![Majid Jordan performs Oct. 30, at Commodore Ballroom. [PNG Merlin Archive]](https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/theprovince/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/majid-jordan-performs-oct-30-at-commodore-ballroom-png-m.jpeg "Majid Jordan performs Oct. 30, at Commodore Ballroom. [PNG Merlin Archive]")
Seven things you should do this week include concerts by Majid Jordan and Nicolas Jaar, an exhibition by Walker Evans and much more:
Majid Jordan
Oct. 30, 9:30 p.m.
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Commodore Ballroom
Tickets and info
: Sold out,
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Drake and Beyonce fans are all over this concert by the Toronto duo, who’ve helped write and produce tracks for both. Majid Jordan’s self-titled debut fuses the best elements of those stars — hazy seduction and propulsive dance beats — with their own buttery, modern R&B style. Al Maskati’s falsetto is a stunner, especially on the Jamie xx co-production Learn from Each Other.
Walker Evans: Depth of Field
Oct. 29 to Jan. 22
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Vancouver Art Gallery
Tickets and info:
$5.50-$24,
The iconic images of the Great Depression are here, of course, but Walker Evans (1903–1975) enjoyed a long career full of innovation, as this largest display of his works attests. His early photographs from the 1920s, captured on the streets of New York, were inspired by European avant-garde esthetics, while other images depict his interest in covert candid photography, the esthetic possibilities of signs, and experiments with colour Polaroid film. Evans constantly sampled new techniques and technologies. Anything new or curious was of interest.
Vancouver Home + Design Show
Oct. 27-30
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Vancouver Convention Centre West
Tickets and info:
$6-$13,
vancouverhomeanddesignshow.com
Before you dig into that next redesign project, hit the Home + Design Show’s booth featuring complimentary one-on-one consultations with top designers. It could be the most valuable 10 minutes spent on the project.
More reasons to attend the 400-exhibitor show: The Main Stage presents stars from The Expendable, Game of Homes, and Love It or List It; chefs from Medina Cafe, Beta 5 Chocolate and others share most popular dishes; and two marketplaces, one focusing on art, the other a pop-up version of Portobello West, let you score cool stuff on the spot.
The Parade of Lost Souls: The Wild!
Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Commercial Drive
Tickets and info:
Free,
It’s a jungle out there so might as well swing with it. Dress up as your favourite local species (or make one up) and parade your animal spirit through the streets along with thousands of others celebrating this year’s Parade of Lost Souls theme: wild thing. As always, the parade route is kept secret, until midnight the night before — but you can expect fire dancers, art installations, live music and a packed after-party.
Nicolas Jaar
Nov. 1, 9 p.m.
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Commodore Ballroom
Tickets and info:
Sold out,
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Nicolas Jaar is possibly the only musician in the world who can begin his new album with several minutes of what sounds like breaking glass punctuated with improv piano noodling — and still sell out the Commodore. Skip ahead though, and the album Sirens offers much delight, from elegant dance beats to doo-wop pillow talk.
The New York-based electronic music-maker is known for his shape-shifting ways. His BBC Essential Mix (named Mix of the Year in 2012) swings between the likes of Jay-Z, Aphex Twin and Charles Mingus — and his esthetic synthesizes all of it.
Vancouver Mushroom Show
Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
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VanDusen Botanical Garden
Tickets and info:
$3,
The Vancouver Mycological Society
offers a bonanza of mushroom images, news of upcoming forest forays and a friendly blog, covering everything from toads to recipes, all housed in a misty, enchanted woods design. But not all is lucky charms.
The most recent lecture announcement: “How to die in the forest and never be found: Common mistakes of the unprepared forager and how to avoid them.” With the recent fatal mushroom poisoning of a Victoria boy — the first recorded death in B.C. from a death cap mushroom — attendees of the society’s annual show will be more interested than ever in deadly shroom display, here among the scores of other specimen displays, books, photos, rovering experts, gourmet cooking demos and talks.
The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe
Until Nov. 6, 8 p.m.
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York Theatre
Tickets and info:
From $20,
On stage, the lanky Thomas Monckton recalls Jim Carrey, Harpo Marx and Charlie Chaplin. All he has to do in this show is sit down at the piano and play. But it takes him 55 minutes to do so. Everything gets in his way — and magnificently so.
His acrobatics with the chandelier are breathtaking. As the story unfolds — in, under, and around the magnificent grand piano — the instrument itself becomes a character.
The Paris-based New Zealander Monckton has toured the world with this meld of mime, clowning and circus and magic, appealing to critics and audiences of all ages alike.