CALENDAR: Symphony, SPARK Fest, Beer Week
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
Victoria Symphony presents Broadway Lights at the Royal Theatre. Tonight at 8 and Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or tel. 250-386-6121. The Belfry Theatre’s 2018 SPARK Festival featuring True Crime, Who Killed Spalding Gray?, Mouthpiece, Cafe Daughter, and Tomorrow’s Child with free events, readings, and workshops. Daily through March 28; schedule and tickets at belfry.bc.ca.
Crafted Farmhouse Market with more than 50 local crafters, live music and local refreshments. Tonight, 5-9, and Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney. Go to marywinspear.ca La Tournée des Rendez-vous Francophone, the annual Francophone comedy night at Alix Goolden Hall, 8 p.m. Tickets at ticketfly. com. Presented in French. Victoria Beer Week, a series of events highlighting a broad selection of B.C. craft breweries; victoriabeerweek.com. Cosi Fan Tutte Opera Studio blending comedy, love, seduction and infidelity, set during the Vietnam War. Tonight and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. at Metro Studio, 1411 Quadra St. Tickets at ticketfly.com and tel. 250-386-5311.
University of Victoria Orchestra presents Polite and Heroic featuring UVic Concerto Competition winner Iris Hung at the Farquhar Auditorium, 8 p.m. Tickets at uvic.ca/auditorium/ticket-centre. Harpdog Brown & the Travelin Blues Show: featuring Jordie Edmonds Pat Darcus Bob Grant at Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View St., 8 p.m. Learn more at hermannsjazz.com; tel. 250-388-9166. Final days of University of Victoria Ideafest. A festival of research, art and innovation, today and Saturday. All events are free and open to the public. For details and full schedule, go to uvic.ca/ideafest. Sense and Sensibility by the Langham Court Theatre, 8 p.m. Through March 17 at 805 Langham Court. Performance schedule and tickets at langhamtheatre.ca.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10
Pinocchio presented by Kaleidoscope Theatre at the McPherson Playhouse, Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca, tel. 250-386-6121 or kaleidoscope.bc.ca PIGS – Canada’s Most Authentic Pink Floyd
Tribute Act at Alix Goolden Hall, 907 Pandora Ave., 7:30 p.m. Tickets at ticketfly.com
Portrait of Franz Liszt: Bruce Vogt, piano at University of Victoria Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building, B wing, 8 p.m. Tickets at uvic.ca/auditorium/ticket-centre.
For the Love of Africa presents A Night on Broadway featuring Toni Blodgett, Lynn Dennis, Louise Eldridge, Larry de la Haye, Peter Jasmin, Timothy Kyle, Maria Manna, Lara Oberg and Judith Pazder at 813 Claremont Ave., 7:30 p.m. Tickets at fortheloveofafrica.ca, Tanners Books, Seaberry Gardens, Ivy’s Bookshop, Tempo Trend Music and Nootka Traders; fortheloveofafrica.ca.