Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 47 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, June 8.

CONCERTS

Canadian tributes to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, PIGS (above) and the Day Trippers, play Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre.

Tex-Mex indie-rock band Calexico plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guest Julia Jacklin.

The Quincy Davis/James Danderfer Quintet plays the first of two nights at Frankie's Jazz.

Musical collective Lambsbreath plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Lumber Barons, Impurities, and Big Evil.

The Universal Gospel Choir performs gospel, world, pop, and foot-stomping soul at Canadian Memorial United Church.

DJ 4th Pyramid, Jazz Cartier's official deejay, plays Studio Records.

BENEFITS

An evening of dancing, games, canapés, and swordplay at Academie Duello, with proceeds to Mission Possible's Employment Readiness Program, which helps individuals experiencing poverty navigate a pathway to employment.

ETCETERA

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

FASHION

Tenth & Proper Warehouse Sale at the Studio features designs in collections like InWear, Iris, Sandwich, Des Petit Hauts, and White Stuff.

SPORTS

The B.C. Lions take on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Canadian Football League action at BC Place Stadium.

COMEDY

Brett Martin and his trusty sidekick Sam Tonning performs a show at the Comedy Mix that also features Jonathon Gagnon, Michelle Falck, and Jake Reid.

B.C. comedian Lori Ferguson-Ford performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

American comedian Quinn Dahle performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Grad School Improv presents sci-fi situational comedy at Little Mountain Gallery's An Improvised Star Trek Sitcom.

ARTS ETCETERA

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.

Opening reception at Ferry Building Gallery for a grad show featuring mixed media works by students from five West Vancouver secondary schools. 

DANCE

Coastal City Ballet performs its full-length version of Cinderella, featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s enchanting score, at Surrey Arts Centre.

LITERARY

Sara Bynoe hosts Teen Angst Night at the Fox Cabaret, where readers share the bad poetry from their teenage years.

MUSIC

The Vancouver Men's Chorus presents Gays of Our Lives, a musical journey about idols, icons, struggles, and triumphs at Performance Works.

THEATRE

Touchstone Theatre presents C'mon Angie!, Amy Lee Lavoie's play about questions of consent after a one-night stand, at the Firehall Arts Centre.

Theatre Conspiracy presents the world premiere of Victim Impact, a play based on the largest Ponzi scheme in B.C. history, at the Cultch.

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.

North Vancouver Community Players present Kiss the Sun, Kiss the Moon--director Peter Zednik's version of Norm Foster's comedy about a pregnant teacher who befriends an adult man with developmental disabilities--at North Van's Theatre at Hendry Hall.\

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents the world premiere at the Bee Stage of We Three, Meghan Gardiner's play about three characters who explore colour, shapes, music, friendships, and being true to one’s self.

Performance at White Rock's Coast Capital Playhouse of Ninotchka, Melchior Lengyel's critique of Cold War-era politics, set in Paris and featuring soviet spies, royal treasures, and joie de vivre.

GALLERIES

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

MOVIES

Screening at the Rio Theatre of a restored and remastered version of Dario Argento's 1977 horror classic Suspiria.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Sara Driver's documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Zama, which tracks the fate of a hubristic Spanish magistrate stationed at a far-flung colonial outpost in 18th-century Paraguay.

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

Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Guardians, director Xavier Beauois's painterly WWI period piece about the women left at home while the men are at the front. 

Screening at the Cinematheque of The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel's arty psycho-thriller about a middle-aged dentist who may or may not killed someone while driving home one afternoon.

Screenings at Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre of Hiromasa Yonebayashi's animated film Mary and The Witch's Flower.

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