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The Apple Festival is on this weekend at the UBC Botanical Garden.

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Shipwrecks: The Vancouver Maritime Museum and the HR MacMillan Space Centre have joined forces to bring Marc-André Bernier, chief of the underwater archeology team for Parks Canada, to give a talk about finding the remains of the 1845 Franklin Expedition. Lost and Found: Arctic Shipwrecks and the Franklin Expedition promises to be an informative and compelling talk about challenges and triumphs in underwater archeology in the Canadian Arctic.

Oct. 16, 7-9 p.m., 1100 Chestnut St., $22, vancouvermaritimemuseum.com

Red Delicious: The Apple Festival is on this weekend. Not only will there be apples galore, but you can also expect apple pie, hot apple cider, caramel apples, apple chips and organic B.C. apple juice. Master gardeners will be available to discuss apple-related diseases and pest management with those of you who have trees at home, plus there will be trees to take home and plant in your own garden.

Oct. 18 and 19, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., UBC Botanical Garden, $4 (kids free), botanicalgarden.ubc.ca

Draw: The Stanley Park Ecology Society invites you to the pavilion to get creative by using the park's taxidermy collection for a sketching session. Register in advance for "Drawing From Life … and Death" so that organizers can ensure an adequate supply of charcoal, pastels and sketching paper. This event is geared toward ages 16 and up.

Thursday, Oct. 16, 6-8 p.m., 610 Pipeline Rd., $19, stanleyparkecology.ca

Art: The Equinox Gallery, located amid a cluster of contemporary art galleries in the East Van area known as The Flats, is using its massive square footage to show off the works of local legend Gordon Smith this week.

Until Oct. 25, Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 525 Great Northern Way, equinoxgallery.com

Classical: Embrace the changing season with an evening concert that includes Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, and Brahms's Symphony No. 4 in E Minor performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Joshua Weilerstein with pianist Adam Golka.

Oct. 17-18, 8 p.m., Chan Centre (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC), $25-40, chancentre.com

Mushrooms: This weekend brings two opportunities to hang out with fungi experts. Whistler and the Sunshine Coast are both hosting mushroom festivals. The Fungus Among Us festival in Whistler happens Friday night and Saturday, while the Sunshine Coast Mushroom Festival spreads across the entire weekend. Both festivals will bring you up to speed on how to spot edible mushrooms in the wild, which fungi to avoid and how to best prepare your mushrooms.

Whistler, Oct. 17 and 18, whistlernaturalists.ca

Sunshine Coast, Oct. 17-19, new.scshroom.org

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