60 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, October 20

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      Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 60 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, October 20.

       

      CONCERTS

      American thrash-metal legends Slayer play the Abbotsford Centre, with guests Anthrax and Death Angel.

      American alt-rock band She Wants Revenge plays Venue, with guests the Dig and Raw Fabrics.

      American electropop-R&B singer-songwriter How to Dress Well plays the Biltmore, with guests Ex Reyes.

      Seattle emo singer-songwriter Jeremy Enigk plays the Cobalt, touring in support of the 20th anniversary of Return of the Frog Queen.

      The Steveston Folk Guild presents the Canadian acoustic-guitar wizard Don Alder at Britannia Heritage Shipyard.

       

      BENEFITS

      Wine tasting and silent auction at Creekside Community Recreation Centre supports the Kiwanis Club of Vancouver.

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

      Twelfth annual gala evening at Coquitlam's Executive Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre raises awareness and funds for Charlford House.

      Celebrate the power of music while enjoying food, drinks, and dancing at the Imperial, with proceeds to the Music Heals Charitable Foundation.

      Annual fundraising exploration of the Western Front’s archive focuses on dance, with screenings from the archive and a special performance by Evann Siebens and Natalie LeFebvre Gnam.

       

      FASHION

      The Gastown Fall Shop Hop celebrates the fall fashion season with late-night shopping at 45 local businesses.

       

      FOOD & DRINK

      In honor of BC Cider week, Orchard & the Sea will be hosting a BC Cider & Spanish fare long-table dinner.

      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

      Food as Medicine author Todd Caldecott discusses the Vajracharya medical tradition of Kathmandu at Banyen Books & Sound.

      As part of the Peter Wall Downtown Lecture Series, Gabriella Coleman speaks at the Vogue Theatre on Anonymous' crucial role in establishing public-disclosure hacks.

      Randall MacKinnon moderates a discussion at West Vancouver Memorial Library that explores if the winners of an election have an obligation to carry out their promises in a timely manner.

      Learn how to prepare yourself and your family for an earthquake in three easy steps at Burnaby City Hall.

      Tri-City Greendrinks presents Basic Income Vancouver cofounder Nick Taylor in a discussion of income inequality and the environment at Gallery Bistro.

      Women’s guide to self-pleasure at The Art of Loving includes all the details from the basics of getting started to more advanced tips and techniques.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Fright Nights at Playland features seven haunted houses, two live shows, 15 rides, and 90 monsters roaming the grounds.

      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 Buffalo Sabres in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

       

      COMEDY

      Legendary English comedians and Monty Python alumni John Cleese and Eric Idle perform the first of three nights at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

      Vancouver comedian Phil Hanley performs the first of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      Canadian comedian John Beuhler performs a night of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      Ross Dauk hosts an evening of standup comedy at Little Mountain Gallery.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Explore Granville Island after dark at a photography tour that covers long exposure photography and light trails, light painting, and creative special effects.

      Open stage for established and up-and-coming artists to showcase new works and test out new material in front of an audience at the Dusty Flower Shop.

       

      DANCE

      Vision Impure artistic director Noam Gagnon presents a provocative new work at Scotiabank Dance Centre that explores how our bodies and sense of self can continuously morph and evolve.

      I Care What You Think at the Shadolt Centre for the Arts invites the audience explore how the perfect dance exists in the spaces between, around, and within us all.

       

      LITERARY

      Marsha Lederman moderates Extraordinary Narratives in the Shadow of the Holocaust, a discussion with authors Affinity Konar (above) and Peter Behrens at the Jewish Community Centre.

      The Vancouver Writers Festival continues, featuring such authors as Yann Martel, Wade Davis, Teva Harrison, Sam Wiebe, Sarah Glidden, Madeleine Thien, Michael Helm, M.G. Vassanji, Lindy West, Joy Kogawa, Ivan Coyote, Kenneth Oppel, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Billie Livingston.

       

      MUSIC

      Russian classical pianist Denis Matsuev performs works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and Prokofiev at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

       

      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

      Performance 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 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.

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

      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.

      Boca del Lupo presents Red Phone, an audience-to-audience experience utilizing the intimacy of a phone call and the technology of a teleprompter to connect strangers at the Fishbowl.

      Live stage production of George Romero's cult-classic film Night of the Living Dead at CBC Studio 700.

      A transit cop attempt to solve her husband’s murder and finds herself mixed up in Vancouver’s criminal underground in Three Stories Up at Ukrainian Hall.

      The Sidekick Players Club opens its 20th season with Norm Foster's Mending Fences at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

      Vagabond Players present the world premiere of Elizabeth Elwood's play Body and Soul at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre.

       

      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 Vancity Theatre of Australian writer-director Andrew O'Keefe's thriller Crime & Punishment as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival's VIFF Repeats series.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Vitaly Mansky's Under the Sun, which examines life behind North Korea’s Iron Curtain as it chronicles an average Pyongyang family whose eight-year-old daughter is being inducted into the state’s Korean Children’s Union.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, which serves as both an illuminating treatise on being witness and a slowly-unfurling, affecting portrait of a mother and daughter.

       

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