MUSIC
BOB MARLEY
Reggae DJ George Barrett hosts, One Love, the 29th Annual Bob Marley Birthday Bash live and direct from the Grandview Legion Hall (2205 Commercial Dr., Vancouver) on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. Three live bands are scheduled to perform including Steele from Toronto and Boom Daddy and Purple Soul from Vancouver plus DJ Bradley from Redemption Sound. Advance tickets $23 plus service charges at Zulu Records, Highlife Music and all Puff-Pipes. For more information visit on.fb.me/1StVVRX.
FILM
JACQUES RIVETTE
Pacific Cinémathèque presents the Vancouver premiere of Jacques Rivette's epic Out 1: Noli me tangere (1972) in four parts starting tonight at 6 p.m. The 13-hour film, originally made for French TV, features a cast of legendary New Wave actors - including Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Françoise Fabian and Michel Lonsdale - interweaving the tale of two rival theatre companies preparing productions of plays by Aeschylus with the stories of two eccentric outsiders all the while riffing on Balzac's Histoire des treize/History of the Thirteen (1835).
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
VIFF Vancity Theatre honours Black History Month with a series of screenings including a new documentary dedicated to the work of Senegalese film pioneer Ousmane Sembene, Sembene, on Tuesday, Feb 9 at 6:30 p.m. and Jonas Carpignano's look at the refugee crisis, Mediterranea, on Feb. 15 and 16. For a complete schedule go to bit.ly/1Ehzo06.
