CALENDAR: Opera, boat show, celebration of Canada
FRIDAY, APRIL 28
Les Feluettes, presented by at Pacific Opera Victoria at the Royal Theatre, tonight at 8, with matinée Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or 250-386-6121. Victoria Inner Harbour Boat Show, daily through Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tickets at eventbrite.ca Arlo Guthrie, Running Down the Road
Tour at the University of Victoria, University Centre Farquhar Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Tickets at tickets.uvic.ca.
The Millies: Mollie Kaye, Elizabeth Adilman and Lynda Raino; a benefit for Victoria Hospice at Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View St., 8 p.m. Tickets at brownpapertickets.
The Heimir Male Choir of Skagafjordur, Iceland with soloists Thora Einarsdottir and Oskar Petursson at Christ Church Cathedral, 930 Burdett Ave., 8 p.m. Donation; icelanders-victoria.ca. O Canada! A Celebration of Our Nation with the Pensinsula Singers and members of the Cordova Bay Elementary School Choir at Mary Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Ave., Sidney, tonight and Saturday at 7:30-9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets: marywinspear.ca or tel. 250-656-0275.
SATURDAY, APRIL 29
International Astronomy Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Royal B.C. Museum with solar telescopes for viewing the sun and Walk Among the Planets display, hands-on activities and workshops. Free. Evening events at Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, 5071 West Saanich Rd., from 8 p.m-11 p.m. are free but tickets required at observatoryhill.org/content/events. Camas Day, 26th annual edition, in Beacon Hill Park. Meet at flagpole atop Beacon Hill, Birding at 7 and 9 a.m.; archeology and wildflower walks at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tel. 250-361-1338.
Younglife Victoria is holding the 27th annual Home Design and Renovation Tour 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tickets: younglife.ca/victoria-home-tour or tel. 250-634-3223. All Fun: Kart, Cages and Clubs, Western Speedway, 2207 Millstream Rd., Saturday and Sunday to June 18, 11 a.m.6 p.m. weather permitting; allfun.bc.ca.
Gorge Waterway Nature House, Esquimalt Gorge Park, 1070 Tillicum Rd.; open every Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. to May 28. Donation; gorge.ca. Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society 64th annual arts and crafts exhibition and sale at Mary Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Ave., Saturday, 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. and April 30, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; spacsociety.com.
Authors for Indies Day. Events at: Munro’s Books, 1108 Government St., noon-2 p.m. with authors Jack Knox, Esi Edugyan, Clea Young, Pauline Holdstock, Julie Lawson, Christian Fink-Jensen and Jordan Stratford and at Russell Books, 734 Fort St., 7:30-9 p.m., with games, giveaways, author readings with Edugyan, Lawson, among others. Enchanting Melodies of Sitar and Tabla. A Hindustani classical music concert by Pandit Kushal Das and Pandit Ramdas Palsule at the University of Victoria, David Lam Auditorium, A144 MacLauring Building, 7 p.m. Tickets at door or Munro’s Books. Tel. 250-721-2672.