HUMP! Film Fest is at the Rio
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: Scottish pirate-metal quintet Alestorm performs tunes from latest album, Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum, at the Commodore Ballroom.
MONDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Vegas Golden Knights in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
MONDAY TO FRIDAY: 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.
Veal plays the Biltmore
TUESDAY: Vancouver indie-rock trio Veal, featuring singer-guitarist Luke Doucet, plays the Biltmore Cabaret.
WEDNESDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Arizona Coyotes in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: 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.
THURSDAY: the Pacific Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Society presents the East Van Square Dance at the WISE Hall, with dances called by Paul Silveria.
The Hunchback screens at Roedde House Museum
THURSDAY: screening at Roedde House Museum of director Wallace Worsley’s 1923 silent-film classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival: Part One at the Rio Theatre is a showcase of short erotic films celebrating a cornucopia of body types, shapes, ages, colours, sexualities, genders, kinks, and fetishes, with an overall spirit of sex-positivity.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: the Hyperspace Metal Festival at the Rickshaw Theatre features performances by Skelator, Tymo, Syryn, Naitaka, and Kayas (Thurs.) and Týr, Trollfest, Aether Realm, the Dread Crew Of Oddwood, and Balrogath (Fri.).
Graham Clark performs at Little Mountain Gallery
FRIDAY: Vancouver comedian Graham Clark performs 24 hours of standup at a fundraiser for the newly reopened Little Mountain Gallery, with partial proceeds to the WISH Drop-In Centre Society. Here’s my 2021 interview with Clark before he did his first 24-hour standup show.
FRIDAY: Comedy Here Often? presents standup comedy by Cassidy Furman, Jake Spencer, and headliner Rachel Schaefer at 604 Studios.
FRIDAY: former Jr. Gone Wild and Brilliant Orange member Graham Brown leads his rock quartet at the Princeton Pub. Here’s my interview with Brown from 2022.
FRIDAY: Foodstock at Night is a fundraiser for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank at the Cobalt featuring performances by Blue Rivera, Buddy and the Scarecrow, the Hausplants, Slightest Clue, and Suppertime.
Jane Goodall lectures at the Queen E
FRIDAY: iconic conservationist Jane Goodall recounts her experiences as a young woman working alone in the rainforest in a lecture at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, with fireside chat hosted by Jann Arden to follow.
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