Thursday night John and I attended the Arts Club fundraising gala, Glitter. I have a brief interview with the Arts Club publicist, Nicole McLuckie (below) as well as a detailed post over on E!Online.
The event honored three Arts Club alumni who have made profound contributions to the Vancouver theatre (as well as film and television) scene; Janet Wright, Leon Bibb, and Morris Panych.
There are additional photos from the evening available over in John’s Flickr set.
There are 15 speakers in the room this evening for Interesting Vancouver at the Vancouver Rowing Club, all from diverse and unique backgrounds and each with something interesting to say. I’m sitting here looking up at the Rowing Club’s Roll of Honor for men who gave their lives for their country in from 1914-1918.
Upon arrival we were each given a clothespin on which to write our names (wooden name tag FTW) as well as a blank index card and some instructions, “Write, draw, paint, collage or whatever your thoughts, opinions, inspirations may be and drop in the basket. Everything will be scanned and shared anonymously at interestingvancouver.com.”
Since there is only bar service available (no food) attendees were encouraged to bring their own snacks to enjoy before we got underway. I smell McDonald’s in the room – this definitely will be an interesting evening.
As announced on sixty4media earlier today, I will be supplying the live blog tonight so stay tuned.
Update: Organizer Brett MacFarlane has just taken the stage to warn us… “it’s not as stuffy as some other conference, and probably not as loose either.” … Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
Those living in the Vancouver-Burrard or Vancouver-Fairview districts may have received their yellow voting cards in the mail by now. No, this is not for yet another federal election, but as previously outlined, two provincial by-elections will be taking place October 29th.
The next interview in my by-election series is with Arthur Griffiths of the BC Liberal Party. You can click on the player below to hear the audio, which runs about 20 minutes. Yes, I added in the bed music for extra ambiance.
Related posts: Questions for Vancouver-Burrard Candidates, By-elections for Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview, Candidate interview: Spencer Herbert, Candidate interview: Drina Read.
Taking a break from the municipal and provincial election coverage to engage in some silly entertainment (see last night’s post about sweet, sweet 80s tunes) I’m going to complete my mission after being “tagged” by Tyler Ingram yesterday.
I admit, I have participated and perpetuated many memes before, and for those of you who are not familiar – it’s kind of like those forwarded emails you would get 10 years ago that you’d have to fill out and pass along to your friends for a nice chuckle (which is pretty fitting given the first question on this particular list).
5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:
– BMX’ing at Surrey and Ladner skate parks
– Going to LAN parties (I kid you not)
– Bragging about my 5 digit ICQ number (that I have since totally forgotten)
– Browsing Audiogalaxy for the latest mp3 FTP sites, and setting up my own
– Graduating, then attending SFU and staying up all night drinking cola, writing my website, and chatting with Anne
5 Things on my to-do list today:
– Write my article for E!Online
– Get interviewed by Tenille about Keira
– Interview Arthur Griffiths about the by-election
– Client meetings
– Attend Interesting Vancouver this evening
5 snacks I like: Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
On my way out of the Talk 1410am studios yesterday (where I do my weekly segment with Pat and Val) I bumped into Gino Vanelli. This inspired me to look up some of his sweet tunes on YouTube, which lead to a total 80s music fest tonight at casa di Bollwitt.
