5 things to do in Metro Vancouver, Dec. 1-7

Shiny
Dec. 6-9, 8 p.m. | Left of Main
Tickets and info: $15, at Brownpapertickets.com
This multidisciplinary work from local movement artist Kelly McInnes was created in collaboration with dancers Maxine Chadburn and Rianne Svelnis. The piece explores and confronts the mass media’s dissemination of beauty standards, and how they are enforced on women. The ways in which these images reinforce uniformity and can promote violent quests for “perfection” are expressed in movement an