Seven things to do in Metro Vancouver Oct. 4-10: I Care What You Think, Starcrawler, and more
Credit to Author: Shawn Conner| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:00:32 +0000
Whether you’re looking for date ideas, free things to do or just something fun to do in downtown Vancouver, you can’t go wrong with our list of events happening around Metro Vancouver between Sept. 27 to Oct. 3.
Headlining this week’s picks is I Care What You Think, from local dance/theatre company plastic orchid factory.
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Here are seven things to do in Metro Vancouver this week:
When: October 3-5 at 8 p.m.
Where: Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St.
Tickets: $15-25, at bocadellupo.com
A revisit of a work first performed in 2016, I Care What You Think is a plastic orchid factory-produced collaboration between dancers James Gnam (plastic orchid), Vanessa Goodman, Jane Osborne and James Proudfoot (Gnam and Osborne are pictured). Through their performance and audience contributions, the dancers generate what they call “a physical poem that embraces the space and the people in it.” The piece is set to sound by Loscil and Kevin Legere, alongside work by classical composers Debussy and Ravel. I Care What You Think is one of plastic orchid’s larger productions of the season, as well as the first dance-centric show at the venue since Boca del Lupo took over programming of the venue.
When: Until Nov. 1, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Where: Net Loft, 1-1666 Johnson St., Granville Island
Free
Want to get a taste of what to expect a this year’s annual Circle Craft Christmas Market (Nov. 7-11 at Vancouver Convention Centre West)? Circle Craft Gallery is offering a preview of a few of the hundreds of exhibitors and their work. Dougherty Glassworks, Erica Leal Jewellery (pictured), Mind the Minimal, Rachel Kroeker Ceramics, and hat designer Tomoko Tahara are among the artisans who will be showing their work before the main event.
When: Oct. 5 at 8 p.m.
Where: Chan Shun Concert Hall
Tickets: from $38, at chancentre.com and 604-822-2697
Boine is a vocalist who has brought greater awareness to the music and culture of her homeland, the Arctic Finnmark region of Northern Norway’s Sámiland. She performs yoik chants and Norwegian folksong, and sometimes incorporates the sounds of nature. In 1990 she released her breakout solo album Gula Gula; 2017’s See the Woman was the first album she recorded entirely in English. Boine will also take part in a fee event, A Conversation with Mari Boine, at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 4 at the Native Education College (285 East 5th Ave.)
When: Oct. 8 at 8 p.m.
Where: Fortune Sound Club, 147 E. Pender St.
Tickets: $15 at ticketweb.ca
NPR, Rolling Stone, Vulture and even Shirley Manson (lead singer of Garbage) have thrown their support behind Starcrawler. Formed in 2015 and fronted by vocalist Arrow de Wilde, the L.A. group is about to release its second album Devour You (scheduled for Oct. 11). The band’s 2018 debut album was marked by what a media release calls a “feral intensity,” while their live shows are, in the words of a reviewer for glidemagazine.com, “devilish and furious … Intentional or not, de Wilde’s appearance and antics that included spitting blood, spitting water and wrapping her mic lead around her neck — channelled Alice Cooper from the early 70s.” Another L.A. band, Kills Birds, opens.
When and where: Oct. 5, 7:45 p.m., Bell Performing Arts Centre, Surrey; Oct. 6, Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver
Tickets: From $39.99 at sugarsammy.com
For a Canadian comedian, Montreal-raised Sugar Sammy has achieved considerable success in France. He recently shot the upcoming season of France’s version of America’s Got Talent, on which he’ll appear as a judge. The show reaches an average audience of 3.5 million per week. He also won Best Comedian in the Le Parisien magazine’s countdown of 2018’s hottest performing arts and television stars. He’s also a success back home, particularly in his home province of Quebec; there, he sold out 421 performances of his one-man bilingual show You’re Gonna Rire combined with its all-French version En français svp! His themes include language, politics and social and cultural issues, but he is perhaps best know for his moments of improv and audience interaction.
When and where: Oct 5. at 7 p.m. (Abbotsford Centre) and Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. (Thunderbird Arena)
Tickets: From $48, at ticketmaster.ca
Twenty-seven Special Olympics Canada athletes with intellectual disabilities from across the country are performing as part of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s (pictured) cross-country Rock the Rink tour. Olympians Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Patrick Chan and Elvis Stojko will headline the tour, sharing the rink with Special Olympics athletes such as Vancouver’s Alexander Pang. An ambassador for the Special Olympics, Pang started in floor hockey, then decided to learn to skate to work on his core and balance.
When: Oct. 5, 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Tickets: From $53.75 at ticketmaster.ca
NBC’s hit series World of Dance presents The World of Dance Live Tour, featuring dancers from across all genres. It incorporates both local and national talent, including NBC World of Dance Season 3 Champions The Kings. Also performing on select dates are Unity L.A. and Luka and Jenalyn (pictured), along with a local performer from each tour stop.
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