What: The Shebeen Club: Work/Life Balance for Cultural Creatives
When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: learn to balance your work and your life as a literary professional
Who: Contact lorraine.murphy at gmail dot com for more information
How(much)? $15 includes presentation and dinner
When you love what you do, how do you know when to stop doing it? When you’re the one who sets your work/life boundaries, how do you incorporate and benefit from structure, and should you in the first place? Author, media personality, and life coach Alanna Fero will discuss achieving a prolific and rewarding work/life balance for those in the literary arts.
Your admission includes a dinner of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, one glass of pop, wine or beer, and all the literary bon mots you can handle.
Bio: Alanna Fero M.A., L.S.C., is the author of Love Made Visible: Values-Driven Approaches to Work/Life, coming out August 15th. She’s a regular media commentator and former radio host, career/life path and employee engagement expert, and keynote speaker. She is passionate about helping people to do good in the world and do well for themselves at the same time.
7-7:30: meet and mingle
7:30-8: listen and learn
8-whenever: Aussie Rules match: free verse poets vs obsessive proofreaders











Can you trade in the bangers and mash for two glasses of wine? Just curious.
Is it too late to send you a birthday cephalopod?
Unfortunately, you cannot trade food for wine, although one of our members successfully made a deal with a woman who was really hungry one night.
It’s never too late for a birthday cephalopod, thanks. Yesterday Metro offered to buy me some calamari, but alas I was oddly non-cephalopoddian-feeling at the moment. THen I had a couple of birthday Martinis and felt more like my old self.
Man, if I lived in Van, I’d definitely be there.
Some day you’ll be passing through at the right time.
Wait – you eat calamari?
Something is sick here!
Like eating your lovers or something!
Is something wrong with being sick? It’s kind of my trademark.