Singer Tim McGraw performs during Country Music Television's "CMT Giants" honoring Hank Williams, Jr. in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007.Matt Sayles/The Associated Press
LITERARY
Lee Henderson
The author of the acclaimed novel The Man Game will bring historic Vancouver (factual and fictional) to life as part of the Robson Reading Series. Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC, Thursday at 2 p.m. ( robsonreadingseries.ubc.ca ).
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Noise not Noise
The Western Front explores the changing role of noise in culture with a series of panel discussions, workshops and performance art, including a work by legendary Japanese noise artist KK Null. An online exhibition Network Noise not Noise coincides with the live events. The Western Front, March 26 to 28 ( front.bc.ca).
MUSIC
Tim McGraw
The legendary U.S. country singer travels north of the border, promoting his most recent album Southern Voice. With special guest Lady Antebellum. GM Place, Thursday at 7:30 ( ticketmaster.ca).
Tech N9ne
The U.S. rapper brings his Strange Music (that's the name of the record label he owns) to Vancouver. The Commodore, Tuesday, doors at 10 p.m., show at 11 ( livenation.com).
VISUAL ART
Bridge City: Links for a Fragile Peninsula, 1895-1980
Photographs by Leonard Frank and Otto Landauer document local bridge construction. This is more than an architectural study. The text accompanying the photographs explores how bridges have changed the Vancouver area from a group of separate villages to an automobile-reliant amalgamated geographic area. Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver Campus until June 23 ( sfu.ca/gallery).
Neo-Native Drawings and Other Works
The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition to survey world-renowned Coast Salish artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's works on paper. Yuxweluptun is best known for his large-scale paintings and their bold use of colour. This exhibition focuses on works of a more intimate scale, the colours replaced by fine lines. Contemporary Art Gallery until May 16 ( contemporaryartgallery.ca).
Sorel Etrog: The Link Paintings
Toronto artist Sorel Etrog is best known for his sculpture, but these paintings should not be missed. The so-called link paintings highlight the ways different parts of the self interact with or are controlled by other parts. His contorted bodies are a sort of theatre of the absurd, inspired by playwrights Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco. SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus until May 8 ( sfu.ca/gallery).