Out in Vancouver Jan 20-28 with Tom Coleman
Photo: Nasty Women Comedy
Grab your dates, get them corsages and gender bend your way through this awkward confusing hormone fuelled experience together. Sleep Girls Promo starts off the week on Sunday but there’s oh so much more to see!
Sunday, Jan 20
Second Annual Sleepy Girls Prom
Every year on the anniversary of the first Sleepy Girls Show they throw a Prom, so grab your dates, get them corsages and gender bend your way through this awkward confusing hormone fuelled experience together. Prom chaperones are Dust & DJ Girl Fieri and teaching the kids to grind is Cleopatra Compton. Performances by too many to list here but full listing is online.
8pm—12am. The London Pub, 700 Main St. Cover $5. Sleepy Girls Prom
The Search for Mr & Miss Gay Latina
Caliente Nights proudly hosts the search of Miss and Mr. Gay Latino BC on a 2 part event; Sunday Jan 20 and Sunday Feb 17. The Winner of Miss Gay Latina BC will be chosen by a 60% judge panel vote and a 40% popular public vote and the Winner of Mr. Gay Latino BC will be chosen 100% by public popular vote. The crown winners will obtain a $500 cash price and the title of Mr. and Miss Gay Latina BC 2019 plus the chance to sit on the throne part of the Vancouver Latin Community Float at the Vancouver Pride Parade 2019
10pm—3am. The Junction, 1138 Davie St. Cover $5. Mr & Miss Gay Latina
Monday, Jan 21
G Spot and Female Ejaculation
This really is a thing. For the demo I wonder if it is like Evil Dead: The Play, and they give you plastic for the front row in the splash zone. Come and join in for this lively talk on the female prostate; the G Spot. They’ll show you expert finger techniques, discuss positions and toys as well as cover the anatomy of this exquisite pleasure centre in women. If you're curious to see one and watch a woman ejaculation, their educational video clips will be shown and you'll even have handouts to take home.
7:30—9:30pm. The Art Of Loving, 369 West Broadway St. Registration and tickets, $20 at The Art Of Loving
Tuesday, Jan 22
Improvise with HIM
Improvise with HIM is a weekly supportive workshop environment to explore spontaneity, creativity, communication and confidence. You don’t have to be an actor to be spontaneous! Come out and play, improvise, connect, create, experience and express in these empowering group improvisation exercises and explorations led by an expert actor and coach.
7pm. St Paul’s Anglican Church, 1130 Jervis St. Improvise With HIM
Wednesday, Jan 23
Weekly Stories: Community Of Storytelling On The Drive
A weekly storytelling show hosted by Award Winning storyteller Jo Dworschak (Best known for Story Story Lie and Coop Radio's Out and About in Canada). Hear tales told by the best as well as the city’s newest storytellers or perhaps you would like to share a story: Email Jo at storystoryshows@gmail.com
7pm. The Drive Coffee Bar, 1670 Commercial Dr. No cover. Weekly Stories
QueerProv
QueerProv is Canada's leading queer improv comedy troupe. They are a not-for-profit society dedicated to creating queer community through improv theatre. A regular show full of games, laughs, and queer stories with performances by Alex Rowan, Jamie Chrest, Julia Stretch, Dan Dumsha, Jordy Matheson and host Michael Sousa. Good times guaranteed!
7:30—9pm. The Junction, 1138 Davie St. No cover. QueerProv
Thursday, Jan 24
Chocolate & Chicken Bones
SWAN Vancouver presents, in partnership with SUM Gallery – Queer Arts Festival, Chocolate and Chicken Bones, a photo voice exhibition. This project provides im/migrant sex workers an opportunity to self-represent their lived experiences and bring forth a dimension, reality and perspective which policy makers and law enforcement have neglected and dismissed. By using photo voice, migrant sex workers take control of the snapshots that tell stories about their lives. They control the camera and the perspective. They control what comes into the shot and what gets left out. They tell the stories. This project was funded through a generous grant from the Charity Pot Program through LUSH Cosmetics. Show runs until Thursday, Feb 7.
12—6pm. Sum Gallery, 268 Keefer St. Chocolate & Chicken Bones
Smash Comedy Fest
Produced by Nasty Women Comedy, the inaugural Smash Comedy Festival is a three-day comedy festival spotlighting Vancouver’s best and brightest women/trans*/femme/plus performers. Smash Comedy Festival is guaranteed to be a magically hilarious time, combining wildly funny, feminist-forward comedy from an elite squad of sketch, improv and stand-up comedians, PLUS writing and improv workshops, and a ‘90s dance party! Show runs until Saturday, Jan 26.
7:30pm. Biltmore Cabaret, 2755 Prince Edward St. Tickets $10 for tonight’s kick-off at at Smash Comedy Fest For a full list of events and tickets for Little Mountain Gallery rest of weekend at Smash Comedy Fest
Friday, Jan 25
Boobies & Wieners 6
Hot Art Wet City is bringing back your favourite immature and dirty art show for a sixth, sexy year. As always, expect to see the walls filled with explicit art from some of the best and dirtiest Vancouver-based artists. From the crass to the cartoonish, there’s sure to be something hot to appeal to you. Viewer discretion is advised.
6—10pm tonight, 12—4pm Saturday. Arts Factory Society, 281 Industrial Ave. free event. Boobies & Wieners
Drag Queen Music Bingo
Ready for a little fun out in the burbs? Join the effervescent Bingo Callers with special guest divas for an evening of fabulous music bingo, great prizes, fun and lots of laughs! NEW Intermission Fun and Games for more chances to win prizes! Dancing and entertainment until late!
7pm. The Stage In Mission, 32998 1st Ave, Mission. Cover $5. Drag Queen Bingo
Diva’s With Sienna Blaze
Featuring special guests from their very own talented roster of local performer and some international guests too! You know this how is something that you get to see some classic drag numbers to some new innovated numbers! Hosted by the amazing Sienna Blaze, who brings you diverse genres of classic to high energy dance numbers which will surely leave you excited and most of all entertained. A perfect blend of old and new.
9:30pm. The Junction, 1138 Davie St. Cover $5. Sienna Blaze's Divas
Saturday, Jan 26
Another Window
Queer as Funk is back, along with a lot more talent! Hosted by the frank theatre company and Neworld Theatre as they bring you a night of interdisciplinary and inter-cultural cabaret. Another Window is an annual cabaret featuring a diversity of talent and genres including music, spoken word, drag and more, produced by Neworld Theatre. The premise for this show is that Vancouver is just a big enough place that most of our cultural audiences are segmented into disciplines, genres and social identities. This event is designed to knock down these walls and build community in the process.
7—10pm. Progress Lab 1422, 1422 William St. Tickets, $20--$25, and more info at Another Window
Man Up; Astrological Drag
New Year new me?! Or same old mistakes? Whether you're declaring resolutions of staying right on your bullsh*t, it's the start of a new year and we all have something special to offer in 2019. Someone somewhere once called astrology the most lesbian conversation topic next to U-Haul’s and Tracy Chapman, and let me tell you, I couldn't agree more, nor be more proud. They’re calling ALL dirty dozen zodiac signs to come represent the best (and worst?) of their celestial spirits, especially as their performers line up their signs and perform for you. I’m a Cancer so Cinnamon Winters better do me proud!
9pm—2am. The Warehouse at Eastside Studios, 555 Malkin Ave. $10 before 10pm, $15 after.
Bossy: Femme Powered Hip Hop
Come get hot & sweaty on the dance floor. BOSSY is an inclusive dance party celebrating the talent of women/femme identified and non-binary people in hip hop/r&b/grime. Expect to hear artists like: Missy Elliot, Beyonce, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Trina, Cardi B, TLC, Tinashe, MIA, Eve, Nicki Minaj and many more.
10:30pm—2am. Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main St. $8 at door. Bossy
Sunday, Jan 27
Drag me To Hell
Sounds like a dinner invitation to Conni Smudge’s place, not that I have ever been invited. This though is is a party of a different nature. Join Miss Understood and DJ T as they try to surprise you with a different theme each month. Try it out and you may be pleasantly surprised.
11pm. The Junction, 1138 Davie St. Cover $5. Drag Me To Hell
Monday, Jan 28
YVR Pub Night
Now if you are like me wouldn’t you love a companion pass for flights everywhere? This may be our chance as since the holidays are out of the way it's time to roost with fellow flyers, so come on out for some beer and wings and join the LGBTQ+ Pilots, flight attendants, engineers, air traffic controllers... bring your str8t allies and partners. As they celebrate Canadian Aviation Pride.
6—8pm. The Fountainhead Pub, 1025 Davie St. Event is free, just buy your own food and drink. YVR Pub Night
Dick Safari
Davie Street is getting known for a lot of meat, and it’s not because there is any butcher shops opening. It is because of the number of men Del Stamp and Alma Bitches can convince so easily to either drop trou or climb in a shower. Tonight is monthly amateur strip where more than a few have been enticed to bare as you dare. Fridays, catch the same dastardly and perpetually horny duo at Jacked across the street at PJ’s where at least you can watch the sausage get washed before it gets touched.
10pm. The Junction, 1138 Davie St. Cover $5. Dick Safari