59 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, October 4

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      Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 59 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, October 4.

       

      CONCERTS

      Edmonton indie electronic/alt-pop band the Royal Foundry plays LanaLou's Restaurant.

      Singer-songwriter Tom Russell incorporates elements of folk, traditional country & western, and cowboy music at St. James Hall.

      Tim Sars and Nathan Barrett play originals and NOLA-style jazz classics with their quintet Tiny Islands at Tyrant Studios.

      Bug Rock Invasion features performances by the Mants, Steady Teddy and the K-Train Babies, and the Fake at Pat's Pub and Brewhouse.

      Argentine singer and composer Leo Dan plays the Vogue Theatre.

      Ultimate Elvis at Surrey's Jolly Mac's Pub features performances by Brian Elvis Simpson, D.W. Elvis, and Johnny Elvis.

       

      BENEFITS

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      The 17th annual A Night to Dream Gala at the Fairmont Pacific Rim raises funds for Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon.

       

      ETCETERA

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      SHUX at the Vancouver Convention Centre features three days of board games and board-game culture.

      The two-day Vancouver Baby Expo brings together retailers, craft artisans, and baby experts at the Croatian Cultural Centre.

       

      FOOD AND DRINK

      Opening day of the third annual Vancouver's North Shore Craft Beer Week, which features celebrations at various North Vancouver breweries.

       

      FORUMS

      Sámi vocalist Mari Boine discusses her work as an artist and her indigenous Sámi heritage at Native Education College.

      Inspirational teacher Crystal Borrelli leads a class on breathing techniques to calm your mind, nervous system and entire body at YYOGA Northshore Elements.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

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      Learn how telescopes work, enjoy live demonstrations, and see a show in the Planetarium Star Theatre at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre's Family Night.

                         

      COMEDY

      The Women of Comedy at the York Theatre features performances by Martha Chaves, Australia’s Steph Tisdell, Toronto-based Nour Hadidi, and Vancouver's Erica Sigurdson (above).

      Emma Cooper is guest host for the comedic reading series Teen Angst Night at the Fox Cabaret.

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

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      Quintessential East Van host Veda Hille (above) and her guests Jaye Simpson and Carleigh Baker read and sing and reminisce at the Historic Cultch Theatre's Vhine und Szong: Fantastic Femmes.

      Multidisciplinary non-binary, local drag performance group the Darlings performs at the Historic Cultch Theatre.


      DANCE

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      Plastic orchid factory and Boca del Lupo present I Care What You Think at Performance Works.

      Brazil’s Focus Cia de Dança makes its West Coast debut at the Scotiabank Dance Centre with Still Reich, a program of contemporary dance performed to the music of Steve Reich. 

       

      LITERARY

      Launch at Massy Books of Cathy Stonehouse's debut novel The Causes, with host Lydia Kwa and guest reader Natasha Gauthier.

       

      MUSIC

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      The Vancouver Chamber Players Trio performs works by Brahms and Sviridov as part of the Vancouver Art Gallery's Out for Lunch series.

      Art Songs and Arias at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts features works by Handel and Bernstein.

      The UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble and UBC Concert Winds perform works by Malcolm Arnold, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edvard Grieg, Percy Grainger, and Richard Wagner at the Chan Centre.

       

      THEATRE

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      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 Havana Theatre of What We're Up Against, a dark comedy about a woman who tries to break the glass ceiling.

      Performance at New Westminster's Anvil Centre Theatre of Herringbone, a darkly comic off-Broadway hit set in 1929 in the heart of the Great Depression.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at the Granville Island Stage of The Birds & the Bees, a Canadian comedy about love, lust, beekeeping, and the artificial insemination of turkeys.

      Performance at Studio 16 of Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, a romantic thriller set in occupied Vichy France.

      Performance at Presentation House Theatre of Fragile, in which live animation and detailed paper models provide a look at the intricate mechanisms of the everyday.

      Vagabond Players present a performance at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre of Terror By Gaslight.

      Naked Goddess Productions presents a performance at Jericho Arts Centre of Dancing Lessons, about a professor with autism who approaches his neighbour for a dancing lesson.

      Performance at the Metro Theatre of Ken Ludwig's A Comedy of Tenors, about the last frantic hours before a Three Tenors-style concert in Paris.

      Performance at West Van's Kay Meek Arts Centre of Bed & Breakfast, a comedy about being out and finding home.

       

      GALLERIES

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      Transits and Returns at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores the dynamic between place and movement in the work of twenty-one Indigenous artists from around the Pacific.

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

      Without a Word at the Polygon presents a selection of portrait photographs from the private collection of Bill Wu, including works by Berenice Abbott, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Graciela Iturbide, and Mary Ellen Mark.

      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.

      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

      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.

      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.

      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.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

      Potter’s House of Horrors, one of the Lower Mainland’s largest Halloween attractions, features two ultra-scary haunted houses and one geared for kids 12 and under.

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

      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.

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

      At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

      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.

      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.

      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

      The Vancouver International Film Festival features screenings of over 320 films at the Vancity Theatre, Cinematheque, Rio Theatre, and other venues. Screenings today include Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää's BDSM black comedy Dogs Don't Wear Pants (above) at International Village 10.

      Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of a 4K remaster of Sam Raimi's 1981 horror classic The Evil Dead, with new score.

       

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