time in her latest series, Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard. McKenzie Barge and Marineways was a landmark along the Burrard Inlet in Deep Cove, BC; an epicenter of industrial development in the North Vancouver community since 1932.
Runs until: Sunday April 3, 2016

Ideas of Breath
Where: Ayden Gallery opening reception at 7:00pm
What: A 35 piece exhibition from local and internationally published artists in a variety of mediums; photography, mixed media and fibre art.
Runs until: Sunday February 7, 2016

Talk: Re-Discovering Radical History
Where: SFU Vancouver
What: Dr. Joan Sangster (Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Trent University) will be presenting “Rediscovering Radical Histories: ‘Second Wave’ Feminists and the Popularization of Canadian History.”

Geekenders Presents: Galaxy News Radio Live
Where: The Rio Theatre
What: The show, combining the charm of old Hollywood musicals, the classic songs featured in Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4, dinner theatre, and a live radio play, combines charming humour with a live jazz quartet, tasty dinner, tap dancing, and soaring harmonies for a memorable night for video game enthusiasts, jazz lovers, or newbies to both.
Runs until: Saturday January 23, 2016

Dana Claxton: Made to be Ready
Where: SFU Audain Gallery
What: Claxton’s new photographs and video works in Made To Be Ready are informed by her attention to Indigenous womanhood and sovereignty. Drawing on the ideas of Anishinaabe writer and scholar Gerald Vizenor, particularly his notion of survivance which unifies survival and resilience as a means of resistance, Claxton’s photos picture Indigenous women commanding their own mediation of cultural, political and spiritual ways of being and doing.
Runs until: Saturday March 12, 2016

Flight of the Dragon
Where: FlyOverCanada
What: A fully immersive experience including wind, mist, and even scents. Follow a mythical dragon as you soar over some of China’s most spectacular landscapes and scenery during Flight of the Dragon, then stay seated and take off again to experience
FlyOver Canada, a thrilling flight ride that takes you from east to west across Canada.
Runs until: Sunday March 6, 2016

Vancouver Sketch Comedy Festival
Where: Granville Island
What: After knockout freshmen and sophomore years, The Vancouver Sketch Comedy Festival (Sketch Fest) is back for a third year of top notch comedy from home and away.
Runs until: Saturday January 16, 2016

Gaze
Where: Ayden Gallery opening reception at 7:00pm
What: The female body is the most painted, sculpted, sketched, posed, obsessed over, fetishized, and analyzed to death subject in the history of art. We’ve been transcendent, holy, and virginal. We’ve been shocking, seductive, and surreal. But always, we have been the art subject – only rarely the creators of our own depiction. Through realist and surrealist painting, drawing, digital art and collage, Gaze will explore what the visual landscape might look like dominated by a female perspective.
Runs until: Sunday February 7, 2016

Mark Dresser Meets Vancouver
Where: Western Front (303 East 8th)
What: Celebrated American bassist Mark Dresser performs with some of the stars of Vancouver’s hotbed of music improvisers: JP Carter, trumpet; Peggy Lee, cello; Dylan van der Schyff, drums; Chris Gestrin, piano; Ron Samworth, guitar; Aram Bajakian, guitar and John Paton, saxophones.
Runs until: Saturday January 16, 2016

Mythos
Where: The Fall Tattooing & Artist Gallery opening reception at 8:00pm
What: An art show dedicated to fables and tall tales – help us celebrate the weird and wonderful world of myths. Hosted by the FALL tattoing and artist gallery and featuring artwork from Emily Carr students and alumni.
Runs until: Wednesday February 10, 2016

#SingItFwd Finale
Where: The Vogue, 7:00pm
What: This year’s line up will remain a secret until the day of each show. 100% of ticket sales go to Saint James Music Academy (SJMA) for instruments, meals and social programs.

Movement III
Where: Untitled Art Space (436 Columbia), 8:00pm
What: Join your pals at SAD Mag for the third installment of their Movement Exhibiton featuring *new* art from the Movement Issue (No. 19) and a special presentation of Point of Inflection Cinemagraphs.

 

 

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Saturday January 16

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David Bowie Memorial & Glam Party
Where: Xi Shi Lounge at the Shangri-La, 8:00pm
What: The great Starman has returned home, and here is one of the ways you can glamourously (or unglamourously) mourn with art and music. He was an inspiration to the world, he made it OK and even cool to be strange. He inspired countless musicians and artists.  No entry fee.

Street Food City
Where: North Plaza, Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Celebrating its fifth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver’s Street Food carts all in one convenient location. Tents, tables, seating and music make for a festive mid-winter outdoor picnic! Special Dine Out Vancouver Festival creations and pricing will be available.
Runs until: Sunday January 24, 2016

Vancouver Aquarium’s Annual Diver’s Weekend
Where: Vancouver Aquarium
What: There will be numerous exhibitors including diving clubs, organizations and businesses throughout the Aquarium’s galleries. Catch live diving demonstrations by the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy or travel back in time to watch a diver take the plunge in a vintage hard hat dive suit. Young children are encouraged to get hands on with fun and engaging activities in the galleries, such as diving-themed arts and crafts and face painting.
Runs until: Sunday January 17, 2016

Tchaikovsky and the Mermaid
Where: The Orpheum, 8:00pm
What: One of the most important and in-demand violinists in the world today, Augustin Hadelich makes his much-anticipated VSO return, performing maybe the most popular violin concerto ever written. Zemlinsky’s lavish, rarely-performed orchestral masterpiece The Mermaid is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale of the mermaid who sacrifices herself for an unrequited love.

Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival
Where: Various Locations
What: Vancouver’s best chocolatiers, pastry shops, bakeries, cafes, gelato and ice cream parlours join forces to make the humble hot chocolate hotter than it has ever been before.
Runs until: Sunday February 14, 2016

Winter Beer Hall
Where: Big Rock Urban Brewery, 4:00pm
What: Dine Out Vancouver and Big Rock Urban Brewery & Eatery team up with several other local Craft Breweries, including Real Cask, Main Street Brewing, Bridge Brewing, Doan’s, and Storm Brewing to celebrate everything beer with a Winter Beer Hall. Sample beer from five unique casks and enjoy a three- course dinner to fill you – and fill out – a perfect night in a festive beer hall atmosphere.

Love: Bowie: A Dance Party (encore presentation)
Where: The Fox Cabaret, 10:30pm
What: This party was just celebrating David Bowie’s slightly belated birthday on January 9th, and are now putting on an encore presentation of the whole shebang to say farewell. Let’s dance, mourn with the joy he brought to us, put on that dress and let your face be a mess.

Teenage Dirtbag
Where: Hot Art Wet City, 8:00pm
What: Hosted by stand-up comic and New Yorker cartoonist Jacob Samuel, comedians Jane Stanton, Adam Pateman, Katie-Ellen Humphries, Ivan Decker, Brent Constantine and Stefan MacNeil explore the follies of youth.

Gastown Brunch Crawl
Where: Prado Café (100 West Hastings)
What: Part of Dine Out Vancouver, this tour brings you to 6+ restaurants throughout the Gastown neighbourhood as you taste all sorts of dishes in this Brunch crawl using your “passport” as your guide.

Vancouver Sketch Comedy Festival
Where: Granville Island
What: After knockout freshmen and sophmore years, The Vancouver Sketch Comedy Festival (Sketch Fest) is back for a third year of top notch comedy from home and away.
Runs until: Saturday January 16, 2016

Girlfriends & Boyfriends
Where: Pat’s Pub (403 East Hastings)
What: Local post-punk with Soft Haze, Did You Die and Owl Scowl.

ECCW Wresting: Ballroom Brawl
Where: Commodore Ballroom, 8:00pm
What:Wrestling. Watch some people wrestle. You get to do a lot of yelling and perhaps you can make a big glittery sign.

The Ghost of Blood Alley
Where: The Roxy, 7:00pm
What: Local bluesy bluegrass, with Dirty Mike and the Boys.

Venom Inc.
Where: Venue (881 Granville)
What: Metal from England, influenced by Prime influences of the formative band were Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motörhead and Kiss.

 

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Sunday January 17

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Rainbow Creek Dancers
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery, 3:00pm
What: Tuul gundlas cyaal xaada, Rainbow Creek Dancers, perform Haida song and dance in the exhibition “The Gund Collection: Contemporary and Historical Art from the Northwest Coast” to demonstrate the interrelation of art, ceremony, objects and spirits within First Nations culture, past and present.

JFL Northwest Presents: Bill Burr
Where: The Orpheum, 7:00pm
What: An American comedian, writer and actor, Bill Burr first gained notoriety for his recurring role on the second season of Chappelle’s Show. He developed a comedic style of uninformed logic that made him a regular with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon.

Cats on your Mats
Where: Stretch Vancouver (180 E Pender), 8:00am
What: Two of the most relaxing things in probably the entire universe come together (save for wine, reading, and sleep I suppose) – cats and yoga! All proceeds benefit the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA).

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Director’s cut on 35mm
Where: The Cinemateque, 1:00pm
What: Released the same year as compadre George Lucas’s game-changing Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) was the antithesis to Lucas’s franchise-building space opera: a decidedly down-to-earth take on the visitors-from-space film that looked with wonderment to the stars rather than traversing them at lightspeed. Richard Dreyfuss plays an unhinged Indiana suburbanite and UFO eyewitness; Spielberg’s film-school idol, François Truffaut, is the sky-watching scientist.

World Chef Exchange: Sydney
Where: West Restauraunt, 6:00pm
What: Join us in welcoming Marque Restaurant’s, Chef Mark Best of Sydney, Australia to our city for this wonderful collaborative dinner hosted by Executive Chef Quang Dang and the entire team at West.

Brewmaster’s Breakfast
Where: Big Rock Urban Brewery, 10:00am
What: This family-friendly buffet breakfast will feature a host of beer-inspired and beer-infused delicacies like spent grain pancakes, beer kielbasa and hopped hollandaise… plus lots of other delicious breakfast buffet items to start your day off right. Of course, there’s beer too!  

Roman Rabinovich, Pianist
Where: Vancouver Playhouse, 3:00pm
What: Praised by the New York Times for his “uncommon sensitivity and feeling”, audiences first got a glimpse of Roman’s brilliance when he debuted at age 10 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta.  He has since performed as a soloist with many acclaimed Israeli ensembles and orchestras abroad. The recital program includes pieces by Haydn, Schumann, Webern, Beethoven and Smetana.

Cocktail Masterclass: Cognac
Where: Uva Wine & Cocktail Bar, 11:30am
What: Join award-winning bartender and UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar manager Lauren Mote as she holds court behind the pine for a one-of-a-kind cocktail seminar sponsored by Hennessy Cognac.

Olympic Village Brunch Crawl
Where: Meet at Whole Foods (510 West 8th)
What: Dine Out Vancouver Festival does brunch! Presented by Vancouver Foodster, this event is sure to please anyone who loves brunch. Visit 6+ restaurants throughout the Olympic Villlage neighbourhood as you taste all sorts of dishes in this Brunch crawl using your “passport” as your guide.

 

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Ongoing

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Olaka Iku Da Nala; It’s a Good Day (ends this weekend)
Where: Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery (312 Water)
What: Coastal Peoples Gallery is proud to present renowned Kwakwaka’wakw/Tlingit artist Corrine Hunt who will showcase a selection of innovative and progressive new works from her latest jewelry and mixed-media collection. Corrine Hunt is recognized as the co-creator of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic medals.
Runs until: Saturday January 16, 2016

Mark Dresser Meets Vancouver (this weekend only)
Where: Western Front (303 East 8th)
What: Celebrated American bassist Mark Dresser performs with some of the stars of Vancouver’s hotbed of music improvisers: JP Carter, trumpet; Peggy Lee, cello; Dylan van der Schyff, drums; Chris Gestrin, piano; Ron Samworth, guitar; Aram Bajakian, guitar and John Paton, saxophones.
Runs until: Saturday January 16, 2016

VanDusen Evening Lights (ends this weekend)
Where: VanDusen Botanical Gardens
What: VanDusen Festival of Lights has ended and Santa and the gnomes have gone back to the North Pole, but we’ve kept many of our lights on for visitors to enjoy in a more relaxed environment. Plus, admission is just regular garden entry
Runs until: Sunday January 17, 2016

Heathers: The Musical (ends this weekend)
Where: The York Theatre
What: If you were a 90s child, of course you know the film. The darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, teenage misfit who never dreamed of getting in the most popular and cruel clique at high school. But she did. She never dreamed of dating the dark and mystery new kid at her school. But she did. And she certainly never dream of killing anyone. But she kind of did.
Runs until: Sunday January 17, 2016

Dirty Dancing (ends this weekend)
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
What: Nobody puts Baby in a corner! It’s the summer of 1963, and 17-year-old Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman is on vacation in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents. Mesmerized by the racy dance moves and pounding rhythms she discovers in the resort’s staff quarters, Baby can’t wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of Johnny Castle, the resort’s sexy dance instructor. Passions ignite and Baby’s life changes forever when she is thrown in to the deep end as Johnny’s leading lady, both on-stage and off.
Runs until: Sunday January 17, 2016

Vancouver Aquarium’s Annual Diver’s Weekend (this weekend only)
Where: Vancouver Aquarium
What: There will be numerous exhibitors including diving clubs, organizations and businesses throughout the Aquarium’s galleries. Catch live diving demonstrations by the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy or travel back in time to watch a diver take the plunge in a vintage hard hat dive suit. Young children are encouraged to get hands on with fun and engaging activities in the galleries, such as diving-themed arts and crafts and face painting.
Runs until: Sunday January 17, 2016

Kim Boem (ends this weekend)
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Canada of work by Korean artist Kim Beom. Comprising a survey spanning over twenty years and made across a range of material and form, the exhibition presents characteristically humorous and inquisitive takes on the way we come to see and know things.
Runs until: Sunday January 17, 2016

The Rivals
Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre
What: The whirlwind Edwardian plot revolves around the bookishly romantic Lydia Languish, who adores her lover when she thinks he’s a poor ensign, but is appalled when he turns out to be a well-connected Captain. Adding to complications, Lydia finds herself beset on all sides by a retinue of eccentric, bumbling suitors and stymied at every turn by her over-bearing, formidable, and linguistically-challenged aunt, Mrs. Malaprop.
Runs until: Saturday January 23, 2016

Geekenders Presents: Galaxy News Radio Live
Where: The Rio Theatre
What: The show, combining the charm of old Hollywood musicals, the classic songs featured in Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4, dinner theatre, and a live radio play, combines charming humour with a live jazz quartet, tasty dinner, tap dancing, and soaring harmonies for a memorable night for video game enthusiasts, jazz lovers, or newbies to both.
Runs until: Saturday January 23, 2016

Street Food City
Where: North Plaza, Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Celebrating its fifth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver’s Street Food carts all in one convenient location. Tents, tables, seating and music make for a festive mid-winter outdoor picnic! Special Dine Out Vancouver Festival creations and pricing will be available.
Runs until: Sunday January 24, 2016

Embracing Canada
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: For over a century the natural world and our relationship to it was a major subject for Canadian artists. Through paintings in the 1800s by Cornelius Krieghoff, Zacharie Vincent and others, Embracing Canada begins with early depictions of Indigenous peoples. European settlers in the Canadian landscape are also depicted by the artists such as Charlotte Schreiber and Homer Watson, who are associated with the founding of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880, as well as the artists associated with the expanding Canadian Pacific Railway including Frederick M. Bell-Smith. As the exhibition progresses, artists’ paintings of Canada shift toward the landscape itself rather than human activity within it, as demonstrated by extraordinary works by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. They and other figures such as Emily Carr, David Milne and Jock Macdonald, who begin to define a unique modern Canadian style.
Runs until: Tuesday January 24, 2016

Improv After Dark
Where: 1502 Duranleau Street (Granville Island)
What: This edgy show is 60 minutes of non-stop, fast-paced no-holds-barred comedy for grown-ups. Featuring a roster of all your favourite improvisers, and a fully-stocked bar.
Runs until: Friday January 29, 2016

Traces That Resemble Us
Where: The Monte Clark Gallery and The Cinematheque
What: Motivated by Jeff Wall’s history as a former film programmer at The Cinematheque, Traces That Resemble Us invites twelve prominent Vancouver-based artists to each program a film that has been influential to his or her practice, and to exhibit artwork for a corresponding group exhibition at Monte Clark Gallery.
Runs until: Saturday January 30, 2016

The Special
Where: Hot Art Wet City (2206 Main)
What: The Special is not at all about the strict documentation of the city, but rather presents a crafted idea of it as it exists in our thoughts and memories. By artist Kevin Lanthier, the assembly of the pieces is done with the intention of creating a series of hyperreal, yet nostalgic little worlds, each of them distinctly and recognizably Vancouver.
Runs until: Saturday January 30, 2016

Dine Out Vancouver Festival
Where: Various locations
What: Canada’s largest food and drink festival dishes up 17 days of culinary events and experiences. Try a 3-course meal at hundreds of Vancouver restaurants at $20, $30, and $40 price points. Stay at one of the hotels participating with special rates and full-experience packages. Check out one of the many events – this weekend there’s beer pairings, tea pairings, a brunch crawl, tours, classes and more!
Runs until: Sunday January 31, 2016

The Gund Collection: Contemporary and Historical Art from the Northwest Coast
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: The Gund collection includes magnificent nineteenth-century masks, feast bowls, argillite carvings and other objects from across the region, including from the Haida, Nuu-chahnulth, Kwawaka’wakw, Tlingit, Heiltsuk and Nuxalk First Nations.
Runs until: January 31, 2016

Rookie Night
Where: 1502 Duranleau Street (Granville Island), 7:30pm
What: These 90 minutes of improv will showcase the talent of these new players and prepare them for the bright lights of main stage.
Runs until: Sunday January 31, 2016

Regular Expressions
Where: 221A (221 E Georgia) opening reception at 7:00pm
What: Not readymades, but ready-to-be-mades. These objects and images that have been called, for the moment, “art” seem too strange and slick to have simply been picked from the mundane cache of the “real world;” they smack of a virtual well of potential forms that is somehow both more generic and at the same time more customized.
Runs until: Saturday February 6, 2016

Gaze
Where: Ayden Gallery opening reception at 7:00pm
What: The female body is the most painted, sculpted, sketched, posed, obsessed over, fetishized, and analyzed to death subject in the history of art. We’ve been transcendent, holy, and virginal. We’ve been shocking, seductive, and surreal. But always, we have been the art subject – only rarely the creators of our own depiction. Through realist and surrealist painting, drawing, digital art and collage, Gaze will explore what the visual landscape might look like dominated by a female perspective.
Runs until: Sunday February 7, 2016

Mythos
Where: The Fall Tattooing & Artist Gallery opening reception at 8:00pm
What: An art show dedicated to fables and tall tales – help us celebrate the weird and wonderful world of myths. Hosted by the FALL tattoing and artist gallery and featuring artwork from Emily Carr students and alumni.
Runs until: Wednesday February 10, 2016

Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival
Where: Various Locations
What: Vancouver’s best chocolatiers, pastry shops, bakeries, cafes, gelato and ice cream parlours join forces to make the humble hot chocolate hotter than it has ever been before.
Runs until: Sunday February 14, 2016

Remote Viewing by Noxious Sector Arts Collective
Where: Grunt Gallery (350 East 2nd)
What: A performance and responsive installation presenting human and camera interactions as a site for contemplation.
Runs until: Saturday February 14, 2016

Ideas of Breath
Where: Ayden Gallery opening reception at 7:00pm
What: A 35 piece exhibition from local and internationally published artists in a variety of mediums; photography, mixed media and fibre art.
Runs until: Sunday February 7, 2016

Walking on the Line
Where: Centre A
What: Through large-scale re-assemblages of his ongoing photographic documentation of urban environments and architectural structures, Seung Woo Back investigates the precarious nature of the medium of photography, while offering an opportunity to gain a fresh perspective regarding our relationship to our built environment.
Runs until: February 20, 2016

Voices of the Corridors: Repression of the Self, Repression of a Movement, Oppression of a People
Where: Gallery Gachet
What: A curated art exhibition in which collective members engage themes regarding contemporary disability and mental health activism by way of their diverse and politicized community– based art practices.
Runs until: Sunday February 21, 2016

Dana Claxton: Made to be Ready
Where: SFU Audain Gallery
What: Claxton’s new photographs and video works in Made To Be Ready are informed by her attention to Indigenous womanhood and sovereignty. Drawing on the ideas of Anishinaabe writer and scholar Gerald Vizenor, particularly his notion of survivance which unifies survival and resilience as a means of resistance, Claxton’s photos picture Indigenous women commanding their own mediation of cultural, political and spiritual ways of being and doing.
Runs until: Saturday March 12, 2016

Gwaii Haanas: Land Sea People
Where: Bill Reid Gallery
What: Stories of the only place in Canada protected from mountaintop to seafloor. Thirty years after the Haida took a stand at Lyell Island, this unique place exists as an unprecedented example of cooperative management, between the Haida Nation and the Government of Canada.
Runs until: March 27, 2016

Body Worlds: Animals Inside Out
Where: Science World
What: Body Worlds creator and anatomist, Dr Gunther von Hagens takes you on an anatomical safari. As you explore this captivating exhibition, you will experience the intricate biology, zoology and physiology of a variety of the world’s most spectacular creatures.
Runs until: Sunday March 28, 2016

(In)Visable: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art
Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology
What: Against a backdrop of skyscrapers and mountains, ghosts and spirits haunt the island of Taiwan. Taiwan’s urban and rural life cycles are filled with rituals and ceremonies of various faiths ranging from Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism to Christianity, Chinese folk religions and animistic beliefs of Taiwan’s Aboriginal peoples. While religion affects, challenges and intermingles with the secular world, myths, legends and fairytales add other layers to the spiritual world of Taiwan.
Runs until: April 3, 2016

Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: Through a varied collection of painting, photography and sculpture, Vancouver-based artist Tracy McMenemy seduces the viewer into endless and ongoing passage of time in her latest series, Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard. McKenzie Barge and Marineways was a landmark along the Burrard Inlet in Deep Cove, BC; an epicenter of industrial development in the North Vancouver community since 1932.
Runs until: Sunday April 3, 2016

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: Saturday April 23, 2016 (Saturdays)

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: May 2016

What are you up to this weekend? Tell me and the rest of Vancouver in the comments below or tweet me directly at @lextacular

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