53 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, January 21

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      Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 53 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, January 21.

       

      CONCERTS

      Canadian R&B duo dvsn plays the Vogue Theatre, performing on its Morning After World Tour 2018.

      L.A.-based hip-hop artist K. Flay plays the Commodore, with guest Sir Sly.

       

      CHRISTMAS

      See thousands of lights adorning the Capilano Suspension Bridge, canyon, Treetops Adventure, and Cliffwalk at Canyon Lights.

      Lights at Lafarge features outdoor light displays, live entertainment, roving performers, hot chocolate and cookies, photos with Santa, family-friendly crafts, a holiday market, and choirs at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park.

       

      ETCETERA

      Browse over 185 tables of vintage jewellery, retro-glam accessories, decorative china and glass, boho-chic furnishings, antiques and memorabilia, books, records, collectibles, sports items, dolls and toys, silverware, and paintings and prints at the Croatian Cultural Centre's 21st Century Flea Market.

       

      FOOD & DRINK 

      The Dine Out Vancouver Festival features 17 days of guided dining adventures, cocktail master classes, B.C. VQA wine brunches, neighbourhood food tours, global guest-chef collaboration dinners, and special menus at participating restaurants.

      Ocean Wise executive chef Ned Bell presents a three-course menu featuring dishes from his cookbook Lure at the Vancouver Aquarium's Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café.

      As part of Dine Out Vancouver, the Olympic Village Food Tour is a two-hour tour that visits five culinary spots and showcases the history and stories of the False Creek Flats.

      Interactive workshop at L'Atelier Vancouver Coworking on how to fully grasp the concept of chocolate and become a chocolate-tasting connoisseur. 

      Learn how to make roasted-garlic hummus, a vegetarian tagine, almond pastries, and a special spice blend at Trout Lake Community Centre's Moroccan cooking class.

       

      FORUMS 

      Join Clara Roberts-Oss for a yoga session featuring mantra, pranayama, and meditation, as well as a heating vinyasa practice, at Semperviva Yoga Kits Beach Studio.

      Don Chapman provides a status report on Bill C-37--which helps people regain the Canadian citizenship they never knew they had--at St. Faith's Anglican Church.

       

      KIDS' STUFF

      Check out exhibitions of art by Jane Appleby, Mardell Rompton, Sarah McLaren, and Lesley Turner and take part in drop-in art activities at Family Day at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

       

      COMEDY

      Comedy by Jonathan Gagnon (above) and Carson Bokenfohr at Yagger's Downtown's Jonny Carson Sunday Funday.

       

      ARTS ETCETERA

      The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival showcases visionary, genre-bending, startling, and original work by international, Canadian, and local artists at various Vancouver venues,

      Join CAG learning and public programs assistant Michelle Martin for a free tour in French of the current exhibitions at Contemporary Art Gallery.

      Spend an evening alongside artists and art-lovers while taking in your choice of eight shows at Club Push, running at the Fox Cabaret and New Westminster's Anvil Centre.

       

      LITERARY

      Bi-monthly comic-book show, Vancouver Comicon, takes place at Heritage Hall.

       

      MUSIC

      Vancouver Opera presents L'Elisir d'amore, Donizetti’s opera of love, laughter, and magic potions, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

      The VSO New Music Festival at the Orpheum Annex features music that ranges from an updated treatment of a 17th century lullaby to Leslie Uyeda and Lorna Crozier’s song cycle Midnight Watch.

      Soprano Clarisse Tonigussi and pianist Matthew Li perform works by Ana Sokolovic, Jean Coulthard, Jean Ethridge, Carol Ann Weaver, Jana Skarecky, Martha Hill Duncan, Gena Branscombe, Mary Gardiner, and Rebekah Cummings at West Van's St. Francis-in-the-Woods Church.

       

      THEATRE

      Six women turn tradition on its head in Hot Brown Honey, a production that's equal parts theatre and social activism, mixing dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease, and song, at the York Theatre.

      Pi Theatre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present the English Canadian premiere of The Events--David Greig's play inspired by the 2011 attacks in Utøya, Norway--at Russian Hall.

      Midtwenties Theatre Society and Red Gate Arts Society present its performance of Above the Hospital, writer-director Beau Han Bridge's play about two Vancouver millennials who live above a hospital, at the Red Gate Revue Stage. Viewer discretion advised.

      The Sidekick Players Club presents Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's play about the lifelong correspondence of two childhood friends, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre.

      United Players presents Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim's musical about friendship, compromise, and the high price of success, at Jericho Arts Centre.

       

      GALLERIES

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

      Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 90 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture highlighting both the richness of the Royal Collection and the complex relationship that the British monarchy has had with artists for the last three and half centuries.

      True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery highlights the enduring legacy of Scandinavian design principles in Canada through works by Niels Bendtsen, Bocci, Karen Bulow, Kjeld and Erica Deichmann, Thor Hansen, Andrew Jones, Janis Kravis, molo, Carl Poul Petersen, Rudolph Renzius, and Marion Smith.

      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.

      Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents the latest findings of Vancouver-based artist Sawyer's ongoing research project that deftly reconstructs the life and work of the genre-defying, fictional artist Brettschneider.

       

      MUSEUMS

      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.

      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.

      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.

      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

      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, 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.

      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.

      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.

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

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

      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

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of All the President's Men, Alan J Pakula's account of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s investigation into the Watergate break-in, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Breath, Iranian author and director Narges Abyar’s drama about a young girl who retreats into daydreams and fantasies in the face of the conflict around her.

      Daylong movie marathon at the Rio Theatre features Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended edition).

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of Mary and the Witch's FlowerHiromasa Yonebayashi's animated film about a young girl who discovers a magical flower in the woods and is propelled into a school for witches.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of the 2009 American stop-motion comedy Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on Roald Dahl's children's novel of the same name.

      Screening at the Cinematheque of Iranian-born Montreal director Sadaf Foroughi’s drama Ava as part of Canada's Top 10 Film Festival.

      Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Final Year, Greg Barker's documentary about the eighth and final year of Barack Obama’s Presidency, in which the administration signed a nuclear deal with Iran, reached a climate accord in Paris, and negotiated with Russia over Syria.

       

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