33 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Monday, January 16

Looking for something to do on Monday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 33 events happening in or around Vancouver on Monday, January 16.

 

CONCERTS

Los Angeles-based Welsh folk-rock singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon coheadlines the Fox Cabaret with American garage-rock singer-songwriter Tim Presley.

American folk-country singer-songwriter John Paul White plays the Biltmore Cabaret, touring in support of new album Beulah.

New York City-based indie-pop duo Great Good Fine OK plays Alexander Gastown, tours in support of latest release III.

 

ETCETERA

Gregory Milne (above) and Patrick Maliha host an evening of trivia at Displace Hashery's Quizplace.

Learn how to play the popular role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons at Richmond Public Library.

 

FORUMS

Lenore Newman of the University of the Fraser Valley speaks at SFU Harbour Centre on "The Fight for Farmland: Agricultural Production on Vancouver’s Rural/Urban Fringe."

 

COMEDY

Stacked Comedy at Yagger's Kitsilano features headliner Byron Bertram, guests Fatima Dhowre, Amanda Rae Smith, Ed Konyha, Brett Skillen, Kody Audette, Yumi Nagashima, and Brent Constantine.

Live standup comedy at Yagger's Downtown hosted by Brad Dorion, Jenny Toews, and Stefan MacNeil.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Kickoff of the 2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, which features groundbreaking theatre, dance, music, and multimedia art from 11 countries, performed at various Vancouver venues. Highlights include an all-star Australian indigenous band, South Korean performance art, Bavarian folk dancers, and participatory recitation from Portugal.

 

LITERARY

Christine Lowther, Nicola Harwood, David Ferguson, and Beth Wilks read books about fostering and foster care at Historic Joy Kogawa House 

 

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.

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.

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.

 

MUSIC

Otto Tausk conducts violinist Simone Lamsma and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman: Overture, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances at the Orpheum Theatre.

 

THEATRE

Opening at the Vancouver Playhouse of Macbeth, Third World Bunfight's adaptation of Verdi's opera, based on Shakespeare's tragedy, which incorporates African musical idioms. In Italian, with English surtitles. Part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

 

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.

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

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.

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 Vancity Theatre of Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling, which delves into the tragic backdrop of the recording of Nick Cave's Skeleton Tree album.

Screening at the Cinematheque of In the Land of the Head Hunters, director Edward S. Curtis's 1914 portrait of the Kwakwaka’wakw (formerly Kwakiutl) people of northern Vancouver Island and the central coast.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook's drama about a Korean pickpocket hired by a con-man to play the role of maid for a Japanese heiress, whose fortune he plans to steal.

Canadian premiere screening at the Rio Theatre of Bartender at Large, a documentary about bartenders and the craft-cocktail scene.

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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