Dawn of the Dead screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
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.
Graham Clark performs at LMG
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: 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.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: the Hyperspace Metal Festival at the Rickshaw Theatre features performances by Týr, Trollfest, Aether Realm, the Dread Crew Of Oddwood, and Balrogath (Fri.); and Flotsam and Jetsam, Iron Kingdom, Borealis, Osyron, and Odinfist (Sat.).
HUMP! Film Fest at the Rio
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: 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.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: guest conductor Gemma New leads the Vancouver Symphony and violinist Augustin Hadelich in a program featuring Gustav Holst’s The Planets at the Orpheum Theatre on Friday and Centennial Theatre on Saturday.
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: 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.
Over the Ridge at Massey Theatre
SATURDAY: the world premiere of writer Brendan McLeod’s Over the Ridge at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre sees the story of the Battle of Vimy Ridge told through the folk-roots music of the Fugitives and contemporary ballet choreographed by Jacob Williams.
SATURDAY: the Vancouver Whitecaps take on the L.A. Galaxy in Major League Soccer action at BC Place.
SATURDAY: L.A. psych-rock quartet Meatbodies plays tunes from new album Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom at the Pearl, with guests Heavy Trip and Space Queen.
SUNDAY: 45th anniversary screening at the Rio Theatre of George A. Romero’s zombie epic Dawn of the Dead.
Danish String Quartet plays the Playhouse
SUNDAY: the Vancouver Recital Society presents the Danish String Quartet, with Finnish cellist Johannes Rostamo, in a program that includes Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, D. 956 at the Vancouver Playhouse.
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