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Top 5 things to do this Wednesday in Vancouver

Get a TED fix: Rock star performance artist Amanda Palmer and unidentified “friends from TED” bring a taste of the ideas worth spreading experience to those who can’t afford the ridiculous TED 2015 ticket price.

Get a TED fix: Rock star performance artist Amanda Palmer and unidentified “friends from TED” bring a taste of the ideas worth spreading experience to those who can’t afford the ridiculous TED 2015 ticket price. Who will these nameless pals be? Former White House intern turned privacy advocate Monica Lewinsky? Daredevil videography Chuck Berry? Possibly her husband Neil Gaiman, who announced on Twitter today Palmer is three months pregnant? Find out tonight at the Vogue for just $20.

Get pulled in: Pippa Mackie and Kayvon Kelly host the latest installment of Pull Fest beginning 7:30 tonight at Little Mountain Gallery featuring sevennew 10-minute plays by Vancoucer playwrites make their on-stage debut. Pull Fest IV offers up A Dinner by Cameron Anderson, The Lookouts by Andrew Wade, Anthumb! by Maxamillian Wallace, Eight Seconds by Sean Harris Oliver, Scorch by Sebastian Kroon, The New Year's Party by Katey Hoffman and Cheyenne Mabberley, and Mackie’s own Deer Harper. $15 at the door.

See something strange: The Burrard Marina Field House hosts a 7 p.m. screening of sustainable food activist Keg de Souza film If There’s Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood, which explores the gentrification of a squatter settlement built in the 1970s on a graveyard alongside the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta’s main river.

 

Get vocal: Japanese “experimental sound poet” Tomomi Adachi headlines this year’s biennial Voice Over Mind Festival that fires up tonight at Western Front. Other performers include Swedish artist, composer, musician and writer Erik Bünger, the Netherlands’ Petra van der Schoot, Jerusalem-born vocalist and composer Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and Vancouver’s Camille Hesketh.

Be part of a run: Fearless Fringe fest regular TJ Dawe brings his latest one-man show Marathon, which recounts his short stint as a track and field athlete back in high school that was an attempt to please his principal (who also happened to be his father), tonight at Granville Island’s Studio 1398.

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