52 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, April 27

Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 52 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, April 27.

 

CONCERTS

British indie-pop band Bastille plays UBC's Thunderbird Arena, touring in support of latest album Wild World.

Sal Ferreras and Arts Umbrella present a showcase of the West Coast's percussive and musical talent at the Vogue Theatre's Drum Heat.

American folk-rock singer-songwriter Jackson Browne plays the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts.

The Rogue Folk Club presents Van Django coheadlining St. James Hall with the Marc Atkinson Trio.

 

BENEFITS

Performances at VIVO Media Arts by Waters, Anybodys, JP Carter and Peggy Lee, Crotch, Minimal Violence, Dancy Dru, Alexa Mardon and Erika Mitsuhashi, and Emmalena Fredriksson and Arash Khakpour, with proceeds to Arts Assembly.

The Create Change Fundraising Gala at Heritage Hall includes a standing reception, live and silent auctions, and an African design shop, with proceeds to Create Change, which provides education to girls living in extreme poverty.

 

ET CETERA

Cosmic Nights: Destination Mars at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre explores the  journey that past robotic missions have taken and how humans may travel there in the future, with a lecture by Dr. Melissa Rice of Western Washington University.

 

FOOD AND DRINK

YEW seafood + bar executive chef Weimar Gomez and sommelier Adam Mayhew present an evening that pairs Asian flavours with German wines.

 

FORUMS

Fentanyl Awareness Presentation at Burnaby City Hall covers street-drug trends in Burnaby, the signs of a drug lab in your neighbourhood, and wellness and community resources.

Provincial Election Forum at Hycroft Manor offers potential voters the opportunity to meet some of the female candidates running in Vancouver ridings. 

Business seminar at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver geared towards those planning to open a storefront with a U.S. address and partnering with a distribution centre on e-commerce activity.

Jocelyn Macdougall facilitates a discussion on "Innovation for Inclusion" at The Profile.

Hear how scientists are working with First Nations and community groups to promote the protection and management of biodiversity at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue's Evening on the Skeena.

 

COMEDY

Vancouver-based comedian Dino Archie performs the first of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Canadian comedian Eddie Della Siepe performs the first of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Giggles and Gags at the PAL Theatre features original sketch comedy with a few musical twists on Vancouver’s pop culture.

Laughter Party at XY features comedy by Kyle Bottom, Chris Griffin, Ivan Decker, Kevin Banner, Fatima Dhowre, Kody Audette, Colin Sharp, Jacob Samuel, Sophie Buddle, and Abdul Aziz.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Visual artist Elena Markelova demonstrates her watercolour technique and answers questions regarding her work at the Museum of Vancouver.

 

DANCE

Heather Laura Gray's multimedia project The Tunnel at Studio 16 sees dancers move through a staged consciousness, immersed in the evolving light show as they struggle through turbulent thoughts.

Young dancers from Goh Ballet perform a selection of classical and original ballets for the Scotiabank Dance Centre’s Discover Dance! noon-hour series.

 

LITERARY

Alix Hawley discusses her novel All True Not A Lie In It at Christianne's Lyceum of Literature and Art.

 

MUSIC

Vancouver guitarist Daniel Bolshoy joins Vetta Chamber Players in performances of Boccherini's Guitar Quintet and Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango at West Point Grey United Church.

 

THEATRE

Canadian clown duo Mump and Smoot is confronted by a myriad of nightmarish obstacles at the York Theatre. Recommended for ages 14+.

Mom's the Word Collective presents Mom's the Word 3: Next 1/2 Empty at the Granville Island Stage.

Fighting Chance Productions presents Parade, the story of a man who is put on trial for the murder of an employee. Held at the Norman Rothstein Theatre.

Catch the second night of Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps, which is based on the book by John Buchan. Held at the Kay Meek Centre.

SMP Dramatics presents Canadian playwright Norm Foster’s The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby at the Theatre at Hendry Hall.

Metro Theatre presents Straight and Narrow, a comedy that explores what happens when a cozy relationship is threatened by personal crisis.

Pi Theatre presents Long Division, Peter Dickinson's play about seven characters inextricably linked by tragic events, at the Orpheum Annex.

Stone's Throw Productions presents The Shape of a Girl, Joan MacLeod's play about bullying and violence between young girls, at Pacific Theatre.

World premiere at Red Gate Review Stage of John MacLachlan Gray's Dispatches Without Borders, about five characters on the frontline of humanitarian fieldwork.

 

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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.

 

MUSEUMS

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.

The Lost Fleet at the Vancouver Maritime Museum investigates the unjust 1941 seizure of 1,200 Japanese-Canadian fishing vessels following the bombing of Pearl Harbour through a collection of historic photographs, models of Japanese-Canadian-built fishing boats, fishermen’s tools, and replica documents.

Cindy Mochizuki's  multimedia installation Rock, Paper, Scissors at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre invites audiences to experience an immersive trilogy of short stories.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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.

The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.

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, and mountain ziplines.

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

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.

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

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.

 

MOVIES

Screening at the Rio Theatre of writer-director Terrence Malick's Song to Song, which sets two intersecting love triangles against the music scene in Austin, Texas.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Hugh Gibson's documentary The Stairs, which tells the story of three people who survived decades of street-involvement in Toronto’s Regent Park.

Screening at the Vancouver Police Museum of L.A. Confidential, about three policemen investigating a series of murders with their own brand of justice in 1950s Los Angeles.

Screening at the Rio 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 Vancity Theatre of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, about writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs's fight to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of the 1960s.

Screening at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts of director Josh Fox's documentary How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of the 2016 documentary The Gardener as part of Canadian Film Week.

 

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