The Hitcher screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk perform at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre as part of their Multimedia Tour 2025.
MONDAY: Kelowna pop group the Grapes of Wrath, composed of brothers Tom and Chris Hooper, performs an acoustic show at Mel Lehan Hall at St. James.
MONDAY TO FRIDAY: 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.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY: 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.
A History of Motown at the Firehall
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: Vancouver soul vocalist Krystle Dos Santos is featured in A History of Motown at the Firehall Arts Centre. Here’s my interview with Krystle Dos Santos from 2021.
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: 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.
THURSDAY: the Rising Stars of Jazz at the Vancouver Playhouse features the VSO School of Music‘s Jazz Combos and Big Band performing works by Antonio Carlos Jobim, George Gershwin, Brad Mehldau, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, Duke Ellington, and Mel Lewis.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: the Hyperspace Metal Festival features performances at the Cobalt by power/melodic-metal bands Glyph, Tower Hill, Red Cain, Serpent Rider, and Cruzer (Thurs.); and Greyhawk, Lunar, Solarus, Tylor Dory Trio, and the Astral Prophet (Fri.).
Ingrid Hansen performs at Kay Meek Arts Centre
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: in Epidermis Circus, Ingrid Hansen performs a live puppet film, animating cheeky vignettes in the palm of her hand and projecting them onto a huge screen at the Kay Meek Arts Centre.
FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Robert Harmon‘s 1986 horror classic The Hitcher, about a young man who is stalked by a murderous hitchhiker and framed for his crimes.
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