Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 45 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, June 28.

CONCERTS

The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival runs until July 1 at various Vancouver venues. Performers tonight include Steve Smith's Groove Blue Organ Trio at Frankie's Jazz, Farmers By Nature at the Ironworks, Davina and the Vagabonds at Performance Works, the Luca Benedetti Trio at the West Vancouver Memorial Library, and the Roots (above) at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

A Day in Vancouver at the PNE Gardens features performances by ANKLEGOD, DJ D.DEE, Khotin, Prado, Sabota, Teen Daze, and Yu Su.

British synth-pop legend Howard Jones plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests All Hail the Silence.

Canadian R&B/hip-hop singer-songwriter Nylez K plays the Biltmore Cabaret, with guests Girard, Fara, and Sola.

West Coast-based blues/jazz/swing band Blue Moon Marquee plays an album-release show at Guilt and Company.

Canadian rock duo Black Pistol Fire, composed of guitarist-vocalist Kevin McKeown and drummer Eric Owen, plays the Commodore Ballroom.

Local rock quartet Electric Halo plays the Bourbon, with guests Tribal X, SX70, and Caustic SodaPop.

FORUMS

Free yoga teacher-training info session with Jasmina Egeler at YYOGA Downtown Flow offers the inside scoop on scheduling, pricing, and faculty. 

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canadians take on the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball action at Nat Bailey Stadium.

COMEDY

Canadian comedian Sophie Buddle performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the Metro in New Westminster features theatrics, dance, comedy, acrobatics, and music. 

Closing party of the Queer Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Learn how to screenprint onto t-shirts and tote bags at a Wine & Screenprinting Night at Mobil Art School.

DANCE

CAG Dance Week features new dance compositions by Katie Cassady, Stephanie Cyr, Livona Ellis, and Christoph Von Riedemann at the Contemporary Art Gallery.

The two-day Modus Operandi Show at Scotiabank Dance Centre features new creations by Alanna Kraaijeveld, Company 605 (Josh Martin & Lisa Gelley), and Out Innerspace (David Raymond & Tiffany Tregarthen).

Tender Engine: Mardon + Mitsuhashi is a dance performance and media art installation at VIVO Media Arts Centre.

THEATRE

A Room Somewhere presents Athol Fugard's family drama, Hello & Goodbye, at Studio 1398.

Performance at Bard on the Beach of All's Well that Ends Well, a new staging of Shakespeare's work set in India during the waning days of British occupation.

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.

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.

The songs of Journey, Bon Jovi, and Whitesnake underscore Rock of Ages, a tale of big dreams in Hollywood at the Metro Theatre.

Performance at Havana Theatre of Ocean.net, an original work from Promethean Theatre Company. 

Performance at Bard on the Beach of Shakespeare in Love, in which young Will Shakespeare gets writer’s block. 

Theatre and screen veteran Len Cariou returns to the stage for a union of American musical comedy and Shakespeare in Broadway & the Bard at the Orpheum Annex.

GALLERIES

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.

Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and lithographs from the artist’s pre- and post-war career. 

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).

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.

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.

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

Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven cable bridges suspended in trees, the Living Forest exhibit, totem pole collection, Cliffwalk, and Treetop Adventure. 

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

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

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.

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 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

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Buddy, director Heddy Honigmann's 2019 documentary about the deep bonds forged between service dogs and their human charges.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Rams, Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson’s 2015 comedy-drama about two sheep-farming brothers whose long-standing grudge has kept them from speaking to each other for 40 years.

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Edgar Wright's 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead.

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