CALENDAR
FRIDAY, NOV. 18
Jessica Lang Dance presented by Dance Victoria at the Royal Theatre, tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca and tel. 250-386-6121. Alan Doyle and the Beautiful Gypsies ,a fundraising concert for Hope Help Home. 8 p.m. at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or tel. 250-386-6121. The Hifi in Concert: New Orleans West Coast Brouhaha, Benefit for Children in Malawi, 7:30 p.m. at Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney. Tickets at marywinspear.ca or tel. 250-656-0275.
Tango Meets Baroque. An evening of strings with Grammy Award nominee violin virtuoso Pablo Diemecke, the DieMahler Ensemble and guests. Tonight, 6:30 p.m. at Alix Goolden Hall, 907 Pandora Ave. Tickets at livingedge.ngo.
Doctor Dolittle by the Four Seasons Musical Theatre. Tonight at 7 and Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. to Nov. 26 at Isabelle Reader Theatre, 1026 Goldstream Ave., Langford. Tickets at victoriaticket.com. Barney Bentall and the Cariboo Express concert for the Food Bank with Barney Bentall, Ridley Bent, Dustin Bentall, Kendel Carson, Matt Masters, Wendy Bird, special guests and The Gold Rush Allstars. Friday, 7:30 p.m. at Edward Milne Community Theatre, 6218 Sooke Rd., Sooke; emcsprograms.ca.
The Crucible performed by Langham Court Theatre, 8 p.m. at 805 Langham Court. Tickets at langhamtheatre.ca or tel. 250-384-2142.
An Evening with Michael Sicoly, the multitalented singer-songwriter, dinner show at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, 1175 Beach Dr. Today and Saturday, 6 p.m. Details and bookings at oakbaybeachhotel.com. Pauline Holdstock and Steven Price, an evening of readings and discussion presented by the Sidney & Peninsula Literary Festival Society and Tanner’s Books. 7 p.m. at the Shoal Centre,10030 Resthaven Dr.; sidneyliteraryfestival.ca.
Festival of Trees, daily to Jan. 3 at the Bay Centre and the Fairmont Empress. A fundraiser for the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation. Community Fiddle Dance with Old-Time Dance Band of tweens ’n teens from the B.C. Fiddle Orchestra lead by the Victoria Fiddle Society President, Daniel Lapp. 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 1379 Esquimalt Rd. Go to victoriafiddlesociety.com.
Archie Fisher at the Upstairs Lounge in the Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee St., 7:30 p.m. Tickets at beaconridgeproductions.com, Ivy’s Books and Oak Bay Reception.
SATURDAY, NOV. 19
Barney Bentall and the Cariboo
Express concert for the Sidney Lions Food Banks, with Barney Bentall, Ridley Bent, Dustin Bentall, Kendel Carson, Matt Masters, Wendy Bird, special guests and The Gold Rush Allstars. Saturday and Sunday, 7:30 p.m, at Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney. Tickets at marywinspear.ca or tel. 250-656-0275.