Get read to: As part of the Vancouver Public Library’s ongoing Incite series, award-winning literary heavyweight Jane Urquhart will give a free public reading from her new novel, The Night Stages, beginning at 7:30 p.m. April 22 in the main branch’s Alice MacKay room. Added bonus: her daughter Emily will also read from her new book, Beyond the Pale, a memoir inspired by her experiences raising a daughter with albinism.
Get cleaned up: Grammy-winning British electronic group Clean Bandit, who are famous for mixing stolen snippets of classical music into their dance tracks, class up the Commodore Ballroom.
Get laughing: Notorious Irish funnyman Tommy Tiernan, best known for once being booted from a Just for Laughs tour for joking about the Holocaust, brings his politically incorrect Out of the Whirlwind show to the Vogue Theatre.
Get nerdy: Quizmaster IQ 2000 hosts an evening of Dr.Who-themed trivia tonight at Electric Owl for Whovians and their companions.
Get blasted: Pi Theatre’s remount of the late Sarah Kane’s figuratively and literally explosive 1995 play Blasted at Performance Works Theatre continues tonight.
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