58 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, May 25
Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 58 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, May 25.
CONCERTS
American indie-rock duo Foxygen plays the Rickshaw, touring in support of latest album Hang.
Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda perform Kirtan and Bhajan music, interwoven with original compositions, at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.
L.A.-based electronica musician, producer, and DJ Bonobo plays the Commodore.
Mr. Boom Bap presents music by Vancouver funk orchestra the Electric Monks at Railway Stage and Beer Café.
The B.C. Centre for Ability Dining for Dreams Gala at the Fairmont Waterfront honours this year’s Heroes of Ability recipients, with proceeds to the Centre's outreach programs and services.
ETCETERA
A participatory research group of trans, two-spirit, and gender nonconforming people share photos and stories about safety, well-being, and belonging at the Vancouver Public Library's Photovoice Project.
Create green products for your garden that will help it thrive without the use of harmful pesticides at Mackin Heritage Home and Toy Museum.
FOOD & DRINK
Baristas will compete in a fight-to-the-finish exhibition of latte artistry for the favour of judges and spectators at Espressotec Sales and Service.
Chef Meets B.C. Grape at the Vancouver Convention Centre celebrates B.C. wine and food, highlighting all things grown, crushed, raised, and produced in B.C. Event goers are invited to sample hundreds of B.C. VQA wines while enjoying paired small plates bychefs from local restaurants.
FORUMS
Journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and lecturer Gwynne Dyer discusses the larger implications of Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency at Coquitlam Public Library.
Design panel will touch on areas of UX design and UI design, as well as designing for physical/digital products, at Brainstation Vancouver.
In a series of presentations at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, speakers cover how work has changed in Canada from the 20th century to now and what might come next.
Thompson Rivers University philosophy prof Bruce Baugh discusses the impact that walking had on poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge at SFU Harbour Centre.
Workshop at Bob Prittie Metrotown Library explores the characteristics of entrepreneurs and analyzes participants’ potential to consider small-business ownership as a viable career option.
American comedian Rich Vos performs the first of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.
Canadian comedian and spoken-word artist Richard Lett performs the first of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.
American comic, actress, and writer Ali Wong performs the first of three nights of standup at the Vogue Theatre.
ARTS ETCETERA
Opening day of the Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival, which features the Turtle Island shorts program, a screening of All Our Father's Relations, new-media presentations, youth and international programs, an indigenous-justice program, and music by Kelly Fraser, DJ Kookum, Mourning Coup, and Snotty Nose Rez Kids.
The Lovers Cabaret presents an experimental showcase of dance, music, and art inspired by the works of Bob Dylan at the WISE Hall.
Art! Vancouver International art fair at the Vancouver Convention Centre features work by over 120 artists.
Drink and Draw at the Richmond Art Gallery features a live theatrical performance of Omnis Temporalis, followed by open drawing time to work on collaborative comics, network with other artists, or share latest projects.
DANCE
The Dance Centre's Global Dance Connections series presents Wen Wei Wang's new work Dialogue, a creation for five male dancers that investigates communication and the fundamental urge to connect, at Scotiabank Dance Centre.
Arts Umbrella Dance Company presents performances created by international and Canadian choreographers at the Vancouver Playhouse.
New Works presents Vancouver-based dance collective OURO in a full-length work at the Orpheum Annex that mirrors the individual’s and the community’s struggle and resolve in finding solutions for connection.
LITERARY
Karen Connelly presents her book The Change Room, followed by a Q&A session and book signing, at the Paper Hound.
Anvil Press celebrates the publication of A Temporary Stranger, Jamie Reid's latest volume of poetry and other writings, at Cottage Bistro. Book launch includes readings by Carol Reid, Patrick Friesen, Karl Siegler, Dennis E. Bolen, Stephen Roxborough, Donato Mancini, Heidi Greco, Eve Jospeh, Joanne Arnott, George Bowering, Chris Turnbull, George Stanley, Renee Rodin, Lary Bremner, Heather Haley, Mike Barnholden, and Maria Hindmarch.
Pnina Granirer celebrates the 25th anniversary of Artists in Our Midst by launching her book, Light within the Shadows; A Painter's memoir at Lord Byng High School.
Get deals on books, DVDs, CDs, and LPs at the Vancouver Public Library's three-day Spring Used Book Sale, with proceeds to support special library projects and programs.
THEATRE
The rEvolver Theatre Festival runs until June 4 at the Cultch, featuring productions by Luciterra Dance Company, Ode. Movements Society, rice & beans theatre, Skinny Walrus Project, Heist and Theatre Outré, Ramshackle Theatre, and Wild Women Theatre.
Mom's the Word Collective presents Mom's the Word 3: Next 1/2 Empty at the Granville Island Stage.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Million Dollar Quartet, a jukebox musical inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.
Corey Payette's musical Children of God at the York Theatre tells the story of the children of an Oji-Cree family who are sent to a residential school in northern Ontario.
Arts Umbrella Theatre and Music presents the Expressions Theatre Festival, featuring five diverse and distinctive productions by young artists, at the Waterfront Theatre.
Pacific Theatre presents a performance of Outside Mullingar, a quirky story about a pair of introverted misfits from families that live on neighbouring farms.
Staircase Theatre presents the world premiere at PAL Studio Theatre of Scott Button’s dark thriller The Hunger Room, which explores loneliness, disconnection, and violence.
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
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia at The Museum of Anthropology at UBC examines the physical traces of words, both spoken and recorded, that are unique to humans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor.
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.
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.
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.
Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.
The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.
Soar from coast-to-coast across the Canadian landscape with a 25-minute ride featuring effects such as wind and scents at FlyOver Canada.
MOVIES
Screening at Vancity Theatre of Melody Makers, Should’ve Been There, a documentary on Melody Maker Magazine based on the photographic archive of the magazine's chief contributing photographer, Barrie Wentzell.
Screening at the Cinematheque of John Huston's Truman Capote-penned cult classic Beat the Devil, starring Humphey Bogart.
Screening at the Vancity Theatre of director Charles Wilkinson's documentary Vancouver: No Fixed Address, which dissects the compromises that come with putting down roots in one of the most liveable cities in the world.
Screening at the Rio Theatre of 5-25-77, Patrick Read Johnson's documentary about his growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming a Star Wars fan.
Screening at the Cinematheque of Certain Women, the new drama by Kelly Reichardt, which tells the intersecting tales of four women over a winter season.
Screening at Vancity Theatre of My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, director Dash Shaw's animated film about what happens when an earthquake causes a high school to float into the sea, where it slowly sinks like a shipwreck.
Kitsilano Theatre Company presents screenings at the Rio Theatre of episodes three and four of the second year of a TV series written, directed, edited, and filmed by the students in the theatre, film, and creative-writing program at Kitsilano Secondary.
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