CALENDAR: Taste & Talk, burlesque

THURSDAY, JAN. 11

Taste & Talk. Local wineries, distillers and breweries gather for small pours paired with bites at Brentwood Bay Resort & Spa. Today: Cultured Kombucha, 6-7:30 p.m. Go to brentwoodbayresort.com/events. Wet Coast Burlesque Presents: Polesque at Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St., 7:30 p.m. Tickets at eventbrite.ca. Mark Crissinger at Ross Bay Pub, 1516 Fairfield Rd., 6-9 p.m.; 250-370-1152. Ange Hehr at Irish Times Pub, 1200 Government St., 9 p.m. vicpubco.ca; 250-383-7775. Cities at Bard & Banker, 1022 Government St.; 9 p.m. vicpubco.ca; 250-953-9993. Mike Rud at Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View St., 8 p.m.; hermannsjazz.com.

FRIDAY, JAN. 12

Victoria Baroque: Applausi Festivi with guest, Kati Debretzeni. 7:30 p.m. at Church of St John the Divine. Tickets at victoria-baroque.com.

Art Battle Victoria: Live competitive painting, 7 p.m. at Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St. Tickets at victoriaeventcentre.ca.

REConnected: Music for percussion, piano and electronics with Owen Underhill and Daniel Tones. 8 p.m. at University of Victoria Phillip T. Young Recital Hall; finearts.uvic.ca. Book launch of Traces Five Coastal Poets with Laura Dempsey, Anne Kirkaldy, Linda Peterson, Cathy Ready and Bob Tuomi, 7 p.m. at Martin Batchelor Gallery, 712 Cormorant St.; martinbatchelorgallery.ca. One-part living art exhibition, one-part theatre called open face beholding with Delaney Tesch: Intrepid Theatre, 2-1609 Blanshard St. Friday, 5:30 and 9 p.m. and Saturday, noon, 4 and 8 p.m. Tickets: cash only at the door. Collaborations with Music and Dance: A Composer and Artistic Director's Perspective at UVic. Rm. B037, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, 2:30-4 p.m. Free; finearts.uvic.ca/ music Music On the Mountain with Rollie Barrett at Master’s Lounge, Bear Mountain 1999 Country Club Way, 6-8 p.m.; 250-391-7160. > timescolonist.com/events