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Category Archives: The Shebeen Club

Vancouver’s Monthly Literary Gathering. My baby. No open mic, no hand-holding, no American beer.

Shebeen Club Meeting Monday: Intro to the Federation of BC Writers

September 15, 2008 – 4:38 am

This month we’ve moved our meeting to Monday, September 15th instead of Tuesday and across the street so that we can have the brand-new Shebeen all to ourselves! We’ll play host to Sylvia Taylor, President of the Federation of BC Writers, who will give us an overview of the Fed and what it can do [...]

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Shebeen Club Tuesday: The Moon Project

July 14, 2008 – 11:03 am

When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, July 15th rescheduled to July 29th, 2008
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall
How: reserve @ lorraine.murphy at gmail.com
How Much: $15 includes dinner and a drink
What: The Moon Project with Virginia Gillespie
Who: For more info contact: lorraine.murphy at gmail.com
The Shebeen Club is pleased to present The Moon Project with White [...]

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Good Ideas vs Bad Ideas

July 1, 2008 – 2:35 am

Good Idea: rollerblading down to the office to pay your dues to the Federation of BC Writers for which you are the new Lower Mainland rep. Gets your dues paid and your workout done at the same time, plus bonus tanning time you don’t have to feel guilty about because you were, hello? productive.
Bad Idea: [...]

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A Man of Mystery

June 18, 2008 – 8:26 pm

For no reason I can imagine except that my life has been deprived of it so far, a DVD of the movie Gladiator has just shown up in my mailbox, purchased from Amazon on my behalf by a name I do not recognize with no further contact details.
Hmmmmmmm.
The only person who’s really been outraged by [...]

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Shebeen Club: Gonzo Vancouver

April 12, 2008 – 6:35 am

The Shebeen Club: Gonzo Vancouver!

When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Where: the Shebeen, 7 Gaoler’s Mews, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street, Vancouver BC
How Much: $15 includes dinner: limited to 40
What: mingling, door prizes, eating, drinking, fornicating!
Who: Heather Watson (Civixen), Gonzo Journalist and founding columnist at Terminal City
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets [...]

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Shebeen Club Meeting: Amy Tan’s Birthday Party February 19th

February 18, 2008 – 9:42 am

Shhhh, it’s a surprise!
What: The Shebeen Club Presents: Amy Tan’s Birthday Party
When: 7:30pm-9:00pm, Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Where: Upstairs at The Shebeen, behind The Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: to celebrate Amy Tan’s Birthday, duh!
Who: Contact lorraine.murphy AT gmail.com for more information
How(much)? $15 includes presentation, dinner of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, one [...]

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Quote o’ the Day: The Man

January 23, 2008 – 8:31 am

This is the smartest thing I’ve heard in ages. From tonight’s meeting of The Shebeen Club.
Me: “And I’m all, like, fuck The Man!“
Ian: “You know, sometimes The Man just needs a little foreplay.”

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Shebeen Club Radio!

December 2, 2007 – 2:26 am

cross-posted to The Shebeen Club

Whoa, check it out: yet another medium (oh, look it up if you’re so pedantic!) falls to the raincoaster Operation Global Media Domination behemoth. We be all up in yo airwaves now! Preeeee-senting the inaugural broadcast of Shebeen Club Radio, recorded live (and subsequently edited to death) November 20th, 2007. This [...]

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Boot to the Head

November 13, 2007 – 9:35 pm

So, I’ve told you about the time my mother tried to sell me to a Saudi prince. And I’ve told you about the time I ended up shopping with a CIA agent and buying a vampire carved from human bone from the oldest nun in the Spice Islands. And I’ve told you about the time [...]

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Barbara Hodgson’s the memory festival

November 11, 2007 – 12:03 am

Passed along by Shebeen Club member Monique Trottier
Memory Festival Launch Party
Remembrance Day: Sunday, November 11, 2007
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
 
Listel
1300 Robson Street, Vancouver
 
 
Free admission
 
The Memory Festival is a free-floating series of public events focussed on public and private memory, and the questions that surround acts of memory and forgetting.
 
Vancouver book designer and writer Barbara Hodgson is [...]

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