Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, March 29 to 31

Down by Law screens at the Rio

By Steve Newton

FRIDAY: Fernie, B.C. folk-rock quartet Shred Kelly plays the Biltmore Cabaret as part of its Blurry Vision album-release tour, with guests Hyaenas. Here’s my interview with Shred Kelly’s Jim Newton (no relation) from 2021.

FRIDAY: Caravan World Rhythms presents a performance at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre by DakhaBrakha, a world-music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine.

FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of Down by Law, writer-director Jim Jarmusch‘s neo-Beat 1986 noir comedy, starring Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, and John Lurie.

Chelsea Handler is at the Queen E

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: American standup comedian Chelsea Handler performs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre as part of her Little Big Bitch Tour.

FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: True Tribal: Contemporary Expressions of Ancestral Tattoo Practices explores 30-plus years of Indigenous tattooing from around the world and showcases the artists who are reconnecting with traditional skin-marking practices, at the Museum of Vancouver.

FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the work of late Trinidadian-Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos is featured in the career retrospective Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, running until April 1 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Velvet Terrorism at Polygon Gallery

FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: through videos, photographs, testimonies, song lyrics, and reflections, the exhibition Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia offers an account of infamous feminist art collective Pussy Riot’s non-violent actions, running until June 2 at the Polygon Gallery.

SATURDAY: the Vancouver Whitecaps take on the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer action at BC Place.

SATURDAY: Vancouver pop-rockers from the late-’80s, Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, play the Commodore Ballroom, with guests She Stole My Beer. Here’s my interview with She Stole My Beer’s Tom Taylor and Chad Chilibeck from 1992.

The Ducks waddle into town

SUNDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Anaheim Ducks in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

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