60 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Thursday, April 6

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      Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 60 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, April 6.

       

      CONCERTS

      Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green performs a solo concert at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

      Vancouver acoustic-soul band Echo Nebraska plays Luppolo Brewing Co.

      Australian singer-songwriter Daniel Champagne plays the WISE Hall, performing tunes from new album Fault Lines.

      American jazz pianist and Hammond B3 organist Mike Ledonne performs the music of Earth, Wind & Fire with a local quartet at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

      The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk acts Nordic Fiddlers Bloc and Andrew Collins Trio at St. James Hall.

      Vancouver-based indie-rock band the Zolas plays the Vogue Theatre.

      The three-day Vancouver World Music Festival kicks off, featuring artists from Mexico, Colombia, Iran, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, Spain, London, Africa, and B.C. at various Vancouver venues.

       

      BENEFITS

      Celebrate Elektra Women's Choir's 30th anniversary and support its choral work at Terminal City Club.

      Swing into Spring fundraiser at the Italian Cultural Centre features musician Katheryn Peterson and supports people with disabilities through Disability Alliance BC’s programs and services.

      Take a youth-led tour of living on the streets and sleep on the street with the other participants to raise funds forhomeless youth at Directions Youth Services' A Night in the Life.

       

      ETCETERA

      Camp Still Vancouver presents Vancouver's first Mass Meditation Party at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

      The 35th annual Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair kicks off its three-day run at UBC's AMS Student Nest.

      Lighthouse Labs Demo Day offers a chance to rub shoulders with a network of developers and entrepreneurs and get an inside look at the skill set of graduates.

       

      FORUMS

      Architect John Patkau leads a discussion as part of the 2017 Lulu Series: Art in the City at Richmond City Hall.

      Vancouver entrepreneurs share strategies for personal and professional success via expertise sessions, panel discussions, and fireside chats at the Sutton Place Hotel.

      Learn the basic ties of rope bondage and how to apply them creatively to different parts of the body at the Art of Loving.

      Life coach Sujith Ravindran discusses the four stages of life at Banyen Books and Sound.

       

      COMEDY

      New York City-based comedian Dan Soder performs the first of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents opening night at the Improv Centre of Western World, an improv-comedy show based on HBO's Westworld.

      Vancouver-based amateur comedians duke it out for your laughs at Seven Dining Lounge's One Hitter Quitter Comedy Showdown.

      Local comedians perform standup at Little Mountain Gallery's Jokes Please.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      The Capture Photography Festival, which aims to nurture emerging talent, engage community, and spark public dialogue about photography as an art form and a vessel for communication, continues at various Vancouver galleries.

       

      DANCE

      Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata presents Mozongi, a contemporary African dance work created by Montreal choreographer Zab Maboungou. at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

       

      LITERARY

      The TWS Reading Series at Cottage Bistro features poet Bernice Lever (Small Acts).

      A Flotilla of Poets at the VPL's Alice MacKay Room features readings by Christopher Levenson (A Tattered Coat Upon a Stick), Jane Munro (Blue Sonoma), and Rob Taylor (The News).

       

      GALLERIES

      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.

      Sonny Assu creates a new series of digital tags on a body of Emily Carr paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      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.

      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.

      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.

      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.

       

      MUSIC

      Evening of new music at Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre composed by SCA student composers using found texts features soprano Madeline Lucy Smith
      mezzo soprano Melanie Adams, tenor Lane Price, and bass Derrick Christian.

       

      THEATRE

      Puppeteer provocateur Ronnie Burkett and his resident company of over 40 marionettes perform The Daisy Theatre at the Cultch.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

      Performance at Studio 58 of The Refugee Hotel, writer-director Carmen Aguirre's dark comedy about eight Chilean exiles who struggle with the effects of fleeing their homeland.

      Hardline Productions presents the world premiere at Presentation House Theatre of Redpatch, Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver's historical drama about a young Métis volunteer soldier deployed to fight in World War I.

      Performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Marion Bridge, Daniel MacIvor’s play about three estranged sisters who reunite in their family home on Cape Breton Island to say goodbye to their dying mother.

      As part of Boca del Lupo's Micro Performance Series, Pi Theatre presents the climate-change play Genetic Drift at the Fishbowl on Granville Island.

      August Fourth Productions presents Dale Wasserman’s 1963 stage adaptation of the Ken Kasey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at PAL Theatre.

      United Players present a performance at the Jericho Arts Centre of The Train Driver Athol Fugard's exploration of guilt, suffering, redemption, and the powerful bonds that grow between strangers.

      The Sidekick Players present a performance at Tsawwassen Arts Centre of Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay about the jury at a murder trial of a young man accused of the fatal stabbing of his father.

      Vagabond Players presents the Western Canadian premiere at Bernie Legge Theatre of Vinci, a play that sees Leonardo da Vinci's father and mother battle for his affections.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      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.

      The Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition features over 250 privately-owned bikes from around the world.

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

      Take a ride in an exterior glass elevator and get a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains at Vancouver Lookout.

      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.

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

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

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

      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.

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

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

       

      MOVIES

      The Chan Centre Connects Series presents a screening of Bob Fosse’s dark-edged 1972 musical Cabaret at the Cinematheque.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of the David Byrne-conceived concert/dance flick Contemporary Color, featuring performances by Byrne, Nelly Furtado, St Vincent, Ad Rock, tUnE-yArDs, Ira Glass, and Zola Jesus.

      Screening at SFU Harbour Centre of director Yi Cui's documentary Of Shadows, which follows a group of local shadow-play performers as they navigate between the rural staging of ancient plays and the urban spectacles of national cultural heritage.

      The UBC School of Nursing presents the Edge Film Festival, featuring short films reflecting people's lived experiences and the programs of the School, at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

       

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