7 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Monday, March 23

by The Georgia Straight Staff on March 22nd, 2015 at 4:00 PM

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Looking for something to do tomorrow? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 7 events happening in or around Vancouver on Monday, March 23.

MUSIC

Ryan McAdams conducts pianist Yevgeny Sudbin (above) and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a program of music by Mussorgsky, Ravel, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky at the Orpheum Theatre.

FORUMS

Local music-night producers Natasha Lands (Happy Ending Fridays), Tank Gyal (TING), Cam Dales (Ice Cream Social), Marlon J English (Slow Jam Sundays), and Wendy 13 (No Bollocks) discuss how they use social media to build their night, strengthen their brand, and simultaneously grow and engage their communities. Event takes place at Fortune Sound Club.

LITERARY

Poetry slam competition at the WISE Hall features local youth poets Emma Field, Alex Montinola, Natalie Zakon, Mariah Lynne Dear, Vienna Claire Jeffery, Melissa Illing, Angelica Poversky, and Andrew Warner.

Authors C. C. Humphreys, Sebastien de Castell, and Kris Sayer discuss their personal journeys studying swordplay to enrich their writing, characters, and stories. Event takes place at Vancouver Public Library.

GALLERIES

Exhibition of more 50 artworks by Emily Carr and Landon Mackenzie, presented in three thematically arranged galleries, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery spotlights works by three generations of Chinese artists who have been trained in both western art history and Chinese tradition, including Ai Weiwei, Chen Shaoxiong, Ji Yunfei, MadeIn Company, Sun Xun, and Xu Bing.

Cézanne and the Modern exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery of 50 works includes major paintings by Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh, as well as sculpture by Paul Gauguin, Wilhelm Lembruck, and Jacques Lipchitz.