Entertainment

MUSIC What: Vox Rea Where: Charlie White Theatre at the Mary Winspear Centre, Sidney When: Tuesday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $18.90 from https://tickets.marywinspear.

A comedy tour by Spencer (Spenny) Rice featuring music, video clips, and audience interaction qualifies as a must-see event, given the car-crash possibilities that have come to be associated with the Kingston, Ont. comedian.

Winners of the 2021 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes were announced Saturday, with Victoria authors Robert Amos and Sara Cassidy emerging triumphant during the online gala. A jury for the 37th annual event selected five finalists in each prize category.

You have to give author and humourist David Sedaris credit for trying to make it to Victoria, even if he’s been unsuccessful in several attempts. The New York Times best-selling author’s appearance at the Royal Theatre on Nov.

ON STAGE What: Victoria Festival of Authors Where: The Metro Studio Theatre (1411 Quadra St.), Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary (1772 Millstream Rd.), and victoriafestivalofauthors.ca When: Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 Tickets: Eventbrite.

ON STAGE What: Bach’s Tenor AriasWhere: St. John the Divine, 1611 Quadra St. When: Friday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m. (doors at 7:30), and Sunday, Sept. 26, 2 p.m. (doors at 1:30) Tickets: $30 ($15 student/youth) from victoria-baroque.

MUSIC What: The Ryan Oliver Quartet’s 5th Annual Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane Where: Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View St. When: Friday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. (doors at 5:30) Tickets: $20 from hermannsjazz.

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English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Eddie Izzard is bringing her Wunderbar tour to Canada in November with an 11-date trek that includes a stop in Victoria.

Yes, we know there is an election going on, along with other distractions. But literacy matters, now and into the future, so we are still doing what we can to raise money to boost it on Vancouver Island.