Category Archives: Downtown Eastside

Meet Pamela Masik, artist of The Forgotten: Vancouver’s Missing Women

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NOV27, 7-10pm LANGLEY ARTS TALKS: Pamela Masik, artist of the painting series The Forgotten: Vancouver’s missing women. Talks beside Fort Pub, Glover Rd $7 OR$5/members

From her website, more information on the project:

THE FORGOTTEN is a large-scale, powerful series of portraits of women’s faces. Sixty-nine portraits, to be precise – the number of women from Vancouver’s downtown eastside who have been missing for more than a decade. The majority of them have now been identified, yet the public’s knowledge of them has, for the most part, consisted of small police photos aligned in a grid on a poster, showing most of them as blurred and haggard representations at their worst.

At one time these women had multiple faces and roles in the community. They left thousands of memories and historical details. They were mothers, friends, wives or daughters. They had run from abusive relationships, they were drug addicts, mentally challenged, or had families to support and little means to do it other than prostitution. Many were First Nations people. At this point, 26 of the missing women have been identified as slain by Port Coquitlam farmer Robert Pickton.

And here is my own post about my run-in with Pickton. My book, by the way, is called Terminal City: Vancouver’s Missing Women, so I already feel we’re on the same page. I highly recommend checking out the video on her website.

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Join or Die: that’s all she wrote

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Are you a member, sir/madam?

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You can join us in real life tonight at 7pm at the Shebeen, just behind the Irish Heather, or you can join us virtually on Facebook, you can click the Gimme!Gimme! button on the sidebar to get us delivered to your inbox, or you can join the growing list of RSS subscribers to TheShebeenClub. But you can’t just sit there. I mean, look at that snake. You don’t want the Dorothy Parker of the Downtown EastSide here to open a can of whoopass on you, do you?

Thought not.

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Shebeen Club Pre-Holiday Party Monday, November 23

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A quick note to let you know that our November meeting is coming up, and there will be no meeting in December, because the Shebeen is going to be booked for a holiday party.

So, our meeting is this coming Monday, 7pm at the Shebeen. As always $20 buys you a drink and dinner, and the companionship of other literary types: publishers, journalists, authors, editors, illustrators, and bloggers.

Because this is our Holiday party, you are invited to bring your favorite piece of holiday writing and, if you like, read an excerpt. This is the ONLY night of the year we have anything approaching an Open Mic Night, as I was traumatized by an Amateur Talent Show in my youth and have yet to recover. It can be something you wrote, published, edited, or just read and enjoyed. I’ll take down all the titles and authors and put up a list of them afterwards.

Yes, you may wear your reindeer sweater, but we do not guarantee that everyone won’t go all Oscar Wildean/fashion critic on you.

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September Meeting: Survival, Thrival, Arrival

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Kathrin Lake, author of Survival to Thrival

Kathrin Lake, author of Survival to Thrival

Who? The Shebeen Club presents independent author Kathrin Lake

What? Survival, Thrival, Arrival: work/life balance for writeaholics

When? 7-10pm (note new time) Monday, September 21st

Where? The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 210 Carrall Street

Why? Because Kathrin has lived the struggling writer reality and come out on top, and it’s always a good idea to learn from the best!

How? Much? $20 new pricing reflects some new options and offerings. Cash is king, baby.

I met Kathrin something like a decade ago at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference, where we bonded over Harvey Wallbangers and Mae West quotations. Back then I knew she was smart, knew she was funny, knew she was determined, but I didn’t know just how successful she would ultimately become (or I would have let her pay for the drinks). The Shebeen Club is very pleased to invite Kathrin to speak about her journey as a writer and independently-published author of From Survival to Thrival: how to catch the boat to your successful, thriving life, and to pick up whatever tips we can about staying as sane as her while juggling professional priorites, staying true to ourselves as writers, and trying to keep the wolf (or at least the urban coyote) from the door.

Bring: a notebook, a pen, a backup pen (you should know this by now!) and a stock of your very best Mae West stories. It’s going to be a fun night as well as a learning experience.

Surrey Writers’ School at the Shebeen Club Monday

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Surrey Writers School

Who: The Shebeen Club and the Surrey Writers’ School

What: $15 gets you dinner and a drink (cash, plzthxkbai) with the finest of Literati

When: 6-9pm Monday, August 17th

Where: The Shebeen, Behind the Irish Heather in Gastown, 210 Carrall Street

Why: not? It’s a great new school run by actual, talented local writers, and it’s a Monday. What the hell else have you got going that night?

With great pleasure the Shebeen Club will be hosting an informative, educational, and slightly decadent (think Dorian Gray as an academic advisor) evening with Lois Peterson, co-founder and coordinator of the brand-new Surrey Writers’ School.

Surrey School District’s recent announcement that it had axed the Surrey Creative Writing Diploma Program left scores of South Fraser region writers without accessible writing classes.

The Surrey Writers’ School (SWS) was created by Surrey writers / teachers Lois Peterson, Ed Griffin and Doug Brunt to replace the now deceased Diploma Program. “Surrey’s writing program acquired a strong following over the past 16 years,” says SWS Coordinator Lois Peterson. “We know there are people out there wanting to learn skills to write for publication and their own personal satisfaction. ”

Rising like a Phoenix from the ashes (only of course not so cliched) of the Continuing Education Program, the Surrey Writers School aims to serve interested, active writers of the Lower Mainland. We hope you’ll come help us celebrate the birth of this newest edition to the literary scene in BC.

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