Seven things you should do this week include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Juxtapoz x Superflat, Rokia Traoré and more.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Nov. 4 to Nov. 19
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Michael J. Fox Theatre, Burnaby
Tickets and info:
$27-$39,
The relatively new local company Align Entertainment follows its winning Chitty Chitty Bang Bang show, presented earlier this year, with another popular hit musical about following your dreams. Set in ancient Egypt, creators Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice riff on the Biblical tale from the Book of Genesis for this rags to riches journey of Joseph, his 11 brothers, and his “coat of many colours.”
Juxtapoz x Superflat
Nov. 5 to Feb. 5
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Vancouver Art Gallery
Tickets and info:
$6.50-$24,
For a magazine known as the Bible of Underground Art, the weird and often alarmingly lowbrow Juxtapoz has been keeping rather elevated company of late. The 22-year-old San Francisco-based monthly was the only American publication to score an Banksy interview for the Dismaland show, and now it’s behind an exhibition that has arrived at our city’s most venerated gallery. Naturally, the show puts a heavy emphasis on works informed by various sub-cultures including graffiti, comics, and illustration, but with more than 30 artists featured, it’s a wonderland of all kinds of wacky.
Miss Shakespeare
Nov. 5 to Nov. 26, 3 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
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Firehall Arts Centr
e
Tickets and info
: from $23,
What were female performers and playwrights doing during Shakespeare’s time, when women were banned from the stage? “Call us batshit crazy witches/but you’ll never guess these boys are bitches!” That’s a line from this brash Jessie Award-winning musical, by Vancouver creator Tracey Power, which is based on facts concerning the Bard’s youngest daughter. An aspiring playwright, who dreams of forming England’s first female troop of players, Judith knows that her actions would be condemned by the church, so the women begin to rehearse in secret, in a tavern cellar.
Rokia Traoré
Nov. 4, 8 p.m.
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Kay Meek Centre
Tickets and info:
$29-$45,
Having spent her life defying convention, the open-minded Malian musician shakes it up on her sixth album, the sublime Sé Dan
. On her last album, Traoré charged her funky desert blues with rock influences, but since then the political situation in Mali has devolved considerably, and her new album reflects this. Often sung in the Bambara language of her home country, the new songs are urgent and soulful.
Modulus Festival
Nov. 5 to Nov. 9
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Roundhouse Community Centre and other venues
Tickets and info
: $10-$35,
Canadian composer Tim Brady thinks big. His composition, 100 Very Good Reasons Why _____, requires no less than 100 guitarists. The monumental work is part of Music on Main’s nine-concert festival of post-classical music. Another novel event fuses traditions from opposite ends of the world, as Indonesian gamelan meets Scottish bagpipes in Michael O’Neill’s roving Beledrone. Other highlights include Steve Reich’s seminal Music for 18 Musicians, and Nicole Lizée’s operatic multimedia work La Callas Fantasie.
Vancouver Health Show
Nov. 5 and Nov. 6
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Vancouver Convention Centre East
Tickets and info:
$10-12,
Two things: Turmeric and mushrooms. Recent,
have proven their medicinal properties. The reason Indians have a low incidence of Alzheimer’s is because curry and satay are made with turmeric. The spice
and has many other health benefits. Same with cordyceps fungus. After the Chinese women’s track team broke multiple Olympic records in 1993, it was revealed they all drank cordyceps tea to increase energy and endurance. Hear keynotes on these super foods and find them among scores of exhibitors at this massive annual expo.
Karaoke World Championships
Nov. 4 to Nov. 6, 4 p.m
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Edgewater Casino
Tickets and info:
$24-$39,
They’ve sung their hearts out in 25 countries, and now the winners from each compete here for the championship. Representing Canada is B.C.’s Patrick Dang, a former musician who gave it up and became a business CEO. Now president of Sprott Shaw College, Dang recently picked up the mic again. How does one succeed on the competitive karaoke circuit? Find the song that suits you, Dang says. His top two: Without You by Mariah Carey and All by Myself by Celine Dion.