Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 67 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, December 6.

CONCERTS

Guitarist Charlie Hunter and vocalist Lucy Woodward re-imagine classic blues, soul, and jazz standards at St. James Hall.

American EDM-pop duo the Chainsmokers plays Rogers Arena, with guests 5 Seconds of Summer and Lennon Stella.

Irish-Japanese singer-songwriter and YouTuber Conan Gray plays the Vogue Theatre.

Vancouver vocalist Coco Love Alcorn performs at a release party for new album Rebirth at the Rio Theatre.

Cavalcade of Stars at the Rickshaw Theatre features performances by Pointed Sticks, the Modernettes, Eddie D and the Sex Bombs, and Strange Breed.

Night 3 of the Elevate Music Project features performances by the Broken Islands, Matt Storm, Michaela Slinger, Sound Cinema, Ben Cottrell, and Shiloh Lindsey.

New Zealand singer-songwriter Don McGlashan performs the second of three nights at Kay Meek Arts Centre.

BENEFITS

Ian Hanomansing, co-anchor of CBC's news show The National, is among the media personalities at CBC Vancouver's 2019 Open House & Food Bank Day, which helps support local food banks.

ETCETERA

Opening day of Christmas at Canada Place, a free event which features the Woodward’s Windows, Canada’s North light display, the iconic Sails of Light, and the festive Avenue of Trees, until January 1.

The Aurora Winter Festival runs through January 5 on the PNE Grounds, featuring various rides and attractions, including a tube park.

The Vancouver Christmas Market at Jack Poole Plaza is an authentic German market featuring more than 80 huts stuffed with sweets, treats, and treasures.

Celebrate Finland's 102 Years of Independence at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront with dinner and dancing to the Alan Matheson Quartet.

The three-day Coquitlam Christmas Craft Fair at the Poirier Forum features a variety of creations handmade by local artisans.

KIDS' STUFF

Scuba Claus makes daily dives with the fishies as part of the holiday program at the Vancouver Aquarium until December 24.

Performance at North Van's Presentation House of Where the Wild Things Are, an interactive, guided play experience for ages three to six.

Once Upon a Fairytale at New Westminster's Bernie Legge Theatre is a family friendly musical-comedy about unlikely heroes who team up to save a kingdom from an evil plot.

SPORTS

The Vancouver Giants take on the Spokane Chiefs in Western Hockey League action at the Langley Events Centre.

COMEDY

Vancouver TheatreSports presents seasonal mirth and merriment with Merry Kissmas: A Royal Romance at the Improv Centre.

American writer and comedian Dan St. Germain performs the second of three nights of standup.

The Blind Tiger Comedy POC Night features a free introductory improv-comedy workshop, followed by jam show, at Little Mountain Gallery.

The Assembly Clown Cabaret at the Red Gate Revue Stage is a wild clown-drag cabaret of twisted new bits.

ARTS ETCETERA

Cirque du Soleil presents a performance of Luzia under the Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) at Concord Pacific Place.

Dirty Betty Productions presents a variety show with an all-femme cast featuring comedy, burlesque, and drag queens at the Fox Cabaret.

DANCE

Richmond Academy of Dance and New Westminster Symphony Orchestra perform at Dance Into Christmas at New Westminster's Massey Theatre.

Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson rework their duet UNTITLEdISTANCE with a cast of six dancers at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

MUSIC

The Vancouver Chamber Choir is joined by Owen McCausland, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and artistic director Kari Turunen in Christmas Oratorio at the Orpheum Annex. 

Pandora’s Vox and Espiritu Vocal Ensembles perform the first of two nights of seasonal songs at Kay Meek Arts Centre.

Karla Mundy and the City Soul Choir perform the first of two nights at Canadian Memorial United Church.

The Postmodern Camerata performs carols and songs from the golden age of American songwriting at the Canadian Music Centre.

THEATRE

Theatre Replacement presents a performance at the York Theatre of the East Vancouver-set family show East Van Panto: Pinocchio.

Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of FADO: The Saddest Music in the World, the story of a young woman confronting her country’s fascist past and her own identity.

Performance at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of the romantic musical The Sound of Music.

Performance at North Van's Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of the off-Broadway musical Forever Plaid.

It’s a Wonderful Life meets Modern Family in the Canadian comedy It's a Wonderful Christmas-ish Holiday Miracle at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

Performance at the Waterfront Theatre of Bad Hats Theatre's adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale, Peter Pan.

Ron Reed embodies Scrooge and 43 other characters in the classic holiday story A Christmas Carol at Pacific Theatre.

Literary Larceny Collective presents a performance of The Tragic Comedy of Macbeth, a comedic take on Shakespeare's play, at Jericho Arts Centre.

Untold Wants presents a performance of Cock, William Bartlett’s uproarious battle of wit and persuasion, at the Historic Theatre.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance of Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley at the Granville Island Stage.

Petit Théâtre presents a classic French vaudeville play, Un Fil a la Patte, at Alliance Française.

Off-Broadway comedians James & Jamesy present their Christmas comedy classic O Christmas Tea at the Vancouver Playhouse.

GALLERIES

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

Cindy Sherman at the Vancouver Art Gallery explores the development of Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day, with selections from each of her major series, including new and rarely seen works.

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.

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.

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).

Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC showcases ceramic works by 11 B.C.-based artists expressing strong opinions on urgent social issues.

Ship's Company: The Royal Canadian Navy at Work & Play at the Vancouver Maritime Museum features photography by Kathryn Mussallem celebrating the diverse humanity of Canadian naval forces. 

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

Festival of Lights is a winter wonderland with over one-million lights decorating 15 acres of VanDusen Botanical Garden, until January 5.

Canyon Lights at the Capilano Suspension Bridge features festive light displays on the suspension bridge, Cliffwalk, and Treetops Adventure areas, until January 26.

North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, plus ziplines, skiing and snowboarding, a sliding zone, snowshoeing, and a skating pond.

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.

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.

West Vancouver's Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

North Vancouver's Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding, lessons, chairlifts, terrain parks, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

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.

MOVIES

Screening at the Cinematheque of Sean Baker's 2012 drama Starlet, about an intergenerational friendship between two searching women. 

Screenings at Vancity Theatre of Noah Baumbach's divorce drama Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of Robocop, featuring Kurtwood Smith as psychotic killer Clarence "Bitches leave" Boddiker.

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