The sixth annual PROJECTING CHANGE FILM FESTIVAL takes over SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts for five days of discussion, workshops and socially motivating films including Andrew Garrison's TRASH DANCE, about an unlikely collaboration between a choreographer and two dozen sanitation workers and their trucks. It all goes down April 24 to 28. Details at projectingchange.ca.
2 Videogame fans and symphony lovers have a chance to prove they're not so different after all when the VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA perform DISTANT WORLDS: MUSIC FROM FINAL FANTASY. Along with live music from the popular video game, audiences will be treated to scenes from the games projected in high def on the big screen. Get your geek on April 24, 8 p.m. at the Orpheum. For tickets and more details, go to vancouversymphony.ca or call 604-876-3434.
3 BALLET BC premieres GISELLE April 25 to 27 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Inspired by a poem by the German poet Heinrich Heine, GISELLE tells the story of class struggle, sacrifice and doomed love between a young peasant girl and a nobleman. Tickets at all Ticketmaster outlets. More info at balletbc.com.
Put your mack jacket in the dryer with a sheet of Bounce fabric softener, crack open a few cold ones and bring your smokes, cuz DEANER from the FUBAR mockumentaries is coming to town and plans to give'r with his metal band NIGHTSEEKER April 25 at the Biltmore. We Hunt Buffalo opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu Records and Scrape Records.
