CALENDAR: Beer Week, Taking Off, Bandfest
FRIDAY, MARCH 3 Victoria Beer Week, fourth annual edition featuring 50 B.C. craft breweries, at venues all over Victoria. Today to March 11. Go to victoriabeerweek.com.
Big Little Lions at the Upstairs Lounge in the Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee St., 7:30 p.m. Tickets at beaconridgeproductions.com, Ivy’s Books, Oak Bay Reception or at the door.
Taking Off by Deborah Williams, 8 p.m. at Studio A, Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave. Tickets at tickets.belfry.bc.ca; tel. 250-385-6815.
Willy Wonka by St. Michaels University Middle School at McPherson Playhouse. Tonight and Saturday, 7 p.m. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or tel. 250-386-6121.
The Triangle Factory Fire Project by Canadian College of Performing Arts. Tonight, 7:30, and Saturday, 2 p.m. at 1701 Elgin Rd. Tickets at eventbrite.ca.
Bandfest 2017, a non-competitive festival for concert bands featuring 30 ensembles from the Pacific Northwest, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at University of Victoria Farquhar Auditorium; uvic.ca.
VintAgeous Vintage Fair at the Fernwood Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone Ave. Today, 5-9 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Cougar Annie Tales, Katrina Kadoski’s musical one-woman show. 7:30 p.m. at Ticket Rocket HQ, 804 Broughton St. Tickets at ticketrocket.co.
Evita, rock concert presented by Spectrum Community School. Today, Saturday, Thursday, March 10, 11 at 7:30 p.m. and March 12 at 2 p.m. Tickets at tel. 250-479-8271.
Greater Victoria Concert Band presents The Hounds of Spring, 7 p.m. at The Ridge Playhouse, Claremont School, 4980 Wesley Rd. Go to gvcb.ca. Fergus O’Byrne Organ Fund-Raising Concert with appetizers and silent auction. 6 p.m. at Knox United Church, 345 Pym St. in Parksville. Tickets at Knox and the Mulberry Bush Bookstores in Parksville and Qualicum Beach. Proceeds to a new digital organ; tel. 250-248-3927. SATURDAY, MARCH 4 Stile Antico, Elizabethan Composers in Exile, 8 p.m. at Alix Goolden Hall, 907 Pandora Ave. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or tel. 250-386-6121.
Age of Arousal, presented by Theatre Inconnu, 2 and 8 p.m. at 1923 Fernwood Rd. Tickets at ticketrocket.co or tel. 250-590-6291. > timescolonist.com/events