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MUSIC What: The Naughty List 4.0, featuring Stinging Belle, DJ Anger and DJ Juice Where: Capital Ballroom, 858 Yates St. When: Friday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m. Tickets: $25 at eventbrite.

IN CONCERT What: A Tribute to the Blues Songs of Christmas Where: Hermann’s Jazz Club, 753 View St. When: Friday, Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m.

IN CONCERT What: Daniel Lapp’s Home for Christmas Where: Alix Goolden Performance Hall, 907 Pandora Ave. When: Friday, Dec. 21 (7:30 p.m.) and Saturday, Dec. 22 (2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.) Tickets: $14.85 to $29.10 at Ticketfly.

Annual pageant plays out with llamas, donkeys and baby Jesus The First Christmas Nativity Pageant, an annual live outdoor event, returns to Topaz Park from Friday to Sunday.

OPENING Aquaman (Cineplex Odeon Victoria, Cineplex Odeon Westshore, Landmark Cinemas University Heights, SilverCity Imax) — The half-man, half-Atlantean is the latest D.C. superhero to get an origin story with this underwater adventure.

Music students at Cloverdale Traditional School in Victoria have won $5,000 worth of instruments in CBC Music’s Canadian Music Class Challenge.

E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island By Robert Amos TouchWood, 192 pp., $35.00 E.J.

The reputation of E.J. Hughes in British Columbia is second only to that of Emily Carr, and over his career he painted scenes from all over British Columbia.

A documentary with Victoria ties has drawn the attention of one of the biggest actors on the planet. Ryan Reynolds of Deadpool fame has been tapped to do the voiceover for Great Bear Rainforest, a documentary from director Ian McAllister.

OPENING Anna and the Apocalypse (The Vic) — A zombie apocalypse threatens a sleepy little town at Christmas. With Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming and Sarah Swire.