Heavy Trip plays the Pearl
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: prog-rock quartet Beat–composed of guitarists Steve Vai and Adrian Belew, bassist Tony Levin, and drummer Danny Carey–play ’80s King Crimson at the Orpheum Theatre. Here’s my interview with Steve Vai from 1990.
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: exhibition of paintings by New York City-based artist Firelei Báez, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, runs until March 16 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY: Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is an uplifting musical based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol set during the 1930s in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, running until December 24 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre.
Never Look Away screens at the VIFF Centre
TUESDAY & THURSDAY: screening at the VIFF Centre of Never Look Away, director Lucy Lawless‘s new documentary about the harrowing career of fearless combat camerawoman Margaret Moth.
WEDNESDAY: Dr. Gabor Maté will accept the Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy at SFU Public Square and give a free lecture on the connection between trauma and overall health.
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: Cirque du Soleil‘s Echo, running to January 5 at Concord Pacific Place, combines poetry, stagecraft, acrobatics, and technology to explores the delicate balance between people, animals, and the world.
Hard Core Logo screens at the Rio
THURSDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of director Bruce McDonald’s 1996 music mockumentary Hard Core Logo, starring Hugh Dillon as punk-rocker Joe Dick, with live performances by Art Bergmann and Lick the Pole.
THURSDAY: Vancouver instrumental stoner-metal trio Heavy Trip plays a release party for new album Liquid Planet at the Pearl, with guests Killer Deal, Ever Age, and Doom Cocoon.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: Rodney DeCroo and Samantha Pawliuk‘s hybrid concert/play/poetry-reading In the Belly of the Carp at Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts includes visual fantasias by shadow puppeteers Mind of a Snail. Warning: this show contains explicit language and scenes of sexual violence and drug use.
Leila Josefowicz performs at the Orpheum
FRIDAY: musical director Otto Tausk leads the Vancouver Symphony and violinist Leila Josefowicz in a program of works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky at the Orpheum Theatre. Here’s my interview with Otto Tausk from 2021.
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