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A Very Collins Christmas: Chameleon artist Jeff Collins gathers artists and musicians alike to his humble space off 118 Avenue year round, but Saturday night’s show is for a wonderful cause.
On Santa’s nice list here are folk singer and social activist Paula Eve Kirman, multi-instrumentalist M.O.A.I.N., singer-songwriter Maeve Bezaire, clarinetist Don Ross and the improv duo of Will Northlich-Redmond and Matt McKenzie.
Come one, come all — but please, please bring some non-perishable food goods as your price of admission.
Details: 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. at Collins Studio Gallery (11741 94 St.), no charge with Food Bank donation.
Opening with Stolen Time, which follows a charismatic elder-rights lawyer taking on the for-profit nursing home industry, 10 films cover topics like the Sixties Scoop, mining’s environmental degradation, police overstep and the pushback on trans rights.
Next Saturday there are two screenings — Los Colones and Principles of Resistance: The Gordon Hirabayashi Story, 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. — then a casual evening event.
Details: Tuesday to Dec. 18 at CKUA (9804 Jasper Ave.), no charge.
Skeleton Crew: The premise to this latest Star Wars series, to be honest, looked pretty dank: a bunch of suburban space kids get lost in the cosmos — hoo boy.
But I was very wrong, it’s great, bubbling with an actual sense of wonder in a modern space show, go figure!
From their subtly fascist home planet to absolutely insane Easter Eggs from Captain EO to the deepest edges of Star Wars (including the Christmas Special and Battle for Endor), the sense of white-knuckle peril is real in that delightfully ’80s Spielberg way.
Jump in! Seriously!
Details: Now streaming on Disney+.