54 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, January 24

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      Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 54 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, January 24.

       

      CONCERTS 

      The Elevate Music Project Finale at the Vogue Theatre features performances by Noble Son, Strange Breed, and Michaela Slinger (above).

      A Tribute to Bird and Diz is a celebration of the fathers of bebop featuring the CapU jazz ensembles and faculty guests at BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

      Montana roots quintet the Lil Smokies plays the Biltmore Cabaret.

      Hard-rock band Nightseeker, featuring fictional character Dean from the Fubar movies, plays the WISE Hall, with guests Dead Quiet and Killer Deal. 

      Fleetwood Mac tribute band Dreams plays the first of two nights at White Rock's Blue Frog Studios.

      Celtic band Blackthorn celebrates Robbie Burns Day at Porters Bistro in Langley.

      American R&B singer Xavier Omar plays the Fortune Sound Club, with guest Parisalexa.

        

      FOOD & DRINK

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      Wine Down Fridays at Honey Salt features cheese and wine flights from around the globe with live music.

      Gung Haggis Fat Choy at Floata Seafood Restaurant features an intercultural fusion with food, music, readings, and scotch.
         

      FORUMS

      Violence, Nonviolence, and Necessary Suffering is a forum at SFU Harbour Centre that offers five propositions regarding violence and nonviolence in order to show that they are not opposites but concentric.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Opening day at TELUS World of Science of its newest exhibition Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks.

                       

      COMEDY

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      Lil Comedy is a monthly alternative standup-comedy show hosted and produced by An-Te Chu, Alistair Ogden, and Andrea Jin (above) at 8East.

      Second night of the second annual Smash Comedy Festival, showcasing local women/trans/femme/plus performers at Little Mountain Gallery.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      It's Just Drag at the Commodore Ballroom is a drag show starring Brooke Lynn Hytes and Monet X Change (above) from Rupaul's Drag Race.

      The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival features 27 works from 24 companies--including six world premieres by local artists--at various Vancouver venues until February 9.

      Actors showcase their chops in East Van Monologue Match, a battle for cash hosted by Sarah Bynoe at Havana Theatre.

        

      LITERARY

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

       

      MUSIC

      Vancouver Chamber Music Society presents Duo Solisti, cellist Brannon Cho and violinist Yoojin Jang, performing works by Bach, Maurice Ravel, Reinhold Glière, and Zoltán Kodály at West Vancouver United Church.

       

      THEATRE

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      Performance at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of Noises Off, a farce about the egos and insecurities of a second-tier acting troupe putting on a show.

      Performance at the Vancouver Playhouse of Unikkaaqtuat, a multidisciplinary work celebrating Inuit culture, traditions, and vision for the future.

      Performance at Chan Centre's Telus Studio Theatre of The Changeling, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s sensual and dark 17th-century English tragedy.

      Performance at the Firehall Arts Centre of House and Home, a comedic take on Vancouver’s current housing crisis.

      Performance at Pacific Theatre of Gramma, a poetic new tale of human connection in the loneliest of circumstances.

      Performance at Metro Theatre of Always a Bridesmaid, which explores the relationships between four southern belles who promised to be the bridesmaids for each other.

       

      GALLERIES

      Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries at the Vancouver Art Gallery is drawn primarily from the gallery’s permanent collection.

      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.

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

      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

      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.

      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. 

       

      ATTRACTIONS

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      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 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.

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

      Granville Island in False Creek features a public market, artisan gift shops, studios, galleries, microbrewery tours, and is home to the Arts Club Theatre and Vancouver TheatreSports.

      Hastings Racecourse features indoor and outdoor viewing of live thoroughbreed racing, simulcast betting, restaurants and lounges, and a gaming floor with over 600 slot machines. 

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

      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.

      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.

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

      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.

      West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park features 10 kilometres of hiking trails, picnic areas, guided walks, and the historical 1912 Point Atkinson Lighthouse with viewpoint.

      Richmond's Steveston Village is an historic fishing village that's home to the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site, the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site, Fisherman’s Wharf, the Steveston Museum, the Steveston Tram, and London Heritage Farm.

       

      MOVIES

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, director Werner Herzog's sentimental documentary about his late friend, the English novelist and journalist.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's rural fable of the afterlife, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

      Screening at the Rio Theatre of director Richard Stanley's H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space, starring Nicolas Cage.

       

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