Nosferatu meets Radiohead at the Rio
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the San Jose Sharks in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY: 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.
MONDAY TO TUESDAY & THURSDAY 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.
Festival of Lights at VanDusen Garden
MONDAY TO TUESDAY & THURSDAY TO FRIDAY: 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.
MONDAY TO TUESDAY & THURSDAY TO FRIDAY: screenings at the VIFF Centre of directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham’s new animated family adventure-comedy, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
TUESDAY: 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 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre.
It’s a Wonderful Life screens at the Rio
TUESDAY: 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.
THURSDAY 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.
FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of F.W. Murnau’s silent 1926 horror film Nosferatu, paired with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums.
Petunia and the Vipers play the Rio
FRIDAY: East Van alt-country band Petunia and the Vipers plays a release party for new album Calling Me Back at the Rio Theatre, with guests Jack Garton and the Rocket Revellers.
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