congrats to the new author
Which I got via WritingIsLife on Twitter. That’s the pen up there, taking all the credit. You know the actual author is lying on the bed, zonked on painkillers and getting an IV put in.
Authorship, an image
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Meet Pamela Masik, artist of The Forgotten: Vancouver’s Missing Women
(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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Friends with Benefits Book Launch Tuesday
Friends with Benefits
That’s the day AFTER our fabulous Shebeen Club Pre-Holiday Party, which will be the world’s greatest warmup for the launch of Darren and Julie’s book, Friends with Benefits.
Friends with Benefits
In any disagreement among social mediaites in Vangroover, I’ll be right there, taking the low road, while Darren and Julie will generally be leading a pied piper train on the high road. They are total professionals who have been making a living at social media marketing since before Facebook was a twinkle in an undergraduate’s eye. And since they’ve been doing it while globetrotting, they obviously know a thing or two about work/life balance as well.
The details:
One of the many benefits of being our friend…
We would love you to join us for the launch of “Friends With Benefits”, our book on social media marketing.
We’ll do a brief talk at some point in the evening, followed by a short reading from the book. We’ll also be available to personally inscribe the many, many copies you’ll surely be purchasing to give out as Christmas gifts.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
7-11pm
Autumn Brook Artists Gallery
1545 West 4th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
Sundry details:
* Appetizers will be served
* Convenient cash bar
* Autographed copies of our book will be available for purchase for $20
* There’s lots of street parking around, or you may want to consider parking on Granville Island and walking up to the gallery. Otherwise, the location is served by many lovely bus routes. [it’s practically beneath the Granville Bridge, so you can get to it with ease from anywhere downtown, either by bus or take the little aquabus across to the Island for dinner and hit the gallery after]
And here’s Darren speaking at BookCamp Vancouver earlier this year about the experience of giving birth to the book (insert “labour of love” pun here if desired):
Shebeen Club Pre-Holiday Party Monday, November 23
- Image by john curley via Flickr
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.
Procrastination is
When you’ve washed the dishes, done the laundry, petted the pets, rearranged the furniture, marinated the steak, and replied to all your emails, there’s still ONE thing you can do to stave off that horrible moment when you have to sit down in front of blank page and open a vein:
Watch this video
Procrastination, by John Kelly
The Shebeen Club 