35 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, November 22

Looking for something to do on Tuesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 35 events happening in or around Vancouver on Tuesday, November 22.

CONCERTS

Norwegian synth-pop singer-songwriter Mr. Little Jeans plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

BENEFITS

Learn to sing in harmony at the WISE Hall, with proceeds to May's Place, a hospice in the Downtown Eastside.

ETCETERA

Heritage Christmas at Burnaby Village Museum features light displays, vintage shop-window displays, a visit with Father Christmas, live entertainment, fresh heritage baking, kids' crafts, a sing along, and a scavenger hunt.

FOOD & DRINK

Dive deep into the mostly Islay peat whiskies at a tasting at Legacy Liquor Store.

Extract grain home-brewing workshop at Homestead Junction covers recipe design with different types of malt, grain, and malt extract, hop varieties and their use, yeast biology, sanitation, and natural carbonation.

FORUMS

Nerdy bar-lecture series at the Fox Cabaret features talks on volcanoes, asteroids, and the future of money by Lucy Porritt (above), Meena Sandhu, and Catherine Johnson.

Event at Vancouver Public Library includes a panel discussion on the challenges of preserving the welfare and safety of children in our communities.

Explore the different methods and techniques to spanking your partner in a pleasurable way at The Art of Loving.

Presentation at People's Law School provides an introduction to navigating the justice system for affordable options to help you resolve your differences.

COMEDY

An all-women comedy show at Café Deux Soleils is followed by a long-form jamboree and open mixer.

ARTS ETCETERA

Record your stories, feelings, and ideas through words and art at this art-journaling workshop at Vancouver Public Library's Hasting Branch.

LITERARY

At Vancouver Public Library's Kitsilano Branch, Jungian and analytic psychologist Phyllis Marie Jensen presents Artist Emily Carr and the Spirit of the Land, an evidence-based biography of the artist that refutes early claims about Carr's personality.

Martin Crosbie simplifies the complex world of self-publishing at a workshop at Alliance for Arts and Culture.

Linda DeMeulemeester, author of the Grim Hill series, gives an interactive visual presentation on writing tricks for nine to 11 year olds, writers, and the young at heart at Richmond Public Library.

GALLERIES

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.

Stare exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery features photographic works that evoke a fixed and concentrated gaze on the part of artist and viewer.

Juxtapoz x Superflat exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery offers a unique insight into contemporary art and its place in cultural life.

MUSEUMS

Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 130 diverse cultural garments, from Japanese kimonos, to colourful Indian saris, to the elaborate feather cloaks of the Maori people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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

Learn Salish social songs, drumming, and dance at Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre with composer, producer and traditional Lil’wat singer, Russell Wallace.

THEATRE

At the Cultch, Touchstone Theatre presents Brothel #9, director Katrina Dunn's story about a young woman who is sold into a brothel by her brother-in-law.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Miss Shakespeare, a play about the creative journey of the Bard's daughter.

Performance at Studio 58 of Troilus and Cressida, in which director Kevin Bennett puts a modern spin on Shakespeare's drama that sees lovers yearn to be true and warriors strive to be brave.

Performance at Performance Works of Vancouver playwright Katey Hoffman's comedy, Green Lake, which explores growing up at summer camp and reconnecting with family later in life.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Avenue Q--the musical story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college graduate who arrives in New York City looking for love, a job, and his purpose in life--at Granville Island Stage.

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.

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

The VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.

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.

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Landfill Harmonica, about a garbage picker and a music teacher who create instruments from trash and help turn a group of impoverished local youths into the Recycled Orchestra.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Aquarius, about a woman who proves to be a force to be reckoned with when she challenges corrupt real-estate developers.

The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival fall series opens at the Rio Theatre, with screenings of local and international films and live presentations from mountaineers, climbers, and skiers.

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