RAIN Magazine Launch Party

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!

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

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!

*
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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A Portrait of the Actress as a Young Inkwell

Which doesn’t sound very interesting, but this inkwell in the shape of actress Sarah Bernhardt as a gloriously Rococo bat-winged Sphynx is the shizz forrealz!

Sarah Bernhardt as a sphynx inkwell

Sarah Bernhardt as a sphynx inkwell. WANT!

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Not even “Bullyrag?” FMThesaurus

do not do ANYTHING to the animals

do not do ANYTHING to the animals, do not even THINK about it. Especially bullyragging.

Please do not annoy, torment, pester, plague, molest, worry, badger, harry, harass, heckle, persecute, irk, bullyrag, vex, disquiet, grate, beset, bother, tease, nettle, tantalize, or ruffle the animals.The SanDiego zoo.

Funny, you’d think “badger” would be exempt.

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