30 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, January 6

Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 30 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, January 6.

CONCERTS

Vancouver-based blues singer-guitarist Wes Mackey performs blues standards and original material at Richmond's Army and Navy Club.

BENEFITS

The ongoing Lights of Hope Christmas lights display at St. Paul's Hospital raises funds for the St. Paul's Foundation.

ETCETERA

See the world's tallest Christmas tree, sing along with the holiday band, and stroll through the lights decorating the suspension bridge, Treetops Adventure, Cliffwalk, rainforest, and canyon at Capilano Suspension Bridge's Canyon Lights.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Calgary Flames in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

Los Angeles-based standup comedian Michael Kosta performs the second of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Vancouver-based standup comedian Dino Archie performs the second of three nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Improv troupes the Radical and QueerProv present solo showcases and a comedy jam at New Westminster's Heritage Grill.

MUSIC

John Morris Russell conducts vocalist-pianist Ellis Hall, the Ellis Hall Singers, and the VSO in a program of classics by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Otis Redding, and Ray Charles at the Orpheum Theatre.

GALLERIES

Juxtapoz x Superflat exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery offers a unique insight into contemporary art and its place in cultural life.

Walker Evans: Depth of Field at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 200 black and white and colour prints from the 1920s through to the 1970s.

Ceramics by Judy Chartrand at Bill Reid Gallery present her own personal history and insights into life in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Stare exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery features photographic works that evoke a fixed and concentrated gaze on the part of artist and viewer.

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.

THEATRE

Sticks and Stones Theatre present the opening of This Is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan's play about three lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of And Bella Sang With Us, Sally Stubbs's play about constables Lurancy Harris and Minnie Miller, Vancouver's first female police officers.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Mary Poppins--a musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film--at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

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.

Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding lessons from the Mt. Seymour Ski and Snowboard School, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

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

Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

MOVIES

The Vancouver Italian Film Festival kicks off at the Vancity Theatre with screenings of Fellini's Roma and They Call Me Jeeg (above).

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Blade Runner: The Final Cut, director Ridley Scott's workprint feature version of the classic sci-fi actioner.

Free screening of Sandy Wilson's My American Cousin at the Cinematheque as part of Canada on Screen.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Arrival, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's thriller about a linguistics professor tasked with interpreting the language of the alien passengers inside 12 mysterious spacecraft.

Screening at the Rickshaw Theatre of The World Has No Eyedea, a documentary about the life and death of hip-hop artist Micheal 'Eyedea' Larsen.

Free afternoon screening at Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew Branch of the animated kids' film Minions.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of writer-director Tommy Wirkola's Nazi-zombie horror flick Dead Snow.

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