Looking for something to do on Thursday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 37 events happening in or around Vancouver on Thursday, January 11.

CONCERTS 

Canadian country-roots artists Corb Lund (above) and Ian Tyson coheadline the Vogue Theatre in a performance of songs and stories.

Coastal Jazz presents pianist Monty Alexander perfoming the first of three nights at Frankie's Jazz.

Steely Dan tribute band Steelin' in the Years plays the first of two nights at West Van's Kay Meek Centre. SOLD OUT.

CHRISTMAS

See thousands of lights adorning the Capilano Suspension Bridge, canyon, Treetops Adventure, and Cliffwalk at Canyon Lights.

Lights at Lafarge features outdoor light displays at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park.

FORUMS

Marine biologist Sheila Byers discusses the glass sponge reefs of Howe Sound at Unitarian Church of Vancouver.

COMEDY

American comedian Big Jay Oakerson performs the first of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Canadian comedian Tyler Morrison performs the first of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

The School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU presents a talk by multidisciplinary artist Patrick Cruz at 611 Alexander Studio.

Opening at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the first solo exhibition in a public institution by Canadian artist Brent Wadden.

LITERARY

Journalist and author Travis Lupick (Fighting For Space) and Downtown Eastside activist Ann Livingston (above) discuss how Vancouver responded to the drug crisis in the 1990s, and what lessons should be applied now, at Vancouver Public Library.

THEATRE

Six women turn tradition on its head in Hot Brown Honey, a production that's equal parts theatre and social activism, mixing dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease, and song, at the York Theatre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, a stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning animated film.

ITSAZOO Productions and Savage Society Theatre present The Pipeline Project, a provocative and personal account of the ongoing cultural battles over pipelines in B.C., at the Firehall Arts Centre.

GALLERIES

True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery highlights the enduring legacy of Scandinavian design principles in Canada through works by Niels Bendtsen, Bocci, Karen Bulow, Kjeld and Erica Deichmann, Thor Hansen, Andrew Jones, Janis Kravis, molo, Carl Poul Petersen, Rudolph Renzius, and Marion Smith.

Polygon Gallery's inaugural exhibition, N. Vancouver, explores how a specific locale can be reflected through existing and newly commissioned artworks by artists from Vancouver and beyond.

Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 90 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture highlighting both the richness of the Royal Collection and the complex relationship that the British monarchy has had with artists for the last three and half centuries.

Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents the latest findings of Vancouver-based artist Sawyer's ongoing research project that deftly reconstructs the life and work of the genre-defying, fictional artist Brettschneider.

MUSEUMS

The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC takes visitors on a journey through the past 200 years of Salish wool weaving.

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature 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.

In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 110 historical indigenous artworks and explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands.

City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism at the Museum of Vancouver explores the history of Vancouver's street protests through over 650 images of street demonstrations, protests, and riots from the early 1900s to present day.

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.

ATTRACTIONS

North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, as well as ziplines, a wildlife refuge, helicopter tours, paragliding, dining, and the Grouse Grind.

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

Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding, lessons, chairlifts, terrain parks, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

Celebrate winter with free skating in the heart of downtown Vancouver at Robson Square Ice Rink.

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

The new Parq Vancouver features two luxury hotels, a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

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

Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, gardens, beaches, and West Coast rain forest, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8 kilometre seawall.

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

Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.

MOVIES

Screenings at the Rio Theatre of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Final Cut and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic Psycho.

As part of the Italian Film Festival, screenings at Vancity Theatre of A Special Day, Ears, Let Yourself Go, and Tulipani, Love, Honour & A Bicycle.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary 78/52, which analyzes the 78 camera setups and 52 cuts used in the 45-second shower scene in Psycho.

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