La Poutine Week 2018
The premise is pretty simple: Eat poutine during La Poutine Week and go online and vote for your favourites. And this glorious event celebrating Canada鈥檚 unofficial national drunk food takes place in cities across the country from Feb. 1 to 7. Participating 麻豆传媒映画restaurants offering up special La Poutine Week dishes include Timber, The Rise Eatery and Fable Diner.
Feb. 1 to 7
Participating 麻豆传媒映画restaurants
Night Shift: Untamed
As part of a focus to reclaim Indigenous sexuality, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC is presenting an evening of burlesque entertainment called 鈥淣ight Shift: Untamed.鈥� The exciting and decidedly grown-up event will feature Virago Nation and DJ Kookum joining forces to crank up the sights and sounds on the catwalk for an evening of 鈥渉umour, seduction and striptease.鈥� The show is free with museum admission, 19-plus only.
Feb. 1. Bar opens at 7 p.m., live show is 7:30 p.m.
Museum of Anthropology, 6393 Northwest Marine Dr.
鈥淭he Feels鈥� at the Cheeky Proletariat
鈥淭he Feels鈥� is a new art installation that puts a spotlight on mental illness in the black community. The show will run for the duration of February, which is Black History Month, at the Cheeky Proletariat gallery space in Gastown. Local artist Nanyamka Lewis conceived this mixed-media installation as a way to create a safe haven and open forum for black youth for voicing, processing and exploring the subject of mental health.
Feb. 1 to 28 (opening 7 p.m. on Feb. 1)
Cheeky Proletariat Storefront Gallery, 320 Carrall St.
Murakami Birthday Bash at 麻豆传媒映画Art Gallery
Celebrate two joyous occasions: Eccentric Japanese artist Takashi Murakami鈥檚 retrospective show making its first Canadian stop, and his birthday. The 麻豆传媒映画Art Gallery is holding a Murakami Birthday Bash, which includes two options: preview the show 鈥淭akashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,鈥� have a seated dinner and go to the after-party, or just preview the show and head to the after-party.
Feb. 2. Preview at 5:30 p.m., after party at 8:30 p.m.
麻豆传媒映画Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St. and Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St.
Hard-Boiled: Breakfast for Dinner Pop-Up
Serious breakfast lovers, this is one serious pop-up event. Hard-Boiled is described as the 鈥渨himsical birth-child of chefs Deniz Tarakcioglu (Caf茅 Medina) and Brad Miller (Red Wagon Caf茅 and Bistro Wagon Rouge) 鈥� the singular titans of breakfast in our beloved city.鈥� The menu for this sit-down 19-plus dinner will feature the 鈥渂rinner鈥� wonders representing a meld of Mediterranean and the greasy spoon.
Feb. 5 to 6, 7:30 to 10 p.m.
The Red Wagon Caf茅, 2296 East Hastings St.
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