Dave Martone plays Massey Theatre
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: Victoria indie-pop band Current Swell plays the Commodore Ballroom, with guests the Bankes Brothers.
FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of a 30th anniversary restoration of director David Fincher’s psychological horror-thriller Se7en, starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. “What’s in the box?!”
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: music director Otto Tausk leads the Vancouver Symphony in a program at the Orpheum Theatre that includes Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, and the world premiere of Vancouver composer Marcus Goddard’s Mountain Visions. Here’s my interview with Otto Tausk from 2021.
Banksy exhibition runs at 1 Alexander
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: The Art of Banksy: “Without Limits” exhibition, running until May 25 at 1 Alexander Street, features over 200 prints, photos, sculptures, installations, and murals by world-famous street artist Banksy.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: xʷəlməxʷ child, running until May 25 at North Vancouver’s Polygon Gallery, features Manuel Axel Strain‘s figurative paintings, transformed into pictographs and set against photographic murals.
FRIDAY & SUNDAY: screenings at the VIFF Centre of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary about the realities of Israeli occupation in the State of Palestine’s West Bank. In Arabic, Hebrew, and English, with English subtitles.
David Cross performs at the Vogue
SATURDAY: American comic and actor David Cross performs his standup comedy show The End of The Beginning of The End at the Vogue Theatre, with guest Sean Patton.
SATURDAY: screening at the VIFF Centre of Ennio, Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore‘s documentary about the career of the hyper-prolific Italian composer Ennio Morricone. In Italian and English with English subtitles.
SUNDAY: Vancouver guitar great Dave Martone is featured in a pay-what-you-can Global Tea Series event hosted by Indian classical musician Cassius Khan at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre. Here’s my interview with Dave Martone from 2020.
Emmett Jerome plays Guilt and Co.
SUNDAY: Alberta-raised roots and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Emmett Jerome performs a solo show at Guilt and Co.
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