42 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, November 29

Looking for something to do on Tuesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 42 events happening in or around Vancouver on Tuesday, November 29.

CONCERTS

American country-music duo Brothers Osborne plays the first of two nights at the Commodore.

Death-metal bands Revocation and Aborted coheadline the Rickshaw, with guests Black Crown Initiate, Rivers of Nihil, and Revenger.

Shari Ulrich hosts a Bluebird North singer-songwriter night at the Roundhouse Community Centre, featuring music by Roy Forbes, Oliver Swain, and Lydia Hol.

BENEFITS

The ongoing Lights of Hope Christmas lights display at St. Paul's Hospital raises funds for the St. Paul's Foundation.

Vote on your favourite gingerbread creation and get your photo with Santa at Grouse Mountain, with proceeds to SOS Children’s Village B.C.'s programs and homes for local foster children and homeless youth. 

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.

The Vancouver Christmas Market continues at Jack Poole Plaza, featuring traditional German cuisine, mulled wine, gingerbread, German beer, a Christmas pyramid, a large heated tent overlooking the North Shore, entertainment, a carousel, and vendors selling gifts and treasures.

FORUMS

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation presents a lecture at the University Women's Club on Vancouver's first city archivist, Major James Skitt Matthews.

Learn about active and sustainable transportation options on the North Shore at John Braithwaite Community Centre.

Workshop and demo at The Art of Loving will explore the many ways to get the most out of your strap-on.

KIDS' STUFF

Help Santa search for his missing elves during an exhilarating simulated flight-ride experience across Canada and on to the North Pole at Flyover Canada.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Minnesota Wild in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

The Vancouver Giants take on the Prince George Cougars in Western Hockey League action at Langley Events Centre.

COMEDY

Kahlil Ashanti recounts his experience as a member of the military entertainment troupe called Tops In Blue at Havana Theatre.

The Fictionals present the creation of new improv games and a new long-form extravaganza at Café Deux Soleils.

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.

Fear, Hope, and Longing III, an exhibition of David A. Haughton's paintings of Vancouver Island's western coast, is showing at Visual Space Gallery.

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.

DANCE

Dance artists Linda Hayes, Molly McDermott, and Marissa Wong will give an informal studio showing of works they have developed at Scotiabank Dance Centre, with mentorship and critical feedback from curators Jo Leslie and Chick Snipper.

LITERARY

The annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival continues at the Jewish Community Centre, featuring meet-the-author opportunities, readings, workshops, and panel discussions. Participating authors include Michael Wex (above), Ella Zeltserman, Tom Wayman, Irvin Yalom, B.A. Shapiro, Daniel Kalla, Noah Leavitt, and Glenda Leznoff.

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

Enchanting China: An Orchestral Extravaganza at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre features the Canadian premiere of the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra.

Vancouver Opera presents a new family-friendly production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s beloved fairytale opera Hansel and Gretel at the Vancouver Playhouse.

The Vancouver Community College's Willan Choir presents seasonal music by Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Handel, Rutter, Faure, and Willan at the Canadian Centre for Peace.

THEATRE

Performance at the York Theatre of East Van Panto: Little Red Riding Hood, Theatre Replacement's pantomime that sees Little Red Riding Hood battling bike thieves, distracted drivers, and the Big Bad Wolf.

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.

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 Presentation House of Baking Time, a play for kids 3-and-up about a pair of bakers who encounter mischievous doughy characters and venture through forests of breadstick trees and magical floury storms.

Seven Tyrants Theatre presents the Western Canadian premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks's darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, Tapdog/Underdog, at Studio 1398.

ATTRACTIONS

Grouse Mountain resort features a Skyride to the peak with views of Vancouver and the Pacific Ocean, as well as skiing and snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating, mountain ziplines, and the Peak of Christmas.

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.

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Landfill Harmonic, 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 the Rio Theatre of writer-director Matt Johnson's Operation Avalanche, about two young CIA agents who go undercover at NASA to investigate a possible Russian mole during the Cold War.

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.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Tower, director Keith Maitland's film about the sniper attack at the University of Texas Tower in 1966.

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