38 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, October 18

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      Looking for something to do on Tuesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 38 events happening in or around Vancouver on Tuesday, October 18.

       

      CONCERTS

      American rock legend John Fogerty performs solo hits and classics from his old band Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Abbotsford Centre.

      British electronica-soul duo Honne plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

      Canadian electropop duo Purity Ring plays the Vogue, with guest Hana.

      Indie-pop singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata plays the Fox Cabaret, performing tunes from latest albumTightrope Walker.

      American jazz-soul singer-songwriter and actor Norah Jones (above) plays the Queen E. Theatre, with guest Valerie June.

       

      BENEFITS

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

       

      ETCETERA 

      Evening of stage-free striptease at the Fox Cabaret features Little Miss Risk (above), Justine Sane, Ruthe Ordare, and Ginger Avenue.

       

      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

      VanFUNDING Conference at the Imperial covers current and emerging topics in crowdfunding, alternative finance, and early-stage financing.

      Bernard Stiegler lectures at the Western Front on why and how it is necessary and possible to found an economy based on a neganthropic value.

      Explore the many fun ways to play with the female anatomy at a Pussy Play forum at The Art of Loving.

       

      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.

       

      SPORTS

      The Vancouver Canucks take on the St. Louis Blues in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

       

      COMEDY

      The Fictionals present comedy inspired by Reddit and a comedic Q&A session at Café Deux Soleils.

       

      MUSIC

      The Blueridge Festival presents Japanese classical pianist Kyoko Hashimoto in a program of music by Mozart, Schoenberg, and Schubert at St. Mark's Anglican Church.

      Music on Main presents Toronto-based violinist Andréa Tyniec in a program of works by Sokolovic, Bach, Ysaÿe, and Hron at CBC Studio 700.

       

      GALLERIES

      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.

      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

      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.

       

      THEATRE

      Opening at the Cultch of Fight Night, which puts five actors into the position of candidates struggling to get the audience’s sympathy and their vote.

      Opening at Studio 16 of Théâtre la Seizième's Straight Jacket Winter, in which a couple travels from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter and attempts to integrate into their new city.

      Opening at Firehall Arts Centre of Mamahood: turn and face the strange, Nicolle Nattrass's one-woman show, which tells the story of an extremely deprived first-time mother who dares to tell the tale of her descent into motherhood as she travels to an alternate time and place.

      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.

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

      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.

       

      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 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.

      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 Vancity Theatre of director Olivier Assayas's supernatural horror flick Personal Shopper as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival's VIFF Repeats series.

       

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