Little Match Girl at the Playhouse
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the New York Rangers in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Belle Spirale Dance Projects present an interdisciplinary collaboration inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Match Girl at the Vancouver Playhouse.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Vancouver-based singer-songwriter, poet, playwright, and street photographer Rodney DeCroo displays 20 of his photographs in Night Moves: Photographs by Rodney DeCroo, running until November 28 at the Cultch Gallery.
Luzia runs at Concord Pacific Place
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: Cirque du Soleil‘s Luzia, running until January 10 under the big top at Concord Pacific Place, is a fantastical circus show that conjures the people, places, and sounds of a make-believe Mexico through stunning visuals and world-leading acrobatics.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: showing until December 31 at the Dome, Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon is an immersive, 42-minute, 360° surround-sound journey through deep space, alien worlds, and celestial landscapes, featuring music from the legendary prog-rock band’s 1973 album.
SATURDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of NAZA, directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s investigative documentary about the intentional slaughter of innocent women and children by Israeli forces in Gaza. In Hebrew and English with English subtitles.
The Devils screens at the Park
SATURDAY: screening at the Park Theatre of a new 4K restoration of director Ken Russell’s highly controversial 1971 horror-drama The Devils, based on Aldous Huxley’s historical narrative of 1952, The Devils of Loudon. Note: the newly restored 114-minute version includes graphic scenes of torture and blasphemous sexual imagery.
SATURDAY: veteran Vancouver blues-rocker Wailin’ Walker performs at his Bluesman CD-release party and 70th birthday bash at the Crescent Beach Legion, with guest Tim Hearsey. Here’s my interview with Al Walker from 1991.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Armenian-Canadian children’s musician and author Raffi performs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, with guests Good Lovelies. Proceeds benefit the Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring.
Metal Church plays the Rickshaw
SUNDAY: American metal bands from the ’80s, Metal Church and Armored Saint, play the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Livekill. Here’s an audio excerpt from my interview with Kurdt Vanderhoof of Metal Church from 1985.
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