I stole this right off their site (with permission!): Job Posting – Museum Programmer In the last five years, the Vancouver Police Museum has seen incredible growth, thanks in part to a roster of engaging school and public programs on the forensic sciences, and on Vancouver’s criminal and law enforcement history. Our programs are a […]
August 13, 2009
Take your umbrellas, my friends! THURSDAY AUGUST 13TH 2009, that’s TONIGHT! CHILL WINSTON presents the OLIO FESTIVAL ACCORD The Olio Festival Accord is the Olio Festivals free all ages outdoor kick off party for the 1st nite of Olio Festival in historic Gastown! featuring bands ANALOG BELL SERVICE http://www.myspace.com/analogbellservice SUNWIZARD http://www.myspace.com/thesunwizard MAKEOUT VIDEOTAPE http://www.myspace.com/makeoutvideotape HAROLD […]
July 21, 2009
Ah, the complications of nonprofittery: last year, for reasons on which I’m unclear (but which many, MANY people on both sides are happy to discuss, at great length, the first chance and every chance they get) Public Dreams Society did not get the support of the City and whatever other agencies/organizations they were looking to […]
July 13, 2009
Art and Ecology, a talk on the intersection of art practice and responsible land use with John K. Grande, is at the VanDusen Gardens this Thursday. This is taken from the Facebook invitation: You are invited to join us for an evening presentation and discussion about environmental art: Thursday July 16 6:30-9:00pm at VanDusen Botanical […]
July 8, 2009
It doesn’t get much simpler than that; you can now read the almost-certainly-about-to-be-a-best-seller book Free, the Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, the author of old-skool social media gospel Long Tail, right here online. I mean yeah, you could click away to Amazon and buy it there and spend anxious weeks waiting to […]
June 8, 2009
Join the Commerical Drive Car-Free Festival, Sunday, June 14th, all day until 8pm. I’d love to tell you how to volunteer, what to expect, what time the bands go onstage, etc, but the poster they emailed out is too small to read. Just show up and have fun! Volunteers also needed, apply here. UPDATE: found […]
June 5, 2009
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES : RICHMOND ART GALLERY 4th ANNUAL ARTIST TRADING CARD EXHIBITION Open to all participants in the Lower Mainland and Beyond Exhibition: 18 September – 30 October 2009 Deadline for ATC Submission: Post-mark deadline of 4 September 2009 Closing Celebration and Trading Session: Friday, 30 October, 7-8:30pm The RAG’s 4th Annual Artist […]
June 2, 2009
I initially volunteered to help with Changecamp, but warned them at the beginning I wouldn’t be able to help pull it off in May, and the way May turned out I had no chance to help out when they switched it to June, either. So the least I can do is post this, eh? VanChangeCamp […]
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 […]
August 18, 2009
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