Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 59 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, April 26.

CONCERTS

English indie-rock band the 1975 plays UBC's Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, with guests Pale Waves.

Park Sound Presents features performances by Kaylan Mackinnon, Holly Rees, and Derek Wayne Martin at North Van's Park Sound Studio.

The Bills perform at St. James Hall as part of the April in Paris gypsy-jazz event.

Local band Camaro 67 plays a dance party at the WISE Hall with Missy D and guest Ndidi Cascade.

Virginia Beach rock band Turnover plays the Biltmore Cabaret, with guests Turnstile, Reptaliens, and Big Bite.

Australian electronic-music trio Rüfüs Du Sol plays the PNE Forum.

Halifax indie-rock band Wintersleep plays the Commodore Ballroom.

Toddcast Podcast Presents the Best Night Ever album-release party at the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests the Fallaways and Bobby's Cane.

Local reggae/funk band Boomdaddy plays the Backstage Lounge.

The Steve Lloyd Smith Quartet performs classic jazz at Tyrant Studios.

BENEFITS

Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture celebrates 21 years with a special concert event headlined by singer Gaelynn Lea. 

TAKE ACTION

Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) presents a rally in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery protesting the threats, sanctions, and interventionist meddling by the U.S. and Canada in Venezuela.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Warriors take on the Toronto Rock in National Lacrosse League action at Rogers Arena.

The Vancouver Giants take on the Spokane Chiefs in Western Hockey League playoff action at Langley Events Centre.

COMEDY

Vancouver TheatreSports League presents opening night of Throne and Games: The Last Laugh, its improvised Game of Thrones parody, at Granville Island's Improv Centre.

Graham Clark's Quiz Show at the Fox Cabaret cherry picks the best segments of game shows and presents them all in one bizarre event.

Coheadliners Dan Quinn and Kyle Bottom perform the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

L.A.-based comedian Sean Tweedley performs the second of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

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.

Opening night of IGNITE!, Vancouver's largest youth-driven arts festival, at the Cultch Historic Theatre.

DANCE

IELE at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts is a dance performance inspired by Romanian folklore.

LITERARY

Fort Langley poet/author Susan McCaslin reads from her most recent book on Thomas Merton at the Fort Gallery.

The three-day Salon du livre de Vancouver, a French-speaking book fair, kicks off at Le Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver.

MUSIC

The Canada International Arts and Music Society presents viola and piano group the Ezra Duo at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver.

The Marcus Mosely Chorale performs at North Van's Highlands United Church, with guests Showstopper.

Young singers take part in the VOX Singing Competition, hosted by CBC’s Sylvia L’Ecuyer at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

THEATRE

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Lauren Yee's The Great Leap, a jump shot across borders, at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Let's Try This Standing at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is a new show by writer-performer Gillian Clark based on her recovery from a near-fatal accident.

Zee Zee Theatre presents Dead People's Things, a darkly comedic play about a millennial who inherits a house and all of its contents after her estranged hoarder aunt commits suicide.

A Jewish lawyer is assigned to defend a skinhead in Cherry Docs at Pacific Theatre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Bed & Breakfast, Mark Crawford's comedy about being out and finding home, at the Granville Island Stage.

Performance at Tsawwassen Arts Centre of The Best Brothers, a comedy about two middle-aged sons bickering over their free-spirited mother's funeral arrangements.

Performance at PAL Theatre of Mal and Cara, a comedy about a married Vancouver couple and a radical career change.

Performance at Havana Theatre of Out Again at the Inn, a Leaping Thespians original comedy.

Le Petit Théâtre presents La Station Champbaudet, a classic French vaudeville play, with English surtitles, at Alliance Française de Vancouver.

Veda Hille's new solo show Little Volcano, a collaboration with Theatre Replacement, blends storytelling and live music at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

GALLERIES

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

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

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation Basketball: Photographs by Alana Paterson shows at the Polygon as part of the Capture Photography Festival.

A Harlem Nocturne at the Contemporary Art Gallery presents still and moving images extrapolated and translated from archival sources, featuring a newly commissioned video project drawn from Deanna Bowen’s research into histories of Black community within Vancouver.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Moving Still: Performative Photography in India at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 100 works that examine themes of gender, religion, and sexual identity.

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.

There is Truth Here at the Museum of Vancouver focuses on rare surviving artworks created by children who attended the Inkameep Day School (Okanagan), St Michael’s Indian Residential School (Alert Bay); the Alberni Indian Residential School (Vancouver Island) and Mackay Indian Residential School (Manitoba).

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.

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.

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

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

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world and almost two dozen sculptures.

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

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 Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean.

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

MOVIES

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of David Lynch's quirky 1992 murder-mystery Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of the medieval horror film Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse.

Vancouver premiere at the Cinematheque of The Raft, Marcus Lindeen’s documentary about the Acali Experiment of 1973, in which 11 strangers drifted across the Atlantic on a cramped raft as part of a study on the origins of violence and aggression.

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