66 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, October 21

Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 66 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, October 21.

CONCERTS

Portland folk band Blind Pilot plays the Biltmore, touring in support of new album And Then Like Lions.

Roots and blues singer-songwriter and slide-guitar specialist Martin Harley plays the first of two nights at Kay Meek Centre.

Blueprint Live presents U.K. hip-hop artist Stormzy at Venue.

Peter Tosh Tribute at the Rickshaw Theatre features performances by by Bounty Hunta, Bkenyan, Katchy Shuby Band, Kandake I, Selecta Froggy, and DJ Chippa Genuies.

Baltimore-based experimental-electronica band Flock of Dimes plays the Cobalt, with guests Your Friend.

Vancouver jazz orchestra performs Daniel Hersog's compositions with tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger at Pat's Pub and Brewhouse.

Toronto-based jazz-blues vocalist Cara Matthew plays Ten Ten Tapas.

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

Victoria-based band Carmanah performs folk, funk, and reggae music at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

English indie-pop singer-songwriter Tom Odell plays the Imperial, touring in support of latest album Wrong Crowd.

BENEFITS

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

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.

ETCETERA

Take free express fitness classes in lower-body and upper-body fitness at Nordstrom Pacific Centre.

FORUMS

Jason Byassee of the Vancouver School of Theology discusses the transfiguring God at UBC's Epiphany Chapel.

Respectfully discuss death as a natural part of life at St. Paul's Anglican Church.

Learn from experts how to cultivate resilience in the children and youth you care for and teach at Bell Performing Arts Centre.

KIDS' STUFF

The VSO and Let Your Music Shine! With Lisa and Linda present a fairytale accompanied by classical music by Antonio Vivaldi at the Vancouver Playhouse and Anvil Centre.

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.

COMEDY

The Georgia Straight presents American comedian Hannibal Buress at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

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

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

Alicia Tobin presents an evening that's part comedy show and part art class at Hot Art Wet City Gallery.

Grad School Improv returns with the second episode of its improvised medical drama Point Grey's Anatomy at Little Mountain Gallery.

Girls Night Out features comedy by Erica Sigurdson, Katie-Ellen Humphries, Sophie Buddle, and Katie Burell at Port Moody Inlet Theatre.

American comedian and actor Alonzo Bodden plays the first of two nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

Agency Reports at New Westminster's Anvi Centre features multiple vignettes created in response to stories generated by the Agency at the End of Civilization exhibit, currently being showcased at the New Media Gallery.

Learn how to draw plants from an aesthetic and botanical perspective while improving observation and artistic skills at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

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

The Vancouver Writers Festival continues, featuring such authors as Michael Koryta (above), Wade Davis, Yann Martel, 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.

Teens can share their story with the world and find out how they can create an e-book at Vancouver Public Library’s Inspiration Lab.

Launch at Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre of Matt Hern’s new book What a City is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement.

MUSIC

Early Music Vancouver presents a concert at Christ Church Cathedral by London viol consort Fretwork, in which music for viol consort is overlaid with the raucous voices of 16th-century London’s street-vendors, mendicants, tradesmen, and river-taxis.

Violinist David Gillham, cellist Eric Wilson, and pianist Chiharu Iinuma play music by Brahms at UBC's Roy Barnett Concert Hall.

Piano concert at Pyatt Hall features compositions by Lisa Cay Miller, with performances by Miller and guest artist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, pianist Dana Reason, and narrator Peter Anderson.

Jon Washburn conducts the Vancouver Chamber Choir in a performance at Ryerson United Church of works by Healey Willan, Leonard Bernstein, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, and Loreena McKennitt.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The Vancouver Polish Film Festival kicks off at Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, featuring screenings of Jarocin. Rock for Freedom, Fragments, Blindness, The Red Spider, Chemo, Kamper Strange Heaven, Mother of Kings, Generations, and Planet Single.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of the 1995 family film Casper, about a girl who makes friends with a ghost.

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