Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 58 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, February 22.

CONCERTS

Australian blues-roots singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeff Lang plays St. James Hall.

Montreal electro-pop trio Men I Trust plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

New York City jazz vocalist-pianist Champian Fulton plays the first of two nights at Frankie's Jazz. 

Winter Jazz on Granville Island features performances by Joshua Zubot & Strings and Peggy Lee's Echo Painting at Performance Works.

American singer–songwriter and multi-instrumentalist My Brightest Diamond plays the Fox Cabaret.

American rapper Snoop Dogg plays Rogers Arena, with guests Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Warren G, Kurupt, and Luniz.

Anglo-American rockers from the '70s, Foreigner, play the first of two nights at Coquitlam's Hard Rock Casino Vancouver.

The David Sikula Trio performs progressive guitar jazz at Tyrant Studios.

American indie songwriter and musician Sharon Van Etten plays Imperial Vancouver, with guest Nilüfer Yanya.

FORUMS

Dr. Leah Bendell discusses B.C.’s shellfish industry and how it is facing challenges wrought by human activity at an SFU Café Scientifique event at New Westminster's Boston Pizza.

COMEDY

Comedian and actor Rory Scovel performs the second of two nights at the Rio Theatre as part of JFL NorthWest.

Comedian Andy Kindler performs the first of two nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Comedian, writer, and producer Kurt Metzger performs the first of two nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Podcasters Ben Mandelker and Ronnie Karam (Watch What Crappens) perform at the Biltmore Cabaret as part of JFL NorthWest.

Addictive Comedy at Surrey's Elgin Hall features standup by Lizzie Allan, Karina Cebuliak, Ellen Bradley-Cheung, and Anne Hosking.

ARTS ETCETERA

Vancouver-based magician Matt Johnson performs his show Urban Deception at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre.

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

Performance at Scotiabank Dance Centre of Wen Wei Dance’s latest choreographic creation, Ying Yun.

Kidd Pivot artistic director Crystal Pite and Electric Company Theatre cofounder Jonathon Young create a dance/theatre hybrid with Revisor at the Vancouver Playhouse. SOLD OUT.

Company 605's Loop, Lull is a new ensemble work built upon shared desires at Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

The Dancers of Damelahamid proudly present the 12th annual Coastal Dance Festival at New Westminster's Anvil Centre.

LITERARY

Launch at Massy Books of Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock, a children's book by Dallas Hunt, with illustrations by Amanda Strong.

MUSIC

Tobias Koch performs Chopin on a historical fortepiano at Christ Church Cathedral.

THEATRE

Performance at the Surrey Arts Centre of Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell, which reinterprets Mitchell’s iconic songs through a new generation.

Performance at the York Theatre of Children of God, a musical about the children of an Oji-Cree family who are sent to a residential school in northern Ontario.

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

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.

Performance at Studio 1398 of The Amish Project, Jessica Dickey's play about compassion in the wake of a school shooting.

Performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Church Basement Ladies, a comical celebration of the church-basement kitchen and the women who work there.

Constance Markievicz fights for Ireland’s freedom in Changed Utterly, a theatre verbatim play with songs and poems, at Jericho Arts Centre.

GALLERIES

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

MOVIES

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of Sam Raimi's 1992 horror-comedy Army of Darkness, starring Bruce Campbell.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa's stirring epic set in 16th-century Japan.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Roma, Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar-nominated drama about a middle-class household in Mexico City in 1970.

The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival features outdoor adventure films from around the world at various Vancouver venues.

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