44 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, January 14

Looking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 44 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, January 14.

 

CONCERTS

Celebrate the life and legacy of David Bowie at the Rickshaw's Bowie Ball, featuring performances by Left Spine Down (above), Zafirios, Martin Flytrap, the Salvos, Unique Motels, Rebel Priest, China Syndrome, Jimmy Baldwin, the Judys, Jesse Waldman and the Mojophonics, Nu Braineaters, Space Junk, Cass King and the Next Right Thing, Eddy D and the Sex Bombs, Lil Miss Rockpile, and Fuck Guns.

Album-release party at China Cloud for Elisa Thorn's Painting Project.

Punk-rock band Farewell the Gagged plays a farewell show at the WISE Hall, with guests the Shit Talkers, the Strugglers, and Death Sentence.

Coastal Jazz presents B3 For Bunny with Kansas City organist Chris Hazelton performing the second of two nights at Frankie's Jazz.

 

ETCETERA

Shop through over 120 tables of vintage sporting goods, glassware, stamps and coins, jewellery, memorabilia, postcards, and advertising signs at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds' Antique and Collectable Show.

Discover hundreds of products while learning from leading experts in gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and diabetic-friendly diets at the Vancouver Convention Centre's two-day Specialty Food Expo.

 

FORUMS

At the Vancouver Public Library's Memories of Internment and Dispossession, a panel of Japanese-Canadians share their first-hand experiences and reflections on being uprooted and losing their family homes through internment.

Learn basic techniques and concepts that are translatable to other programming languages and the building blocks of how HTML and CSS work together at RED Academy.

In a two-part Saving Stories workshop at the Vancouver Public Library, learn about oral-history projects and how the VPL’s Inspiration Lab can help you get started.

Learn how to set up, build, and deploy a Wordpress site to the web at Brainstation Vancouver.

 

SPORTS

Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling presents wrestling matches at the Commodore's Ballroom Brawl VII. SOLD OUT.

 

COMEDY

American actor and comedian Arden Myrin performs the second of two nights at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Los Angeles-based comedian, standup comic, actor, and writer Brent Morin performs the third of three nights at the Comedy Mix.

Sketch and improv comedy at Little Mountain Gallery by Proud of You, standup comic Luke Syrnick, and sketch duo Carmelahhh.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Kitty Nights presents a burlesque tribute to David Bowie at the Rio Theatre, featuring performances by Burgundy Brixx, Shaboobie Boobarella, Sasja Smolders, Vixen Von Flex, Ann Narky, and the Kitty Nights' Hot and Heavy Band.

 

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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

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

Solo exhibition at Emily Carr University's Charles H. Scott Gallery by Irish artist Sean Lynch.

 

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.

 

MUSIC

Otto Tausk conducts violinist Simone Lamsma and the Vancouver Symphony in a program of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman: Overture, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances at the Orpheum Theatre.

 

THEATRE

Final performances 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.

Sticks and Stones Theatre presents the final performance at Havana Theatre 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.

Bleeding Heart Theatre presents a performance at the Cultch of Sean Harris Oliver's The Fighting Season, which investigates the Afghan war through the eyes of three Canadian medical personnel.

The SMP Dramatic Society presents a performance of the pantomime Beauty and the Beast at North Vancouver's St. Martin's Hall.

The Sidekick Players present a performance of Yasmina Reza's play Art at the Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

Eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments to fill the stage with rhythms for STOMP at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Mad House Productions presents a live reading at Seven Dining Lounge of Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back.

 

ATTRACTIONS

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

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

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.

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

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

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 Vancity Theatre of Zero Days, Alex Gibney's documentary thriller about Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Arthus-Bertrand's documentary Human, which spans the globe to cover the land, its peoples, and the stories they have to tell.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Angry Inuk, Maliglutit (Searchers), and Old Stone as part of Canada's Top Ten Film Festival.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook's drama about a Korean pickpocket hired by a con-man to play the role of maid for a Japanese heiress, whose fortune he plans to steal.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Theater of Life, Peter Svatek's film about the relationship forged between the finest haute cuisine chefs in the world and Milan's most disadvantaged groups.

 

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