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Theatre week, properly: & Juliet brings the Max Martin songbook to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for eight performances, and VIFF opens its 45th edition on Thursday with screenings citywide. The concert calendar refuses to be upstaged. Kehlani and SOMBR share Tuesday, The Neighbourhood fill Rogers Arena on Friday, and Beth Orton closes the week at the Commodore.
The musical of the season opens Tuesday, and the clubs stay busy around it. SOMBR fills Rogers Arena the same night Kehlani plays UBC.
What if Juliet didn’t die for Romeo? The Broadway hit answers with the Max Martin songbook, Since U Been Gone to Roar, stitched into a sharp, confetti-cannon romantic comedy. Evenings at 7:30, weekend matinees at 2.
Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Arena, UBC, 6:30 pm. The Kehlani World Tour’s Vancouver night.
Commodore Ballroom, 7 pm. Compton house-and-funk in a voice that sits around the floorboards.
Biltmore Cabaret, 7 pm. Genre-fluid alt-R&B from the Sex Education actor turned full-time artist.
The festival opens, the Shipyards go underground, and Sunday belongs to a songwriter’s songwriter.
Sweater Weather made them one of the most-streamed rock bands of the decade; The Wourld Tour leans into that moody, cinematic California sound with arena production to match.
Image: Public DiscoAn all-day underground electronic festival on the waterfront: Leon Vynehall, Fred P, Prosumer and DJ Holographic across the Shipyards Commons and Pipe Shop.
She helped invent folktronica with Trailer Park and Central Reservation; three decades on, the songs land harder and the voice is still unmistakable.
Thursday through October 11, cinemas citywide: the Vancouver International Film Festival opens with Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut and closes with Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine. In between, hundreds of features, shorts and talks. Pick one thing that isn’t on a streamer and see it big.
Comedy, poetry and performance from the internationally known writer-performer.
UK rave-rock veterans; famously a full-body live experience.
The Fallout turns 25: a hometown anniversary night for the Vancouver band.
Ragged, roadworn Americana from the Rhode Island lifers.
Two new counters worth a detour, and a stage-and-screen Saturday.
Montreal’s cult salad bar lands on the West Coast: the full menu, smoothies, a 16-seat patio and a Kits-only Salmon by the Sea bowl. Opened September 23, 8 am to 9 pm daily.
The Fukuoka tonkotsu specialists go express on campus: order at a kiosk, quick counters, same broth. Soft-opened last week.
& Juliet at the Saturday 2 pm matinee, an early dinner downtown, then an evening VIFF screening. Curtain to credits in one day.
Four free plans this week, one of them a day for listening.
Orange Shirt Day: New West’s gathering at Queen’s Park runs from 11 am with ceremony, guest speakers and a teaching powwow, hosted with QayQayt First Nation. One of many observances region-wide. Wear orange, and go to listen.
More than 100 artists across some 70 studios and venues, all free to wander, all weekend.
The North Vancouver museum opens on your terms: admission is pay-what-you-can, including nothing at all.
Peak-harvest tables on a Sunday morning, with the season’s squash and apples stacked high.
October keeps selling. Four to lock in now.
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