56 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, January 19

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      Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 56 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, January 19.

       

      CONCERTS

      The Rogue Folk Club presents Vancouver blues musician, guitarist, and actor Jim Byrnes at St. James Hall. SOLD OUT.

      Chicago jazz drummer George Fludas performs the first of two nights at Frankie's Jazz with organist Pete Benson, tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds, and guitarist Dave Sikula.

      American metal band Converge plays the Rickshaw, with guests Sumac and Cult Leader. SOLD OUT.

      Kelowna pop musician Sammi Morelli plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Kaylan Mackinnon and Victoria Staff.

        

      CHRISTMAS

      See thousands of lights adorning the Capilano Suspension Bridge, canyon, Treetops Adventure, and Cliffwalk at Canyon Lights.

      Lights at Lafarge features outdoor light displays, live entertainment, roving performers, hot chocolate and cookies, photos with Santa, family-friendly crafts, a holiday market, and choirs at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park.

       

      BENEFITS

      The 10th annual Kitz4Kids Fundraiser at Richmond's River Rock Casino features performances by the Big Easy Funk Ensemble (above) and comedian Erica Sigurdson, with proceeds to the Autism Support Program. SOLD OUT.

       

      ETCETERA

      Joan-E hosts a drag show at the Commodore Ballroom featuring Shea Coulee and Chi Chi Devayne (RuPaul's Drag Race) and 20 local performers.

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      Ocean Wise executive chef Ned Bell presents a three-course menu featuring dishes from his cookbook Lure at the Vancouver Aquarium's Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café.

       

      COMEDY

      Comedian Matt Braunger performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      Comedian Joe Machi performs the second of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      Croatian-Canadian comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding performs the first of two nights of standup at Havana Theatre.

      Monthly comedy show at Café Deux Soleils featuring the Dirty Betty's.

      Grad School Improv presents an improv-comedy show based on the reality-TV show The Bachelor at Little Mountain Gallery.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival showcases visionary, genre-bending, startling, and original work by international, Canadian, and local artists at various Vancouver venues.

       

      LITERARY

      Rebekah Demirel reads from her new book, Nothing's for Nothing - Transformation Through Trauma, at Banyen Books and Sound.

      Chelsea Comeau, Kyla Jamieson, elaine corden, and Selina Boan read from Room Magazine's winter 2017 issue at Cottage Bistro.

       

      MUSIC

      Turning Point Ensemble and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present a genre-mashing concert of Canadian premieres and 20th-century composers at Norman Rothstein Theatre.

      Music in the Morning presents piano duo Anagnoson and Kinton in a concert of works by Brahms, Gallant, Poulenc, and Gershwin at West Vancouver United Church.

       

      THEATRE

      Six women turn tradition on its head in Hot Brown Honey, a production that's equal parts theatre and social activism, mixing dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease, and song, at the York Theatre.

      Keltie Forsyth directs She Kills Monsters, a dramatic comedy featuring homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and '90s pop culture, at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

      Pi Theatre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present the English Canadian premiere of The Events--David Greig's play inspired by the 2011 attacks in Utøya, Norway--at Russian Hall.

      In association with Zee Zee Theatre, the Cultch presents Black Boys, a production that explores queer male blackness.

      Midtwenties Theatre Society and Red Gate Arts Society present a performance of Above the Hospital, writer-director Beau Han Bridge's play about two Vancouver millennials who live above a hospital, at the Red Gate Revue Stage. Viewer discretion advised.

      ITSAZOO Productions and Savage Society Theatre present The Pipeline Project, a provocative and personal account of the ongoing cultural battles over pipelines in B.C., at the Firehall Arts Centre.

      The Sidekick Players Club presents Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's play about the lifelong correspondence of two childhood friends, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

      United Players presents Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim's musical about friendship, compromise, and the high price of success, at Jericho Arts Centre.

      Family-friendly performance at North Van's St. Martin's Hall of Shaken Not Stirred: A James Bond Panto, a tale full of spies, kidnapped princesses, and a secret sinister organization.

       

      GALLERIES

      True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery highlights the enduring legacy of Scandinavian design principles in Canada through works by Niels Bendtsen, Bocci, Karen Bulow, Kjeld and Erica Deichmann, Thor Hansen, Andrew Jones, Janis Kravis, molo, Carl Poul Petersen, Rudolph Renzius, and Marion Smith.

      Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 90 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture highlighting both the richness of the Royal Collection and the complex relationship that the British monarchy has had with artists for the last three and half centuries.

      Two Scores is a solo exhibition of work by Canadian artist Brent Wadden at Contemporary Art Gallery.

      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.

      Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents the latest findings of Vancouver-based artist Sawyer's ongoing research project that deftly reconstructs the life and work of the genre-defying, fictional artist Brettschneider.

       

      MUSEUMS

      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.

      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.

      Amazonia: The Rights of Nature at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works, and ceramics both of everyday and of ceremonial use, representing indigenous, Maroon, and white settler communities.

      City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism at the Museum of Vancouver explores the history of Vancouver's street protests through over 650 images of street demonstrations, protests, and riots from the early 1900s to present day.

      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

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

      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.

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

      Celebrate winter with free skating in the heart of downtown Vancouver at Robson Square Ice Rink.

      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.

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

      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

      Sceening at Vancity Theatre of The Square, Robin Ostlund's film tells the story of a curator at a Stockholm contemporary-art museum whose life falls apart through his own arrogance, entitlement, and inattention.

      Screening at Vancouver Public Library's Mount Pleasant branch of The Lego Batman Movie, the kid-friendly movie in which Batman wants to save Gotham City from the Joker's hostile takeover.

      Screenings at the Cinematheque of Robin Aubert's zombie film Les Affamés and Simon Lavoie's gothic drama The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches as part of Canada's Top 10 Film Festival.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of Blade Runner 2049, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner sequel in which an LAPD officerunearths a buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Mary and the Witch's FlowerHiromasa Yonebayashi's animated film about a young girl who discovers a magical flower in the woods and is propelled into a school for witches.

      Free afternoon screening at Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew branch of the kids' movie The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Final Year, Greg Barker's documentary about the eighth and final year of Barack Obama’s Presidency, in which the administration signed a nuclear deal with Iran, reached a climate accord in Paris, and negotiated with Russia over Syria.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of Legally Blonde, director Robert Luketic's 2001 comedy about a sorority girl who gets into Harvard in an attempt to win back an ex-boyfriend.

       

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