Vancouver Magazine
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Date March 12Venue Commodore BallroomPrice $59commodoreballroom.comc
Since first appearing on Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap album in 2013, American rapper and poet Noname has been slamming studios with her complex rhymes and nuanced stories. Unlike many millennial musicians, she’s deliberately absent from the public eye: she rarely does press interviews, she doesn’t shoot music videos and her Instagram feed might leave diehard ’grammers feeling hungry. So if you want to experience Room 25—her latest neo-soul album featuring heavy hits “Blaxploitation” and “Self”—there’s only one way to do it: get out of your sweatpants, run a comb through your hair and live it for real.
Date April 4 to 13Venue Gateway Theatre, RichmondPrice From $29gatewaytheatre.com
Watch swing-dancing skaters shred the stage in the true story of one of Canada’s first female ice hockey teams.
Date March 10 and April 14Venue Havana TheatrePrice $12instanttheatre.com
This epic animé-inspired show features both improvised and choreographed stage fighting and the most kick-ass Asian-Canadian players on the block.
Date April 10 and 11Venue Vogue TheatrePrice From $35voguetheatre.com
This 19-year-old Ontarian and former Nashville star takes the stage with bold, catchy pop tunes in her debut headline tour, Love, Me.
Date March 2 to June 9Venue Vancouver Art GalleryPrice From $6.50vanartgallery.bc.ca
Forget “don’t touch the art”: this Victoria-based artist creates interactive and participatory sculptures out of everything from seat belts to Ping-Pong balls.
Date March 9Venue Westwood Plateau Golf Club, CoquitlamPrice From $55coquitlambeerfestival.com
Get your fill at this fest’s brand new “Quirky Brews Room,” featuring freaky favourites from Twa Dogs, Lighthouse Brewing and more.
Date March 9 and 10Venue BC PlacePrice From $70canadasevens.com
With roughly half the players, a quarter of the playing time and SO MANY COSTUMES in the audience, this tournament is union rugby to the extreme.
Date March 8 to 17Venue Various locationsPrice Varies; many events by donationfestival.roommagazine.com
Room magazine’s third annual literary festival focuses on author care, ethics and safety, with panels, readings and other events featuring over 100 diverse authors from around the world.
Date March 22Venue Fox CabaretPrice From $10foxcabaret.com
Laugh your skinny jeans off during this comedic reading series, where adults share shameful diaries, songs and poetry they wrote as teens.
Alyssa Hirose is a Vancouver-based writer, editor, illustrator and comic artist. Her work has been featured in Vancouver magazine, Western Living, BCBusiness, Avenue, Serviette, Geist, BCLiving, Nuvo, Montecristo, The Georgia Straight and more. Her beats are food, travel, arts and culture, style, interior design and anything dog-related. She publishes a daily autobiographical comic on Instagram at @hialyssacomics.
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