66 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, October 13

Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 66 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, October 13.

 

CONCERTS

Bass-guitar superstar and singer-songwriter Tal Wilkenfeld plays the Biltmore, touring in support of her debut vocal album.

Jazz vocalist-pianist Jennifer Scott, bassist Rene Worst, and guitarist Bill Coon play the Roedde House Museum.

Screening of a doc about the life and death of Micheal 'Eyedea' Larsen at the Rickshaw includes music by DJ Abilities and Carnage the Executioner.

Canadian jazz trumpeter Malcolm Aiken performs tunes from his new album at Guilt and Co., with proceeds to support music programs in the DTES.

English electronica singer-songwriter and producer James Blake plays the Orpheum Theatre.

American indie-rock band Cold War Kids plays the Commodore, touring in support of latest album Hold My Home.

Swedish six-piece heavy-metal band Ghost plays the Vogue, touring in support of latest album Meliora.

 

BENEFITS

Canvas of Change at Yaletown Roundhouse Exhibition Hall combines the art-competition world with a music and culinary experience to support high-risk youth involved in the Youth Art Engagement Project.

 

ETCETERA 

Take a 90-minute walking tour through the back streets and alleys of Gastown and explore Vancouver's gruesome history.

Diwali Fest continues, featuring cabaret-style performances, Diwali Fest Theatre, and community events such as culinary demonstrations, storytelling sessions, pop-up performances, and workshops on rangoli design and Bollywood dancing.

Square off against amateur opponents in a triple elimination pinball tournament at the Museum of Vancouver.

Explore the Space Centre after hours and experience an in-depth planetarium show and lecture about science fiction's influence on actual science.

Warm up with a wine reception before you take a Hoots and Howls walk to observe nocturnal animals at Lost Lagoon Nature House.

The third annual Vancouver Halloween Parade and Expo at UBC Robson Square features arts, cosplay, comics, anime, films, and games.

 

FOOD & DRINK

The 12th annual Taste of Yaletown features an array of sharing dishes matched with wine and cocktail pairings, with partial proceeds from each meal donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

 

FORUMS

The International Cannabis Business Conference at the Hyatt Regency covers business essentials, politics, networking, activism, and culture, with keynote speech by Gabor Maté.

Eight diverse speakers attempt to inspire, educate, entertain, and challenge your point of view at Sam Sullivan's Public Salon at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Bernhard Siegert discusses Ishmael's critique of pictures in Herman Melville's Moby Dick at UBC's Frederic Lasserre Building.

Learn about thrombosis and stroke, their risk factors, treatment, prevention, and latest research in the field at UBC Life Science Centre.

Learn about criminal issues around personal safety that may arise while using the internet in a forum at Burnaby Public Library Metrotown.

Learn sales and marketing tips at an eWomenNetwork workshop at the Arbutus Club.

 

KIDS' STUFF

The Stanley Park Ghost Train celebrates the Day of the Dead with a ride through a tunnel of flames and a haunted graveyard, live music, and theatrical performances.

Take a spooky journey across Canada as you graduate from the Haunted Witches Academy at Halloween at Flyover Canada.

Beth Agosti's new puppet show at Port Moody Arts Centre sees an unlikely trio perform heroic rescues, outwit a troll, and eventually realize their destiny.

 

TAKE ACTION

Greek socialist leader Eleni Mitsou speaks on the failure of capitalism to meet human needs and how people are fighting back at SFU Harbour Centre.

 

COMEDY

Standup comedy at Ten Ten Tapas by Jonny Paul, Joey Comisso, Gavin Matts, Efthimios Nasiopolous, Katie-Ellen Humphries, and headliner Dave Merheje.

Night of burlesque and comedy at Pat's Pub and Brewhouse featuring Bloody Betty, Ann Narky, Stevie Sleezburger, Adam Zed, San Aung, and host DJ Roy.

 

DANCE

Dances for a Small Stage 34 kicks off the season with a performance at the ANZA Club that features a range of popular dance styles.

Out Innerspace Dance Theatre presents Major Motion Picture, which explores surveillance, propaganda, and belief through eccentric and lawless characters at Firehall Arts Centre.

Flamenco Rosario presents a performance by Marién Luévano, joined by guitarist Victor Kolstee and singer Jafelin Helten, at Centro Flamenco.

 

LITERARY

Join Nick Bantock at Banyen Books & Sound for a presentation and book-signing on the world of Griffin and Sabine and The Pharos Gate.

Book-launch party at Mahony & Sons Public House for I Am Enough: One Lawyer's Epic Journey to Fill the Void by Vancouver lawyer Danielle Rondeau.

Room Magazine launches its latest issues with rooftop readings at Room HQ by Aislinn Hunter, Jen Currin, Mica Lemiski, Ellie Sawatzy, Mallory Tater, and Jocelyn Tenant. 

 

GALLERIES

Marianne Nicolson's installation Oh, How I Long For Home at SFU's Teck Gallery addresses a persistent idea of the city as a conflicted promise for indigenous people.

Photographs by Vancouver-based artist Stephen Waddell, printed to a large scale using traditional silver gelatin materials, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Photographs by Henry Callahan of the streets of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico, Portugal, and Wales on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Installation by Andreas Bunte at SFU Gallery explores the interplay between technology, architecture, and the body.

An Agreeable State of Uncertainty at the Vancouver Art Gallery features photographs, drawings, prints, and paintings by artists such as Weegee, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Leon Golub, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Jack Shadbolt, and Fred Herzog.

Works by Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen and Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

 

MUSEUMS

Works by Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupton that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples on display at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

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.

 

MUSIC

Music in the Morning presents chamber musician Colin Carr and pianist Thomas Sauer in the Canadian premiere of Lieux Retrouvés by British composer Thomas Adès. Performance takes place at the Vancouver Academy of Music.

The Vancouver New Music 2016 Festival at the Orpheum Annex features a variety of musicians and sound artists who are developing both mechanical and algorithmic systems to generate sound works, compositions, and installations.

Polish gongmasters Tom Soltron and Abby delSol perform music on 60" gongs at Unity of Vancouver.

 

THEATRE

Performance at the York Theatre of Piya Behrupiya, the Company Theatre's Bollywood-influenced adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director Dean Paul Gibson's version of Annie Baker's play The Flick at Granville Island Stage.

Motherload, a dark comedy about the reality of modern parenting, plays at the Cultch.

Performance at Granville Island of the Virtual Stage's Dead in the Water, an interactive-theatre adventure in which audience members must defeat a strange new breed of mutant zombie-vampires.

Performance at Studio 58 of Angels in America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play set during the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York City.

Performance at the Jericho Arts Centre of Flare Path, Terence Rattigan's drama about life for the RAF bomber crews in wartime Britain.

Pacific Theatre presents A Good Way Out, a compelling look into the precarious world of crime and compromise.

Vancouver-based Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles present James & Jamesy in the Dark, an adventure about discovery and creation, at the Waterfront Theatre.

Performance at PAL Theatre of Western Gold Theatre's Comfort Cottages, the story of four single female friends of retirement age who are unsettled financially and emotionally.

Matchmaker Productions presents The Concierge of Vancouver, which satirizes the Vancouver housing crisis, at Studio 1398.

Bad Girls the Musical--which tells the story of a group of prison inmates and their battle against the entrenched old guard system--plays at Renegade Arts Studio.

UBC Theatre and Film presents Christopher Marlowe's Edward II at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Rapper Baba Brinkman breaks down the politics, economics, and science of global warming in Rap Guide to Climate Chaos, a brand new one-man show at the Revue Stage.

Performance at Studio 58 of Love, the Sea, which weaves together collected letters from Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries to explore the moment after the end.

Preview at Presentation House Theatre of Sean O'Leary's Walt Whitman's Secret, which mines the life of the American poet for insights about creativity, sexuality, and love.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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 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 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 International Village 9 of Shadow World, director Johan Grimonprez's scathing exposé of the arms trade, as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. which runs until tomorrow at various Vancouver locations.

 

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