Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 49 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, June 15.

CONCERTS

Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach plays the Commodore Ballroom, with guests the Standstills.

San Francisco-based saxophonist Michael Zilber performs with his quartet at Frankie's Jazz.

Australian folk duo the Pierce Brothers plays the Imperial.

Singer-songwriter Doug Andrew and his garage-roots band the Circus in Flames perform three sets at the Princeton Pub & Grill. 

Nelson singer-songwriter Nikita Afonso plays the Railway Stage and Beer Café, with guests Taylor-Rae & The Backseat Drivers, Stetson Road, and Antoinette.

Canadian jazz-pop artist Laila Biali performs tunes from his latest album Got to Love at Langley's Bez Arts Hub.

Local rock bands Zafirios, Lou Danger and The Thrills, and The Ship Of plays Surrey's Flamingo Lounge.

Singer-songwriters from Vancouver and Whitehorse, Sophie Villeneuve and Alisa Blanc, perform at Studio 16 as part of the Festival d’été francophone de Vancouver.

BENEFITS

The Blueshore Financial Longest Day Road Race features an evening run around UBC campus, followed by a BBQ, live band, and beer garden, with proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.

Bone Appetit at Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront includes a cocktail, vegan and vegetarian hors d’ouevres, and a silent auction, with proceeds to the BC SPCA Vancouver branch.

ETCETERA

The Richmond Night Market features dozens of food stalls, a dinosaur park, paddle boats, a baby playground, music, martial arts, and dancing.

The B.C. Highland Games and Scottish Festival at Coquitlam's Percy Perry Stadium features two days of piping, drumming, singing, dancing, whisky tasting, British food, cultural displays, children’s activities, massed pipe bands and Scottish music.

FORUMS

Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder--who exposed massive tax fraud of the Putin regime and Russian government officials--speaks on the challenges of fighting Russian corruption at the Four Seasons Hotel. Proceeds support the work of the Global Reporting Centre, an independent investigative journalism organization based at UBC.

The Women on Top Keynote Luncheon Series features Oscar-winning actor Geena Davis, who discusses how being cast in Thelma & Louise changed her life--and spurred her into becoming a lifelong advocate for women’s equality in media.

KIDS' STUFF

Playland at the PNE features over 30 rides, including the Revelation, the Hellevator, the Beast, Hells Gate, the Flume, and the 60-year-old wooden rollercoaster.

COMEDY

Canadian comedian Dan Quinn performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Uncle Janes: Crystal Queer Comedy at Little Mountain Gallery aims to provide a safe, supportive environment to perform improv exclusively with those who identify as LGBTQ+. 

Victoria-born comedian James Ball performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

Burlesque revue tour featuring burlesque icon Dita Von Teese visits the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Douglas Coupland’s new radical art installation at the Vancouver Aquarium, Vortex, takes an imaginative journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, immersing viewers in the ocean-plastic pollution crisis.

DANCE

12 Minutes Max features eclectic dance works by Vancouver choreographers Katie Cassady (above), Alejandra Miranda & Juan Villegas, Sophie Maguire, Jhoely Triana, and Sujit Vaidya at Scotiabank Dance Centre

THEATRE

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Once--Enda Walsh's musical about a struggling Dublin street musician who chances upon a girl who challenges him to go for his dream--at Granville Island Stage.

Bard on the Beach presents a performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth, directed by Crow’s Theatre artistic director Chris Abraham, in Vanier Park.

Theatre Conspiracy presents the world premiere of Victim Impact, a play based on the largest Ponzi scheme in B.C. history, at the Cultch.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Mamma Mia!, a feel-good musical featuring the music of ABBA, at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Carousel Theatre for Young People presents the world premiere at the Bee Stage of We Three, Meghan Gardiner's play about three characters who explore colour, shapes, music, friendships, and being true to one’s self.

Performance at White Rock's Coast Capital Playhouse of Ninotchka, Melchior Lengyel's critique of Cold War-era politics, set in Paris and featuring soviet spies, royal treasures, and joie de vivre.

Sidekick Players present Andrew Wreggit and Rebecca Shaw's comedy The Wild Guys, about four men who set off on "wildman" weekend in the forest, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

GALLERIES

The Blue Hour at the Contemporary Art Gallery features photographs by Joi T. Arcand (above), Kapwani Kiwanga, Colin Miner, Grace Ndiritu, and Kara Uzelman.

Bombhead at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a thematic exhibition exploring the emergence and impact of the nuclear age as represented by artists and their art.

Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman is a new exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery featuring the paintings of Carr with 48 photographs by U.S.-born photographer Gunterman.

Shigeru Ban, a new exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite location, features the full-scale version of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Kobe Paper Log House.

MUSEUMS

Arts of Resistance: Politics and The Past In Latin America at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC exhibition illustrates how Latin American communities use traditional or historic art forms to express contemporary political realities.

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 print makers, collected as early as the 1890s.

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.

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

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

The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library.

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.

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

MOVIES

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Bruce Spiegel's 2016 jazz documentary Bill Evans: Time Remembered, introduced by John Orysik of Coastal Jazz.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of the thriller The Girl in the Fog, about an enigmatic detective investigating the sudden disappearance of 15-year-old girl.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Ingmar Bergman's Oscar-winning drama of faith and vengeance, The Virgin Spring.

Free screening at Vancouver Public Library's Mount Pleasant branch of writer-director Greta Gerwig's 2017 comedy-drama Lady Bird.

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Federico Fellini's surreal 8 1/2 as part of Italian Heritage Month.

Screening at the Cinematheque of Ingmar Bergman's pared-down chamber piece set in a hospital maternity ward, Brink of Life.

Free afternoon screening at Vancouver Public Library's Renfrew branch of the animated superhero family film The Incredibles.

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