CALENDAR: Aboriginal Cultural Festival; food and film fest
FRIDAY, JUNE 16
Victoria Aboriginal Cultural Festival. A Celebration of Aboriginal music, dance, food and arts with artist marketplace and Songhees Seafood and Stream Food Truck on site. Today through Sunday, outside at the Royal B.C. Museum, 675 Belleville St. Go to aboriginalbc.com/victoria-aboriginal-festival.
Sooke River Bluegrass Festival featuring Riverside Bluegrass Band, Twin Bandit, Clover Point Drifters and Nomad Jones. Today through Sunday at Sooke River Campsite, 2259 Phillips Rd., Sooke; sookebluegrass.com.
Victoria’s Ska Reggae Festival. Today’s highlights include Tarrus Riley, Dean Fraser, The Blak Soil Band, Shauit, Batuque Axe!, Miguelito Valdes and Tank Gyal at Ship Point, Inner Harbour, 4-10 p.m. as well as shows at Lucky Bar, Odd Fellows Hall and Sugar. Schedule at victoriaskafest.ca; tickets at ticketweb.ca.
Feast: Food & Film Festival, a celebration of food and drink paired with foodie films. Through Saturday with screenings at the Vic Theatre, 808 Douglas St. Today, featuring Seed: the Untold Story, screening at 4:30 p.m. and with Mother Nature’s Market and Deli with Victoria Distillers’ Island Mule at 4 p.m.; Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, screening at 7:30 p.m. and Toque Catering and wine by Vessel Liquor at 7 p.m. Tickets at feastfoodfilm.ca. Eleventh annual B.C. Shellfish and Seafood Festival. Events and tours, domestic and international chefs, seafood competitions, interactive beverage and seafood pairing master classes, marine wildlife tours, shellfish and seafood producer tours. To Sunday held in the Comox Valley; bcshellfishfestival.com.
Lunch at Allen’s at McPherson Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: rmts.bc.ca or tel. 250-386-6121.
Beauty and the Beast, presented by Four Seasons Musical Theatre at Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney. Tonight, 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m. Tickets at marywinspear.ca or tel. 250-656-0275. Proof, presented by Langham Court Theatre. Tickets at langhamtheatre.ca or tel. 250-384-2142.
SATURDAY, JUNE 17
Stages’ 37th annual Celebration of
Dance at University of Victoria Farquhar Auditorium. Two performances, 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Tickets: ticket.uvic.ca or tel. 250-721-8480.
Spring Belly Fling dance show with Asmira’s School of Oriental Belldance, 7:30 p.m. at Oak Bay United Church, 1355 Mitchell St. Tickets at Cleopatra’s Bedroom, 654 Fort St., Ivy’s Book Store and asmiradance1@me.com DieMahler Chamber Music Series presents Brandenburg Concerto 4 Johan Sebastian Bach with Lanny Polet, Ceci Valdés and Frances Polet. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. at 1701 Elgin Rd.; diemahlerenterprises.com. Eighteenth annual B.C. Family Fishing Weekend. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Victoria Fish & Game, 700 Holker Place, Malahat Dr. Go to pchow4570@shaw.ca or tel. 250-478-2279. FernFest 2017, a music and arts family friendly festival with local bands, barbecue and beer garden. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. in Fernwood Square. Go to fernwoodnrg.ca. > timescolonist.com/events