It’s a Wonderful Life screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: the B3 Kings–composed of organist Chris Gestrin, guitarist Bill Coon, tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds, and vocalist-drummer Denzal Sinclaire–play three shows at Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
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.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the Vancouver Christmas Market at Jack Poole Plaza features over 90 artisan huts offering handcrafted gifts, plus live performances, light displays, food and drink, and kids’ activities.
Festival of Lights at VanDusen Gardens
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Garden runs until January 5, featuring 15 acres of beautiful gardens adorned with over a million Christmas lights.
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.
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.
Vengeance Most Fowl screens at VIFF Centre
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: screenings at the VIFF Centre of directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham’s new animated family adventure-comedy, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
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: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Ottawa Senators in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
George Bailey’s moment of doubt
SUNDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of director Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart as small-town American hero George Bailey.
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