44 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, January 11

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      Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 44 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, January 11.

       

      CONCERTS

      Delta bluesman and guitar maker Super Chikan performs at the Rio Theatre with the Mojo Stars and guest Steve Kozak.

      Electronic artist Sven Gamsky (Still Woozy) performs at the Biltmore Cabaret.

      The Astrid Sars Trio performs classic and New Orleans jazz at Tyrant Studios.

       

      FASHION

      Pop Up Shop featuring Toronto-based clothing line Helene Clarkson at the Westin Bayshore Hotel.

          

      FORUMS

      American pro wrestler Ric Flair tells stories of his career at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, with guest moderator Jimmy Hart.

        

      SPORTS

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      Elite Canadian Championship Wrestlers battle in the first of two nights at the Commodore Ballroom.

       

      COMEDY

      American comedian Josh Wolf performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      Alicia Tobin’s Come Draw With Me at Little Mountain Gallery is part art class, part comedy show.

      New York-based comedian and current Saturday Night Live cast member Alex Moffatt performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      Fatale Fridays at Goldie's Pizza features all-femme and nonbinary standup comedy.

      Unscriptured is an improvised church service for a religion made up on the spot at Havana Theatre.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Ocean Wise

      Douglas Coupland’s 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.

       

      DANCE

      David Cooper

      In an open rehearsal at Scotiabank Dance Centre, Company 605’s five performers work on excerpts from the new work-in-development, Loop, Lull

       

      MUSIC

      UBC School of Music students compete to perform as soloists with the UBC Symphony Orchestra at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall.

          

      THEATRE

      Little Blue Lemon Photography

      Performance at the Surrey Arts Centre of Blind Date, a fusion of clown, improv, theatre, and social experiment. 

      Performance at the Vancouver Playhouse of The Full Light of Day, a hybrid of theatre and film featuring Jim Mezon, Gabrielle Rose, and Jillian Fargey.

      Stage 43 Theatrical Society presents a performance of The Odd Couple (Female Version) at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

      Boca del Lupo and rice & beans theatre present DBLSPK, a quarterly reading series at the Fishbowl.

        

      GALLERIES

      The Vancouver Art Gallery presents the Canadian premiere of Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, the first-ever fashion exhibition in the Gallery’s history, which traces the evolution of China’s foremost couturière over 10 years.

      Looking at Persepolis: The Camera in Iran 1850-1930 at Polygon Gallery features contemporary video and photographic works by Hannah Rickards and Batia Suter.

      Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) artist Dana Claxton addresses the oppressive legacies of colonialism through photography, film, video and performance in Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest at the Bill Reid Gallery sees guest curator Dion Kaszas of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation trace the deep-rooted traditions of Indigenous tattooing, piercing and personal adornment.

      Batia Suter: Parallel Encyclopedia Extended at Polygon Gallery is an installation of photographic reproductions that highlight the proliferation of digital images.

      Polit-Sheer-Form Office at Vancouver Art Gallery's Offsite is the first Canadian exhibition by the Chinese contemporary art collective.

      Discover the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection through an exhibition of nearly 90 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures in A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects.

      The Vancouver Art Gallery presents The Metamorphosis, an exhibition drawn from its collection that examines transformation and change.

       

      MUSEUMS

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      Richmond's Lipont Place hosts Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which focuses on the legendary RMS Titanic's compelling human stories through more than 120 authentic artifacts and extensive room re-creations.

      Shakeup: Preserving What We Value at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC explores the convergence of earthquake science and technology with Indigenous knowledge and oral history.

      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.

      Marking the Infinite at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features nine leading Aboriginal women who are revered matriarchs and celebrated artists from remote regions of Australia.

      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.

      Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives at the Museum of Vancouver delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city.

      In/Flux: Art of Korean Diaspora at the Museum of Vancouver features selected works of Jin-me Yoon, Junghong Kim, and Jin Hwa Kim, artists originally from the Republic of Korea now based in the Vancouver area.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

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

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

      North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, plus ziplines, skiing and snowboarding, a sliding zone, snowshoeing, and a skating pond.

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

      Parq Vancouver is a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

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

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

       

      MOVIES

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Is There a Picture, which tracks the origins and inspirations of Vancouver artists Marian Penner Bancroft, Rodney Graham, Christos Dikeakos, Ian Wallace, and Jeff Wall.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of writer-director Renée Beaulieu's fearless second feature, Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of Luc Besson's 1997 sci-fi action flick The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Woman Who Loves Giraffesa documentary about Canadian biologist Anne Innis Dagg.

       

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