Metro Vancouver events this week: 5 things to do between March 14-20

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Whether you’re looking for date-night ideas, free things to do or just something fun to do with the kids, you can’t go wrong with our list of events happening around Metro Vancouver from March 14 to 20. Headlining this week’s picks is sound artist Ioana Vreme Moser’s Screaming Minerals.

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Here are 5 things to do in Metro Vancouver this week:

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Ioana Vreme Moser: Screaming Minerals

When: March 16 at 8 p.m., artist chat at 7:15 p.m.

Where: Annex, 823 Seymour St., 2nd floor, Vancouver

Tickets: starting at $15 at showpass.com

Berlin-based Romanian sound artist Ioana Vreme Moser makes her North American debut with Screaming Minerals. The performance features Moser, a former ballet dancer and fine arts student, and local participants of a workshop to be held before the event. Moser and her collaborators will use discarded and organic material like pieces of scrap metal and semiconductors to create soundscapes. “I would describe my work as sound experiments, sound textures,” Moser told Postmedia. “Sound is the material I work with, and I produce the sound with an instrument that I create. The composing is in how I create the instrument. Of course, it can be musical. There’s a rhythm, there is a frequency. But for me, it’s more about the texture of sound and the history of how the sound comes to life rather than the final result.” Screaming Minerals is part of Vancouver New Music’s Parallels series.

The Snuts

When: March 16 at 8 p.m.

Where: Biltmore Cabaret, 2755 Prince Edward St., Vancouver

Tickets: $20 (plus fees) admitone.com

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While the band is big enough to sellout a 2,000-capacity ballroom for two nights back-to-back in their Scottish homeland, The Snuts are still playing to club-size audiences in North America. Case in point: the quartet’s upcoming Vancouver show in support of its third album, Millennials, is at the modest Biltmore Cabaret. Expect a rowdy, beer-soaked and sold-out show and folks wigging out to pop-rock anthems like Millionaires.

Making It! A 40th Cabaret & Fundraiser

When: March 15 at 8 p.m.

Where: Progress Lab 1422 William St., Vancouver

Tickets: $40 (or pay-what-you-can) at meganphillips.com

Vancouver-raised comedian, singer, songwriter, actor, and writer Megan Philips celebrates her 40th birthday with a New York-style cabaret. In Making It!, Philips — whose credits include Grease, Too! at last year’s Fringe Festival — mixes original songs with pop-theatre covers and standup comedy. Philips is backed by a full band and with special guests. All funds go toward Philips’ upcoming May 2024 tour as well as completion of an album.

Arno Schuitemaker: If You Could See Me Now

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When: March 14-16 at 8 p.m.

Where: Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver

Tickets $35, $26 students and seniors at thedancecentre.ca

Before becoming a choreographer Arno Schuitemaker studied aerospace and aviation technology. The Dutch artist demonstrates his take on modern dance in If You Could See Me Now, where three performers interpret a chilled-out club dance through movement, rhythm and endurance. According to one viewer, “the show manages to trigger a hypnotic effect through repetition, in which the spectator cannot help but be involved in the perpetual motion of the dancers, intensifying and slowing down, only to regain strength.”

Burnaby Artists Guild Art Show and Sale

When: March 15-17

Where: Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby

Tickets: Free admission. Info at burnabyartistsguild.com

Up to 47 artists in the Burnaby Artists Guild are expected to take part at the Guild’s latest semi-annual art show. Hundreds of paintings, including work by featured artist Lucille Loose, will be on sale. There will also be on-the-spot portraits and a raffle for a painting.

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