44 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, January 13

Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 44 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, January 13.

 

CONCERTS

Coastal Jazz presents B3 For Bunny with Kansas City organist Chris Hazelton performing the first of two nights at Frankie's Jazz.

The Rogue Folk Club presents Vancouver singer-songwriter David Beckingham and Twin Bandit at St. James Hall.

Music by War Baby, Wishkicker, Frank Love, and Mess at the Rickshaw Theatre, with Friday the 13th films playing all night long.

Steely Dan tribute band Steelin' in the Years plays Guilt & Co.

 

BENEFITS

Charity hockey game featuring local actors and Canucks alumni, in support of the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, is followed by a match between the UBC Thunderbirds and Manitoba Bisons. Both games takes place at UBC's Thunderbird Arena.

Jam Theatricals and Red Truck Brewery present a mini-preview performance of the percussion-dance show STOMP, with proceeds to STOMP Out Hunger, a drive in support of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

 

FORUMS

Symposium in conjunction with the To refuse/To wait/To sleep and M&A exhibitions at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery provides an opportunity to discuss cultural production through the lens of economic theory.

 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Giants take on the Moose Jaw Warriors in Western Hockey League action at Langley Events Centre.

All Star Wrestling presents matches featuring Gangrel, El Phantasmo, Mr. Jacked Nick Rogers, Mister India, Nick Price, Air Adonis, Breakter Iton, Pain, Vendetta, Kobra Kai, and Hurricane Adam Ryder at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds.

 

TAKE ACTION

Mobilization Against War and Occupation presents a monthly antiwar petition campaign and rally, U.S. Hands Off Syria, in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

 

COMEDY

Los Angeles-based comedian, standup comic, actor, and writer Brent Morin performs the second of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

American actor and comedian Arden Myrin performs the first of two nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Local performers share intimate and embarrassing stories that seem too odd to be true at Café Deux Soleils' Story Story Lie.

Enjoy comedic magic by TC Tahoe while dining on gourmet Chinese cuisine at Floata Seafood House.

Take in comedic debates at Seven Dining Lounge's Geeks vs. Nerds Ep. 31: The One with All the Sex.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Geekenders presents a burlesque tribute to Batman at the Rio Theatre, featuring performances by Sasja Smoulders, Trixie Hobbitses, Rebel Valentine, Miss Dee Twenty, Ryan Caron, Andrew Lynch, Britney Rears, King Rear, Kitty Glitter, Miss Bacon N. Legs, Effie Alexandra, Scout Starling, Whatsername, Miss Kiss, and Riannaconda.

Joan-E and Shanda Leer host It's Just Drag at the Commodore, featuring Roxxy Andrews and Naomi Smalls (from RuPaul's Drag Race), along with 30 local performers.

 

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.

Oh, How I Long For Home, Marianne Nicolson's installation at the Teck Gallery, addresses a persistent idea of the city as a conflicted promise for indigenous people.

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

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

Solo exhibition at Emily Carr University's Charles H. Scott Gallery by Irish artist Sean Lynch.

 

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

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.

Bleeding Heart Theatre presents a performance at the Cultch of Sean Harris Oliver's The Fighting Season, which investigates the Afghan war through the eyes of three Canadian medical personnel.

The SMP Dramatic Society presents a performance of the pantomime Beauty and the Beast at North Vancouver's St. Martin's Hall.

The Sidekick Players present a performance of Yasmina Reza's play Art at the Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

Eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments to fill the stage with rhythms for STOMP at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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

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 Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor.

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

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

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 the 2003 fright flick Freddy Vs. Jason, in which iconic horror villains Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees battle it out.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Zero Days, Alex Gibney's documentary thriller about Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Vancouver filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming's Window Horses at the opening night of Canada's Top Ten Film Festival.

Free afternoon screening at Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew Branch of the animated family comedy Inside Out.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Theater of Life, Peter Svatek's film about the relationship forged between the finest haute cuisine chefs in the world and Milan's most disadvantaged groups.

 

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