Hereditary screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: Three Band Blowout at the Astoria Pub features performances by Vancouver rock bands Dagger, Minx, and Good as Gone, which includes former Pride Tiger members Matt Wood and Mike Payette.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: FVDED in the Park is a two-day EDM (electronic dance music) festival at Surrey’s Holland Park featuring headline performances by Tiësto, Zedd, Disclosure, Subtronics, Sammy Virji, RL Grime, Uncle Waffles, and DJ Kaytranada.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: Playland features midway games, mini-golf, a climbing wall, haunted mansion, food concessions, and over 35 rides and attractions, including the iconic wooden rollercoaster. Playland runs until August 15 on the PNE Grounds, then becomes part of admission to the PNE Fair.
Waitress runs at the Stanley
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the Arts Club Theatre Company presents performances at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until August 3 of the musical comedy Waitress, about a small-town waitress and expert pie-maker who dreams of a new life outside of her tumultuous marriage.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: Vice, Dice, & Opium Pipes is a 90-minute walking tour starting at the Vancouver Police Museum & Archives that reveals the hidden histories of crime and corruption in 19th and 20th century Vancouver.
SATURDAY: music director Otto Tausk leads the Vancouver Symphony in an outdoor performance of works by Bizet, Dvořák, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Rossini, and John Williams at Sunset Beach.
Joe Keithley performs at Khatsahlano
SATURDAY: the Khatsahlano Street Party is a free outdoor music and arts festival taking place on 4th Avenue from Burrard to MacDonald Street featuring performances by more than 50 local acts, including Joe Keithley, Shred Kelly, Stephen Hamm, the Matinee, Cherry Pick, Janky Bungag, the Hausplants, Michaela Slinger, Ton Gibbs, Vox Rea, Parlour Panther, Bloom Effect, and Circus in Flames.
SATURDAY: Nigerian rock band Etran d’Lair performs material from latest album 100% Sahara Guitar at the Pearl., with guests WACK, DJs Tom Howard and Ana Rivera, and the Northern Light Show.
SATURDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Ari Aster’s unsettling 2018 horror flick Hereditary, about an American family that begins to unravel terrifying secrets about their ancestry after their reclusive grandmother passes away. Here’s my original review from 2018.
The Exterminating Angel screens at VIFF Centre
SUNDAY: experimental music duo Magazinist performs a live score alongside a screening at VIFF Centre of The Exterminating Angel, writer-director Luis Buñuel’s surreal 1962 satire about a dinner party which becomes an inescapable prison.
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