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RAIN Magazine Launch Party

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Stolen from the Facebook invitation.

Rain launch party

Rain launch party

Hello Friends!

please join us to celebrate the newest issue of RAIN!

RAIN LAUNCH! issue 4
Wednesday, January 20th 7 PM

it’s 10 dollars at the door BUT you get a
FREE issue of RAIN with ticket
which this issue has a DVD in it!!

Where:
W2 Culture + Media House
112 West Hastings Street
(across the street from Woodward’s)
creativetechnology.org

Featuring:
Speaker: David Eby
Spoken Word: Aly!
Music and Words: Adrian Glynn (http://adrianglynn.com/site/)
Special Musical Guests (email me to find out who.. it’s super awesome, just has to be a secret)

plus much much more!

Please Spread THE WORD!

*we won’t turn anyone away for lack of funds*

rainzine AT gmail.com/rainzine.org

**There are bike racks at the corner of Cambie and Hastings in front of the film school.**

#20 goes straight by it, skytrain, etc., and Parking on the streets, and a parking lot on Cambie about a block away.

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List of Contributors in this issue:
Am Johal, Matt Hern, Harsha Walia, Irwin Oostindie, Dave Eby, Richard Smith, Peter Prontzos, Dave Olson, Ben West, Leia Herrera, Sylvia McFadden, Maura Doherty, Patrick Thrift, Zach Bergman, Reel Youth, The Purple Thistle’s Youngunz, Aly D, Emma Wallace, Indigo, Kris Krug, Tara Robertson, Miriam Tratt, Meghan Corsie, Nicola Hodges, Daisy Couture, Karen New, Julie Flett, Eva Dominelli, c.r. avery, Adrian Glynn, Julia Kozlov, Nikol Haskova, Fiona Balazsi, Siren, Anita Olson, Carla Bergman, Wibke Kreft…
-interview with Fish & Bird
-DVD full of awesome films!
-travel writings by Adrian Glynn
-Olympics stuff, lots. Resistance baby, lots
-art, photography, and just a whole lot more!

oh, and if you were wondering:
Rain is an independent anthology zine, run by a group of local Vancouver activists from the Purple Thistle Centre. We care about our community, and our zine is our way of opening up a dialogue about living, learning, and creativity in Vancouver–things to help us get by on a rainy day. We support taking steps towards action, building our community and making change happen.

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Meeting on Monday!

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epic fail pictures

Don’t forget, our Shebeen Club meeting this month is Monday the 18th, ie tomorrow, 7pm at the Shebeen, where $20 buys you dinner, a drink, and the best company money can buy.

The decorative and illustrious Sean Cranbury of BooksOnTheRadio is our presenter, and the topic is the controversial New Ideas, Opportunities, Communities: Living with Book Publishing 3.0. He’s even posted a list of recommended readings for keeners (which I’d better at least skim, eh?).

Be there or be … on the unemployment line!

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January Monthly Meeting: New Ideas, Opportunities, Communities: Living with Book Publishing 3.0

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The Shebeen Club Presents:

Sean Cranbury on
New Ideas, Opportunities, Communities: Living with Book Publishing 3.0

7-9 pm Monday, January 18th

Sean Cranbury

Sean Cranbury, your presenter

The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 212 Carrall Street, Vancouver

$20 includes dinner and a drink, cash only, please
2009 was the year that Book Publishing came crashing into the present.

The digital revolution could no longer be kept at bay as this traditional industry was assailed on all sides.

The true revolutionaries didn’t loot and pillage, however – they leapt into action and quickly built opportunities for publishers, book professionals, writers and readers to come together and talk about these changes and to create the dialog around the changes to come.

The revolutionaries turned from a traditionally passive mode to one of activity and demonstration.

In this installment of the Shebeen Club, Sean Cranbury will discuss how the digital revolution has created opportunities for creative and passionate individuals to demonstrate their ideas, open up dialog and build new communities.

Vancouver has become a focal point for new ideas that are transforming the industry.  Bookcamp Vancouver demonstrated this nicely.

Sean will also discuss the increasing impact of social media technologies on book marketing, writer/reader relationship and its potential to turn publishing workflows upside down.

Join us for a lively Bookcamp-style discussion!

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Sean Cranbury is a Vancouver writer, editor, broadcaster and social media consultant.  His radio show/blog, Books on the Radio, is broadcast on CJSF 90.1 FM.  He also writes for the Vancouver Biennale and the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative.

Sean is co-creator of the ridiculously successful viral, community-based book recommendation site, the Advent Book Blog, and is also working on the real-time collaborative fiction experiment called Eyes of Vancouver.

Eyes of Vancouver aims to demonstrate a potential new workflow for publishers, independent or self-published authors that puts community-building first and physical publication last.

You can find Sean: sean@booksontheradio.ca @seancranbury @eyesofvancouver

You can find the Shebeen Club: TheShebeenClubBlog or TheShebeenClubFacebookPage

Sean Cranbury.jpgThe Shebeen Club Presents: Sean Cranbury on
New Ideas, Opportunities, Communities: Living with Book Publishing 3.0

7-9 pm Monday, January 18th

The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 212 Carrall Street, Vancouver

$20 includes dinner and a drink, cash only, please

2009 was the year that Book Publishing came crashing into the present.

The digital revolution could no longer be kept at bay as this traditional industry was assailed on all sides.

The true revolutionaries didn’t loot and pillage, however – they leapt into action and quickly built opportunities for publishers, book professionals, writers and readers to come together and talk about these changes and to create the dialog around the changes to come.

The revolutionaries turned from a traditionally passive mode to one of activity and demonstration.

In this installment of the Shebeen Club, Sean Cranbury will discuss how the digital revolution has created opportunities for creative and passionate individuals to demonstrate their ideas, open up dialog and build new communities.

Vancouver has become a focal point for new ideas that are transforming the industry.  Bookcamp Vancouver demonstrated this nicely.

Sean will also discuss the increasing impact of social media technologies on book marketing, writer/reader relationship and its potential to turn publishing workflows upside down.

Join us for a lively Bookcamp-style discussion!

*
Sean Cranbury is a Vancouver writer, editor, broadcaster and social media consultant.  His radio show/blog, Books on the Radio, is broadcast on CJSF 90.1 FM.  He also writes for the Vancouver Biennale and the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative.

Sean is co-creator of the ridiculously successful viral, community-based book recommendation site, the Advent Book Blog, and is also working on the real-time collaborative fiction experiment called Eyes of Vancouver.

Eyes of Vancouver aims to demonstrate a potential new workflow for publishers, independent or self-published authors that puts community-building first and physical publication last.

You can find Sean: sean@booksontheradio.ca @seancranbury @eyesofvancouver

You can find the Shebeen Club: TheShebeenClubBlog or TheShebeenClubFacebookPage

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Reading is Sexy Calendar Launch

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It’ll be a dark and stormy night, and all the crew will be gathered in …

the suburbs????

Reading is Sexy back cover

Reading is Sexy back cover

Yes, join Lorraine Murphy, founder, president, and diva of the Shebeen Club along with other Vangroover literati for the launch of the first annual Reading is Sexy Calendar!

From the Facebook invite:

Eat, drink and be merry all in celebration of literacy and the fact that I AM MAKING MY DEBUT IN A CALENDAR!!!! (along with the sizzlingly sexy Monique Trottier, Lori & Richard Yearwood, Patrick Tubajon, Raul Pacheco, Ian A Martin, Rayne, Lorraine Murphy, Mark Leiren-Young, Monica Hamburg and Ian Ferguson). Special thanks to Robert Shaer and Tris Hussey, whose photography has made this calendar a piece of art.

And aside from using this as an excuse to convince my literary buds to peel off the layers for the camera, it was done in the name of literacy. Thats right, we shot this calendar to raise money for The International Dyslexia Association.

So come hang out with us at my favourite wine and cheese bistro, enjoy a drink and some nibblies, get your calendars signed by the models, listen to a few of our authors reading from their works, and for those of you that are a bit more daring, dance the night away with moi.

The event is free and everyone is welcome. The more, the merrier!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Of course there is. More, even, than the chance to rub shoulders (and other body parts, if you play your cards right) with the sexiest writerly types in all of the Wild, Wiled West!

So put on your best literary party duds, whether Baudelairian finery or spoken word funkitude, and join us:

Thursday, 03 December 2009 at 7pm
Gudrun Wine and Cheese Bistro
150-3500 Moncton Street
Steveston, BC

Yes, it’s bus-accessable!

By the way, the super-sexy book I’m reading is a special calf-bound book of whiskies of the world, specially borrowed from the bartender for the occasion. I had a couple of Vanity Fairs in my bag, but they weren’t quite as posh and retro-looking as that book. Also, I highly recommend posing for calendars: the drinks are free!

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

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(from Twitter, obviously, via the very handy Tweetshots utility)

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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