Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 54 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, February 15.

CONCERTS

Boston alt-rock band Guster plays Imperial Vancouver, with guest Henry Jamison.

American pop–R&B singer-songwriter and former NSYNC member Justin Timberlake performs the second of two nights at Rogers Arena.

Loot's Tribute to Tool at the Rickshaw Theatre raises money for Covenant House Vancouver, with guests Alice Hardy and Holy Tokes.

Local emo band Dad Thighs plays its final show at the Red Gate Arts Society, with guests Pudding and Prxncxss Apxrxntly.

Musician and storyteller Barry Greenfield performs at the Yaletown Roundhouse Exhibition Hall, with partial proceeds to Wigs for Kids B.C.

Steffanie Davis and the Jeremy Wong Quartet play a jazz double-bill at Tyrant Studios.

Australian indie-pop duo Alex Cameron and Roy Molloy plays two shows at the WISE Hall.

Jazz trio Slinki performs standards, pop crossovers, and original compositions at West Van's Bar Moorings Restaurant.

ETCETERA

Canada's Walk of Fame Celebration at the Vancouver Convention Centre honours billionaire businessman Jimmy Pattison and comedy kingpins Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

KIDS' STUFF

One Thing Leads to Another is a work of theatre created specifically for infants at Performance Works.

COMEDY

Standup comedian and actor Aziz Ansari performs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre as part of JFL NorthWest.

Actor, writer, and comedian Fortune Feimster performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club as part of JFL NorthWest.

Vancouver comedian Ivan Decker performs the first of two nights of standup at the Comedy Mix as part of JFL NorthWest.

New York-based comedian Matteo Lane performs at the Biltmore Cabaret as part of JFL NorthWest.

ARTS ETCETERA

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

Canada’s Ballet Jörgen performs one of its most popular family ballets, Coppelia, at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Theatre.

MUSIC

Chamber-music group Trio Celeste performs works by Dvorak and Beethoven at Christ Church Cathedral.

University Singers, Chamber Choir, and Choral Union perform narrative-themed repertoire at the Chan Shun Concert Hall.

THEATRE

Performance at West Vancouver's Kay Meek Centre of Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell.

Studio 58 presents Cabaret, a play set in 1929 Berlin at the notorious Kit Kat Klub, at Langara College.

Performance at Richmond's Gateway Theatre of the satire Yoga Play, which asks what it takes to find authenticity in a world determined to sell enlightenment.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents The Shoplifters, Morris Panych's play about a career shoplifter whose life of petty crime is halted by an overzealous security guard and his affable mentor, at the Granville Island Stage.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Thornton Wilder's play of forbidden young love and mistaken identity, The Matchmaker, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

The Arts Club Theatre Company and Crow’s Theatre present True Crime, a mind-twisting encounter created by Torquil Campbell and Chris Abraham, at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Performance at White Rock's Coast Capital Playhouse of A Comedy of Tenors, playwright Ken Ludwig's comedy of mistaken identities and bedroom hijinks.

Classic Chic Productions presents its a performance of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, featuring an all-female cast, at the Historic Cultch Theatre.

Performance at the Metro Theatre of the political farce Up and Coming.

GALLERIES

A Handful of Dust at the Polygon Gallery features photographs from the last 100 years, focusing on the theme of dust.

Affinities: Canadian Artists and France at the Vancouver Art Gallery features works from the Gallery’s collection focusing on influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Surrealism on Canadian artists during the first half of the 20th century.

10,000 Ships at the Polyon Gallery showcases a photographic archive created by local photographer and "ship-spotter" Rod Logan.

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.

Krista Belle Stewart's site-specific installation Eye Eye is on display at SFU's Teck Gallery.

French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 at the Vancouver Art Gallery features paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists such as Cézanne, Chagall, Degas, Manet, Matisse, Morisot, Renoir, and Rodin.

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

Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery includes works Marianne Nicolson and Althea Thauberger with Siku Allooloo, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Darryl Dawson, Jaymyn La Vallee, Diane Roberts, Sara Siestreem, Juliana Speier, Nabidu Taylor, Kamala Todd, William Wasden Jr., Tania Willard and Lindsey Willie.

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

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Canada by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

MUSEUMS

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.

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.

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.

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.

ATTRACTIONS

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.

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

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.

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

North Vancouver's Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven cable bridges suspended in trees, the Living Forest exhibit, CLIFFWALK, Treetop Adventure, and First Nations carving demonstrations.

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

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

MOVIES

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of Baz Luhrmann's hyper-stylized 2001 film Moulin Rouge!, starring Nicole Kidman.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn's inventive mix of vampire horror and blaxploitation.

Screening at Vancouver Unitarians of codirectors Brian Hockenstein and Tamo Campos's snowboarding/environmental documentary The Radicals.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Melvin Van Peebles's 1971 blaxploitation classic Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.

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