Seven Things to Do in Metro Vancouver Jan. 10-Jan. 16: Bowie Ball, Guilty Feminist Podcast, and more
Credit to Author: Shawn Conner| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:00:31 +0000
Whether you’re looking for date ideas, free things to do or just something fun to do in downtown Vancouver, you can’t go wrong with our list of events happening around Metro Vancouver between Jan. 10-Jan. 16.
Headlining this week’s picks is a live taping of Guilty Feminist Podcast.
For more ideas, click HERE for our coverage of Vancouver’s arts scene, or HERE to search our entertainment listings database.
Here are seven things to do in Metro Vancouver this week:
When: Jan. 15, 8 p.m.
Where: Commodore Ballroom
Tickets: $40 at ticketmaster.ca
In her podcast, Deborah Francis-White invites guests on to discuss topics such as health, friendship, and sex workers’ rights, to name the themes of recent episodes. Created with comedian Sofie Hagen, The Guilty Feminist is one of the most listened to podcasts in the UK, with 60 million downloads since its 2015 inception, and this year was nominated for best comedy podcast at the British Podcast Awards. Recorded in front of a live audience, the podcast features standup from Frances-White and a panel of guests, including actor Gemma Arterton, comedian Hannah Gadsby, upskirting campaigner Gina Martin, and more. The 2020 tour marks the first time Francis-White is taking her podcast on the road.
When: Jan. 15, 8 p.m.
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Tickets: From $42.25 at ticketmaster.ca
The Montreal-based Canadian indie-rock quartet is on tour for its 2019’s A Blemish in the Great Light. Exclaim.ca describes the band’s sound as “groovy, heartland rock songs complete with guitar solos; alt-country numbers that featured slide guitars; atmospheric, slow spacey songs; noisy kraut songs and some wavy psych stuff.” Opening for Half Moon Run is Taylor Janzen, a 20-year-old Winnipeg singer-songwriter who released her second EP last year. She also played at the South by Southwest music and tech festival as part of the Rolling Stone Emerging Artist Showcase.
When: Jan. 10-March 7
Where: BAF Gallery
Info: burrardarts.org
Burrard Arts Foundation highlights work by Cindy Mochizuki and Howie Tusi, the latest participants in the nonprofit gallery’s Residency Program. Mochizuki’s The Sakaki Tree, a Jewel, and the Mirror uses performance and what a media release calls “material assemblage” to explore the spirits of Japanese legends and folklore. In Parallax Chambers (pictured), Tsui uses animation and “lightbox works” to conflate “the universe of martial arts fiction with the ungoverned community that formed the Kowloon Walled City.” Also opening is a new installation, Candice Okada’s Emergency Situation, which consists of hundreds of hand-made fabric sculptures that resemble airplane oxygen masks.
When: Jan. 11, 7 p.m.
Where: Rickshaw Theatre
Tickets: $15 at eventbrite.ca
How long has it been since you’ve heard a live band tear through Diamond Dogs or Suffragette City? Too long, we expect. Now in its fifth year, Bowie Ball features 18 acts paying tribute to the late David Bowie, with proceeds going to the Canadian Cancer Society. Returning performers include Rebel Valentine, Cass King, La Chinga, Blackstar Band, and China Syndrome, as well as newbies Danny Echo, Pack AD, and Rawk Lobster, among others. There is also a costume contest, face-painting, an art show, and a sale and raffle.
When: Jan. 10-Feb. 6 (opening reception Jan. 10, 7 p.m.)
Where: Place des arts, 1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam
Info: placedesarts.ca
The new exhibition from Surrey artist Alex Sandvoss aims to highlight the fashion industry’s contributions to the destruction of the planet via oil paintings that take a satirical look at our obsession with consumerism and appearances (Barbie the Influencer is pictured). “It’s so easy to be manipulated and even just awareness of that comes the ability to change,” Sandvoss said. “I’m not angry or mad at anybody, I just want to raise awareness on the impact fast fashion has, and I know lots of people just don’t really know what’s happening or are a little bit ignorant of the ethical price we are paying for fashion.” Not formally trained, Sandvoss took up painting while studying for a music degree at McGill. Her previous show, The Faces We Pass By Every Day, was a portrait exhibition of people on the Downtown Eastside.
When: Jan. 10 & 11, 7 p.m.
Where: St. James Hall
Tickets: $32 at roguefolk.bc.ca
Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian carpenter-turned-songwriter who released his first album Torn Screen Door in 1999. Since then, he has released several more, racked up a number of awards, and seen his songs covered by The Del McCoury Band, The Rankin Family, James Keelaghan and Tracy Grammer. His most recent album, 2018’s The Broken Heart of Everything, received a Juno nomination for Traditional Roots Album of the Year.
When: Jan. 10, 8 p.m.
Where: Commodore Ballroom
Tickets: From $35 at ticketmaster.ca
In a review of The Srumbellas’ fall appearance at CityFolk last year, Ottawa Citizen’s Lynn Saxberg wrote that the six-piece Toronto band “wove elements of folk, rock, pop and, at one point, even a snippet of hip-hop into their music, tying it all together with singalong choruses, group harmonies and a relaxed, down-to-earth stage presence that showed they aren’t that far removed from the scruffy bunch we saw five years ago.” The nearly-decade-old band is on tour to support its fourth album Rattlesnake.
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