These events listings are from The Hub Nanaimo, your weekly insider guide to the best of community arts and culture. Subscribe to this newsletter to see it in your inbox every Thursday.
🔎 Watch for 🔍
Friday, Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m.: The John Barsby School of Rock will perform at the Malaspina Theatre. Tickets are available at the John Barsby School’s front office.
🎵 Listen 🎤
Thursday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m.: The Vault Cafe will host its monthly open mic night. Admission is free.
Friday, Feb. 6, 4:30 p.m.: Vancouver indie and punk heavy hitters Black Pontiac return to Nanaimo featuring support from Danger Box, Saoirse Dream, kittens lol and Red Lenses at The Globe Live Studio. Tickets cost $20. .
Friday, Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m.: The John Barsby School of Rock will perform at the Malaspina Theatre. Tickets are available at the John Barsby School’s front office.
Friday, Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m.: Chase the Bear and Dead Summer will play at The Queen’s. Tickets cost $20.
Friday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m.: Sonnet L’Abbé will sing the jazz and read poetry that helped shape them into the artist they are at My Black History Is Poetry, Is Jazz: Musical Performance with Nick Peck on piano at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. Tickets cost $10.
Friday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m.: Ribcage and Dry Goods will play psychedelic free funk and improv jazz at The Vault Cafe. Tickets cost $15.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m.: Graham Clark will perform Comedy for a Cause at The Queen’s. Tickets cost $20.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.: The Zummers, Moon Grove and Juice will play an indie rock show at The Globe Live Studio. Tickets cost $18.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.: The Vault Cafe’s Jazz Night features Hans Verhoeven and Graham Shonwise playing a tribute to Charlie Yardbird Parker. Nick Peck (piano) and Ken Lister (bass), with special guest Sonnet L’Abbé will perform the music of Nina Simone. Tickets cost $15.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 9 p.m.: Jimi and The Lee Taylor Band will play rock, country and blues at The Queen’s. Tickets cost $20.
Sunday, Feb. 8, 3 p.m.: Nadine States will headline the Sunday Blues Jam at The Queen’s. Tickets cost $10 or free for blues jammers.
Monday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m.: Hawksley Workman will play at The Queen’s. Tickets cost $38.
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 6 p.m.: Draemus The Alien, Cavataca, Shanahan and Carl Longstaff will play an all-ages electronic/alt rock show at The Globe Live Studio. Tickets cost $10.
🎭 View 🖼️
Friday, Feb. 6, noon: Take a lunchtime tour of Bleached by the Sun: Perspectives on Chinatown at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. Tickets cost $5.
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 6 p.m.: The VIU Muslim Women’s Club will screen Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. Admission is free.
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⛹️ Meet 🎲
Thursday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m.: Portal Magazine will hold a silent auction fundraiser at White Sails Brewing.
Friday, Feb. 6, 10:30 a.m.: Mixed Abilities Dance Jam at Vibe Studios. Admission by donation.
Friday, Feb. 6, 10:30 a.m.: Cheer on Team Canada and watch the opening ceremonies of the winter Olympics at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library.
Friday, Feb. 6, noon: Learn Hul’q’umi’num’ with Jane Alcorn (Penelakut) and Stephanie Hohn as they provide an hour of introductory Hul’q’umi’num’ language and story in the Vancouver Island University Library’s Madrona Room (322). Registration is required.
Friday, Feb. 6, 5 p.m.: The VIU Mariners basketball teams take on the Okanagan College Coyotes at the VIU Gym. Women’s game at 5 p.m. and men’s game at 7 p.m. Admission is free for VIU students.
Friday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m.: The Nanaimo Clippers will play the Prince George Spruce Kings at Frank Crane Arena. Tickets cost $22 or $20 for seniors and $12 for children between six and 12 years of age.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 11 a.m.: The VIU Mariners basketball teams take on the Okanagan College Coyotes at the VIU Gym. Women’s game at 11 a.m. and men’s game at 1 p.m. Admission is free for VIU students.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 1 p.m.: Discuss death in a relaxed and confidential space with experienced facilitators at the Death Cafe in the Gabriola Island library.
Sunday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.: Explore the history of Nanaimo’s Black pioneers and local landmarks that tell their story with resident storyteller Debbie Goodman at the First Unitarian Fellowship.
Sunday, Feb. 8, 3 p.m.: The Raspberry literary magazine is hosting a launch party for its second issue, Cozy Winter, with author readings at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library. Admission is free.
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m.: The Library Youth Club meets at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library.
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.: The Island Roots Farmers Market will be held inside the Centennial Building at Beban Park.
