Get laughing: Glaswegian funnyman, novelist, former Emmy-nominated late night talk show host, current game show host and self-styled “vulgar lounge entertainer” Craig Ferguson hits the Centre in Vancouver For Performing Arts as part of the NorthWest Comedy Fest.
Get told ideas worth spreading: Former Vancouver mayor and current underutilized Liberal backbencher Sam Sullivan hosts the latest edition of his Global Civic Policy Society’s salon series where eight different movers and shakers are given seven minutes to share what’s on their minds. Tonight’s invitees at the Vancouver Playhouse are architectural critic Trevor Boddy, restaurateur Meeru Dhalwala, medical researcher Jennifer Gardy, nonagenarian landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander, friendly community builder Jorge Amigo, Raw Beauty Talks founder Erin Treloar, freelance writer David Moscrop, and Michelle Faehrmann of Four on the Floor String Quartet.
Get the good news: Even if party drugs aren’t something you plan to give up for Lent, or even if giving things up for Lent isn’t necessarily in the plans, there are worse ways to get moved by the holy spirit than dancing your ass off with strangers at Ash Wednesday Electronica at St. David’s Anglican church. Like they say: “Much more BPM than your average Ash Wednesday service.”
Get adrenalized: As part of the ongoing Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, the Rio Theatre presents a talk by Squamishite Jimmy "Marginally" Martinello about the time he and some his buddies lit out for the Northwest Territories on paddleboards followed by screenings of Bertrand Delapierre’s For A Handful of Seconds (Pour Une Poignée de Secondes) about trying out new inflatable flying suits in the French Alps (!) and Jeremy Collins’ film Drawn about coping with grief through climbing new routes.
Get transported to a galaxy far, far away: Nerd’s nerd Charles Ross, last seen on Vancouver stages doing his One-Man Lord of the Rings Trilogy, returns with his One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, a show first launched way back in 2002. More fun than all three post-Return of the Jedi films put together, Ross is truly a force of nature as he re-enacts the first three films of the franchise all without props or special effects tonight at Performance Works Theatre.
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