Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 58 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, September 13.

CONCERTS

Zachary Stevenson celebrates the life and music of legendary rock 'n' roller Buddy Holly at White Rock's Blue Frog Studios. SOLD OUT.

The Todd Stewart Quartet celebrates the music of Bud Powell at Tyrant Studios.

West Coast rock 'n' roll band Gnarfunkel plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Sunny and the Dudes, Shepard Music, and William John.

Romantic-pop vocalist Engelbert Humperdinck plays the first of two nights at the River Rock Show Theatre.

FORUMS

Volunteer lawyers will provide free legal advice to low-income individuals in all areas of law at the Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza.

KIDS' STUFF

Legend of the Frozen Trees at Sutcliffe Park is a 45-minute, Robert Munsch-style performance, and the only kids' show at this year's Fringe Festival.

SPORTS

The B.C. Lions take on the Ottawa Redblacks in Canadian Football League action at BC Place Stadium.

TAKE ACTION

In a public talk at St. James Hall, local members of Extinction Rebellion share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading and offer solutions through the study of previous social movements.

COMEDY

Stereotypical students join forces to avoid detention in Back to School TheatreSports at the Improv Centre on Granville Island.

Physical comedian Aaron Malkin performs his show Dandelion: A Comedy About Fatherhood at the Waterfront Theatre as part of the Fringe Festival.

Vancouver Fringe debut Rape is Real & Everywhere at the Cultch features seasoned stand-up comedians, raw honesty, and cathartic laughs.

Comedian Bryan O'Gorman performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

Dirty Little Secrets Improv Show at New Westminster's Columbia Theatre features improv-comedy inspired by audience secrets.

The Radical at New Westminster's Heritage Grill features improv comedy with character-driven storytelling.

ARTS ETCETERA

New York City artist-photographer Joel Sternfeld talks about his work, and the role that seasons have had as a central imaginative preoccupation in many of his projects, at the Polygon.

The Rare Breed Art Show at Red Gate Arts Society features artists of different disciplines from Barcelona, Copenhagen, New York City, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Vancouver, and Montreal.

Experience 10 new works from B.C. artists projected onto the Vancouver Art Gallery's Georgia Street facade each night during the Façade Festival.

DANCE

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival features La Musica Del Flamenco hosted by Victor Kolstee (above) at St. James Hall.

LITERARY

The Friends of the Vancouver Public Library’s three-day Fall Used Book Sale features paperbacks for just 50 cents and hardcovers for $2.

MUSIC

The Brentano String Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet No.12, Opus 127 at Christ Church Cathedral.

La Trompette Chromatique performs 20th-century French works for the trumpet at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

THEATRE

The Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society presents its annual celebration of all kinds of theatre, the Vancouver Fringe Festival, featuring over 700 performances at various venues. Performances today include Candice Roberts’s one-woman show Larry (above) at Havana 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.

North Vancouver Community Players present a performance in the Theatre at Hendry Hall of Hot Property, in which a greedy developer, seasoned actors, and a sensational book collide.

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

United Players present a performance of Ben Power's A Tender Thing, which posits: What if Romeo and Juliet didn't die in the Capulet family vault?

FIrst Impressions Theatre presents a performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of the adult romantic-comedy Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of A Thousand Splendid Sons, a sweeping tale set in which two women’s lives intersect through fate in war-torn Afghanistan.

Performance at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts of New Societies, an interactive piece of theatre which involves playing a strategic board game.

GALLERIES

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ATTRACTIONS

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

Nitobe Memorial Garden is a traditional Japanese garden located at the University of British Columbia with waterfalls, stone lanterns, audio guides and tours, and a ceremonial teahouse.

Vancouver Lookout features a ride in an exterior glass elevator and a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains.

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of George T. Nierenberg's 1982 gospel-music documentary Say Amen, Somebody.

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Danny Steinmann's 1985 slasher flick Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, starring Tom Morga as Jason Vorhees.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Mikey and Nicky, Elaine May’s 1976 crime drama about boyhood chums who become small-time hoods, starring Peter Falk and John Cassavetes.

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