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Culture: Jazz Fest, Bard on the Beach & Celso Machado

Found objects, found siblings, found art – this month, a paean to the things that were here before you were. MUSIC

By Alicia Costa /

Found objects, found siblings, found art – this month, a paean to the things that were here before you were.

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Vancouver International Jazz Festival: While he can’t escape from a locked vault using only a penknife and elastic band – come on, he’s not MacGyver – the Brazilian musician Celso Machado can make beautiful sounds with things like teapots and garden hoses. Nominated for three Junos for his virtuosic guitar work, Machado will be one of the 1,800 jazz artists taking the stage at this year’s Vancouver International Jazz Festival. June 26 to July 5, various locations.

Bard on the BeachTHEATRE
Bard on the Beach: A Shakespearean version of The Parent Trap will be debuting at this year’s Bard on the Bach in Vanier Park. Opening June 10 is Comedy of Errors, a deliberation on the trials and comic tribulations of two sets of twins separated at birth and trying to find each other. Set in Elizabethan England, the show boasts an innovative set and larger-than-life costumes. B.C. director David Mackay oversees the play, which is considered Shakespeare’s first success in comedy. May 28 to Sept. 26, Vanier Park.

World Upside DownART
World Upside Down: In few places outside of a sanatorium cafeteria will you hear simultaneous dissertations on Superman being a farm boy from the USSR, rabbits being bloodthirsty killers and Charlton Heston. The World Upside Down exhibit at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria attempts to use art to show us what happens when the structures of social power are inverted. Among the collection, curated by Richard William Hill, is a specially commissioned billboard by the decidedly sane aboriginal artist Terrance Houle. June 5 to Sept. 7, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.