70 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, October 14

Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 70 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, October 14.

 

CONCERTS

Quebec death-metal band Gorguts plays the Rickshaw, with guests Intronaut, Brain Tentacles, and Anciients.

The Rogue Folk Club presents American folk-roots band the Bumper Jacksons at St. James Hall.

American DJ Mark Farina plays the Imperial, with guests Luke McKeehan and Krown.

Toronto-based rock band I Mother Earth plays the Commodore, with guests the Standstills.

American hard-rock bands Great White and Slaughter coheadline the Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock.

Swiss jazz trombonist Samuel Blaser heads a tribute to the late jazz eccentric Jimmy Giuffre at the Western Front.

New York country-folk band the Felice Brothers plays the Cobalt, touring in support of latest album Life in the Dark.

Performances by local acts Angel Edwards, Saints and Sinners, and Blue and White Van at the Princeton Pub & Grill.

B.C.-born singer-songwriter David Simard performs a release show for his new album The Heavy Wait at the WISE Hall.

Canadian indie-pop artist Andy Shauf plays the Fox Cabaret, with guests Scattered Clouds.

U.K. folk singer-songwriter and fiddler Rachel Button (above) plays Dubh Linn Gate.

 

BENEFITS

Circus-themed haunted house at Beaumont Studio raises money for the B.C. Women's Hospital and Care Centre Foundation.

Night of music by Los Dorados Mariachi at the Russian Hall raises funds for the mini-school program at Templeton High School.

 

ETCETERA 

Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tours feature gruesome tales of Vancouver's past with visits to Mountain View Cemetery and the city's first morgue, housed in the Vancouver Police Museum.

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.

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.

Forum at the Vancouver Convention Centre focuses on the economic impact of women in British Columbia.

Author, journalist, political commentator, and The Washington Post op-ed columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. analyzes the U.S. election and the shifts in the GOP at UBC's Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre.

Author Matt Kahn and meditation guide Julie Dittmar offer a unique approach to all aspects of the spiritual journey at Unity of Vancouver.

Shahin Dashtgard discusses the quality of B.C. LNG resources and the pros and cons of ramping up natural gas production in B.C. at the Boston Pizza in New West.

Author, scientist, and professor Vaclac Smil offers a different perspective on innovation at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel.

 

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.

The Momentum Youth Arts Festival at New Westminster's Massey Theatre features music, visual arts, dance, and workshops.

Learn about fire prevention and safety through songs and stories with firefighter Marcia James at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

 

SPORTS

The B.C. Lions take on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Canadian Football League action at BC Place Stadium.

 

COMEDY

Comedian Graham Clark celebrates Halloween with horror-movie clips, special guests, and candy at Hot Art Wet City Gallery.

Texas standup comedian Sean Kent performs the second of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Irish-Canadian standup comedian, actor, and writer Tommy Campbell performs the first of two nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

 

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.

 

LITERARY

The fifth annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair at the Vancouver Art Gallery features books, magazines, zines, print ephemera, talks, performances, and artists' projects.

 

GALLERIES

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

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 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

Musica intima performs works by Llasa de Sela, Ana Sokolovic, Jeffery Ryan, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, Pharrell Williams, and Imant Raminsh at St. James Hall.

The Vancouver Chopin Society presents a concert by Polish classical pianist Ewa Poblocka at the Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall.

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.

Jessica Tovey, Catherine Fern Lewis, Chiharu Linuma, Gwen Seaton, Joan Blackman, and Nick Anderson perform music by Canadian composer Murray Adaskin at the Canadian Music Centre.

Denis Bedard and Rachel Alflatt perform works for organ by Haydn, Schubert, Franc, and Merkel at Holy Rosary Cathedral.

UBC bands play works by Cable, Reed, Persichetti, Ives, Hanson, Dello Joio, Lo Presti, and Mackey at Chan Shun Concert Hall.

Principal conductor Bujar Llapaj leads the West Coast Symphony in works by Tchaikovsky and Schumann at Christ Church Cathedral.

 

THEATRE

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 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.

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.

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.

 

MOVIES

Screening at the Cinematheque of Joko Anwar’s noirish thriller A Copy of My Mind as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. which ends today.

 

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