Get avant garde: Genre-bending Czech singer and violinist Iva Bittova, who sings unamplified with plenty of chirps, yodels and yowls, brings her eclectic mashup of European folk songs, art rock and classical music to the Fox Cabaret tonight as part of the PuSH Festival.
Get romantic: Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a concert at the Orpheum featuring Bruckner’s famous Romantic Symphony, as well Katherine Chi performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Check out the VSO’s website for more details and musical links to the evening’s repertoire.
Get amused: Noted funnyman, Stop Podcasting Yourself co-host and acclaimed beard painter Graham Clark hosts his weekly Laugh Gallery stand-up round-up at the Havana on Commercial Drive starting at 9 p.m.
Get educated: Vancity Theatre kicks off Black History Month with a screening of Through a Lens Darkly. Inspired by Deborah Willis’s book, Reflections in Black, the film explores America’s troubled racial history through photographs, ranging from historic images from the slavery era to modern times, and how the camera became a tool for social change.
Get inverted: Interdisciplinary artist Dries Verhoeven turns East Van upside down at the ongoing Fare Thee Well show at the Vancouver Lookout that’s part of the PuSH Festival. Viewers get to peer through a telescope at a rapidly changing East Vancouver that is optically inverted with additional word and music. The work runs on a loop every 20 minutes and advance reservation is recommended.
