64 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, November 4

Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 64 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, November 4.

 

CONCERTS

American punk-rock band NOFX plays the first of two nights at the Commodore, with guests Pears, Useless ID, and Modern Terror.

Fundraiser for the Vancouver Food Bank at the Rickshaw Theatre features music by 2 Days & Counting, the Binz, Cobra Ramone, Crummy, Death Sentence, Eddy D & the Sex Bombs, the Furniture, Joseph Blood, Li'l Miss M's Rockpile, Trailerhawk, and Wett Stilettos.

The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre presents an evening of Cuban jazz at the Vancouver Playhouse with Club Habana.

L.A. dance-music duo Classixx plays the the Imperial on its Faraway Reach Tour, with guest Harriet Brown.

The Cap Global Roots Series presents Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré at Kay Meek Centre.

Canadian adult-contemporary singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk plays the Massey Theatre in New Westminster.

Vancouver studio musicians pay tribute to American jazz-rock band Steely Dan with Steelin' in the Years at Blue Frog Studios.

American queer-punk duo PWR BTTM plays the 333, with guests Bellows and Lisa Prank.

 

BENEFITS

Street festival at Surrey's Central City Shopping Centre features music and kids activities, with proceeds to Variety—The Children's Charity.

Royal City Gogos presents a two-day craft sale at New Westminster's Unifor Hall that raises funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign, in support of African grandmothers caring for children orphaned by AIDS.

 

ETCETERA

FlyOver America is a 10-minute flight-simulation ride at Flyover Canada that features beautiful landscapes of the U.S., including Hawaii, Alaska, and New York.

 

FOOD & DRINK

The Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival at Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club showcases brews from over 30 B.C. breweries, matched with foods provided by 10 local restaurants and caterers.

 

FORUMS

Efrat Arbel of the Peter A. Allard School of Law moderates a discussion on the global refugee crisis--with panelists Malcolm Atia, Fadi Yachoua, Kerstin Walter, and Chris Morrissey--at the Lui Institute for Global Issues.

Cameron Cathcart provides an overview of the Battle of Hong Kong and its aftermath at the Irvin K. Barber Learning Centre.

The UBC Changemaker Showcase at the UBC Student Nest helps participants identify their passions, generate ideas, and connect to peers and professionals.

 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Giants take on the Kelowna Rockets in Western Hockey League action at Langley Events Centre.

 

TAKE ACTION

Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice's Venezuela-solidarity campaign presents a picket action and petition drive outside the United States Consulate.

 

COMEDY

Canadian comic and actor Tom Green performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Canadian standup comedian Ian Bagg performs the second of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

 

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.

 

DANCE

Ballet BC presents two new works by Cayetano Soto, as well as the choreographer's Sortijas and Fugaz, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

A mixed program of contemporary dance at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre, showcasing new works by project20 and Lesley Telford.

 

LITERARY

Stó:lō writer Lee Maracle and Xat’sull writer Bev Sellars read from their works at the Vancouver Public Library's Carnegie Branch.

Event at Arts Factory features a talk by Jeanne Heuving and readings by Heuving, Anahita Jamali Rad, Reg Johanson, Catriona Strang, and Jordan Scott.

The Magazine Association of B.C. hosts MagsWest 2016, its annual conference for magazine-publishing professionals, freelance writers/designers, and aspiring students at UBC Robson Square.

 

GALLERIES

Works by Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen and Emily Carr 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.

Still Here at Gallery Gachet is a collection of photographs and art from gay and bisexual men affected by suicide.

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

Walker Evans: Depth of Field at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 200 black and white and colour prints from the 1920s through to the 1970s.

 

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.

 

MUSIC

The UBC Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's Egmont: Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol, and Brahms's Symphony No. 2 at Chan Shun Concert Hall.

UBC Opera Ensemble and members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra present Menotti's opera The Consul at UBC's Old Auditorium.

Chamber singers from Trinity Western University performs Bach's Der Herr Denket an uns at Abbotsford's Emmanuel Free Reformed Church.

 

THEATRE

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.

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.

United Players presents director Michael Fera's version of Henrik Ibsen's drama Ghosts at Jericho Arts Centre. 

The Renegade Arts Co. present the musical The Who's Tommy--about a pinball-playing, "deaf, dumb, and blind boy" who triumphs over adversity--at the Shop Theatre.

Performance at Douglas College Studio Theatre of Caryl Churchill's Love and Information, which explores the relationship between our emotions and our intellect.

Professor emeritus Norman Young returns to UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre stage with theatre alumni and students from the UBC Theatre Program for fundraising performances of Beckett 16 benefiting the Peter Loeffler Student Prize.

Jake's Gift at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts tells the story of a Canadian World War II veteran’s reluctant return to Normandy, France, for the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

Writer and star Tetsuro Shigematsu presents Empire of the Son--the story of one immigrant family and its intergenerational conflicts--at the Vancity Culture Lab.

Performances at the Cultch of Indian Ink Theatre Company's The Elephant Wrestler, about a poor tea seller who attempts to solve the interwoven mysteries of love, tragedy, and joy.

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 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.

Performance at PAL Theatre of Fighting Chance Productions' Now or Later, Christopher Shinn's play about a son who jeopardizes his father's presidential campaign.

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

Kevin Kokoska's one-man play The Mirror Test is performed at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Langley campus, with proceeds to mental-health initiatives for KPU students.

Fugue Theatre presents an in-concert, work-in-progress presentation of the new Canadian trilingual musical Les Filles du Roi at the Orpheum Annex.

Musician Chase Padgett tells the story of the rise, demise, and resurrection of a fictional guitar player in Nashville Hurricane at Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Mitch and Murray Productions presents Lisa D'Amour's Detroit--a play about a fledgling suburbanite friendship that soon veers out of control--at Studio 16.

 

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 Vancity Theatre of Jim Jarmusch's music documentary Gimme Danger, about rock band Iggy and the Stooges.

The third annual Rio Grind Film Festival features an assortment of new and award-winning international, Canadian, indie, cult, sci-fi, and horror shorts, features, and documentaries. 

The 10-day-long Vancouver Jewish Film Festival kicks off at Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Nettie Wild's environmental documentary Koneline: our land beautiful.

Screening of the Disney animated film The Little Mermaid at the Vancouver Public Library Renfrew Branch.

The Render Music Video Festival 2017 at Vancity Theatre showcases the art of the music video and the creativity of the filmmakers producing them.

 

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