Seven Things to Do in Metro Vancouver Nov 1-7: A Certified comedian, a former Bachelorette, and more
Credit to Author: Shawn Conner| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:00:29 +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 Nov. 1-7.
Headlining this week’s picks is Lemon Bucket Orkestra.
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Here are seven things to do in Metro Vancouver this week:
When: Nov. 2, 8 p.m.
Where: Rickshaw Theatre
Tickets and info: From $30, at tickets.capilanou.ca
The many-limbed Orkestra came out of Toronto’s Queen Street West busking scene almost a decade ago. Fronted by Mark Marczyk and his wife Marichka, the band draws on Balkan influences. In 2015, readers of Toronto’s Now Magazine voted LBO best band in Toronto, and the Canadian Folk Music Awards pronounced them World Group of the Year. Their most recent album is 2017’s If I Had the Strength, which features guests Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, Montreal-based Latino rapper Boogat, and Toronto’s Choir! Choir! Choir! The Winnipeg Free Press described the group’s live show as an “amazing, frenetic, gloriously anarchic and ultimately joyous experience.”
When: Nov. 1-7, various times
Where: PAL Studio Theatre
Tickets and info: $20-32, at alone.brownpapertickets.com
The Guardian calls this recent play by British writer Caryl Churchill “a light-on-its-feet, elliptical view of apocalypse” and “fantasy intricately wired into current politics.” In it, four women (stage directions specify “over 70”) gather in a garden and “unleash their secret selves in monologues.” Tanja Dixon-Warren, new artistic director of presenter Western Gold Theatre, says: “It is about four ordinary women who, much like the rest of us, are dealing with their lives in quite an ordinary way until something huge shifts and disrupts the comfortable routine of the day-to-day.” Directed by Kathryn Bracht and starring Eileen Barrett, Dixon-Warren, Jenn Griffin, and Anna Hagan.
When: Nov. 5, 8 p.m.
Where: Commodore Ballroom
Tickets and info: $45 at ticketmaster.ca
Originally from Leduc, Alberta, Bristowe moved to Vancouver on a dance scholarship. Here, she became a spin class instructor before going on to reality-TV fame on ABC’s The Bachelor (19th season), where she impressed enough viewers with her irreverent sense of humour for the producers to call her back for The Bachelorette (11th season). Bristowe has since parlayed her fame into a podcast, her own line of hair accessories, including scrunchies, and live appearances. She is coming through town as part of what she calls her KB Fall Crawl.
When: Nov 2, 8 p.m.
Where: Chan Centre
Tickets and info: from $46 at chancentre.com
Paco de Lucia is widely acknowledged to have been one of the world’s great flamenco guitar players (he died in 2014). For this project, de Lucia collaborator Javier Limón has brought together members of de Lucia’s late-career sextet for what the producer calls “the greatest flamenco group in the world.” The band, which includes de Lucia’s nephew Antonio Sanchez and new addition vocalist David de Jacoba, performs de Lucia selections such as Zyryab, El Cafetal, and Canción de Amor, as well as original music.
When: Oct 31-Nov 16
Where: Vancity Culture Lab
Tickets and info: From $20 at tickets.thecultch.com
In this solo show, comedian and playwright Jan Derbyshire turns the audience into a mental health review board to help determine her current state of sanity. Derbyshire knows whereof she speaks; she says she has been “certified” eight times, making her a worthy guide to the Canadian mental health system. Entertainment blogger Stephen Hunt says, “(Derbyshire) has an easy, relaxed, specific delivery that brings the audience onto her side right from the get-go … She’s not only a funny performer but brings an intelligence to her material — Certified is filled with her winking at many of the conventions of the solo show story of personal redemption in a way that makes the audience feel as if we have a stake in that redemption, too.” Touchstone Theatre’s Roy Surette directs.
When: Nov. 6-9, 8 p.m.
Where: The Nest on Granville Island
Tickets and info: From $20 at ticketstonight.ca
Dancer and choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino presents an evening of duets in three different genres: flamenco, Indian classical dance, and what the media release calls “voices for the body.” A fusion of traditional and contemporary movements, Passages of Rhythms features Tolentino, flamenco dancer Kasandra “La China,” Indo-Canadian bharatanatyam dancer Sujit Vaidya, and Montreal voice artist Gabriel Dharmoo.
When: Nov. 1, 7 p.m.
Where: Abbotsford Centre
Tickets and info: from $62 at ticketmaster.ca
Formed in Nashville 20 years ago, Rascal Flatts has released 10 albums and accrued several radio hits. One of those is, shall we say, a rather polished version of Tom Cochrane’s Life is a Highway (for the 2006 animated feature Cars). The multiple award-winning country music trio’s most recent album is 2017’s Back to Us, and features chart-toppers like Top-20-and-rising hit Back To Life and Yours If You Want It.
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