76 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, October 28
Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 76 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, October 28.
CONCERTS
American country artist tours Dwight Yoakam plays the Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock.
New York rock band Sunflower Bean plays the Fox Cabaret, with guests the Lemon Twigs.
German-American rapper Azizi Gibson performs at a Halloween party at the Biltmore.
Los Angeles-based electropop band the Naked and Famous plays the Vogue, with guests XYLØ.
Vancouver indie band Bear Mountain plays the Imperial, with guests Little India and DJs Trizzy and Harvey Harvey.
Canadian rock band tours Sum 41 plays the Commodore, with guests Senses Fail and As It Is.
American jazz saxophonist Donny McCaslin performs with "A" Band and NiteCap at BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.
Halloween party at Venue features music spun by DJs Physik, Adlib, Lokoboy, Freeky P, Arems, and Hoppa.
Canadian garage-rock duo the King Khan & BBQ Show (above) plays the Rickshaw, with guests Paint Fumes.
Netherlands indie-electropop band Dansu plays Displace Hashery, with guests Icelandia and Adera.
U.K. folk singer-songwriter and fiddler Rachel Button plays Dubh Linn Gate.
The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk singer-songwriter and guitarist James Keelaghan at St. James Hall.
BENEFITS
Circus-themed haunted house at Beaumont Studio raises money for the B.C. Women's Hospital and Care Centre Foundation.
The Big Sisters’ Luminary Award Soirée at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver features a raffle, a silent auction, a three-course dinner, and a live band.
FOOD & DRINK
The 12th annual Taste of Yaletown features an array of sharing dishes matched with wine and cocktail pairings, with partial proceeds from each meal donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
ETCETERA
The four-day Vancouver Home + Design Show at the Vancouver Conventon Centre features ideas, advice, and inspiration from more than 350 brands and local companies, and industry personalities like HGTV’s Mia Parres and Rob Evans of The Expandables.
Hear gruesome tales of Vancouver's past, visit Mountain View Cemetery, and climb the stairs to the city's first morgue on a Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour.
Take a 90-minute walking tour through the back streets and alleys of Gastown and explore Vancouver's gruesome history with the Lost Souls of Gastown.
FORUMS
Crime expert Margaret Beare lectures on Pathways to Corruption at UBC Robson Square in conjunction with the conference Follow the Money: Corruption, Money Laundering and Organized Crime.
Conference at SFU Harbour Centre addresses different positive and negative approaches to nihilism and utopianism.
Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki and a panel of young experts from Japan discuss Japan-related issues at Sage Bistro.
KIDS' STUFF
At VanDusen Glow in the Garden kids can walk through the woods and see lights, hear ghoulish music, and observe glowing pumpkin characters before enjoying Halloween crafts.
Fright Nights at Playland features seven haunted houses, two live shows, 15 rides, and 90 monsters roaming the grounds.
The Stanley Park Ghost Train celebrates the Day of the Dead with a ride through a tunnel of flames and a haunted graveyard, live music, and theatrical performances.
Take a spooky journey across Canada as you graduate from the Haunted Witches Academy at Halloween at Flyover Canada.
Kids can see spooky fairy tales come to life and sample treats from a haunted bakery at Burnaby Village Museum's Haunted Village.
Take in two performances of a spooky puppet show at West Vancouver Memorial Library.
SPORTS
The Vancouver Canucks take on the Edmonton Oilers in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
COMEDY
Canadian comic Kathleen McGee performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.
Toronto standup comedian Casey Corbin performs the second of three nights at the Comedy Mix.
Comedian Abdul Aziz tries to make sense of the world's most treasured works of art at Hot Art Wet City Gallery.
Instant Theatre presents its season-opening improv-comedy show at Havana Theatre, featuring original music by Geoffrey Walter.
ARTS ETCETERA
Canadian-American-Chinese dance-theatre spectacular Pearl, inspired by the life of author Pearl S. Buck, runs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
The 13th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival features twelve days of music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, spoken word, forums, workshops, and public art at various Vancouver venues.
DANCE
Long Island City–based dance company Jessica Lang Dance performs Thousand Yard Stare--a piece that evokes humanity, loss, and longing--at the Vancouver Playhouse.
Ballet Victoria performs new works set to rock music by the Eagles and Disturbed in a program at Centennial Theatre that includes a First Nations-inspired interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
LITERARY
Get deals on thousands of books--with nothing priced over $2.50--at the annual Vancouver Public Library Book Sale.
MUSIC
Carlo Montanaro leads pianist Andrew von Oeyen and the Vancouver Symphony in a performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: Overture and Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
Eric Wilson leads the UBC Chamber Strings and soloists from the UBC Strings Division in a evening of works by Brahms and Piazzolla at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.
Vampires, witches, zombies, and other strange creatures perform spooky music such as Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and the theme from The Phantom of the Opera at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church.
GALLERIES
Ceramics by Judy Chartrand at Bill Reid Gallery present her own personal history and insights into life in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Works by Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen and Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Bill Reid Creative Journeys at Bill Reid Gallery marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii.
Photographs by Vancouver-based artist Stephen Waddell printed to a large scale using traditional silver gelatin materials, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Photographs by Henry Callahan of the streets of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico, Portugal, and Wales on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
An Agreeable State of Uncertainty at the Vancouver Art Gallery features photographs, drawings, prints, and paintings by artists such as Weegee, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Leon Golub, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Jack Shadbolt, and Fred Herzog.
MUSEUMS
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.
THEATRE
At the Rio Theatre the Geekenders present Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, about a man and a woman who get stranded at the castle of a transvestite scientist.
Preview at PAL Theatre of Fighting Chance Productions' Now or Later, Christopher Shinn's play about a son who jeopardizes his father's presidential campaign.
Opening at Pacific Theatre of the one-woman show Suitcase Stories, about a woman who leaves her home in South Korea and takes off for Canada, simply because her brother had a map of Toronto.
Opening at Presentation House Theatre of Ages of the Moon, Sam Shepard's darkly funny play about two friends who are reunited by mutual desperation on the eve of a lunar eclipse.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bakersfield Mist, Stephen Sachs's story about a down-on-her-luck woman who invites an art dealer to authenticate a long-lost painting by the renowned Jackson Pollock. Running at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.
Standing Room Only Theatre presents the opening at CBC Studio 700 of Twelve Angry Jurors, a play that sees 12 jurors decide on the fate of a young boy.
Performance at the York Theatre of The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe, a mix of classical clowning and contemporary circus centered on, in, under, and around a magnificent grand piano.
Performance at Granville Island of the Virtual Stage's Dead in the Water, an interactive-theatre adventure in which audience members must defeat a strange new breed of mutant zombie-vampires.
Performance at Firehall Arts Centre of Mamahood: turn and face the strange, Nicolle Nattrass's one-woman show, which tells the story of an extremely deprived first-time mother who dares to tell the tale of her descent into motherhood as she travels to an alternate time and place.
A transit cop attempt to solve her husband’s murder and finds herself mixed up in Vancouver’s criminal underground in Three Stories Up at Ukrainian Hall.
ITSAZOO presents Hidden, a site-specific horror event at UBC Botanical Garden that guides audiences through a re-enactment of infamous and unsolved murders.
Performance at the Cultch of Fight Night, which puts five actors into the position of candidates struggling to get the audience’s sympathy and their vote.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director Dean Paul Gibson's version of Annie Baker's play The Flick at Granville Island Stage.
At Studio 16 Théâtre la Seizième presents Straight Jacket Winter, about a couple who travel from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter and attempt to integrate into their new city.
Writer-director Mily Mumford's stage-noir thriller Frankenstein, 1945--which examines the monsters created by us and within us--runs at Studio 1398.
Trinity Western University’s School of the Arts, Media and Culture presents the British comedy Smash.
Vagabond Players present the world premiere of Elizabeth Elwood's play Body and Soul at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre.
ATTRACTIONS
The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.
The VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.
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 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 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.
MOVIES
Screening at Vancity Theatre of Marcin Wrona's Demon, which tells the story of a bridegroom who is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration.
Screening at the Cinematheque of 3D cinema from B.C. and Alberta artists, with Q&A session to follow.
The White Rock Social Justice Film Society presents a screening at First United Church of The Culture High, a film which emphasizes the proven medical benefits of oils obtained from the marijuana plant.
Screening of Vancity Theatre of director Keiichi Hara's Miss Hokusai, an animated film about the blossoming of a young artist, who also happens to be famous painter Hokusai's daughter.
Screening at the River District Drive-in of Tim Burton's 1990 fantasy Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Deep.
Screening at Vancity Theatre of Nettie Wild's environmental documentary Koneline: our land beautiful.
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