42 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Wednesday, January 18

Looking for something to do on Wednesday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 42 events happening in or around Vancouver on Wednesday, January 18.

 

ETCETERA

The five-day Vancouver International Boat Show kicks off at BC Place Stadium, featuring more than 250 exhibitors showcasing the newest selection of boats and accessories for boaters and water-sports enthusiasts. 

 

FOOD & DRINK

Taste White Rock kicks off, giving foodies the opportunity to select from a wide variety of White Rock restaurants offering unique three-course, prix-fix menus, many complemented by B.C. wines, craft beer, and special cocktails.

Learn how to make lentil and smoked ham soup, chicken stock, and coq au vin at the Uncommon Cafe's Stock, Soup, & Stew cooking class.

 

FORUMS

Nutritionist Heather Woodruff discusses how the digestive system should optimally work at a Digestive Healing forum at Nourish Cafe and Cooking School.

Eight speakers from across the city share their ideas, insights, and passions at the Vancouver Playhouse during Sam Sullivan's Public Salon.

Discover herbs that can be grown in gardens, planters, or your kitchen to be used as everyday medicines at VanDusen Botanical Garden's Herbs for Health.

Professor Mark Celinscak discusses Canadian responses to the Holocaust at Norman Rothstein Theatre.

Forum at the Art of Loving covers erotic techniques and products that lead to a heightened level of excitement and pleasure. 

Laura Cuthbert discusses historical documentation, environmentalism, preservation, and some of the trouble B.C.’s backroads have brought her way at Surrey City Centre Library.

Learn practical and powerful meditation and mindfulness techniques to break down bad mental habits and create good ones at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

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

 

DANCE

Performance at Scotiabank Dance Centre of Flemish choreographer Jan Martens's Sweat Baby Sweat, which distills the relationship between a man and a woman into an intensely physical, intimate duet depicting all-consuming love. Part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

 

LITERARY

The Vancouver Writers Fest presents readings by Rachel Rose, Rob Taylor, Jan Zwicky, and Patricia Young at CBC Studio 700.

 

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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

Bramwell Tovey conducts pianist Emanuel Ax and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat Major and Beethoven's Wellington's Victory and Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Emperor at the Orpheum Theatre.

Music in the Morning presents Australian oboist Diana Doherty in a performance of works by Bach and Mozart, accompanied by violinists Terence Tam and Barry Shiffman, cellist Joseph Elworthy, and pianist Lorraine Min, at Vancouver Academy of Music.

The Penderecki String Quartet performs Kelly-Marie Murphy's Oblique Light, as well as Ernest Chausson's Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21, with guest violinist David Gillham and pianist Chiharu Iinuma at Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

Sing the music of David Bowie with a community choir at St. James Hall.

 

THEATRE

Opening night at the Firehall Arts Centre of Jennifer Haley's The Nether, a detective story that explores the nature of virtual realms, fantasy, and morality.

Performance 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.

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.

Square Planet Theatre presents a performance at Studio T of Happy Days, Samuel Beckett's darkly comic eulogy to the human spirit.

 

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.

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.

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

Frames of Mind presents a screening at the Cinematheque of Seven Songs for a Long Life, a documentary that profiles a hospice outside of Glasgow that encourages singing as a coping mechanism.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Studio Ghibli's 1984 animated film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

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 Rio Theatre of Studio Ghibli's animated family classic of 1988, My Neighbor Totoro.

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.

 

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