Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 47 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, May 3.

CONCERTS

Hornby Blues at St. James Hall features performances by Cécile Doo-Kingué (above), Tim Williams, Paul Pigat, and Michael Jerome-Browne.

Vancouver indie-soul band the Boom Booms plays the Commodore Ballroom.

Ontario indie-pop band Dizzy plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

The Ilhan Saferali Quartet performs classic jazz at Tyrant Studios.

Three local bands perform the music of Ween at a tribute at Pat's Pub & Brewhouse.

BENEFITS

T Riley & The Bourbon Rebels and Co. B perform at a benefit for The Equality Effect at the Oddfellows Hall.

Zumba club party at Venue raises funds for the Alzheimer's Society of B.C.

TAKE ACTION

Youth Climate Strike will see young people rallying against climate change in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

FORUMS

Women on Music: Four Voices at the VCC Theatre features discussions of music, art, and life by Chinese zheng innovator Dr. Mei Han, First Nations vocalist Sandy Scofield, R&B artist Krystle Dos Santos (above), and guimbarde visionary Dr. Deidre Morgan.

In celebration of his new book, Age of Union: Igniting the Changemaker, Dax Dasilva speaks on the power of an inclusive work environment at the Vancouver Lawn and Tennis Club.

COMEDY

Sara Bynoe hosts Teen Angst Night, a comedy show featuring embarrassing teenage notebooks, at the Fox Cabaret.

TMP Improv presents Laughter is the Best Medicine, a fundraiser for KidSport BC at the Red Gate Revue Stage.

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

LITERARY

Slam poets perform one- and four-minute works at Havana Theatre as part of the Canadian Individual Slam Poetry Championships.

MUSIC

The Bergmann Piano Duo performs works by Ravel and Liszt at CBC Studio 700.

The River of Light features the world premiere of a large-scale work for chorus, soloists, and orchestra, conceived and composed by Brian Current, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

THEATRE

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.

REWIRE at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre is a multi-media theatre production in which a group of youths tackle root causes of stress, including poverty, grief, and sexual assault.

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

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.

Slamming Door Artist Collective presents Edward Bond's comedy The Sea at the Jericho Arts Centre.

First Impressions Theatre presents Duets, a comedy of relationships and awkward moments, at North Van's Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

Stage 43 Theatrical Society presents the classic mental-institution drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre.

Performance at Metro Theatre of Communicating Doors, in which a dominatrix from the future is summoned to witness a man’s confession to murder.

GALLERIES

Views of the Collection: The Street at the Vancouver Art Gallery focuses on the street as source of inspiration and site for the production and enactment of culture, with works by Roy Arden, Kati Campbell, Robert Capa, Robert Frank, Fred Herzog, Hong Chan Park, Judy Radul, Jack Shadbolt, Danny Singer, and Ian Wallace.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

As part of the DOXA Festival, Canadian premiere screening at the Cinematheque of Emmanuelle Antille's 2018 documentary A Bright Light: Karen and the Process.

As part of the DOXA Festival, Canadian premiere screening at Vancity Theatre of Nicolás Molina's 2018 documentary Flow.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme's 1984 Talking Heads concert film.

As part of the DOXA Festival, screening at the Vancouver Playhouse of Baljit Sangra's 2019 documentary Because We Are Girls.

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