VanAfrica: A Journey of Music and Dance Through Africa
May 11, 12, 8 p.m.
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Roundhouse Community Centre
Tickets and info
: from $10, at
A musical and dance celebration taking you through four nations of the continent of Africa, VanAfrica showcases some of this region’s finest performers as well as special guest Ghanaian Awal Alhassan from Seattle. Led by percussionist Curtis Andrews, N’nato Camara (Guinea), Kocasalle Dioubate (Guinea), Kesseke Yeo (Cote d’Ivoire), Kofi and Esinu Gbolonyo (Ghana), and other guests will present the music, rhythms and dances of their ancestral homelands in a combined ensemble. Ghana/Vancouver drum/dance group Adanu Habobo opens.
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy From Asia
To Oct. 9
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Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Tickets and info
: From $10, at
A new exhibition that looks at the importance of written forms throughout myriad cultures in Asia. Aside from delving into contemporary uses of words as visual expressions of powerful concepts, the exhibit will also examine everything from Sumerian cuneiform to Qu’ranic manuscripts, modern graffiti and digital works.
Grandaddy
May 7, 8 p.m.
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Tickets and info
: $32,
In 1992, Grandaddy came together in Modesto, California. The group members were early progenitors of “slacker-tronica” that united various glitchy electronic sounds alongside pretty sundazed folk and country vibes. The band’s 2000 album Sophtware Slump put it on the hype wagon and it was a regular at festivals and toured here often. By 2006, it called it quits and leader Jason Lytle did his own thing. They had a brief reunion in 2012, and now the project is back in full, and new album Last Place dropped last month.
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The Mama Project Installation
From May 11
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Deer Lake Art Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby
Tickets and info
: By donation,
Artist Emily van Lidth de Jeude interviewed mothers from many different backgrounds, ages and experiences and then painted unique portraits of them onto large, used bed linens. These paintings are part of an immersive installation where viewers enter the space and see the life-size representations as well as hearing or reading the words spoken by the artist’s subjects.
Thurston Moore Group
May 8, 8 p.m.
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Tickets and info
: $25,
It’s fitting that former Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore titled his latest album Rock N Roll Consciousness, because this icon of 1990s DIY noise rock most certainly seems to possess that very thing. He is a tireless creator, and just doesn’t seem to run out of new sounds to wring out of his guitar while reciting his N.Y. hipster poetry. It works.
Aaron Chapman reading
May 6, 2 — 4 p.m.
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The Beatmerchant Record Store, Steveston
Free
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Vancouver Aaron Chapman digs into the fascinating subject matter of his 2015 Bill Duthie
Booksellers Choice Award-winning book Live at the Commodore, as well as his study of the Penthouse Nightclub titled Liquor, Lust and the Law, and The Last Gang in Town, which was featured on the B.C. Bestseller’s List. Among the stories you can expect to hear are ones about the infamous Rolling Stones riot in the early 1970s, and the role that the Clark Park Gang played in it.
Ben Cottrill
May 5, 8 p.m.
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Trading Post Brewery, 20120 64 Ave. #107, Langley
Free
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This 19-year-old singer/songwriter from Abbotsford has released an EP titled Red Lines which featured the track After All This Time. That tune earned him a top spot finalist billing in the Canada’s Walk of Fame Contest. He’s on a roll with a following for his easygoing, mellow pop sound.