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Top 5 things to do this Thursday in Vancouver

Get green: The projectors get rolling for the 14th annual DOXA film festival tonight at Vancouver Playhouse with a 7 p.m.

Get green: The projectors get rolling for the 14th annual DOXA film festival tonight at Vancouver Playhouse with a 7 p.m. screening of Jerry Rothwell’s How to Change the World, which captures the heady early earliest days of Greenpeace from as a group of Vancouver-based hippies and how it became a global movement. Tonight’s screening is free to filmgoers under 18 and will include a post-film Q&A with the filmmaker and special guests.

 

Get wet: The Vancouver Aquarium hosts Rain City Chronicles latest evening of storytelling “The Life Aquatic” featuring music from Bestie and waterlogged tales from Melanie Knight, Josh Silberg, Jonathan Hultquist, Marylee Stephenson, Matt Corker, Laurenne Schiller, Jeff Maraliave, Jocelyn Hallman, Alasdair Lindop, Adrienne Matei, Michelle Arduini, Wing-Siu Wong, Ashley Silzer, Adrian Glynn, Sonia Strobel, Hayden Kremer and Alejandro Frid.

Get abiding: Movie star and pop culture icon Jeff Bridges brings the musical chops he displayed in Crazy Heart when he and his country band the Abiders tie a room together at the River Rock Casino tonight.

Get laughing: Comedian and Team Coco regular Chad Daniels kicks off a three-night stand at Comedy MIX tonight at 8:30. Darcy Michael emcees and Kevin Banner also has a set.

 

Get in a New York state of mind: The Arts Club Theatre Company offers a preview performance of the Tony Award–winning hip hop musical In the Heights tonight at the Stanley Theatre.