The Ticket
This month’s best bets.
Seat belt sculptures, rowdy rugby and teen angst should be on your to-do list.
NONAME DATE March 12 VENUE Commodore Ballroom PRICE $59 commodoreballroom.com
Since first appearing on Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap album in 2013, American rapper and poet Noname has been slamming studios with her complex rhymes and nuanced stories. Unlike many millennial musicians, she’s deliberately absent from the public eye: she rarely does press interviews, she doesn’t shoot music videos and her Instagram feed might leave diehard ’grammers feeling hungry. So if you want to experience Room 25—her latest neo-soul album featuring heavy hits “Blaxploitation” and “Self”—there’s only one way to do it: get out of your sweatpants, run a comb through your hair and live it for real.
GLORY DATE April 4 to 13 VENUE Gateway Theatre, Richmond PRICE From $29 gatewaytheatre.com
Watch swing-dancing skaters shred the stage in the true story of one of Canada’s first female ice hockey teams.
FISTFUL OF KICKS DATE March 10 and April 14 VENUE Havana Theatre PRICE $12 instanttheatre.com
This epic animé-inspired show features both improvised and choreographed stage fighting and the most kick-ass AsianCanadian players on the block.
LENNON STELLA LOVE, ME TOUR DATE April 10 and 11 VENUE Vogue Theatre PRICE From $35 voguetheatre.com
This 19-year-old Ontarian and former Nashville star takes the stage with bold, catchy pop tunes in her debut headline tour.
DISPLACEMENT BY MOWRY BADEN DATE March 2 to June 9 VENUE Vancouver Art Gallery PRICE From $6.50 vanartgallery.bc.ca
Forget “don’t touch the art”: this Victoria-based artist creates interactive and participatory sculptures out of everything from seat belts to Ping-Pong balls.
COQUITLAM CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL DATE March 9 VENUE Westwood Plateau Golf Club, Coquitlam
PRICE From $55 coquitlambeerfestival.com Get your fill at this fest’s brand new “Quirky Brews Room,” featuring freaky favourites from Twa Dogs, Lighthouse Brewing and more.
RUGBY SEVENS DATE March 9 and 10 VENUE BC Place PRICE From $70 canadasevens.com
With roughly half the players, a quarter of the playing time and SO MANY COSTUMES in the audience, this tournament is union rugby to the extreme.
GROWING ROOM: A FEMINIST LITERARY FESTIVAL DATE March 8 to 17 VENUE Various locations PRICE Varies; many events by donation festival.roommagazine.com
Room magazine’s third annual literary festival focuses on author care, ethics and safety, with panels, readings and other events featuring over 100 diverse authors from around the world.
TEEN ANGST NIGHT DATE March 22 VENUE Fox Cabaret PRICE From $10 foxcabaret.com
Laugh your skinny jeans off during this comedic reading series, where adults share shameful diaries, songs and poetry they wrote as teens.