30 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Monday, January 23

Looking for something to do on Monday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 30 events happening in or around Vancouver on Monday, January 23.

CONCERTS

Celebrate Django Reinhardt's 107th birthday with music by Gypsy-jazz band Djangoesque at the Yale Saloon.

BENEFITS

Enjoy four courses of diner-inspired cuisine with cocktail pairings at Save On Meats and help raise money for A Better Life Foundation.

ETCETERA

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

FOOD & DRINK

The Dine Out Vancouver Festival continues, featuring guided dining adventures, brunch crawls, cocktail masterclasses, wine debates, guest chef dinners, B.C. VQA wine and craft-beer tastings, street-food markets, and hundreds of restaurants offering multi-course dinners at $20, $30, or $40.

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

A slideshow on Greek history at Langara ranges from ancient to modern times.

Get a clear picture of what is really happening in your body when you talk about arthritis at Bob Prittie Metrotown Library.

Discuss the three relationships for health that underpin high-performing health-care systems around the world at SFU Segal Graduate School of Business.

Learn about your pelvic floor and the muscle responsible for helping bladder control, supporting your pelvic organs, and improving sex at The Art of Loving.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Giants take on the Prince George Cougars in Western Hockey League action at Langley Events Centre.

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.

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.

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 soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Richard Strauss's Intermezzo: Waltz Scene, Four Last Songs, and Ein Heldenleben at the Orpheum Theatre.

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.

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

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

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

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

Screenings at the Cinematheque of McCabe and Mrs. Miller (above) and A Cold Day in the Park as part of the series The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of the animated film Nerdland, featuring the voices of Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt as two friends who troll Los Angeles on a fame-grab journey, encountering and abusing friends both new and old.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Pablo Larrain's thriller Neruda, inspired by the period in which Chilean poet and Communist senator Pablo Neruda was forced underground and into exile by an authoritarian right-wing government.

Sceening at the Rio Theatre of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, D.A. Pennebaker's 1973 concert film documents David Bowie's last concert with the Ziggy persona and the Spiders from Mars.

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