Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 50 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, August 30.

CONCERTS

The John Lee Quartet performs traditional and avant-garde jazz at Tyrant Studios.

Rival Sons, the Trews, and Jess Roper perform at Fort Langley National Historic Site as part of the Summerset Music & Arts Festival.

Hammer's House Party, featuring MC Hammer and Bobby Brown, is part of the PNE's Summer Night Concerts series.

Montreal-based indie duo Jitensha, composed of David Martinez and Erin Rose Hubbard, performs at Massy Books.

Local group the Julien Amar Band plays the Roxy Cabaret, with guests Far From Gone.

Canadian blues-rocker Lindsay Beaver plays Surrey's Shannon Hall, with guests the Steve Kozak Band.

Canadian soul-pop vocalist from the '80s, Alfie Zappacosta, plays PAL Studio Theatre.

English musician, producer, and DJ Quantic plays the Rickshaw Theatre.

ETCETERA

The 2019 PNE Fair features midway rides, pig races, drag shows, agriculture displays, cooking demonstrations, Superdogs, and the Summer Night Concerts series.

The two-day Kerrisdale Antiques Fair at Kerrisdale Arena features more than 250 tables of vintage, retro, and antique collectibles.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Canadians take on the Tri-City Dust Devils in Minor League Baseball action at Nat Bailey Stadium.

The 2019 Americas Softball Olympic Qualifier at Surrey's Softball City sees 12 teams competing for two berths at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

COMEDY

Canadian comedian David Merheje performs a night of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Classic TheatreSports at the Improv Centre sees two teams of performers pitted against each other in competitive improv matches.

ARTS ETCETERA

The two-day Digital Carnival at Richmond's Minoru Park features a variety of cutting-edge artworks, including video projections, interactive installations, and virtual-reality projects. 

A Nude Hope: A Sci-Fi Burlesque Adventure is a Star Wars burlesque parody at the Red Gate Revue Stage.

MUSIC

Gamelan Gita Asmara presents experimental works for Balinese gamelan at 240 Northern.

THEATRE

Performance at Bard on the Beach of Coriolanus, Shakespeare's examination of what it means to be loyal to a parent, to a leader, and to a country.

Performance at the Dusty Flower Shop of Duncan Macmillan's off-kilter love story Lungs.

Performance at Bard on the Beach of Shakespeare in Love, in which young Will Shakespeare's love blossoms amid schemes and backstage theatrics.

GALLERIES 

Gilded Age II at the Polygon presents both early and new works by Sara Cwynar, in which found photographs, everyday objects, illustrations, notes, and posed models form disparate associations.

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 postwar career. 

The Clock by Christian Marclay is a 24-hour video at the Polygon that montages film and television footage from the last 70 years.

Metalmorphosis at Visualspace Gallery is a sculptural exhibition from metal artists Kye-Yeon Son and Brian Hoyano, curated by Barbara Cohen.

Vicky Alexander: Extreme Beauty at the Vancouver Art Gallery features photography, sculpture, collage, and installation, including new massive murals created in 2019.

Dog Days at the Polygon is a photography exhibition featuring contemporary works, classic images, and vintage photographs of man's best friend.

Robert Rauschenberg 1965-1980 at the Vancouver Art Gallery features rarely seen prints, drawings, collages, sculptural works, and large-scale works from one of the most experimental periods in the artist's career.

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.

Views of the Collection: The Street at the Vancouver Art Gallery focuses on the street as a 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

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 printmakers, 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).

Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC 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.

ATTRACTIONS

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.

Kits Pool, Vancouver's only saltwater swimming pool, is 137 metres long and features a water park, two slides, cafes, and lockers. 

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

The B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and Museum features permanent galleries devoted to Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, a rock-climbing wall, a virtual sports simulator, and history galleries.

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

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.

The Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition features more than 250 privately-owned bikes from around the world.

Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8-kilometre seawall and totem park featuring eight poles by First Nations artists.

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Tigers Are Not Afraid, director Issa López's fantasy-fueled fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the Mexican drug war.

Screenings at the Cinematheque of The Infiltrators, Cantadoras, and Perro Bomba as part of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, Francis Ford Coppola's classic Vietnam War movie, 29 minutes longer than the original release, restored and polished for 4K digital projection.

Screenings at SFU Woodward's Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema of The Good Girls and Rojo as part of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival.

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