Get birdlike: Berlin-based art rock squeeze box band Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird feathers Electric Owl’s nest and dancefloor as part of the ongoing Chutzpah Festival.
Say adios to Hugo Chavez: It’s been two years since formerly invincible Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez died from cancer he believed the CIA might have given him, and the country’s local consulate general office -- in solidarity with the Hugo Chávez People’s Defense Front – are hosting an evening to celebrate the swaggering populist’s life tonight at the Cultch featuring a screening of Oliver Stone’s documentary “My Friend Hugo.”
Get cheering: The Canucks hope to bounce back from a dispiriting 6-2 rout by the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday that saw backup backup Jacob Markstrom give up three goals on the first four shots when they face the bottom-dwelling Desert Dogs tonight at Rogers Arena.
Get in touch with your feminine side: The tenth annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival continues tonight with two events at Vancity Theatre. Nine short films (My Favourite Leg, Taxistop, Rúbaí, In the Deep, Instance, Un Peu Comme Simone, The Goodbye Girl, Nostalgia, The Underground) screen between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. followed by two longer shorts (Through the Pane and Behind Closed Doors) beginning at 9 p.m. Q&As after both to follow.
Get competitive: ITSAZOO, the folks behind last year’s award-winning Killer Joe, present Sebastian Archibald’s new satirical play The Competition is Fierce set in a dystopian future where corporate drones are forced to literally fight for their careers. Running until March 22 and described by two of its actors as “The Hunger Games set on Wall Street” and “UFC mixed with The Office,” the show premieres tonight at Renegade Studios’ Shop Theatre and features gory violence, coarse language and more full-frontal nudity than you could shake a makeshift weapon made out of office supplies at.
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