50 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, January 19

Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 50 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, January 19.

 

CONCERTS

Toronto-based electronica collective Holy Fuck plays the Fortune Sound Club, touring in support of its latest album Congrats.

Local blues vocalist-guitarist Jim Byrnes performs with guests Mainstreet Muze, featuring Babe Gurr, at the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

German heavy-metal vocalist Udo Dirkschneider of Accept fame leads his current band at the Rickshaw. CANCELLED.

Swedish-Canadian experimental-indie rockers Thus Owls play the WISE Hall, with guests Handmade Blade and Marin Patenaude.

 

ETCETERA

The five-day Vancouver International Boat Show continues 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 continues at various White Rock restaurants, giving foodies the opportunity to select from a wide variety of three-course, prix-fix menus, many complemented by B.C. wines, craft beer, and special cocktails.

 

FORUMS

Evening panel at the Tap and Barrell's TapShack explores the foreign-policy challenges facing the incoming Trump administration.

Join historian and Expo-phile Maurice Guibord at the Museum of Vancouver and share your memories and souvenirs of Expo 67.

Marjo Vierros, Yoshitaka Ota, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, and Suzanne von der Porten discuss indigenous fisheries, ocean policy, and human security at UBC's Green College.

Forever Young forum at the West Vancouver Memorial Library explores some of the changes that can happen in your bones, muscles, heart, digestive system, and brain as you age.

Vancouver Rad Dads #6 at Link2LifeStudio is a gathering of dads to share ideas, learn from each other, and talk about their experiences of day-to-day life as parents.

Learn how talking about death can enrich your life now at the Canadian Centre of Peace.

 

COMEDY

Live presentation at the Commodore of the weekly podcast The Fighter and the Kid, featuring former UFC heavyweight Brendan "Big Brown" Schaub and actor-comedian Bryan Callen. 

Vancouver actor and standup comedian John Beuhler performs the first of three nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

U.K.-born, Vancouver-based standup comedian Simon King performs the first of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

 

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.

Bryan Myles, manager and acting director at the Bill Reid Centre, speaks as part of SFU Gallery's Unpacking Art series of lunchtime talks.

Winter Gathering at the Bill Reid Gallery features spoken-word poetry by Molly Billows and Sol Diana, music by Rob Thompson and Jamie Thompson, and interactive storytelling by Kenthen Thomas.

Geekenders and Kitty Glitter present a burlesque evening at the Rio Theatre inspired by the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Costumes encouraged.

 

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

At CBC Studio 700, novelist, playwright, and lesbian-rights activist Sarah Schulman discusses the cultural phenomenon of blame and scapegoating as explored in her work Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair.

Host Nasreen Pejvack and featured reader Rose Seiler Scott take part in the monthly Tellers of Short Tales program at New Westminster's Anvil Centre.

Read and discuss classical and contemporary Persian literary prose at West Vancouver Memorial Library. Participants must be fluent in Persian.

 

GALLERIES

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

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.

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

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.

Sing the music of David Bowie with a community choir at North Vancouver's Presentation House Theatre.

 

THEATRE

Opening at the Frederic Wood Theatre of Love and Information, Caryl Churchill's play in which over 100 characters search for meaning in their lives through a series of vignettes.

Opening at the BMO Theatre Centre of the Arts Club's production of William Faulkner's Southern gothic masterpiece, As I Lay Dying. 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.

Performance 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.

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

 

ATTRACTIONS

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

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.

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 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.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Canada's Top Ten Shorts 2016 programs I and II.

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.

 

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