60 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, February 16

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      Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 60 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, February 16.

       

      CONCERTS

      English synth-pop singer-songwriter Dua Lipa plays the Vogue Theatre, performing on her Self-Titled Tour.

      Vancouver indie-rock trio the Segues plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café , with guests the Escapes, Gabe and the Oh Yeahs, and the Stephen Ford Group.

      Local electronica musician and multi-instrumentalist Noble Oak plays the Fox Cabaret, performing tunes from new album Collapsing Together.

      Pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan fuses jazz improvisation with the folkloric music of his native Armenia at the Vancouver Academy of Music.

      Vancouver metal band Black Wizard plays the Rickshaw, with guests Mean Jeans, Waingro, and Killer Deal.

      Saskatoon-based rock band the Sheepdogs plays the second of two nights at the Commodore, touring in support of its new album Changing Colours.

      American indie singer-songwriters Jay Som and Japanese Breakfast coheadline the Biltmore Cabaret, with guests Hand Habits.

      Local acoustic-guitar virtuoso Don Alder performs songs from his two latest albums at North Van's Lynn Valley United Church.

      British alt-rock band Enter Shikari plays the Imperial, with guests Milk Teeth.

       

      FORUMS

      Brad Marsden leads an experiential workshop at Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre to help educate service providers on the collective trauma that has impacted Native people throughout North America’s history. 

         

      COMEDY

      Vancouver comedian John Beuhler performs the second of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

      American comedian Jessimae Peluso performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

      Monthly comedy event at Café Deux Soleils, The Dirty Betty Show, features Claire Pollock, Stephanie S Webster, Ashlee Eff, Meaghan Joy Hommy, Julia Helen Church, Conni Smudge, and Sophie Buddle.

      Live podcast taping at Goldie's Pizza in which local comedians and performers talk about nightmares and everything having to do with waking up screaming in a cold sweat.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      The 17th annual Talking Stick Festival runs until February 24 at various Vancouver venues and focuses on the diversity of visual arts, dance, theatre, music, powwow, and film in both traditional and contemporary formats.

      The 18th annual Chutzpah Festival features international, Canadian, and local artists performing dance, theatre, comedy, and music, with performances by Ezralow Dance, Roy Assaf Dance, MM Contemporary Dance, Idan Raichel, Troker, Perla Batalla, Mary Walsh, Jonathan Goldstein, Deb Filler, and Michael Rubenfeld.

      Le Homes - Lanterns in the Garden features musical performances, food, and Chinese myth-themed lanterns at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden.

       

      DANCE

      Canada’s Ballet Jörgen presents Anastasia, the story of a Russian Grand Duchess who is born to privilege but cast out into a post-revolutionary world, at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Theatre.

      LunarFest and Ballet Productions Canada Society present a performance of The Butterfly Lovers by Vancouver’s Coastal City Ballet at the Vancouver Playhouse.

       

      MUSIC

      Music in the Morning presents 21-year-old pianist Jan Lisiecki at West Vancouver United Church.

      Take in an evening of Elizabethan love songs with Elspeth McVeigh and Matt Silverman at Visualspace Gallery.

       

      THEATRE

      Performance at the York Theatre of Jabberwocky, a new puppet extravanganza for adults about the journey of a young male hare.

      Studio 58 continues its 52nd season with Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Sarah Rodgers.

      Dark Glass Theatre presents a performance at Pacific Theatre of Ruined, the story of a bar that strives to remain neutral ground during the Congolese civil war.

      The North Vancouver Community Players present Sylvia, director Kathleen Denkewalter's version of A.R. Gurney's comedy about a man who brings a stray dog home, at the Theatre at Hendry Hall.

      Vagabond Players presents Drinking Habits, a play that sees two nuns secretly make wine to keep their convent open, at Bernie Legge Theatre.

      Align Entertainment presents Legally Blonde, the Broadway musical about a woman who thwarts stereotypes and sorority-sister scandals to become a Harvard law graduate, at Michael J. Fox Theatre.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of Jitters, a comedy about four actors, a director, and a playwright with one grand dream of Broadway-bound success for their new Canadian play.

      No Foreigners at the Vancity Culture Lab investigates malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash where fashion, food, and commodity tether communities to a vital sense of home.

      Zee Zee Theatre presents the 10th anniversary remounting at Scotiabank Dance Centre of My Funny Valentine, the one-man show inspired by the 2008 murder of Lawrence King.

      The White Rock Players' Club presents a performance at Coast Capital Playhouse of Don't Dress for Dinner, director Julianne Christie's version of Marc Camoletti's sex-farce sequel to Boeing Boeing.

      The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a performance at Granville Island Stage of Fun Home, a musical about a woman who struggles to understand her father while also dealing with her own coming out.

      West Moon Theatre presents a performance of Next to Normal, the story of a mother and her worsening bipolar disorder and how it affects her family, at Studio 16.

      Monster Theatre presents Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, a whodunnit told with puppets, a Performance Works.

      In Broken Tailbone, writer-performer Carmen Aguirre leads a Latin-American dance lesson at the Cultch that flows into her stories of intimacy, politics, culture, and the forgotten origins of the salsa.

      ABB Collective presents Fool for Love, Sam Shepard's play about two transient lovers who unearth secrets of their disturbing past, at the Shop Theatre.

      Gateway Theatre presents a performance of Salt-Water Moon, director Ravi Jain's version of David French's story of love, loss, and reconciliation.

      Seven Tyrants Theatre presents the Vancouver premiere of A Steady Rain, Keith Huff's play about a lifelong bond tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago, at Penthouse Theatre Studio.

      Arts Club on Tour presents a performance at West Van's Kay Meek Centre of Onegin, Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille's musical about a dissipated rogue whose romantic charms stir the passions of the residents of a country estate.

      Performance at the Waterfront Theatre of the comedy Pourquoi tu pleures…?, perfomed in French with English surtitles, and featuring the return to Vancouver of Christian Bégin and the company Les Éternels Pigistes.

       

      GALLERIES

      More than 55 paintings and sculptures are featured in Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, the first-ever retrospective of Murakami's work in Canada, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

      Two Scores is a solo exhibition of work by Canadian artist Brent Wadden at Contemporary Art Gallery.

      Polygon Gallery's inaugural exhibition, N. Vancouver, explores how a specific locale can be reflected through existing and newly commissioned artworks by artists from Vancouver and beyond.

      空/Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses works by Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan to explore how each artist experimented with modernist movements and mysticism through their respective depictions of nature.

       

      MUSEUMS

      The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC takes visitors on a journey through the past 200 years of Salish wool weaving.

      Amazonia: The Rights of Nature at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works, and ceramics both of everyday and of ceremonial use, representing indigenous, Maroon, and white settler communities.

      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.

      City on Edge: A Century of Vancouver Activism at the Museum of Vancouver explores the history of Vancouver's street protests through over 650 images of street demonstrations, protests, and riots from the early 1900s to present day.

      The Lost Fleet at the Vancouver Maritime Museum investigates the unjust 1941 seizure of 1,200 Japanese-Canadian fishing vessels following the bombing of Pearl Harbour through a collection of historic photographs, models of Japanese-Canadian-built fishing boats, fishermen’s tools, and replica documents.

       

      ATTRACTIONS

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

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

      Celebrate winter with free skating in the heart of downtown Vancouver at Robson Square Ice Rink.

      North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain features a Skyride to the peak with views of the city and the Pacific Ocean, as well as ziplines, a wildlife refuge, helicopter tours, paragliding, dining, and the Grouse Grind.

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

      The new Parq Vancouver features two luxury hotels, a 24-hour casino with 600 slot machines and 75 table games, eight restaurants and lounges, and the sixth-floor outdoor Parq.

      Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, gardens, beaches, and West Coast rain forest, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8 kilometre seawall.

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

       

      MOVIES

      The KDocs Documentary Film Festival at Vancity Theatre features screenings of Solitary, Death By Design, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, and Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS (above).

      Free afternoon screening at the Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew branch of the animated kids' movie Planes: Fire and Rescue.

      The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival features local and international outdoor adventure films and world class athletes/speakers until February 17 at various Vancouver venues.

       

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