60 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, March 24

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      Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 60 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, March 24.

       

      CONCERTS

      American pop singer-songwriter and actor Ariana Grande plays Rogers Arena, performing on her Dangerous Woman Tour.

      The Age of Electric--featuring original lineup of singer-guitarists Todd Kerns and Ryan Dahle, bassist John Kerns, and drummer Kurt Dahle--plays the Commodore.

      New Orleans jazz band Connor Stewart & the Bon Temps performs at Frankie's Jazz.

      Folk-rock singer-songwriter Eric Campbell plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Michael and the Slumberland Band and George Nixon.

      Vancouver blues singer-songwriter Jesse Waldman performs at an album-release at the WISE Hall.

       

      ETCETERA

      The three-day Vancouver Gem and Mineral Show at the PNE Forum features unique gems, fine crystals, rare fossils, handmade jewellery, and lapidary art.

      Walk through the forest of Stanley Park with an experienced guide of Coast Salish descent and learn about the traditional and present-day indigenous relationships with local flora and fauna.

      See the newest products and techniques for your home, garden, and outdoor living space at the three-day North Van Home Expo at Karen Magnussen Community Rec Centre.

      The three-day Eastside Flea Market at the Ellis Building features over 50 local vendors, five artisan showrooms, a food truck, an outdoor courtyard, music, and pinball.

      Connect with local change makers at a community-based social enterprise, check out an art exhibit, and play board games and the N64 at the Hive Vancouver.

       

      FORUMS

      Sylvia McAdam, Jacob Mans, Sheelah McLean, Anita Munn, and Alex Wilson take on the housing crisis in First Nations communities at the Vancouver Playhouse.

      Josette Garon addresses Sandor Ferenczi’s ideas and theory concerning trauma at SFU Harbour Centre.

      Panel discussion at SFU Harbour Centre examines the roles of urban and architectural design, public policy, research, and development in the understanding and creating of cities that are responsive to the needs of older adults.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Playdome, Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival, continues at BC Place, with more than 45 rides and attractions, carnival snacks, and games.

       

      COMEDY

      Comedian Chris Quigley performs the second of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      Canadian comedian Dave Nystrom performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      A team of improvisers performs comedy based on the unfulfilled wishes of the audience at Havana Theatre.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Buy, collect, and trade the art of 50 local artists reproduced on trading cards at Hot Art Wet City Gallery.

       

      DANCE

      The Vancouver International Dance Festival continues, featuring performances by Kitt Johnson ("Post No Bills") at Roundhouse Performance Centre and Karen Jamieson & Margaret Grenier ("light breaking broken") at Woodwards Production Studio.

       

      LITERARY

      Join Janet Walmsley and Jenny Story as they sign copies of their books The Autistic Author and Animator and Dysnomia at IndigoSpirit.

      Author Mark Nepo leads a two-hour talk themed around his book The Way Under the Way at Unity of Vancouver.

       

      MUSIC

      The UBC Chamber Strings, violin soloist Galen Schram, and piano soloist Benjamin Hopkins perform music by Shostakovich and music from the film The Mission at Telus Studio Theatre.

      The Vancouver Chamber Winds perform Rossini's Wind Quartets Nos 1 and 4 and the Quartet in D minor of Gambaro at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

       

      GALLERIES

      Susan Point: Spindle Whorl at the Vancouver Art Gallery surveys Point’s entire career through more than a hundred artworks that take the spindle whorl as their starting point.

      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.

      Pacific Crossings at the Vancouver Art Gallery features works from well-known Hong Kong artists created after their relocation to Vancouver throughout the 1960-90s.

      Retainers of Anarchy at the Vancouver Art Gallery features new work from Howie Tsui that considers wuxia as a narrative tool for dissidence and resistance.

      Sonny Assu creates a new series of digital tags on a body of Emily Carr paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

       

      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.

      Amazonia: The Rights of Nature at at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works, and ceramics both of everyday and of ceremonial use, representing indigenous, Maroon, and white settler communities.

       

      THEATRE

      Puppeteer provocateur Ronnie Burkett and his resident company of over 40 marionettes perform The Daisy Theatre at the Cultch.

      Performance at Studio 58 of The Refugee Hotel, writer-director Carmen Aguirre's dark comedy about eight Chilean exiles who struggle with the effects of fleeing their homeland.

      Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Refuge, Mary Vingoe's provocative story of the pitfalls of seeking sanctuary in today’s suspicious world, directed by Donna Spencer.

      UBC Theatre presents a performance at Frederic Wood Theatre of Les Belles-Soeurs, Michel Tremblay's play about an unexpected windfall that ends up breeding resentment among a woman and her friends.

      Carousel Theatre for Young People presents a kid-friendly stage version of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat at the Waterfront Theatre.

      Final performance at Douglas College's Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre of A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare's comedy of errors.

      Pull Festival VI, Vancouver's annual 10-minute play festival, features six plays at Little Mountain Gallery.

      United Players present a performance at the Jericho Arts Centre of The Train Driver, Athol Fugard's exploration of guilt, suffering, redemption, and the powerful bonds that grow between strangers.

      The Sidekick Players present a performance at Tsawwassen Arts Centre of Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay about the jury at a murder trial of a young man accused of the fatal stabbing of his father.

      Pacific Theatre presents opening night of Valley Song, about a South African man who tills land he will never own while his granddaughter dreams of the Johannesburg stage.

      Fabulist Theatre presents Songs For a New World--a song cycle exploring themes of immigration, war, motherhood, poverty, and the singular moments that transform our lives--at PAL Theatre.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library. 

      The Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition features over 250 privately-owned bikes from around the world.

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

      Soar from coast-to-coast across the Canadian landscape with a 25-minute ride featuring effects such as wind and scents at FlyOver Canada.

      Lighthouse Park features 10 kilometres of hiking trails, picnic areas, guided walks provided by the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society, and the historical 1912 Point Atkinson Lighthouse.

      Take a ride in an exterior glass elevator and get a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains at Vancouver Lookout.

      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.

      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 cult hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter. Costumes encouraged.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Antarctica: Ice and Sky, director Luc Jacquet's portrait of French glaciologist Claude Lorius.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Sieranevada, writer-director Cristi Puiu's three-hour, deadpan domestic comedy.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas's mystery-thriller about a woman who stocks up on clothing for her supermodel boss while she searches for a sign from her deceased twin.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of Frank Darabont's prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, based on the book by Stephen King.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of director Ceyda Torun's documentary Kedi, which uses specially crafted camera rigs and an extreme measure of observational patience to capture all of the hard-to-reach places where cats go in Istanbul.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of The Lure, director Agnieszka Smoczynska's horror-musical about a pair of carnivorous mermaids who wreak havoc in an alternate ’80s Poland.

       

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