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Beach Reads: Shebeen Club June Meeting

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Beach Books

Beach Books

Join us and local authors as we confess our secret passion for Judith Krantz, our forbidden lust for Ken Follett, our unslakeable thirst for Josephine Hart and undead-themed updates of old Bronte Sisters novels.

Yes, it’s time for a party to celebrate our favorite Beach Reads!

Local authors are strongly encouraged to attend and proudly introduce us to any Beach Reads they’ve written, from thrillers to erotica. But I’m allergic to Open Mic Nights, so I doubt there will be many readings; I was traumatized by a wandering sestina artiste as a youngster and have never recovered.

Dress: beachy or bitchy, your choice!

As always, $20 buys you dinner and a drink and some of the finest literary company around! Choice of four entrees: entree salad, bangers and mash, fish and chips, or vegetarian pasta.

7-9pm Monday, June 21
The Shebeen
Behind the Irish Heather, 212 Carrall Street in Gastown
Vancouver

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Zombie Literature Appreciation Day Party: our May monthly meeting!

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Welcome to the zombie party!

Welcome to the zombie party!

In honour of Zombie Awareness Month, we will be hosting a discussion of the literature of the reanimated as our May event. What better way to celebrate the ripening Summer than to feast our minds on the ravening necronauts which have brought us so much pleasure over the aeons?

Attendees are invited to bring their favorite piece of zombie literature for reading: poems, screenplays (not the WHOLE thing, though!), short stories, short-short stories, and particularly haikus in the original Japanese are all welcome.

Zombie Literature Appreciation Day Party

7-9pm Monday, May 17
The Shebeen, 212 Carrall Street behind the Irish Heather (go right through and to the back; we will be lurking in the back corner)
$20 buys you dinner and a drink; it’s the best deal in town!
Note that salt-free menu options are available for the zombies in attendance.

Dress: Zombie or victim. Please, let’s keep it pure: no bloody vampires, for once!

Please check your weapons with the hostess.

In the event that ninjas materialize, there will be a rumble between ninjas and zombies to settle that question once and for all. Five bucks on the zombies.

See you then! Or not, if you’re ninjas.

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Shebeen Club Tonight! Social Media for Non-Profits

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On the Edge Gastropub

On the Edge Gastropub

Who: The Shebeen Club and Wesley Regan

What: Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations
$20 includes dinner and a drink

When: 7-9pm Monday, April 26th, 2010

Where: UPDATED: On The Edge gastropub, 303 Columbia at Cordova

Why: to help bring non-profit communications into the 21st Century.
And also to have a great dinner out with fellow literati

That’s right, NOT in the Shebeen for once! We’ve moved a block east and around the corner to the On The

Cathy Browne at the On The Edge pub

Cathy Browne at the On The Edge pub

Edge gastropub at 303 Columbia street at Carrall. There’s room for everyone and a new menu to enjoy. As always $20 gets you dinner and a drink, and if you want to order additional items you can start a separate bill.

Full details on our speaker, Wes Regan, and our topic, Social Media Communications for Non-Profits, are in this post. See you there!

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Shebeen Club April Meeting: Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations

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Social Media

Social Media

Who: The Shebeen Club and Wesley Regan

What: Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations
$20 includes dinner and a drink

When: 7-9pm Monday, April 26th, 2010

Where: UPDATED: On The Edge gastropub, 303 Columbia at Cordova

Why: to help bring non-profit communications into the 21st Century.
And also to have a great dinner out with fellow literati

UPDATE: Note that we’ve had to move it due to the Shebeen being triple-booked that night. We are just a block East and around the corner, at 303 Columbia street around the corner from Cordova at the On The Edge gastropub.

Welcome Shebeen alumnus Wesley Regan as our presenter for the month of April! Note that our meeting’s been pushed back a week from the usual Third Monday for flu-related reasons; all better now!

When it comes to social media no one is an expert, and everyone is an expert. The effectiveness of social media tools to create lasting social change has become the gorilla in the room to social media advocates eager to pronounce a new age in communications. The jury is still out. In fact, the jury is also the defendant, judge, media, lawyers and plaintiff.  But there have been some proven benefits and some tricks discovered in the brief time social media has been adopted into mainstream communications strategies. Wes aims to bring the mystique and hyperbole of social media down to earth, exploring its practical uses for environmental, political and social activism, and recounts some of his personal experiences on the social media frontier.

Wesley Regan has worked in marketing and communications since 2004, primarily in health and wellness and community economic development. He is currently the Communications Liaison at Building Opportunities with Business, a community economic development non-profit group active in Vancouver’s inner-city since 2005, and is the Industry Trends Blogger for Thirdi Software, a Yaletown based internet marketing and eCommerce firm. His commentary on technology, social media and economic development in Vancouver has also been featured in Techvibes.

7-7:30 Meet and Greet

7:30-8 Listen and Learn

8-9 Eat, Drink and Be Merry! Or Pippin, if you prefer!

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Shebeen Club March Meeting: CSI Shebeen Club!

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Vancouver Police Museum morgue by John Biehler

Vancouver Police Museum morgue by John Biehler

Interested in writing crime fiction or mystery novels but feeling unprepared for conveying the fine details of investigation and forensics? Join Chris Mathieson, Executive Director of the Vancouver Police Museum, as he introduces you to policing and the forensic sciences. Bring your questions, and he’ll do his best to answer them.

The Vancouver Police Museum is an independent non-profit organization and registered charity dedicated to telling the history of lawlessness and law enforcement in Vancouver. It also happens to be housed in Vancouver’s former city morgue and Analyst’s lab. In addition to its many popular programs for children, it also offers adult oriented tours on the history of vice crime (Sins of the City) and has recently announced a workshop series called “Forensics for Adults” that explores topics such as forensic pathology, blood spatter and ballistics.

About our presenter: In addition to being Executive Director of the Police Museum, Chris has also been a blacksmith, a philosopher, a university mascot and a neuroscientist. Mind you, he claims not to be as interesting as that sounds.

Chris Mathieson of the Vancouver Police Museum

Chris Mathieson of the Vancouver Police Museum

The Dirty Deets:

7pm-9pm Monday, March 15th, that’s this coming Monday

The Shebeen, Behind the Irish Heather at 212 Carrall Street in Gastown

$20 buys you dinner and one drink, preregistration is not required but please do bring cash. We have the back corner of the Shebeen reserved for us.

See you then! Surgical masks and latex gloves optional.

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