48 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, June 7

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      Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 48 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, June 7.

       

      CONCERTS

      Australian indie-rock band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever plays the Rickshaw Theatre.

      Brooklyn pop duo Good Great Fine OK plays the Fox Cabaret.

      Montreal electro-funk duo Chromeo plays Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park.

      Fleetwood Mac tribute band Dreams plays North Vancouver's Centennial Theatre.

      Downtempo electronica artist Little People plays the Biltmore Cabaret, with guests arms and sleepers.

      Dinner concert at Port Moody's Gallery Bistro features jazz vocalist Julia MacLean with Miles Hill (bass) and Bill Sample (keys).

      The Impressions Big Band performs at a swing-dance night at the Vancouver Alpen Club.

      The Universal Gospel Choir performs gospel, world, pop, and foot-stomping soul at the Canadian Memorial United Church.

           

      FOOD AND DRINK

      Vancouver Craft Beer Week celebrates its 10th anniversary at various Metro Vancouver locations to June 9.

       

      SPORTS

      The B.C. Lions take on the Calgary Stampeders in Canadian Football League preseason action at BC Place Stadium.

                   

      COMEDY

      Vancouver TheatreSports' Throne and Games—The Last Laugh is an improvised Game of Thrones parody at the Improv Centre on Granville Island.

      Blind Tiger House Teams Improv the Band and Dr. Cousins present a night of longform improv at Little Mountain Gallery.

       

      DANCE

      Kiku Hawks

      Peter Chin and Hari Krishnan (Toronto), William Lau (Ottawa), and Alvin Erasga Tolentino (Vancouver, above), showcase their varied dance heritages in Undivided Colours at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

       

      LITERARY

      SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and Indian Summer Festival present a talk with author and activist Siddharth Dube at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

      Launch of Syahidah Ismail's debut novel Saltwater Spirits at Massy Books.

       

      MUSIC

      Vancouver's Yaletown String Quartet (above) and visiting artists perform the world premieres of new intercultural works at the Waterfront Theatre as part of the Global Soundscapes Festival.

      The Vancouver Men's Chorus performs songs from the '70s at Performance Works on Granville Island.

         

      THEATRE

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at the Granville Island Stage of Mom's the Word: Nest 1/2 Empty, by the Mom's the Word Collective.

      Deep Cove Stage Society presents a performance of Frederick Knott's thriller Wait Until Dark at the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

      United Players present a performance at Jericho Arts Centre of Jez Butterworth's character drama Jerusalem.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Matilda the Musical, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel Matilda, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

      Performance at the Theatre at Hendry Hall of The Dixie Swim Club, a comedy about five Southern women who set aside a long weekend every August to recharge their relationships.

      Final performance at the Annex of Chicken Girl, in which the titular character embarks on a surreal adventure to uncover the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her Uncle Chan.

      Eternal Theatre Collective presents a performance of bare, a contemporary pop opera about coming out and growing up, at Unitarian Church of Vancouver. 

      Oh What a Beautiful Morning! is a surreal reimagining of the musical Oklahoma! at the Russian Hall.

      The UBC Dept. of Theatre and Film celebrates its 60th anniversary with a performance of Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna at Dorothy Somerset Studio.

       

      GALLERIES

      DEANNA BOWEN, 'THEATRE UNDER THE STARS’ CAST PHOTO FROM FINIAN’S RAINBOW, CIRCA 1953', 2019. COURTESY THE ARTIST, THEATRE UNDER THE STARS AND CECILIA AND ROGER SMITH

      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.

      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.

      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.

      The Polygon Gallery exhibits selected finalists of the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize

      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.

      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.

       

      MUSEUMS

      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).

      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.

      Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets at the MOA illustrates the role puppets have played in the transmission of cultural knowledge, stories, and values.

      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.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

      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.

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

       

      MOVIES

      Screenings at Vancity Theatre of The Art of Self Defense, Harpoon (above), and The Cannibal Club as part of Rupture 2019.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of a 4K restoration of Italian director Dario Argento's 1975 horror classic Deep Red.

      Screenings at the Cinematheque of director Claire Denis's dramas Chocolat and I Can't Sleep.

       

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