The Vancouver Ukulele Festival has a habit of selling out. This year’s festival is bigger than ever and includes a multiperformance concert at St. James Hall.Thinkstock
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Greasy Spoon: One of Canada's best chefs, Scott Jaeger of The Pear Tree, will be cooking a special "Greasy Spoon" dinner at Save On Meats on Monday, March 9.
The menu includes a Canadian split pea soup with smoked ham hock and shallot froth; pastrami-cured duck confit inside rosti potato with poached hen's egg; seasoned venison wrapped in double-smoked bacon with fried brioche crouton, pickled tomato and trumpet mushroom gravy; and spiced caramel pear with hazelnut crumble and aged cheddar.
Each course is paired with beer from Deep Cove Brewers. All proceeds go to help feed inner city kids in need and teach them about local food systems.
Mon, March 9, Two seatings: 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., 43 West Hastings St., $95 greasyspoondiner.com
Photography: The Remington Gallery launches the first solo exhibition of works by Vancouver photographer David Crompton on Friday night. The Emily Carr alumnus' exhibition showcases images from his second book, Common, which is described as a record of "the passage of a season captured through light, weather, texture and the movement of strangers within its frames." This show runs March 7-28.
Fri, March 6, 7-11p.m., The Remington Gallery (108 E. Hastings) facebook.com/Remington.Gallery.and.Studio
Maps: Tristesse Seeliger uses a variety of methods – painting, photocopy transfers, collage, printmaking – to transform historical Geological Survey of Canada maps into objects. As the Gam Gallery explains: "Seeliger fuses cartography and geometry to create new places and spaces that coax the brain to drift from the analytical to the sensory, and to delight in what is sensual, familiar and universal." Hit the gallery on Friday night to check out The Map Is Not The Territory. The show runs until March 28.
Fri, March 6, 7-11p.m., Gam Gallery (110 E Hastings St. at Columbia) gamgallery.com
Ukulele Festival:The Vancouver Ukulele Festival has a habit of selling out. This year's festival is bigger than ever and includes a multiperformance concert at St. James Hall that will see a fine lineup of "ukesters" (Sarah Maisel and Craig Chee from San Diego, Calif., Victoria Vox from Baltimore, Aaron and Nicole Keim of Portland, Oakland's John Nash and hosts Daphne Roubini and Andrew Smith, from Vancouver). Also, expect a weekend of workshops for every level of ukulele enthusiast as well as demonstrations, talks and the sweet sound of ukulele strings floating through the air.
March 6-8, 7 p.m., various venues and prices rubysukes.ca/vancouver-ukulele-festival
Paper: Cityscape Community Art Space in North Van has a cool paper-centric exhibition opening this week. Purely Paper is a group show featuring artists who create paper-based works. Think stunning and intricate cuttings by Rachael Ashe, sculptures by Anyuta Gusakova, Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi's drawings, installation art by Connie Sabo and amazing origami by Joseph Wu.
Fri, March 6, Cityscape Community Art Space (335 Lonsdale Ave.) nvartscouncil.ca/exhibitions/cityscape-community-art-space