Never Look Away screens at VIFF Centre
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Columbus Blue Jackets in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
FRIDAY: 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.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: 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.
Taylor Swift plays BC Place
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: American pop superstar Taylor Swift performs three shows at BC Place on her record-breaking Eras Tour, with guest Gracie Abrams. SOLD OUT.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: 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.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: Ann Mortifee’s Reflections on Crooked Walking, running until December 22 at the Firehall Arts Centre, is a family musical about four unlikely friends who go in search of a cure for a sleeping sickness that has overtaken their town.
Echo runs at Concord Pacific Place
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: 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.
SATURDAY: roots-rock quartet the Graham Brown Band plays the Princeton Pub, with no cover charge. Here’s my interview with Graham Brown from 2022.
SATURDAY: Vancouver bubble-grunge trio Chalcedony plays the Red Gate, with guests Bad Beats and the Judys.
The Lightning are in town
SUNDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Tampa Bay Lightning in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
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