Things To Do In Vancouver This Weekend

Remember to call your mom this weekend – or if that’s not in the cards, appreciating any cool mom you know will do just fine. Perhaps take a mom (or yourself) out to see some birds, check out an art show, catch a couple documentary films, or even cheer on some burlesque performers to celebrate the moves and the bods of moms, non-moms, and maybe even cat or dog moms (adopted, I mean. Though if you want to cheer on some actual cats and dogs with kittens and puppies, go right ahead.)

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Ongoing

Friday May 6

Vancouver Bird Week
Where: Various Vancouver locations
What: Get to know all of the feathered flutterers who share Vancouver’s skies, gardens, and parks with workshops, art shows, art-making, nest box building, classes and events.
Runs until: Saturday May 14, 2016

DOXA Documentary Festival
Where: Various locations
What: Ten days of international documentaries give you the opportunity to see through someone else’s eyes, into other worlds, and you might even learn something along the way. Genres such as activism, sexuality, race, sports, war, science, art, docudrama and animation weave through shows you may not get to see on the big screen anywhere else.
Runs until: Sunday May 15, 2016

Vancouver International Burlesque Festival
Where: Vancouver Playhouse
What: The largest and longest running burlesque festival in Canada is back to seduce the city for its eleventh year. This year’s event will feature special guests seen on stages around the world and on the silver screen.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Chutzpah!PLUS presents Ballet Kelowna
Where: Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, 8:00pm
What: A delightful mixed program with choreography by Simone Orlando, Heather Myers, James Kudelka and John Allyne – all pieces accompanied with live music from Toronto’s Continuum Contemporary Music.

First Annual Woolith Fair
Where: From Vancouver’s West Side to Chilliwack
What: The first-ever Woolith Fair yarn crawl, a festival of all things knitted, is for knitters, crocheters, and fibre enthusiasts. Participants of the crawl will collect stamps on the Woolith Fair passport at each of the locations they visit, all while taking advantage of special sales, demonstrations, and activities in each location.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Creative Mornings: Shachi Kurl
Where: SFU Woodwords, 8:30am
What: A public policy analyst, Shachi Kurl directs research, communications, partner development and operations at the Angus Reid Institute. She brings 15 years of experience to her role, spending the first part of her career as political reporter and as a representative for the small business community.

The Lawyer Show: Hairspray
Where: The Waterfront Theatre (Granville Island)
What: Watch a group of actual lawyers from all walks of legal life (from partners in large corporate firms to retired practitioners) perform Hairspray. The Lawyer Show is a fundraiser for two of Vancouver’s most cherished theatre institutions: Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Missing From Me
Where: Roundhouse Community Centre
What: Eleven travellers at a train station must adapt to a sudden change in their plans. Due to this situation that is beyond their control, they are confronted with life altering decisions and end up discovering true inner strength and what family means to them. Issues addressed in the play involve abuse, transphobia, and the importance of support.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

PACE + Kaleido
Where: Studio 1398
What: Two separate, yet thematically connected dance explorations of our personal relationship with living in a dense urban environment. A high-energy mix of street dance forms collide on stage with themes of anxiety, competition, suppression, and isolation.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Quick & Dirty
Where: Hot Art Wet City
What: A huge collection of tiny gouache studies created over the past year from Laura Bifano and Mike West. This show explores what happens when artists aren’t precious about their work and create for the sake of creating. Find the right little piece for your home at a great little price.
Runs until: Saturday May 28, 2016

Tiko Kerr Body Language
Where: Soma Gallery opening reception at 6:00pm
What: For Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr, the on-going refugee crisis and the current political conversation surrounding racial and religious identity has prompted him to creatively consider the way we look at the body and how it is encoded with meanings that are more artfully complex than first thought.
Runs until: Saturday May 28, 2016

Shipyards Night Market
Where: Shipbuilders’ Square
What: Over 100 vendors selling fresh foods, locally-made products, crafts, and other wares. There is also a beer garden, food trucks, and boozy lemonade.
Runs until: September 30, 2016 (Fridays)

VSO Pops: Broadway Rocks!
Where: The Orpheum Theatre, 8:00pm
What: Feel the energy of the Great White Way on the Orpheum stage, as the VSO, conductor Steven Reineke, and three of Broadway’s brightest stars lead you on a rockin’ Broadway revue. You’ll hear music from Dreamgirls, Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, Chess, Mamma Mia, The Lion King, Jersey Boys, and more Broadway favourites!
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Take a Bow
Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre
What: A David Bowie event! An evening of dance celebrating the life and music of a legend, David Bowie. ‘Take A Bow” explores the many different faces and genres of David Bowie’s music through all different dance styles. The night will take you on a journey through the decades while enticing your eyes with Ballet, Hip Hop, Contemporary and Theatre.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Echo Nebraska
Where: The Biltmore
What: Join Vancouver’s Echo Nebraska as they embark on their 2016 Western Canadian Tour at The Biltmore Cabaret on Friday, May 6th. Supporting the band in this hometown show are The Ruffled Feathers & Coastline Pilot.

Kate’s Address
Where: Arthur Erickson Waterfall Building
What: Part pop-up shop, part showroom and part gallery, shop local makers and artists featuring fine furniture and home accessories.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Fleurs de Villes
Where: Oakridge Centre
What: This unique, five-day exhibition combines fashion and fresh florals through inventive and artful spring displays. A pop-up fresh flower market will also appear for one-day only on Saturday, May 7, just in time for Mother’s Day.
Runs until: Saturday May 8, 2016

In This Together
Where: Gallery Gachet opening reception at 6:00pm
What: An in-house exhibition with an online auction featuring the renowned Gallery Gachet community of local, national and international artists working in diverse mediums and artistic styles. Artwork available at a range of price-points.
Runs until: Sunday June 19, 2016

The Mindful Pop-Up
Where: 434 Columbia
What: Offering locally made goods that support mental well-being and providing a safe space for mental health conversations. This pop-up supports The Vibrant Lives Foundation with every purchase.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Saturday May 7

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Chutzpah!PLUS presents Avishai Cohen Quartet
Where: Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, 8:00pm
What: Award- winning trumpeter Avishai Cohen – voted a Rising Star three years running in the DownBeat Critics Poll – has earned international renown as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit and ever-creative trumpet player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz.

Field Guide by Jochen Lempert
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Trained as a biologist, Lempert photographs plants, animals and other natural phenomena with both scientific acumen and a poetic appreciation of natural beauty. His approach is scientific as well as humorous. Always working in black and white, his work engages with a diverse range of subjects and genres, ranging from everyday views to abstracted details.
Runs until: Sunday July 17, 2016

Playland at the PNE
Where: Hastings Park
What: The smell of Mini Donuts and the screams of the rickety wooden coaster are in the air! In addition to carnival games, a ton of rides for all ages, the newest ride – added last year is Canada’s most extreme pendulum ride. The Beast, which boats a one-armed pendulum, swinging 120 degrees in either direction, reaches heights of over 125 feet and speeds of more than 90 km/h.
Runs until: September 18th, 2016 (select dates)

Got Craft? Spring Edition
Where: 115 Victory Ship Way (North Vancouver)
What: Shop for one of a kind goods, meet local makers, and talk about their creative processes. You can also join a D.I.Y. workshop and craft your own take home project.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Phoenix Chamber Choir: Tell Me You Love Me
Where: Oakridge United Church, 7:30pm
What: Songs of devotion, loss, playfulness, trust, and comfort that accompany the many different expressions of love, from the exuberant “Voice Dance” (originally written and premiered as a light and playful wedding processional), to the grief-stricken “And So I Go On”.

Out and About Walking Tour: South False Creek Sea Wall
Where: False Creek
What: Widely known for recreation, the Vancouver seawall is also a fun, convenient and normal way for many residents to travel through the city. Highlights of this walk include the Olympic village sustainable development as well as recent and planned improvements to accommodate the large number of residents who regularly use the seawall. The tour will also include a stop at City Studio, an experimentation and innovation hub where City staff, students and community members design and launch projects on the ground.

Free Comic Book Day
Where: Participating comic book stores
What: What it sounds like – some stores will be giving away free comic books.

Uncle Abe’s Season Opener Patio Party
Where: Uncle Abe’s
What: Enjoy the East Van locals’ favorite neighbourhood caesar, as you gear up for prizes, singalongs, and a chalk drawing contest.

Port Moody Fingerling Festival
Where: City of Port Moody Rec Centre
What: That’s “fingerLING.” As in teeny fish. Let’s keep it G-rated, folks. Help Noons Creek Hatchery release 40,000 young salmon with over 80 environmental organizations.

Said the Whale
Where: The Fox Cabaret, 9:00pm
What: The Juno-award winning group have committed to a tour with a full set of songs that literally haven’t been written yet. Specifically selecting smaller, more intimate venues for the April and May dates, each night will be “an evening with” Said The Whale featuring a set of brand new material, followed by a set of Said The Whale classics.

Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Portland Timbers
Where: BC Place Stadium, 2:00pm
What: It’s a soccer game. Or a football game, depending on where you’re from.

Katchafire
Where: Venue (881 Granville)
What: Hailing from the mighty H-Town (Hamilton), Aoteoroa (New Zealand), Katchafire, have become a global roots reggae phenomenon.

Take a Bow
Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre
What: A David Bowie event! An evening of dance celebrating the life and music of a legend, David Bowie. ‘Take A Bow” explores the many different faces and genres of David Bowie’s music through all different dance styles. The night will take you on a journey through the decades while enticing your eyes with Ballet, Hip Hop, Contemporary and Theatre.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Sunday May 8

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Mother’s Day at VanDusen Botanical Garden
Where: VanDusen Botanical Garden
What: Enjoy live jazz music and a photo booth at Heron Lake. Bring a picnic lunch, visit a special outdoor pop-up café by Truffles or make a reservation to dine at Shaughnessy Restaurant.

An Evening with David Sedaris
Where: The Vogue, 7:00pm
What:Dress in your best corduroy and denim and listen the this hilarious and clever author talk about.. whatever he wants to talk about. It’ll probably be pretty funny.

THE SHOW at Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Where: Emily Carr University (Granville Island)
What: A new crop of freshly graduated artists show off what four years of stress, sweat, sleepless nights, papers (yes, art university also has a lot of paper writing) and materials of all kinds has resulted in – at least the physical manifestations.
Runs until: Sunday May 22, 2016

Tight Shorts: Animation + Film/Video Grad Show
Where: The York Theatre, 2pm animation | 7:30pm film/video
What: Some of the students described above chose to work in the realm of video and animation. See it one night only in theatre (or check it out in a smaller theatre at the university throughout the duration of the rest of the art show.)
Runs until: Sunday May 22, 2016

East Van Bazaar
Where: The Wise Hall
What: Celebrate and explore a thriving community of local artists, artisans, makers, shakers, doers and dreamers. Tickle your fancy with a distinct selection of hand-crafted jewelry, local woodwork , new gadgets, oddities, trinkets, collectibles, cool handmade items, vintage reworks, and heaps more.

Al Simmons: Symphonic Shenanigans
Where: The Orpheum, 2:00pm
What: Award-winner Al Simmons is a creative genius whose highly original performances of profound wackiness and of off-the-wall inventions have taken the arts of music and comedy to unparalleled heights of hilarity. Al’s humour touches a responsive chord in people of every age — join Al and the VSO for a high-energy show that’s fun for the whole family.

Coasts
Where: The Biltmore
What: UK rock band, on tour to support their debut self-titled release.

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VSO Pops: Broadway Rocks! (this weekend only)
Where: The Orpheum Theatre, 8:00pm
What: Feel the energy of the Great White Way on the Orpheum stage, as the VSO, conductor Steven Reineke, and three of Broadway’s brightest stars lead you on a rockin’ Broadway revue. You’ll hear music from Dreamgirls, Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, Chess, Mamma Mia, The Lion King, Jersey Boys, and more Broadway favourites!
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Retreat: Works by Scott Sueme (ends this weekend)
Where: Kimoto Art Gallery
What: A departure from the graphic landscapes in my previous series ‘Arena’, this new work zooms in to focus on the essence of form, shape and the interactions of colour. The colour palette ranges from high contrast, to subtle neutral and off-white. The selection of these colours aims to capture the zeitgeist of our modern landscape – a fresh take on primary tones and in-between values.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Vancouver International Burlesque Festival (this weekend only)
Where: Vancouver Playhouse
What: The largest and longest running burlesque festival in Canada is back to seduce the city for its eleventh year. This year’s event will feature special guests seen on stages around the world and on the silver screen.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Bulaklak ng Paraiso (Flower of Paradise) (ends this weekend)
Where: Centre A
What: Filipino-Canadian artist Patrick Cruz will transform the main gallery space of Centre A into an elaborate immersive environment that blends personal, political and historical narratives in order to meditate on the conditions and processes of displacement, cultural hybridity and the material excesses of our globalised world.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

The Valley (ends this weekend)
Where: Arts Club Theatre
What: A teenage boy’s arrest on a SkyTrain platform is the catalyst for this topical story about the contradictory attempts to balance care and public safety. Meet Connor, who has recently dropped out of college; his mother, Sharon, who is struggling with her son’s recent behaviour; Dan, the police officer involved in the SkyTrain incident; and Dan’s wife, Janie, whose own state is driving a wedge through their relationship.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

The Lawyer Show: Hairspray (this weekend only)
Where: The Waterfront Theatre (Granville Island)
What: Watch a group of actual lawyers from all walks of legal life (from partners in large corporate firms to retired practitioners) perform Hairspray. The Lawyer Show is a fundraiser for two of Vancouver’s most cherished theatre institutions: Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Missing From Me (this weekend only)
Where: Roundhouse Community Centre
What: Eleven travellers at a train station must adapt to a sudden change in their plans. Due to this situation that is beyond their control, they are confronted with life altering decisions and end up discovering true inner strength and what family means to them. Issues addressed in the play involve abuse, transphobia, and the importance of support.
Runs until: Saturday May 7, 2016

Evita (ends this weekend)
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
What: Don’t cry for her, Argentina. Set in the politically turbulent 1930s and 1940s, Evita follows Eva Perón’s remarkable journey from small-town slums to the tango clubs of Buenos Aires, through a career in B movies, and to the presidential palace on the arm of her new husband, General Juan Perón. Fearlessly aggressive in defending the rights of workers and the poor, Eva attracted the wrath of the aristocracy and the universal love of the people.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Got Craft? Spring Edition (this weekend only)
Where: 115 Victory Ship Way (North Vancouver)
What: Shop for one of a kind goods, meet local makers, and talk about their creative processes. You can also join a D.I.Y. workshop and craft your own take home project.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

First Annual Woolith Fair (this weekend only)
Where: From Vancouver’s West Side to Chilliwack
What: The first-ever Woolith Fair yarn crawl, a festival of all things knitted, is for knitters, crocheters, and fibre enthusiasts. Participants of the crawl will collect stamps on the Woolith Fair passport at each of the locations they visit, all while taking advantage of special sales, demonstrations, and activities in each location.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Kate’s Address (this weekend only)
Where: Arthur Erickson Waterfall Building
What: Part pop-up shop, part showroom and part gallery, shop local makers and artists featuring fine furniture and home accessories.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Arts Alive (ends this weekend)
Where: Burnaby Art Gallery
What: Highlighting over 50 works by high school students from eight schools in the Burnaby district, the works were selected by a jury that included BAG staff and volunteers as well as students. This marks the 34th year the Arts Alive program has been presented and will include a new People’s Choice Award voted on by the general public during the run of the show.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

PACE + Kaleido (ends this weekend)
Where: Studio 1398
What: Two separate, yet thematically connected dance explorations of our personal relationship with living in a dense urban environment. A high-energy mix of street dance forms collide on stage with themes of anxiety, competition, suppression, and isolation.
Runs until: Sunday May 8, 2016

Fleurs de Villes (ends this weekend)
Where: Oakridge Centre
What: This unique, five-day exhibition combines fashion and fresh florals through inventive and artful spring displays. A pop-up fresh flower market will also appear for one-day only on Saturday, May 7, just in time for Mother’s Day.
Runs until: Saturday May 8, 2016

Earth to Earth, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Works by Randy Grskovic
Where: Burrard Arts Foundation (108 East Broadway)
What: Unlike most photographers, Randy Grskovic uses the darkroom as a starting point for his work. He is affected by the chemistry, geology, and memory of the process. In combination with the science behind the darkroom, Grskovic uses content from history by purchasing glass negatives, smashing them, and printing the result.
Runs until: Saturday May 14, 2016

Vancouver Bird Week
Where: Various Vancouver locations
What: Get to know all of the feathered flutterers who share Vancouver’s skies, gardens, and parks with workshops, art shows, art-making, nest box building, classes and events.
Runs until: Saturday May 14, 2016

Facing East
Where: Jericho Arts Centre
What: An upstanding Mormon couple is faced with the suicide of their gay son. When they unexpectedly meet their son’s partner they must face a reality long ignored, and reconcile their feelings with their beliefs. Vancouver audiences will be the first to see a fully-staged production of this moving new work, which has its eyes set toward New York and London. Tickets available at Tickets Tonight.
Runs until: Saturday May 14, 2016

DOXA Documentary Festival
Where: Various locations
What: Ten days of international documentaries give you the opportunity to see through someone else’s eyes, into other worlds, and you might even learn something along the way. Genres such as activism, sexuality, race, sports, war, science, art, docudrama and animation weave through shows you may not get to see on the big screen anywhere else.
Runs until: Sunday May 15, 2016

Your Future Home: Creating a New Vancouver
Where: Museum of Vancouver
What: In response to mounting concern about a rapidly changing region, this exhibit will immerse visitors in an experience that spotlights 20 visions for tomorrow’s city, while focusing on four topical issues: housing affordability, residential density, ease of transportation, and quality of public space.
Runs until: Sunday May 15, 2016

Living Colour
Where: VanDusen Gardens
What: A photo exhibition of floral & scenic images taken exclusively in VanDusen Botanical Garden by Raymond Lo.
Runs until: Sunday May 15, 2016

THE SHOW at Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Where: Emily Carr University (Granville Island)
What: A new crop of freshly graduated artists show off what four years of stress, sweat, sleepless nights, papers (yes, art university also has a lot of paper writing) and materials of all kinds has resulted in – at least the physical manifestations.
Runs until: Sunday May 22, 2016

Throne and Games: A Chance of Snow
Where: The Improv Centre (Granville Island)
What: Inspired by the popular HBO series, VTSL’s improvised parody builds on its 2015 smash hit (Throne and Games – Laughter is Coming). This all new production embarks on speculative, uncharted territory. Is a certain popular character from the TV series really dead … or not? VTSL’s improvisers will go to ‘The Wall’ to give patrons an exceptionally entertaining evening of improv comedy while working under the ‘high pressure’ created by the audience’s suggestions and involvement.
Runs until: Saturday May 28, 2016

Quick & Dirty
Where: Hot Art Wet City
What: A huge collection of tiny gouache studies created over the past year from Laura Bifano and Mike West. This show explores what happens when artists aren’t precious about their work and create for the sake of creating. Find the right little piece for your home at a great little price.
Runs until: Saturday May 28, 2016

Tiko Kerr Body Language
Where: Soma Gallery opening reception at 6:00pm
What: For Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr, the on-going refugee crisis and the current political conversation surrounding racial and religious identity has prompted him to creatively consider the way we look at the body and how it is encoded with meanings that are more artfully complex than first thought.
Runs until: Saturday May 28, 2016

MashUp
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: Exploring how artists incorporate found images, objects, sounds and words into their work, starting with the movement’s emergence at the turn of the twentieth century and showing how it has become a dominant force in our world today. It will feature 371 works by 156 artists, filmmakers, architects, musicians and designers, such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris, Hannah Höch, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Nam June Paik, Jean-Luc Goddard, Frank Gehry, Dara Birnbaum, Stan Douglas, Hito Steyerl, Isa Genzken, DJ Spooky and Tobias Wong, among many others.
Runs until: Sunday June 12, 2016

In This Together
Where: Gallery Gachet opening reception at 6:00pm
What: An in-house exhibition with an online auction featuring the renowned Gallery Gachet community of local, national and international artists working in diverse mediums and artistic styles. Artwork available at a range of price-points.
Runs until: Sunday June 19, 2016

Arctic Encounters
Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum
What: Unique views of the modern Northwest Passage and the people who call the Arctic their home. Photographs from the Pond Inlet archives, and photographs taken by museum staff on a trip to the Arctic show contemporary social and environmental landscapes of Canada’s far north.
Runs until: Saturday July 3, 2016

Field Guide by Jochen Lempert
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: Trained as a biologist, Lempert photographs plants, animals and other natural phenomena with both scientific acumen and a poetic appreciation of natural beauty. His approach is scientific as well as humorous. Always working in black and white, his work engages with a diverse range of subjects and genres, ranging from everyday views to abstracted details.
Runs until: Sunday July 17, 2016

From Meadows Woodlands Far and Near
Where: Beaty Biodiversity Museum
What: Delicate watercolours and striking woodcuts inspired by plants from the landscapes of Germany and Canada. Art by Brigitte Potter-Mael.
Runs until: Sunday September 4, 2016

Panda Night Market
Where: 12631 Vulcan Way (Richmond)
What: Market-goers can expect to taste dishes from around the globe with the multitude of food and beverage booths on display, as well as shop for unique knick knacks, exclusive local merchandise, and enjoy diverse entertainment every night.
Runs until: Sunday September 11, 2016

Playland at the PNE
Where: Hastings Park
What: The smell of Mini Donuts and the screams of the rickety wooden coaster are in the air! In addition to carnival games, a ton of rides for all ages, the newest ride – added last year is Canada’s most extreme pendulum ride. The Beast, which boats a one-armed pendulum, swinging 120 degrees in either direction, reaches heights of over 125 feet and speeds of more than 90 km/h.
Runs until: September 18th, 2016 (select dates)

Shipyards Night Market
Where: Shipbuilders’ Square
What: Over 100 vendors selling fresh foods, locally-made products, crafts, and other wares. There is also a beer garden, food trucks, and boozy lemonade.
Runs until: September 30, 2016 (Fridays)

The Seriousness of Play
Where: The Bill Reid Gallery
What: Haida Manga is a contemporary art form that offers a playful way of viewing and engaging with social issues as it seeks participation, dialogue, reflection and action. Influenced by both the tradition of Haida iconography and contemporary Asian visual culture, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has created an artistic practice celebrated for its vitality and originality by an international audience engaged in issues of ethnicity, identity and relationships.
Runs until: Sunday October 2, 2016

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

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

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

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