CALENDAR: Eyes Up! fundraiser for animals, Shakespeare
Ignio Circus presents Eyes Up! at the Mary Windspear Centre, 2234 Beacon Ave., Sidney. Tonight and Saturday, 7 p.m., tickets at marywinspear.ca.
Star Wars Party Fundraiser. Dress up for a night of everything Star Wars with proceeds going to Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre. A live cantina jazz band, video games and board games, and photo booth. 8 p.m.midnight at the Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad St.
Twenty-eighth annual Greater Victoria
Shakespeare Festival, featuring productions of Pericles and The Tempest. To July 28 at Camosun College’s Lansdowne Campus and Aug. 2-4 at Saxe Point Park, Esquimalt. Tickets at ticketrocket.co. Performance schedule at vicshakespeare.com. Cheek to Cheek for Angel Flight B.C. A special double bill concert to benefit Angel Flight B.C. featuring Edie Daponte and Susannah Adams with Joey Smith and Jan Stirling. 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, 2410 Malaview Ave., Sidney. Tickets at Tanners Books in Sidney; edie.ca.
Forty-third annual Canadian Sheet Metal Workers and Roofers Apprenticeship
Competition. Watch the projects unfold as Canada’s best apprentices compete for the top prize. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Ship Point on the Inner Harbour; smwia276.ca.
Victoria Pride Week. The Big Gay Dog Walk, 6 p.m. at Dallas Road Dog Park. Go to victoriapridesociety.org.
The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey by the Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, 8 p.m. at the Roxy Theatre, 2657 Quadra St. Tickets at bluebridgetheatre.ca.
Victoria Caledonian Brewery Summer
Kick-Off with live music by Cookeilidh, prize draws, snacks, and a specialty keg from the brewers. 7-9 p.m. at Victoria Caledonian Brewery & Distillery, 761 Enterprise Cres. Friday Nights on the Breakwater Barge with live music, food trucks and cold libations. Every Friday to Sept. 28 at the Breakwater Barge, 201 Dallas Rd.
Spectacular Summer Evenings at Butchart Gardens. Live entertainment on the open-air stage, every night to Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. with firework show choreographed to music; butchartgardens.com.
SATURDAY, JULY 7 Eats & Beats at the Beach.
Live bands, food trucks, street market, kayaking and SUP, a climbing wall, and fun stuff on the sand, street, sea and sky. Saturday, 1-8 p.m. at Colwood’s oceanfront beach along Esquimalt Lagoon. Free admission; colwood.ca/EatsnBeats. Victoria Pride Week. Pride In the Word, 7 p.m. at Ambrosia Conference Centre and House of Gabor Paparazzi Pride at 9 p.m. at Paparazzi Nightclub. victoriapridesociety.org. Dance to Buãan Buãan and special guests Balkan Babes. Presented by Puente Theatre and sponsored by Phillips Brewing Co. at White Eagle Polish Hall, 90 Dock St., 7-11 p.m. Tickets at eventbrite.ca or at the door. Roller Derby Annual Pride Double Header. Watch the Glitter Bombs against the Rainbow Riders and the Eves’ A-Team versus the Anarchy Angels. 5-9 p.m. at Archie Browning Sports Centre, 1151 Esquimalt Rd. Thirty-third Annual Wooden Boat
Festival. A two-day family event with boat races, boats on displays, radio-control pond, kids’ boat building, fishing derby, salmon barbecue dinner, pancake breakfast and chowder contest. Saturday and Sunday at Cowichan Bay Marina, 1761 Cowichan Bay Rd., Cowichan Bay.; classicboats.org.
Comedy Night for Critters with comedian Mike Delamont at Hecklers Bar and Grill, 123 Gorge Rd. E., 6 p.m.-midnight. Proceeds to Broken Promises Rescue; go to brokenpromisesrescue.wordpress.com.