46 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, September 25

Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 46 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, September 25.

CONCERTS

New Orleans jazz-funk trombonist Trombone Shorty performs at Chan Centre with his band Orleans Avenue.

Scandinavian skate-punk band Millencolin plays Venue, with guests Such Gold.

Alabama soul–R&B band St. Paul and the Broken Bones plays Commodore, with guests Seratones.

BENEFITS

The 31st annual AIDS Walk in support of people living with HIV includes a music festival, a health and wellness fair, a new walk route, food, and cocktails. Participating performers include Destineak (above), Alita Dupray, Andrew Allen, Olivia, the Pompadoors, and Queer As Funk!.

Charity run at Jericho Beach Park raises money for local initiatives and national research into colon cancer.

Standing Room Only Theatre presents a fundraiser at CBC Studio 700 for its upcoming production of 12 Angry Jurors.

ETCETERA

Heritage Vancouver tour and talk explores the diversity of North Strathcona as Vancouver's first neighbourhood.

The Hapa-palooza Festival features a gala and awards night, a family-friendly afternoon of entertainment, an art station, two writing workshops, and a panel discussion of mixed heritage and hybrid identity.

Vancouver's first annual pinball expo at the Holiday Inn Downtown features industry speakers, vendors, and tournaments for all ages and skills.

The Eastside Flea Fall Market at the Ellis Building features over 50 vendors, food trucks, DJs, live music, pinball, pool, and artist showrooms.

Interior Design Show Vancouver runs until Sunday at the Vancouver Convention Centre, featuring products by the next generation of designers, keynote lectures by industry professionals, and a pop-up shop featuring products by Tom Dixon.

Craft fair at the Pipe Shop features over 90 local Etsy sellers specializing in handmade and vintage wares, home decor, clothing, kids' accessories, and baby clothing.

Join an introductory birding walk at Lost Lagoon Nature House and learn about the birds you are most likely to see, like the chickadee and white-crowned sparrow.

Flea market at the Croatian Cultural Centre features more than 175 tables of retro furnishings, books, antiques, dolls and toys, jewellery, records, artworks, and collectibles.

Celebrate World Rivers Day at Burnaby Village Museum with entertainment, demonstrations, displays, tours, and kids' activities.

Throat singer and healer Matthew Kocel presents a live sound-healing event at Banyen Books and Sound.

Soundwalk considers the sonic overlap between residential and industrial spaces in Vancouver’s Grandview Woodland neighbourhood. 

FASHION

Travelling exhibition brings Hermès' craftspeople from the intimacy of their ateliers in France to Vancouver's Jack Poole Plaza to interact with the public and demonstrate their craft.

FOOD AND DRINK

The Bacon Con at the PNE Forum features bacon-covered and/or inspired food, drink, and products.

Sample local spirits, wine, and beer while you take in live music and food from Vancouver's food trucks at the Grape and the Grain Festival, held at Plaza of Nations.

Take in a brunch buffet of Southern-inspired classics and live music by Robert Wilson and the Blackbird P.A. at the Emerald.

Learn how to make small-batch country wines with minimum amounts of equipment, personal time, and expense at Homestead Junction.

KIDS' STUFF

Scarecrow Festival at Art's Nursery in Surrey features a build-a-scarecrow station that's open daily until Halloween.

Country Fair at Southlands Riding Club features pony rides, a petting farm, equestrian entertainment, a local arts and crafts market, heritage displays, a farmers market, face painting, and food.

ARTS ETCETERA

The plastic orchid factory presents an interdisciplinary collaboration between dance artist James Gnam, visual artist Natalie Purschwitz, lighting designer James Proudfoot, and 11 dance artists that explores a generation’s approach to identity, physicality, social dance, and performance. Runs at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts until Sunday.

GALLERIES

The Vancouver Art Gallery hosts an exhibition that examines the significance of the six women who were inspirational to the artistic development of Picasso.

Exhibition of mixed-media works by Mila Karavai at West Vancouver's Silk Purse Art Gallery.

At the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Meghann O'Brien takes materials from the natural world and transforms them into human expression.

MUSEUMS

The Museum of Anthropology at UBC hosts an exhibition that features the carvings of Papua New Guinea's Iatmul people.

At the Museum of Vancouver, you can explore the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-to-wall displays of unconventional objects.

LITERARY

Word Vancouver, the annual celebration of the written word, features readings, panel discussions, workshops, entertainment, and family-friendly activities. Participating authors include Bif Naked (above), Joy Kogawa, Ujjal Dosanjh, Paul Yee, Jen Sookfong Lee, Carmen Aguirre, bill bisset, Daphne Marlatt, Wayde Compton, and Caroline Adderson. Event runs until Sunday at various Vancouver venues.

The LiterASIAN2016 Festival at Vancouver Public Library and the Chinese Cultural Centre explores different ways we choose to gather and record the past and illuminate the deeds of earlier generations.

MUSIC

Bramwell Tovey conducts pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk and the Vancouver Symphony in works by Morlock, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky at the Orpheum.

THEATRE

The Vancouver Fringe Festival presents hold over-performances of popular shows Charlatan!, And Bella Sang With Us, The After After Party, Curious Contagious, Sink or Swim, and Carry On: A Musical.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director John Murphy's version of Ken Ludwig's zany whodunit Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Island Productions presents Tennessee Williams' classic The Glass Menagerie at PAL Theatre.

The pop-culture parody Hunger Games—Catching Fire: The Musical opens at Studio 1398.

ATTRACTIONS

The VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor.

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

The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

MOVIES

Screening at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts of the steampunk film The Record Keeper, followed by a Q & A with writer Rajeev Sigamoney and actor Dennis Hill.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of the Slovenian drama Class Enemy.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Michael Haneke's unrelenting critique of screen violence, Funny Games.

Screening at the Vancity Theatre of the Czech village dramedy Home Care.

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