67 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, October 27

by Steve Newton on October 26th, 2016 at 2:00 PM

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Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 67 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, October 27.

CONCERTS

As part of the Straight Series, L.A.-based rockers Young the Giant play the second of two nights at the Commodore, with guests Ra Ra Riot.

Canadian singer-songwriter Adrian Glynn performs tunes from his new album morelightthannolight at the Emerald.

The Holy Roller Revue music showcase at the Fox Cabaret features performances by the Wayward Hearts, Viper Central, Burmis Tree, and Jack Garton and the Demon Squadron.

Le Horror Soiree Halloween party at Republic features music spun by DJs Physik, Stimulant J, J Fresh, and Hypnotiq.

BENEFITS

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

Celebrate the launch of Passion to Lead's new brand at Artstarts and watch the premiere of its soon-to-be-released trailer for the documentary Global Sorority.

FOOD & DRINK

At VanDusen Botanical Garden, explore the botanicals commonly used as bittering agents, sample apothecary’s bitters, and discuss current uses in artisanal cocktails that you can try at home.

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.

At the Dirty Apron Cooking School & Delicatessen's Cook With Courage, enjoy starters created by chefs David Hawksworth, Nico Schuermans, David Robertson, and Joël Watanabe, a dinner prepared by the Dirty Apron chef team and Kids Can Cook, and desserts by Thomas Haas.

ETCETERA

The four-day Vancouver Home + Design Show at the Vancouver Conventon Centre features ideas, advice, and inspiration from more than 350 brands and local companies, and industry personalities like HGTV’s Mia Parres and Rob Evans of The Expandables.

Hear gruesome tales of Vancouver's past, visit Mountain View Cemetery, and climb the stairs to the city's first morgue on a Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour.

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

Halloween-themed adults-only evening at the Vancouver Aquarium features cocktails, dressed-up diving demos, a creepy critters corner, staff-carved pumpkins, a 4-D film screening, and hands-on learning at the wet lab.

FORUMS

Lecture at SFU Burnaby by Steven Reicher, whose research focuses on issues of group behaviour and the individual-social relationship.

Panelists Shariful Islam, Shaheen Rezanur, Nazrul Islam, and Sunera Thobani discuss the topic "Minorities and Terror Attack in Bangladesh" at UBC's C.K. Choi Building.

David Kroodsma, research program manager at Skytruth, discusses the intensity of fishing efforts around the world at UBC's Green College.

Join Frank Cunningham, Meg Holden, and Trevor Boddy at SFU Harbour Centre for a lecture and discussion on the urban incarnations of utopia, including in the Lower Mainland.

Historian Eryk Martin gives a public lecture at the Museum of Vancouver on the history of anarchist activism, politics, and culture in Vancouver between the late 1960s-mid 1980s.

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 .

At VanDusen Glow in the Garden kids can walk through the woods and see lights, hear ghoulish music, and observe glowing pumpkin characters before enjoying Halloween crafts.

Kids can see spooky fairy tales come to life and sample treats from a haunted bakery at Burnaby Village Museum's Haunted Village.

COMEDY

Scottish comedian Danny Bhoy performs an evening of standup at the Vogue Theatre.

Toronto standup comedian Casey Corbin performs the first of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Evening of standup comedy hosted by a classic ghost at Little Mountain Gallery.

ARTS ETCETERA

The 13th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival features twelve days of music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, spoken word, forums, workshops, and public art at various Vancouver venues.

Pearl, a Canadian-American-Chinese dance-theatre spectacular inspired by the life of author Pearl S. Buck, is at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Flamenco virtuoso Kasandra ‘La China’ leads a showcase of flamenco in its purest traditional form, the cuadro, at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

LITERARY

Rob Taylor launches his second poetry collection The News at the WISE Hall, with special guests Raoul Fernandes, Aislinn Hunter, and Karen Solie.

South Surrey writer Patricia Sandberg launches her new book Sun Dogs and Yellowcake: Gunnar Mines—A Canadian Story at the University Women's Club.

An evening of poetry and prose at Douglas College celebrating indigenous voices in the community includes appearances by Joanne Arnott, Carleigh Baker, Jonina Kirton, and Larry Nicholson.

GALLERIES

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

Bill Reid Creative Journeys at Bill Reid Gallery marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii.

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.

Ceramics by Judy Chartrand at Bill Reid Gallery present her own personal history and insights into life in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

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.

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

Preview at Presentation House Theatre of Ages of the Moon, Sam Shepard's darkly funny play about two friends who are reunited by mutual desperation on the eve of a lunar eclipse.

At the Rio Theatre the Geekenders present Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, about a man and a woman who get stranded at the castle of a transvestite scientist.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bakersfield Mist, Stephen Sachs's story about a down-on-her-luck woman who invites an art dealer to authenticate a long-lost painting by the renowned Jackson Pollock. Running at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Standing Room Only Theatre presents the opening at CBC Studio 700 of Twelve Angry Jurors, a play that sees 12 jurors decide on the fate of a young boy.

Performance at the York Theatre of The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe, a mix of classical clowning and contemporary circus centered on, in, under, and around a magnificent grand piano.

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 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.

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.

ITSAZOO presents Hidden, a site-specific horror event at UBC Botanical Garden that guides audiences through a re-enactment of infamous and unsolved murders.

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.

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

At Studio 16 Théâtre la Seizième presents Straight Jacket Winter, about a couple who travel from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter and attempt to integrate into their new city.

Writer-director Mily Mumford's stage-noir thriller Frankenstein, 1945--which examines the monsters created by us and within us--runs at Studio 1398.

Trinity Western University’s School of the Arts, Media and Culture presents the British comedy Smash.

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

ATTRACTIONS

Edgewater Casino offers 24-hour gaming, over 60 table games, a poker room, a high-limit section, 500 slot machines, restaurants and lounges, and live entertainment, including concerts and televised UFC events.

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 Vancity Theatre of The Lovers and the Despot, a documentary which chronicles the story of film director Shin Sang-ok and actor Choi Eun-hee, who were kidnapped by late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.

Screenings of Forbidden Planet and Robinson Crusoe on Mars at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, introduced by Vancouver film-history teacher and critic Michael van den Bos.

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of Ross Lipman's film about the making of "Film", followed by a screening of the short film.

Screening at the Rickshaw Theatre of the snowboarding film Full Moon.

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