Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 68 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, April 21.

CONCERTS

Australian hip-hop artist Manu Crooks plays Fortune Sound Club, with guests So Loki, Illyminiachi, and Manila Grey.

Vancouver rock 'n' roller Jeremy Allingham performs tunes from new album Run Wild at the Fox Cabaret, with guests Lady Mystics and Old Soul Rebel.

Motown Meltdown fundraiser for Seva Canada’s international eye-care work features Motown music by over 30 artists, including Marcus Mosely, Dawn Pemberton, Jane Mortifee, and Warren Dean Flandez.

BENEFITS

H20 Vancouver at Beaumont Studios is a night of awareness, music, libations, and a talk by H20 Canada founder Darlene Paguandas, with proceeds to WaterAid Canada, which supports clean water projects in Africa.

Charity fundraising dinner at the Austria Vancouver Club supports D.A.R.E. B.C., the Developmental Disabilities Association, and the Canadian Health Awareness Society.

ETCETERA

With Red Light Rendezvous, the Vancouver Police Museum offers a two-hour journey through dark dens and hidden alleys where pimps and madams ruled the city with sex, prostitution, and corruption.

FOOD AND DRINK

Slam & Craft Beer at the Port Moody Arts Centre features pizza, local craft beer, and slam poetry by Julia Pileggi (above), Anjalica Solomon, Andrew Warner, and Lady Vanessa, with proceeds to the Arts Centre.

FORUMS

The Entrepreneurial Artist features workshops to help craftspeople and artists increase their reach using digital marketing at Carousel Theatre.

KIDS' STUFF

At a Fish Release & Open House at PoCo's Hyde Creek Watershed kids can carry a bucket of salmon from the hatchery to the creek and send them on their journey to the ocean.

TAKE ACTION

Windermere Secondary School’s Youth for Climate Justice Now presents an Earth Day Parade, which begins at Commercial and Broadway and continues on to Grandview Park.

COMEDY

The Gateway Show features standup comedy by Ivan Decker (above), Fatima Dhowre, Myles Weber, Sophie Buddle, and host Erin Ingle at the Rickshaw Theatre.

American comedian Adam Ray performs the third of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

ARTS ETCETERA

Art! Vancouver, Western Canada's largest international art show, features a runway show, after parties, speakers, and workshops at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Kitty Nights presents a live-band burlesque tribute to Prince at the Rio Theatre, featuring performances by Poutina Turner, Burgundy Brixx, Kitty Glitter, Miss Georsha Cutie Pie, Rebel Valentine, Lolita Lush, and Berlette Harlow.

Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society presents performances by more than 20 burlesque artists at the WISE Hall's Taboo Revue.

DANCE

Raven Spirit Dance: Earth Song, a mixed program of contemporary aboriginal dance featuring choreography by Starr Muranko and Michelle Olson, is at North Van's Presentation House.

Local dance company Co.ERASGA presents Vancouver choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino's works Collected Traces and Still Here at Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Illustrative Society dance collective presents Transcend, a production inspired by the self-actualization process that artists experience, at Performance Works.

LITERARY

The eighth annual Verses Festival of Words features spoken-word poetry, storytelling, page-based poetry, singer-songwriters, and improvisers at various Vancouver venues. Performers tonight include Métis spoken-word artist Moe Clark (above), who apears at the Vancouver Public Library's Alice MacKay Room.

North Shore Writers Festival at West Vancouver Memorial Library features author presentations by such local literary talent as William Deverell, Timothy Taylor, and Pat Carney. 

MUSIC

Vancouver New Music presents Third Coast Percussion in a program of works by Augusta Read Thomas, Steve Reich, and Glenn Kotche at the Orpheum Annex.

Early Music Vancouver presents the Tallis Scholars in a program commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Indian classical vocal concert by Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar, with Ajinkya Josha on tabla and Tanmay Deochake on harmonium, at Burnaby Hall.

The Richmond Orchestra and flautist Bernard Blary perform works by Ibert, Bizet, and Beethoven at South Arm United Church.

Classical music at the Silk Purse Arts Centre featuring Capilano University student Alexandrea Mitchell (flute), with pianist Betty Hon and mezzo-soprano Kaylene Chan.

THEATRE

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents William Goldman's thriller Misery, based on the novel by Stephen King, at Granville Island Stage.

Performance at Vancity Culture Lab of The Explanation, James Fagan Tait’s exploration of the fluidity of gender and sexual identity.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents The Humans--Stephen Karam's portrait of an ordinary family at odds with itself and the uncertainties of life amidst a changing America--at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Final performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, which pays homage to the late Canadian poet and singer-songwriter.

Final performance at Studio 1398 of Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, in which a small group of survivors gather in the woods after a nuclear meltdown and attempt to remember an episode of The Simpsons.

North Vancouver Community Players presents its final performance of Crimes of the Heart, director Tracy Labrosse's version of Beth Henley's play about a trio of sisters who are reunited after a family emergency, at the Theatre at Hendry Hall.

Final performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, about a dinner party that turns into mayhem when a seance provokes the ghost of the host's dead first wife.

Theatre in the Raw presents Incident at Vichy, Arthur Miller's drama about persecution and racism in France during the early days of WWII, at Studio 16.

Performance at Coast Capital Playhouse of August: Osage County, Tracy Letts' black comedy about a cancer-patient matriarch whose three daughters rush home when they hear their father has disappeared.

Final performance a PAL Theatre of You've Got Male!, a multimedia comedy by Clive Scarff, featuring Joshua Murdoch, Jillian Zavazal, and Tanya Macpherson. 

Royal City Musical Theatre presents a performance at Massey Theatre of Cabaret, the classic musical set in 1930s Berlin.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Me and You, Melody Anderson's comedy about sibling rivalry, at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Gateway Theatre presents its final performance of Nine Dragons, artistic director Jovanni Sy's crime drama set in 1924 Kowloon.

North Vancouver Community Players present a performance at Kay Meek Centre of Agatha Christie's drama Go Back For Murder, about a woman who attempts to prove her mother innocent of murder.

Performance at the Cultch of World Without Us, Ontroerend Goed's new play about the end of humanity--and what comes after.

The Sidekick Players Club presents Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun, Canadian playwright Norm Foster's tale of friendship in uncertain times, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents  Spirit Horse, a play about two youths who are caught between the traditional ways of their Stoney Nation heritage and the modern ways of the city, at Waterfront Theatre.

GALLERIES

More than 55 paintings and sculptures are featured in Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, the first-ever retrospective of Murakami's work in Canada, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Bombhead at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a thematic exhibition exploring the emergence and impact of the nuclear age as represented by artists and their art.

空/Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses works by Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan to explore how each artist experimented with modernist movements and mysticism through their respective depictions of nature.

Polygon Gallery's inaugural exhibition, N. Vancouver, explores how a specific locale can be reflected through existing and newly commissioned artworks by artists from Vancouver and beyond.

Living, Building, Thinking: art & expression at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early 19th century to the present day.

MUSEUMS

Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition at the Museum of Vancouver is guest-curated by Kwiaahwah Jones and features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers, collected as early as the 1890s.

In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 110 historical indigenous artworks and explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands.

The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC takes visitors on a journey through the past 200 years of Salish wool weaving.

The Lost Fleet at the Vancouver Maritime Museum investigates the unjust 1941 seizure of 1,200 Japanese-Canadian fishing vessels following the bombing of Pearl Harbour through a collection of historic photographs, models of Japanese-Canadian-built fishing boats, fishermen’s tools, and replica documents.

ATTRACTIONS

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library.

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

North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, as well as ziplines, a wildlife refuge, helicopter tours, paragliding, dining, and the Grouse Grind.

The new Parq Vancouver features two luxury hotels, a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

Take a ride in an exterior glass elevator and get a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains at Vancouver Lookout.

West Vancouver's Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

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

Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding, lessons, chairlifts, terrain parks, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, gardens, beaches, and West Coast rain forest, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8 kilometre seawall.

Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.

MOVIES

Screening at the Cinematheque of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s drama Memories of Underdevelopment, which charts the growing alienation of a sexually-neurotic bourgeois intellectual adrift in Castro’s Cuba.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Pneuma, writer-director Will Carne's Vancouver-made debut about a man who loses his memory and is arrested and placed into sessions with a criminal psychologist.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of My Enemy, My Brother, Ann Shin's documentary about a former child soldier in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s who, 30 years later in Vancouver, encounters a man who fought on the other side in that conflict.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Edward II, late provocateur Derek Jarman's explicitly gay reworking of Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Hochelaga, Land of Souls, in which writer-director François Girard takes viewers back prior to the point of first contact between European explorers and Iroquois villagers in 1535.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Great Great Great, director Adam Garnet Jones's candid account of a young woman making a series of lousy life choices.

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