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The Velveteins: Dream-pop SXSW alumni The Velveteins are soaked in the brighter psychedelia of the ’60s, then dipped in the indie-rock explosion of the new millennium. Prolific and hardworking since the year of our lord 2016, the four-piece band’s live show is perfect date-night material, slow-dancers and side-huggers transmitting the sense that, at least for now, everything’s going to be all right, we can make it through. Southern Alberta’s jangly desert-rock Ghost Woman gets the night going in a wave of reverb at one of our city’s very best venues, The Aviary.
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Details: 8 p.m. at The Aviary (9314 111 Ave.), $20 at the-aviary.net https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/event/601:3771/601:25755/
turn the lights off on your way out: Through many challenges, setbacks and triumphs, this show brings together the work of the University of Alberta’s 2022 graduating class of Bachelor of Fine Arts. This work comes from throughout their degrees including painting, printmaking, sculpture and media arts. “Before we turn the lights off,” reads the release, “we now have this chance to see how far we have come together, and to see what we carry forward into the rest of our careers.”
Details: 2 pm – 5 pm Saturday, through April 29 at FAB Gallery (1-1 Fine Arts Building, U of A), no charge
Run Woman Run (2020): When a steady diet of donuts, pizza, cake and cigarettes lands a single mother Beck in a diabetic coma, she receives a ghostly life coach in the form of legendary marathon hero Tom Longboat who helps her train for the run of her life. Directed by Zoe Leigh Hopkins, 100 mins, winner of Audience Choice Award at ImagineNATIVE Film Festival.