Today’s culture fix includes Render Vancouver International Music Video Festival, an art exhibition that takes a mining ghost town as inspiration, and the actor-comedian Tom Green:
Render Vancouver International Music Video Festival
Friday, reception 6:30 p.m., screenings 8 p.m. | Vancity Theatre
Tickets and info: $12, viff.org
One of the many goodies featured at the third annual festival isn’t even a video — it’s an exclusive screening of Radiohead’s 35mm film, Daydreaming. Also on offer: The world premiere Cristian Vogel’s music video, Snow Crunch, as well as new videos by Pixies, Kaytranada, Humans, Loscil, Peter Bjorn and John, and many others.
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Corbin Union: Inversus Mundi
Corbin Union: Inversus MundiOpening reception Friday, 7 p.m.; runs to Dec. 17 | Unit/Pitt Projects
Free; more info: helenpittgallery.org
The seven-member artist collective Corbin Union takes the once thriving, now deserted, former B.C. mining town of Corbin as inspiration for works that imagine a world inverted — “an alter-world” — while reflecting on ruin, self-determination and political resistance.
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Tom Green
Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. | Yuk Yuks Comedy Club
Tickets and info: $35 yukyuks.com/vancouver
In the ’90s, Ontario-born Michael Thomas Green’s — you can call him Tom — outlandish pranks and guerrilla-style street interviews earned him a spot on MTV and parts in films. Then at 28, he got testicular cancer, the surgery for which he naturally insisted on televising. Now 45, the hard-touring Green delivers a live version of TomGreen.com. This week’s highlight? “Do the Donald,” a catchy, satirical rap about Trump.
