33 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, January 7

Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 33 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, January 7.

CONCERTS

Canadian country singer-songwriters Tim Hicks (above) and Chad Brownlee coheadline the first of two nights at the Commodore Ballroom.

BENEFITS

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

The Orr Vancouver dance school presents a game-night fundraiser at the Jewish Community Centre featuring poker and mahjong tournaments.

ETCETERA

See the world's tallest Christmas tree, sing along with the holiday band, and stroll through the lights decorating the suspension bridge, Treetops Adventure, Cliffwalk, rainforest, and canyon at Capilano Suspension Bridge's Canyon Lights.

Drop in to Vancouver Public Library with your smartphone or tablet and get help with questions about the devices from library staff.

COMEDY

Sam Tonning hosts a comedy show at the Rickshaw Theatre featuring headliner Shirley Gnome and guests Mark Hughes, Jane Stanton, Stuart Jones, and Steev Letts.

Los Angeles-based standup comedian Michael Kosta performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Vancouver-based standup comedian Dino Archie performs the third of three nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Original comedic musicals based on audience suggestions are performed at Havana Theatre.

MUSIC

John Morris Russell conducts vocalist-pianist Ellis Hall, the Ellis Hall Singers, and the VSO in a program of classics by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Otis Redding, and Ray Charles at the Orpheum Theatre.

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.

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

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

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

Arts Club on Tour production of The (Post) Mistress, Tomson Highway's play about a small-town postal worker who seems to know everything about everyone. Performance takes place at North Van's Blueshore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Sticks and Stones Theatre present a performance of This Is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan's play about three lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of And Bella Sang With Us, Sally Stubbs's play about constables Lurancy Harris and Minnie Miller, Vancouver's first female police officers.

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.

Spectral Theatre presents staged readings of spooky original works, in the style of old-time radio programs, at Slickity Jim's Chat 'n' Chew.

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.

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.

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

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

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

MOVIES

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Stanley Kubrick's ultra-violent 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell.

The Vancouver Italian Film Festival continues at the Vancity Theatre with screenings of Viva Italia!, Me, Myself & Her, Solo, The Beginners, and They Call Me Jeeg.

Screening at the Cinematheque of a new restoration of Monte Hellman's 1966 Western The Shooting, starring Warren Oates and Jack Nicholson.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Studio Ghibli's animated classic Howl's Moving Castle.

Screening at the Cinematheque of a new restoration of the 1961 Marlon Brando Western One-Eyed Jacks.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

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