Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 64 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, March 22.

CONCERTS

The Rogue Folk Club presents a CD-release concert by local guitar ace Paul Pigat at St. James Hall.

Japanese rock band One OK Rock plays the Vogue Theatre, with guests Waterparks and Stand Atlantic.

L.A.-based pop singer-songwriter Ella Vos plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

Festival du Bois celebrates its 30th anniversary with francophone music from across Canada at Coquitlam's Mackin Park.

The Stable Genius Showcase at Pat's Pub and Brewhouse features performances by rock bands Rong!, Lambsbreath, Fake James, and Pale North.

Folk-rockers Jay Gavin & the Tired Sunday Choir play an album-release party at the False Creek Yacht Club, with guests Cassidy Waring and Sam Balson.

Canadian pop-rock band Lighthouse celebrates its 50th anniversary with the first of two nights at West Van's Kay Meek Centre.

California rapper Vince Staples plays the Harbour Event Centre, with guest JPEGMAFIA.

New York psych-rock trio King Buffalo plays the WISE Hall, with guests We Hunt Buffalo and Killer Deal.

Jeff Gladstone & The Bad Ideas perform cowboy-noir cabaret at Tyrant Studio.

The 17-piece South Van Big Band performs swing, bebop, Latin jazz, rock, and funk at Hood 29.

FORUMS

Adrienne Harris discusses the concept of intersectionality through different aspects of subjectivity--gender, sexual desire, racial identity, class and cultural formation, and historical markers of trauma--at SFU Harbour Centre.

KIDS' STUFF

Spring Break at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre features special activities and programming focused on exploring the sun and moon.

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are in A Play!”, a new musical about two best friends, at Granville Island's Waterfront Theatre.

Spring Break at the Vancouver Aquarium lets kids get up close with a penguin, catch a screening of Shark: A 4-D Experience, and be entertained by a puppet troupe.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Warriors take on the Colorado Mammoth in National Lacrosse League action at Rogers Arena.

COMEDY

Comedian Steve Hofstetter performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Comedian Erica Sigurdson performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Sara Bynoe hosts a night of readings from embarrassing teenage notebooks at the Fox Cabaret.

ARTS ETCETERA

The Homegrown Art Show at 1350 features glass art by Intoxicated Pineapple, Leash Glass, Redbeard, and Gibsons Glassworks, plus an array of in-house visual artists and DJ Dare2Funk. 

The Delightedly is an all-genres cabaret at Havana Theatre where creators present new material and engage in unexpected collaborations.

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

The Vancouver International Dance Festival features performances, workshops, and interactive dance activities at various Vancouver venues until March 30. Performances today include Vision Impure's Pathways (above), with choreography by Noam Gagnon, at the Roundhouse Performance Centre.

MUSIC

The 32-voice Choir of Clare College, Cambridge gives a complete performance of Tomas Luis de Victoria’s 1605 Requiem at St. James' Anglican Church.

The four-day Sonic Boom Music Festival at Pyatt Hall celebrates contemporary classical (new) music works by BC composers.

Eric Wilson leads UBC Chamber Strings in a performance of works by Gorecki, Mahler and Tchaikovsky at Stringfest! at UBC's Telus Studio Theatre.

THEATRE

Ruby Slippers Theatre presents a performance of Marine Life, a romantic comedy by Rosa Labordé, at the Firehall Arts Centre.

Performance at the York Theatre of the politically driven, stereotype-smashing hip-hop empowerment play Hot Brown Honey.

Multiple Organisms at the Vancity Culture Lab is a genre- and gender-bending surrealist comedy for adults about having a body and how our body is seen by others.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents The Orchard (After Chekhov), Sarena Parmar's timeless family drama set in the Okanagan Valley, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Performance at Richmond's Gateway Theatre of Gross Misconduct, in which two inmates at Millhaven Prison debate the nature of their crimes.

Performance at UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre of Goldrausch, a comedy about the man who started the Gold Rush Fever of 1848.

Performance at Pacific Theatre of Jesus Freak, about a family whose tolerance is put to test when a member comes home from college and announces she’s become a Christian.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Redpatch, Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver's story of an indigenous soldier from the Nuu-chah-nulth nation of Vancouver Island, at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Performance at BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts of 9 to 5 the Musical. based on the 1980 comedy film, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton.

Performance at PAL Theatre of Mystery at Greenfingers, a comedic whodunnit set in a snowstorm.

Performance at Surrey Arts Centre of Children of God, a musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario.

Fight With a Stick presents A Vista, an ever-changing sequence of painted theatrical backdrops, at New Westminster's Massey Theatre.

Final performance at Douglas College Studio Theatre of Morris Panych’s meta-theatrical black comedy, 7 Stories, directed by Thrasso Petras.

GALLERIES

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

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. Featured artists include J.W. Morrice, Emily Carr, Maurice Cullen, Paul-Émile Borduas, Rodney Graham, Mary Scott and Lucy Hogg.

A Handful of Dust at The Polygon 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.

Displacement at the Vancouver Art Gallery sees contemporary works from the gallery's collection that use “displacement” as a tool to elicit viewer reactions of all kinds. Featured artists include Sonny Assu, Aganetha Dyck, Teresa Marshall, Ken Lum, Robert Therrien, Luanne Martineau, Patrick Traer, Renee van Halm, Holly Ward, Tim Paul, and Myfanwy MacLeod.

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

Influenced by fields of perceptual psychology, science and architecture, Mowry Baden’s works at the Vancouver Art Gallery incorporate objects both found and constructed that incite curiosity, wonder, and laughs.

MUSEUMS

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 director Mary Harron's gory 2000 satire American Psycho, starring Christian Bale.

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of Marine Francen’s French historical drama The Sower.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of the documentary Free Solo, which follows Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free-solo climb Yosemite’s 3,000-foot-high El Capitan wall.

Screenings at Vancity Theatre of director Jia Zhangke's Pickpocket and Ash is Purest White.

Oscar-winning writer-director Jordan Peele's horror-thriller Us opens at various Vancouver theatres.

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