Events Calendar

Toronto-based, Colombian-born Polaris Prize winner Lido Pimienta’s ecstatic hybridity and “bold, brash, polarizing” (Globe and Mail) politics of gender, race, and identity explode pre-conceived notions of what a Latine pop artist ought to be, while her mind-bending voice and live looping lead a musical journey from traditional Afro-Colombian percussion to global bass and darker avant-garde electronic sounds. With Brandon Valdivia (US Girls, Mas Aya) drums/percussion.

The free Downtown Jazz concert series takes place outside the Vancouver Art Gallery and šxwƛ̓ ənəq Xwtl’e7énḵ Square on Saturday, June 24 and Sunday, June 25. The Georgia Street Stage sits near the corner of Hornby and West Georgia Streets.