CALENDAR: Shakespeare, Our Town, music in park

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5

Greater Victoria Shakespeare

Festival presents Love’s Labour’s Lost, 7:30 p.m. at Camas Stage outdoors at Camosun College Lansdowne campus. Tickets at ticketrocket.co

Our Town, presented by Bluebridge Theatre, 8 p.m. at 2657 Quadra St. Tickets at bluebridgetheatre.ca or tel. 250-385-4462. Lunch-time flute and pipe organ recital with flautist, Antonia Mahon and organist, Christine Purvis. 12:15-12:45 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 924 Douglas St.; standrewsvictoria.ca.

Summer Piano Academy Recitals featuring student recitals, 1-2 p.m. at University of Victoria Philip T. Young Recital Hall. Contact hayes@vcm.bc.ca or 250-386-5311.

Spectacular Summer Evenings at Butchart Gardens, with the music of David Vest, 8-9:30 p.m. at 800 Benvenuto Ave.; butchartgardens.com. The Italians are coming … with the Umbria Ensemble performing with friends from the Victoria Symphony. 7:30 p.m. at Christian Reformed Church, 930 Trunk Rd., Duncan. Tickets at ticketrocket.co.

Mitchell Hahn at The Irish Times Pub, 1200 Government St., 9 p.m. vicpubco.ca; tel. 250-383-7775.

Duff Kelly at Victoria Public Market, 1701 Douglas St., noon-2 p.m. Tel. 778-433-2787.

THURSDAY, JULY 6

Music in the Park featuring Knacker’s Yard, 6:30 p.m. at Willows Beach Park, Beach Drive at Dalhousie Street. Event is every Thursday to Aug. 24; oakbay.ca/parks-recreation.

Victoria Shakespeare by the Sea presents King Lear, 7 p.m. at Fisherman’s Wharf Park, 30-Erie St. Tickets at VictoriaTicket.ca or cash at door. Go to victoriaislandshakespearearts.com or tel. 778-440-4686. The Raven Baroque Orchestra plays the hits from 1600 to 1750 in full costume at Victoria Public Library Atrium, 2 p.m.; ravenbaroque.org. 19th annual InFrinGinG Dance Festival: Dancing In The Belly Of The Dragon. Thursday through Sunday at Vancouver Island Conference Centre, the White Room, and Maffeo Sutton Park, Nanaimo. Go to crimsoncoastdance.org or tel. 250-715-3230.

Spectacular Summer Evenings at Butchart Gardens, featuring Ivonne Hernandez with Coastline, 8-9:30 p.m. at 800 Benvento Ave.; butchartgardens.com.

Cities at the Bard & Banker Pub, 1022 Government St., 9 p.m. vicpubco.ca; tel. 250-953-9993.

Black Angus at The Irish Times Pub, 1200 Government St., 9 p.m. vicpubco.ca; 250-383-7775 > timescolonist.com/events