Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 58 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, March 23.

CONCERTS

The two-day Let's Hear It Live features free performances at the Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza by the Funk Hunters (above), Khanvict, Desi Sub Culture, Little Destroyer, Peach Pit, the Boom Booms, IMUR, Mob Bounce + DJ Kookum, Conro, Horsepawar, Shawn Austin, Chersea, and Astrocolor.

First day of Juno Fest, which features performances by more than 90 bands at 13 venues over two nights.

English electronica band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark plays the Commodore Ballroom.

Coastal Jazz presents Joshua Zubot & Strings performing jazz, new music, folk, improvisation, and electronica at the Western Front.

First day of the three-day Festival du Bois, a celebration of francophone music and culture at Coquitlam's Mackin Park featuring performanes by Le Vent du Nord, Bon Débarras, Les Chauffeurs à pieds, Mazacote, Jacky Essombe, Gabriel Debreuil, Blackthorn, and Podorythmie, and the Sybaritic String Band.

Musical impersonator Luisa Marshall performs her tribute to Tina Turner at Ladner's Genesis Theatre.

FASHION

Vancouver Fashion Week runs until March 25 at the Chinese Cultural Centre, featuring Fall/Winter 2018 collections by national and international designers from 15 countries.

KIDS' STUFF

Kids can hop on the Stanley Park Train for an egg-citing Easter ride through the forest and look for cotton-tailed inhabitants.

COMEDY

Graham Clark hosts the Juno Comedy Show at the Comedy Mix, featuring Comedy Album of the Year nominees Charlie Demers, DJ Demers and Rebecca Kohler. 

ARTS ETCETERA

The three-day Made on Salt Spring art market at Heritage Hall features the wares of woodworkers, designers, jewellers, and weavers from Salt Spring Island.

Curator Kwiaahwah Jones gives a guided tour of the Museum of Vancouver's Haida Now exhibition, featuring more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers, and print makers.

DANCE

Shen Yun is a multimedia show of Chinese culture at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre featuring ancient legends and stories, classical Chinese dancers, animated backdrops, and a live orchestra.

The Vancouver International Dance Festival runs until March 24 at various Vancouver venues. Performances today include The Biting Class, Lola Lince, and Patasola Dance.

LITERARY

SFU's Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies presents readings at SFU Harbour Centre by current and former SFU faculty members Jennifer Marchbank, Claire Robson, Coleman Nye, Ela Przybylo (with Sara Rodrigues), Marjorie Griffin Cohen, and Mary Lynn Stewart.

MUSIC

The West Coast Symphony and guest conductor Nicholas Urquhart join violin soloist Kerenza Peacock in a program of works by Beethoven, Davis, Warlock, and Haydn at Canadian Memorial Church.

The Music on the Point concert series presents the Röntgen Trio in a program of works by Beethoven, Röntgen, and Brahms at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

Vancouver ProMusica presents the Sonic Boom Festival, a multi-day celebration of contemporary classical music by B.C. composers, at Pyatt Hall.

THEATRE

Gateway Theatre presents the world premiere of I Lost My Husband, Leanna Brodie's translation of Catherine Léger's comedy about an aging party girl and her dreams of independence.

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents The Velveteen Rabbit, the tale of a toy rabbit transformed by one little boy’s love, at the Waterfront Theatre.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, which pays homage to the late Canadian poet and singer-songwriter.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Forget About Tomorrow, Jill Daum's play about a woman whose husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Exit 22 Company Productions (Capilano University Theatre) presents Anne of Green Gables, the iconic Canadian story of a fiercely imaginative little girl who touches the lives of everyone she meets, at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Realwheels Theatre presents Sequence, a fast-paced science thriller that explores the intersection of math, nature, and spirituality, at Presentation House Theatre.

Director Jessica Anne Nelson puts a 2018 spin on The Crucible, Arthur Miller's timeless parable of morality, at UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre.

Final performance at the Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre of Canadian playwright Judith Thompson's Lion in the Streets, which tells the stories of many interconnected lives, and one little girl whose experience threads them together.

Naked Goddess Productions presents Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor's story of love and friendship, A Beautiful View, at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House.

Performance at Performance Works of Little Miss Glitz, a musical that follows the story of a naïve, starry-eyed little girl as she navigates her way through her first beauty pageant.

Axis Theatre presents Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch--a family-friendly puppet play about a man whose life is turned upside down when he receives a Valentine's Day gift--at Studio 1398.

Pull Festival VII at Little Mountain Gallery features 10-minute plays by Pippa Mackie, Sherry Macdonald, Jordy Matheson, Allyson Fournier, Donal Thoms-Capello, and Jessica Harvey.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents The Humans--Stephen Karam's portrait of an ordinary family at odds with itself and the uncertainties of life amidst a changing America--at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Opening night at Pacific Theatre of Bar Mitzvah Boy, a comedy by playwright Mark Leiren-Young about friendship, ritual, and growing up (at any age).

Opening night at Jericho Arts Centre of Enron, Lucy Prebble's play about the Texas-based energy company that ascended to great heights before declaring bankruptcy amid one of the largest financial scandals in history.

GALLERIES

More than 55 paintings and sculptures are featured in Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, the first-ever retrospective of Murakami's work in Canada, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Bombhead at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a thematic exhibition exploring the emergence and impact of the nuclear age as represented by artists and their art.

空/Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses works by Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan to explore how each artist experimented with modernist movements and mysticism through their respective depictions of nature.

Two Scores is a solo exhibition of work by Canadian artist Brent Wadden at Contemporary Art Gallery.

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.

Living, Building, Thinking: art & expression at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early 19th century to the present day.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Screening at the Cinematheque of Agnès Varda's spritely feminist musical-cum-manifesto about women’s reproductive rights, One Sings, the Other Doesn't.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of In the Intense Now, João Salles' historical essay about the Communist revolution.

The three-day Maple Ridge Festival of B.C. Film runs until March 25 at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre.

Screening at the Cinematheque of late Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman's meditation on the need for human contact, Je tu il elle.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of David Fincher's 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club, starring Ed Norton and Brad Pitt.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck's biopic about the early life of Karl Marx, The Young Karl Marx.

Free afternoon screening at Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew branch of the animated family film Hop.

Free screening at Vancouver Public Library's Mount Pleasant branch of the Second World War movie Dunkirk. 

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