Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 46 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, May 25.

CONCERTS

The Canadian Pacific Blues Society presents American blues, soul and R&B artist Curtis Salgado at the Rio Theatre, with guests Mojo Stars.

Bongripper plays the Rickshaw Theatre as part of the Modified Ghost Festival III, with Yob, Ruby the Hatchet, Electric Citizen, Dead Quiet, Hoopsnake, and Seer.

Coastal Jazz presents Vancouver blues act the Steve Kozak Band at Frankie's Jazz.

Czech jazz pianist Emil Viklicky performs with local musicians Paul Rushka (bass) and Jesse Cahill (drums) at the Red Gate Revue Stage.

TODDCastPodcast presents an acoustic performance by Canadian rocker Todd Kerns at the Railway Stage and Beer Café.

West Van drummer Kristian Braathen’s trio performs originals and jazz standards at the Silk Purse Arts Centre.

BENEFITS

Fundraising concert to support the Parkinson Society B.C. and MS Society Canada features performances by Khari Wendell McClelland, Dawn Pemberton (above), and Emily Chambers.

ETCETERA

The Richmond Night Market features dozens of food stalls, a dinosaur park, paddle boats, a baby playground, music, martial arts, and dancing.

FOOD AND DRINK

Vancouver Craft Beer Week kicks off with the East Van Crusher party at the Maritime Labour Centre, featuring live music from Alex Maher and Hebegebe.

Be Wise Whiskey festival and speaker series at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre features keynotes led by industry pioneers, exclusive tastings, and more than 60 global whiskys. Featured speakers include Drew Green of Indochino, and Jill Earthy of FrontFundr.

TAKE ACTION

Bring pots and pans and anti-pipeline posters and banners to the Stop Kinder Morgan Rally outside MP Pamela Goldsmith Jones's office in Horseshoe Bay.

COMEDY

Canadian improv master Colin Mochrie performs with Vancouver TheatreSports players at the Vogue Theatre.

Canadian comedian Toby Hargrave performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Kerri Donaldson and Allie Entwistle present an improv and sketch comedy show at Little Mountain Gallery.

Palestinian-Canadian comedian Eman El-Husseini performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Graham Clark's Quiz Show at the Fox Cabaret cherry-picks the best segments of game shows, plus a few new favourites, and presents them all in one bizarre event.

ARTS ETCETERA

The three-day Parker Art Salon 2018 showcases the work of more than 40 fine artists at 1000 Parker Street Studios.

Douglas Coupland’s new radical art installation at the Vancouver Aquarium, Vortex, takes an imaginative journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, immersing viewers in the ocean-plastic pollution crisis.

Robert Dayton presents an interdisciplinary performance as himself and as The Canadian Romantic, based around his artist book The Empty Bed at Access Gallery.

The three-day Uncommon Show at the ARC features visual arts and music by residents of the Artist Resource Centre and alumni.

Free one-night art walk in Mount Pleasant designates a path for people to explore what the local art scene has to offer. 

DANCE

As part of its Global Dance Connections series, the Scotiabank Dance Centre presents acrobatic-dance company Aeriosa in a performance of Second Nature by artistic director Julia Taffe.

THEATRE

Upintheair Theatre presents the rEvolver Theatre Festival, a program of new works by distinct voices from across the Canadian live-theatre scene, at the Cultch. Shows tonight include the world premiere of playwright/director Patricia Trinh's Probability (above).

Performance at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way, an original play giving voice to those who have lived within Canada’s long shadow of colonialism.

ITSAZOO presents the Western Canadian premiere of David James Brock’s drama WET, set during the height of Canada’s involvement in the Afghanistan War, at the Russian Hall.

Urban Ink presents the world premiere of Les Filles du Roi, a new Canadian musical by Corey Payette and Julie McIsaac, at the York Theatre.

Louise Porter stars in Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell’s one-woman comedy about a bored housewife who is offered a trip to Greece by her best friend, at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Mamma Mia!, a feel-good musical featuring the music of ABBA, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

The tale of how Narnia and Middle Earth came to be is chronicled in Tolkien, a new play by artistic director Ron Reed at Pacific Theatre.

GALLERIES

The Blue Hour at the Contemporary Art Gallery features photographs by Joi T. Arcand (above), Kapwani Kiwanga, Colin Miner, Grace Ndiritu, and Kara Uzelman.

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.

Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman is a new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery featuring the paintings of Carr with 48 photographs by U.S.-born photographer Gunterman.

Shigeru Ban, a new exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite location, features the full-scale version of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Kobe Paper Log House.

MUSEUMS

Arts of Resistance: Politics and The Past In Latin America at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC exhibition illustrates how Latin American communities use traditional or historic art forms to express contemporary political realities.

Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition at the Museum of Vancouver is guest-curated by Kwiaahwah Jones and features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers, collected as early as the 1890s.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 Vancity Theatre of the unrelentingly absurd and dark romantic-comedy An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn as part of the Rupture Festival.

Screenings at the Cinematheque of new restorations of two dance films by American documentary filmmaker George T. Nierenberg.

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of Stephen Norrington's 1998 vampire flick Blade, starring Wesley Snipes.

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