43 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, December 13

Looking for something to do on Tuesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 43 events happening in or around Vancouver on Tuesday, December 13.

CONCERTS

American-Canadian actor and retro-soul singer-songwriter Hayley Sales plays the Fox Cabaret.

Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

American electropop band the Album Leaf plays the Rickshaw Theatre, touring in support of new album Between Waves.

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

Experience a winter wonderland at Bloedel Conversatory's Holiday Heights at Bloedel, complete with magical lights, festive music, a holiday scavenger hunt, seasonal activities, and a Ferris-wheel ride.

The Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Garden features over one-million twinkling lights, a carousel, a dancing-lights show, the Make-A-Wish candle grotto, and photos with Santa.

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

Learn about Vancouver Public Library's online collection of entertainment resources such as music from around the world, indie movies, and television shows.

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.

COMEDY

Local improv groups The Radical and The Enigmatics battle it out at Café Deux Soleils.

ARTS ETCETERA

Evening of belly dancing by Scarlet Lux, boylesque by Vixen Von Flex, burlesque by April O'Peel, and singing by Sparkle Plenty at Guilt and Co.'s Gastown Cabaret Sleigh All Day.

Christmas Presence features an eclectic array of musicians and actors performing songs, stories, poems, and readings for the holiday season at Pacific Theatre.

Cirque du Soleil presents Toruk: The First Flight, a new show inspired by the world of James Cameron's hit film Avatar, at the Pacific Coliseum.

Record your stories, feelings, and ideas through words and art at an art-journaling workshop at Vancouver Public Library's Hastings branch. Materials and supplies provided.

LITERARY

Eleven writers and performers share short stories and audience members vote for who will become the 2016 Vancouver Story Slam Champion at Cottage Bistro.

MUSIC

Celebrate Christmas with the VSO Brass Quintet and organist Terry Fullerton at Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church.

GALLERIES

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

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.

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.

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.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents The Day Before Christmas--about a perfectionist who is desperately juggling family and work as she attempts to create the perfect Christmas--at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Mary Poppins--a musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film--at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

In Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, four actors bring to life the characters of Charles Dickens's classic Christmas tale at Jericho Arts Centre. Appropriate for ages five and up.

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.

Robson Square Ice Rink offers free ice-skating in downtown Vancouver, with skate rental available.

Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding lessons from the Mt. Seymour Ski and Snowboard School, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

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.

Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

Check out the Vancouver Christmas Tree at Robson Square.

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 the Rio Theatre of Christine, director Antonio Campos's film about a woman caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Violin Teacher, about a talented violinist forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school in the biggest favela of Brazil.

Screening at the Cineplex Odeon Park Theatre of Allegiance, a Broadway musical about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, loosely inspired by the true-life experiences of actor George Takei.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Ten Years, the omnibus film by directors Kwok Zune, Wong Fei-pang, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-wai, and Ng Ka-leung that offers five provocative takes on a dystopian 2025.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of The Handmaiden, Park Chan-Wook's film tells the story of a Korean pickpocket who is hired by a con-man to play the role of maid for a Japanese heiress.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Things to Come, Mia Hansen-Løve's film about an academic who is forced back on her own resources as her husband leaves her, her publisher axes her book series, and her needy mother passes away.

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