Since from day to day it looks like I will/won’t be in town for the Shebeen Club meeting on June the 15th, I’ve asked Ian Alexander Martin to take over in my stead. Naturally, should I be in town on the evening in question, I’ll expect him to give up the scepter of leadership but […]
June 1, 2009
I’m sitting at Workspace looking out over Crab Park (the green space formerly known as Portside Park, if only to bureaucrats at City Hall who just couldn’t give up control long enough to use the name people had been using for it for ten years) thinking that the much-ballyhoo’d Carrall Street Greenway consists primarily of […]
May 30, 2009
Interested in W2 and the community? Want to get involved and make a positive and lasting change? Come to the W2 info night, held on Thursday, June 4th at 7PM. This is an free and informal event open to everyone. Food and drinks will be served. Learn about upcoming programming, including the Youth Media Arts […]
May 27, 2009
This is from a Facebook invitation. As I’ve mentioned before, Gallery Gachet is an excellent gallery located just off Gastown on Cordova, whose mission it is to work with outsider artists. Now they are doing live theatre in the space, which sould be quite an intimate experience. Storytelling Our Lives is an exciting theatre production […]
May 21, 2009
The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Partners would like to invite you to attend an* information meeting* on: *Wednesday, June 3rd* *from 9:30am to 11:00am* *at the Japanese Language School & Hall* (the Japanese Language School & Hall is located at 475 Alexander Street @ Jackson Ave) The purpose of this meeting is to […]
May 19, 2009
Should be an epic party; I know for a fact that Danny Fazio was thrown off the Scorpions tour for being too raucous. Think about it; getting thrown off a metal band tour for being too hard to handle. This party should be a blast! from the Facebook page: This year, ION celebrates its best […]
May 16, 2009
Adding on to our original announcement of two job opportunities at the Gallery Gachet, here is the very latest. Note that the deadline for this is May 19th as well. Student JOB POSTING: Communications & Sales Coordinator May 19, 2009 SUMMER STUDENT JOB POSTING Communications and Sales Coordinator Closing date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Gallery […]
May 15, 2009
First Thursdays Alibi Room 5:30 pm For those of you who have a hand in running an arts organization. If you spend your days writing grants, staring at spreadsheets, contemplating how to grow your audience…. well, it’s time to get out of the office! We want YOU to come out to our casual get-together every […]
May 14, 2009
CLOSING PARTY FOR 12 MIDNITE’S BIG BANG ART SHOW FRIDAY MAY 15 FRIDAY, MAY 15, Canadian Prince of Pop Art 12 MIDNITE closes his BIG BANG! show of neon art with a knock-down-drag-out closing party and performance at The Chapel: 304 Dunlevy, Vancouver. 12 MIDNITE invites one and all to a final peek at his […]
May 13, 2009
Building on last month’s successful meeting re-examining the existing publishing model, we’ve lined up renegade publisher and artist Robert Chaplin of independent publisher Library Editions to give us his take on end-running the Old Boy’s Network. On Monday May 18th at the Shebeen Club Royal Canadian Academician Robert Chaplin will discuss publication and treasure, vis […]
June 1, 2009
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