Wanted: Malaika Millions Need Your Help!

Wish List for "Happy Birthday, Fuck Uterus" Fundraiser
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

I Need:

help to source a Print shop that might donate or give extreme discount {sponsor} for these? I'm looking for a print shop that would donate their services... {maybe I pay cost}.... want to print 2 or 3 Images 6 feet high x 4 feet...onto Canvas. They'd be for a couple fundraising Games

Game 1
you know those boards with images at amusement parks, where you stick your head through to have your picture taken... well I'm making a life size image of myself.... up on a stool... with my legs up in the air spread Eagle.... with a giant head size hole at my crotch... so people can have pictures of themselves as If I'm giving birth to their Face. I'm super demented... but hilarious right? I'll have a photo printer and camera on the spot... charge $10 and print them out right there. I have someone to man that too.. woohoo. Game 2 also. a life size image of myself standing legs slightly apart... with hole at crotch... $5 for 5 tries shooting OB Tampons outta nerf guns... get three in her hole and you get a prize. {Boobie Prints}

ALSO NEED:
Equivolent Sound System to the One offered by Wise with Sound Person for Much Less than $300

Cheap Keg of GOOD beer for Volunteers, {DONATED}

Discount at Staples or Office Depot, {PHOTO PAPER, INK, STAMP, etc}

Food for volunteers {Restaurant Sponsor?}

AND WHAT IS THIS FOR YOU ASK....
WELL
IT'S
Happy Birthday Fuck Uterus

A Call to Aid Malaika Millions' Fundraiser, Friday October 5th @ The Wise Hall

At the Intersection of "starving artist" and "chronic pain" lives a Beautiful Darling of a Dame who's tougher than a Silk Strand and still smoother.

If you've seen her Perform twice, you've probably seen her high on painkillers at least once. Lucky for her she's got typical ADD biochemistry, so luckily codeine has made her speedy and hyper productive. She's wittier when she's high and pain free, but she looks forward to just being Witty and Well.

When Macho Motorcycle Men dismay at the fact that she rides Motorcycle in the winter she quips back, " Riding motorcycle in the Rain, That's Easy. Riding with a full blown ovarian cyst, now that's Hard!"

She's suffered severe Endometriosis for years and after multiple surgical intervention attempts she's totally ready to get rid of the Torture Device. It hasn't only caused Mind Bending Pain, but impacts the immune system. This won't be a cure, but should alleviate a lot of the pain complications.

So she's throwing out the Uterus with the Bathwater ladies and gentlemen…. And What Better way to throw off the Sac like Shackle than to throw a Celebratory Party / Fundraiser on her Birthday! It's HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FUCK UTERUS ! Yes, Malaika Millions is getting a Hysterectomy.

From Now On,…. Only expect Brain Children from this Diva.
The "It Girl" officially becomes an It…. {soon to be a Drag Queen on the Scene}.

She needs support for Friday October 5th @ The Wise Hall
HERE'S HOW!
STAGE SHOW: DJ's{$ negotiable}, Performers of Burlesque, Drag {Kings and Queens}, Comedians, Poets, Easy set up Music, MC of Show, and MC of Roast {brief Roast Sessions, will also need Roasters: people who would take delight in Malaika's own Self Depricating Humour…. Please make Fun of Me.. No Holds Barred, there's lots of Fodder} {Can offer $20 stipend to performers} GENERAL EVENT HELPERS: {these people could do shifts} Door People, Security, Game Wranglers{yes, fundraiser Games}, Event decorators and Setup/ Tear Down Helpers, Servers for Early Cabaret, etc….
PROMO: if you could forward the eFlyer Invite and Info to your email list, post bulletins about it, and host the eFlyer on your Web Pages to help Promote the Show, that would be Much Appreciated.

Tentative Format: $20 Special Cabaret 7:30pm, $10 Event from 9:30pm till 12:30am.

The Funds Raised will go towards supporting her in the Time she Must take off while immobilized {late October & November} and towards Alternative Medicine and Physio/Training to help her Recover.

Please contact Malaika IF YOU CAN HELP.......
{would also accept Chicken Soup and Prune Juice post surgery}

Please Check out Blog Wish List Updates at: http://www.myspace.com/malaikamillions

Theatre: The Toe Cutter One of TiTRaw's Fringe One-Acts

THEATRE IN THE RAW PROUDLY PRESENTS ITS VANCOUVER FRINGE FESTIVAL DEBUT

with three tasty original one-acts featuring a radio reading of The Toe Cutter by Bill Pollett.

Top: Toe Cutter cast members Kate Laktin, Serge Savoy, Delana Russell. Bottom: Olesia Shewchuk and Zi Paris. Photo: Steven R. Duncan. For more photos go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9057324@N08/sets/72157601742333635/show/

High res photos available upon request.

Pollett’s The Toe Cutter portrays a family’s battles with a deep secret that won’t go away. A tragic incident occurs to a family of girls, the memory of which will not go away without a chilling struggle that leaves its mark on a small quiet Saskatchewan town.

The Toe Cutter is an original radio play reading from our current Mythical Voices for Our Time play project. The play was premiered with a live radio broadcast on Vancouver’s Co-Op Radio’s The Arts Rational program - CFRO 102.7 FM in June, 2007. “…collectively excellent performances…” Beyond Robson website.

This dark and powerful production is just one of 3 original one-acts happening over 6 nights from September 9^th to 16^th – two shows alternating each night.

Theatre In the Raw will be part of the Vancouver Fringe Festival for the first time in its 13 years of producing theatre in Vancouver.

Also presented will be Paul Manuel Kane’s Duet In the Park - the winner of TITRaw’s 2005 One-Act Play Writing Contest; and one of the company’s most performed one-acts, Patrick Foley’s, You Are What You Eat (developed out of the Carnegie Theatre Workshop/Community Centre) will be revived once again.

Theatre In the Raw started out of a storefront cafe called La Quena Cafe on Commercial Drive, in 1994. They rehearsed and performed there for nearly three years, producing over 125 one-acts in over 43 nights of theatre within a period of time. While housed at La Quena they applied for and received a Canada Council Exploration grant, allowing the theatre to go on two tours along the Squamish corridor and Sunshine/Sechelt coasts. There was an outdoor theatre day of 16 performances at Grandview Park with the help of a Vancity Credit Union community grant. They raised a tent along with a wooden stage, and had over a thousand people come and see a full day free of Theatre in the Park. They have since performed in over 45 venues both in the southern/interior half of British Columbia and in Seattle, Washington for the 1998 Seattle Fringe Festival.

Since 1997, they moved toward mainstage performance work. Their mainstage plays usually consists of two to three acts with a show run of 2 to 4 consecutive weeks. They are also committed to organizing mini-tours, in and out of the Lower Mainland of BC for many of their dramas. This gives the actors, running crew, and administration members of the company greater experience with the nuts and bolts of running a semi-professional travelling theatre company. It allows for quality, risk-taking artistic works with substance. They have produced nine full-length mainstage plays. Five were revived classical plays and they premiered four original Canadian play works in Vancouver.

The work results in groundbreaking fresh theatre. “Theatre In the Raw… rises to the occasion…has notable successes…” The Georgia Straight.

All Fringe performances are at the AGRO CAFÉ on 1363 Railspur Alley - Granville Island; tickets to all of the theatrical evenings are $10 and $12 (in advance) are thru the Vancouver Fringe Festival box office. For a complete schedule, please check out our website www.theatreintheraw.ca, or phone the Theatre In the Raw office number at (604) 708-5448, or call the Vancouver Fringe office: (604) 257-0355 for further information, including synopsis of other plays.

Ò Showtimes & Shows (two one-acts per night/ alternating plays each night):

Sept. 9^th – 8pm ~ You Are What You Eat & Duet In the Park

Sept. 12^th – 8pm ~ The Toe Cutter & Duet In the Park

Sept. 13^th – 8pm ~ The Toe Cutter & You Are What You Eat

Sept. 14^th – 8pm ~ The Toe Cutter & Duet In the Park

Sept. 15^th – 8pm ~ The Toe Cutter & You Are What You Eat

Sept. 16^th – 8pm ~ You Are What You Eat & Duet In the Park

News: Vancouver Dentist Handed 12 Month Conditional Sentence For Sexual Assualt

Aug, 27 2007 - 3:20 PM

VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - A Vancouver dentist has been handed a 12-month conditional sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting several patients.

The move means Dr. Oleg Gavrilko escapes jail time.

The 46-year old was originally charged with assaulting seven-patients at his Commercial Drive clinic, but was only convicted on four of the counts.

Gavrilko has since been banned from practicing dentistry by the college of dental surgeons.

Art: Dominque Brechault exhibits on Granville Island

Dominique Bréchault lives and works in near Commercial Drive. Born and raised in France, she moved to Canada after completing her university studies. Under the name Djado Designs, she has maintained a studio as a goldsmith since 1992. She holds a Masters Degree in Art History and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Medieval Civilization from the University of Poitiers, France. In 1987, she graduated with honours in photography at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, and in 1992, she received a Diploma in Jewellery Art & Design from Vancouver Community College. For the last nine years, Dominique has been teaching jewellery classes with the Vancouver school board, and since September 2000, with Vancouver Community College.

D. Bréchault has participated in several exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition at Crafthouse Gallery in Vancouver, Made by Hand, Silver Edition, Glass and Metal and Efflorescence II at the Canadian Craft Museum, Metal Minded at Crafthouse Gallery, Metal with Mettle at Harbourfront in Toronto, in Tokyo, Japan, Precious Ornaments III and Current Views in Seattle. Some pieces are now part of private collections in France and Japan. Her work is included in the recently published book on Canadian contemporary jewellery Ornament and Object by Anne Barros.

Literary: The Bone Cage

You are invited to join author Angie Abdou at our store (1391 Commercial Drive) August 29th 7:30 pm, to launch her new novel, The Bone Cage.

Advance Praise for: The Bone Cage

“Through Sadie and Digger, Abdou captures the heroic quests of these hopeful Olympians in all their gritty pain and glory. Sequences describing Digger’s wrestling matches and Sadie’s grueling sets of lengths are vivid, intense, and authentic. . . . The Bone Cage is well paced and readable, memorable for its fresh perspective on the lives of athletes and the obstacles they must overcome.”

Quill and Quire

“Original, visceral, emotionally alive, Angie Abdou's first novel is illuminated by her many clever takes on the divided ways our culture looks at bodies . . . this engaging first novel also brilliantly catches not only the perils and trials but also the disciplined shimmer of the life of a champion swimmer.”

Elisabeth Harvor, author of All Times Have Been Modern

New in stock this week: Contrary Notions: A Micahel Parenti Reader

“Radical in the true sense of the word, [Parenti] digs at the roots which... sustain our public consciousness.”— Los Angeles Times Book Review

Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parent is one of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts. Parenti’s work has enlightened and enlivened readers for many years, covering a wide range of subjects.

Here is a rich selection of his most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity. Also included are a few choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political awakening. Parenti goes where few political observers dare to tread. Time and again he takes the extra step beyond the parameters of permissible opinion, and time and again he succeeds in carrying the reader with him.

The selections herein, that are reprinted from previously published works, have been revised and updated. Other offerings appear here for the very first time.

Michael Parenti is a critically acclaimed author and an extraordinary public speaker. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He is the author of twenty books, including Superpariotism , The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Inventing Reality, and Democracy for the Few.

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Silent Summer Nights 7

Celebrate the End of Summer in Style!

Eye of Newt's Silent Summer Nights is a Rumble/Radix co-presentation. September 1 & 2, 2007 — 8:15 pm Free! Grandview Park, Commercial Drive at William Street Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) Saturday, September 1 Set on the Mississippi River in the old side-wheeler days, Steamboat Bill Jr. follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his crusty father to learn the ropes of river boating. The film's crowning achievement is its hurricane climax. Eye of Newt provides a touching and beautiful live soundtrack that brings this comic masterpiece to life. Henrik Galeen's Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) Nosferatu is that rare creature, a truly frightening and disturbing horror epic. An unauthorized production of Bram Stoker's work Dracula, the legal heirs didn't give their permission so the names had to be changed. But this wasn't enough: The widow of Bram Stoker won two lawsuits in which she demanded the destruction of all copies of the movie, however copies of it were already too widespread to destroy them all. Featuring the renowned improvisational musicians, The Silent Summer Nights Monster Orchestra.

Book Launch: Matt Hern

WATCH YOURSELF:

Why safer isn’t always better

By

Matt Hern

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH 3:00 – 5:00

at Rime : 1130 Commercial Drive

Its FREE - and kids are welcome

food. music. drinks. words. good times

Weather Button Added to Commercial Drive - Live!

Hi gang, I just wanted to let you all know I've added a Weather button to the blog on the right under the donation button. Enjoy.

Happy Birthday Wyckham!

This turning into a stellar year, for Victoria-born Commercial Drive resident, Wyckham Porteous.
Recently his label, Cordova Bay Records, announced the UK release of Please Please Me, Wyckham Porteous (distributed in the UK by Pinnacle Distribution). If the title seems familiar, well that's because it's a cover version of The Beatles smash hit of 1963. Except, you've never heard it like this before! The single has been produced and arranged by no less a music business legend than Andrew Loog Oldham, former manager of The Rolling Stones, and MD of one of the first British Independent record labels, Immediate. Andrew Oldham worked with The Beatles in their early days, and his recollection of the recording of Please Please Me was that the song was originally composed as a ballad, in tribute to the great Roy Orbison. Hearing the obvious qualities in the song, the band's esteemed producer George Martin nonetheless encouraged the band to whip up the pace, until it became the defining Merseybeat anthem we now know and love. In the spirit of the song's original incarnation, however, Oldham has took the song back to its gentler tempo, adding layers of plangent steel guitar, pizzicato strings and tasteful sitar, whilst Porteous contributes a vocal of aching poignancy and deep emotive appeal, and the result is one of the most striking reworkings of a Beatles song ever.

The Wyckham Porteous version of Please Please Me has already caused quite a stir on UK radio; when Bob Harris and Mark Lamarr (deputising for Jonathan Ross) played a 'white label' copy of the single on their respective radio shows late last year, Porteous' website received over five hundred hits, with browsers demanding to know where they can get a copy. Well, with the final UK release of this truly magnificent single, those wishes will be finally fulfilled.
rarely straying from the West Coast of Canada ("The sole pinprick of temperate weather in all of Canada"), Wyckham Porteous realized very early in life that his path would be that of a writer and in particular a singer/songwriter.

"I knew I had to be a songwriter. I knew I wanted to sing. But, where I was living, there was no Nashville, no Tin Pan Alley, no L. A., there was really no place to put your focus."

So he played a lot of festivals. He did his songs in the clubs. He logged a lot of miles. He did everything he was supposed to do. And finally, his break came when he wrote and starred in the hit play Joe's Cafe which enjoyed an extended run at Vancouver's prestigious Arts Club Theatre. Soon afterward, more out of romance than design, he and his long-time partner Patty Fraser, well known for her work in live theatre, wrote and performed a very cool radio play brimming with songs about these journeys for the nationwide Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). Well, the CBC loved it... and everyone that mattered seemed to have tuned right in. Soon, an angel financed an '89 album that was picked up by Bryan Adams' management firm, and charted Top 20 on Canadian radio. Leading to a 17-song CD, independently distributed in Canada, and a slot on Rod Kennedy's Kerrville Festival, down Texas way......

Read his full bio here...

Wyckham Porteous will release his new album, '3 AM' on August 20th.


http://www.pleasepleaseme.info/resources.html

Literary Event: Winnipeg's Shannon Rayne at the Slam

THE VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM

http://www.myspace.com/vancouverpoetryslam

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CAFÉ DEUX SOLEILS: 2096 COMMERCIAL DRIVE

(5TH AND COMMERCIAL)

THE 1ST, 3RD AND 5TH MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH

THE NEXT SLAM IS MONDAY AUGUST 20TH

FEATURING

FROM WINNIPEG, MANITOBA: SHANNON RAYNE

http://www.myspace.com/shannonpoetry

WITH SPECIAL GUEST: JULIE PARRELL

AND

YOUR AWESOME EXTRA SPECIAL HOST: SPILLIOUS

THIS WILL BE THE FINAL SLAM OF OUR SUMMER SEASON

THE REGULAR SEASON GETS UNDERWAY SEPTEMBER 2ND

DOORS AND SIGN UP AT 8PM

OPEN MIC AT 8:45

SLAM STARTS AT 9PM

STILL ONLY $5

Music: Monica Lee Tonight @ the Libra Room

The sign says it all in this pic by the band's drummer Marc L'Esperance.
For a taste of what they're all about check out her websites: www.monicaleemusic.com and myspace www.myspace.com/monicaleeband.
These are a sneak peek to the upcoming Live @ The Libra Room CD the band will be releasing after the expansion of the Libra Room next month. Dates are still up in the air on the grand opening of the new space. It will be twice the size and hopefully twice the fun!!! The owners have taken over the space next door and are finishing off renovations as we speak.

For those of you who don't know, Monica got married this past June to Chris Bizzocchi. According to official sources, the wedding was fantastic and we got lucky with the weather as the day turned out to be perfect.She apparently asked Chris to marry her through a song. It is on of the ones up online called Only One. Listen for the proposal in the third verse!

Her 2004 release "Season's Greetings" that had three of it's tracks use in a CBC Doc last year continue to be for sale at shows. For more info visit www.monicaleemusic.com
Every Thursday
Monica Lee Band
@ The Libra Room
1608 Commercial Drive (btw 1st and Gravely)
8- midnight
Admission by donation.

Special Event: Civil City Sleep Out

August 18, 2007

8:00 pm

Saturday at Grandview park (Commercial drive)

Rally at 8pm / Dinner and Movie at 9pm

Join us in a one night occupation and defense of the park.

Stand in solidarity and fight for the right to sleep in peace!

Sam Sullivan’s project Civil City is socially cleansing the poor.

As hotels are closed to make way for the Olympics, it has become illegal to be homeless.

The public parks have tuned into police states and homeless people are arrest for trying to sleep in them.

We say ‘the parks are for the people not the pigs!’ defeat civil city and

reclaim our parks!

Join us in a one night occupation and defense of the park. Stand in solidarity and fight for the right to sleep in peace!

Please bring food, blankets and tents.

Also that night,

The APC is proud to present…

The Simpsons Movie (ya, the actual movie!)

Straight from the movie theaters and into the park! Join us for dinner and

a movie and stay for the civil city sleep out.

http://apc.resist.ca

Literary: Brendan McLeod Launches First Novel

The notorious 3-Day Novel Contest has long been a Labor Day long weekend tradition in the writing community.
Last year's winner was East Van's own Brendan McLeod (of Fugitives fame). That book, The Convictions of Leonard McKinley, is being launched on Wednesday, Aug. 22nd at Chivana Restaurant. The Fugitives are expected to be there as well!

Event: Book Launch

Host: The Straight's Ron Yamauchi
When: Wednesday, August 22 at 8:00pm
Where: Chivana Restaurant and Lounge

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=9817190642

Radio: CR Avery on Wax Poetic

If you happen to be near an FM radio, RC Weslowski, Diane Laloge and I will be on air with CR Avery this afternoon at 2pm on Vancouver's longest-running poetry radio show Wax Poetic (102.7fm) talking about his new hip hop opera "The Boxer Who Just Returned From London"
which premieres at Rime later this month.

Sponsorhip and Marketing Mentorship Program Comes To Britannia

I’m excited to be starting a new 8 session class at Britannia High School for people in the Arts and Non-Profit sectors.
It's designed for those who may have great ideas for their organizations, but feel they need help designing and putting their plans in action.
It combines my regular Marketing and Corporate Sponsorship classes (which are also happening again at JO in September) but also features an incredible line-up of guest speakers including Richard Forzley, Director of Marketing for Vancouver Civic Theatres, Terry Hunter, Artistic Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre, Rita Albano, Executive Producer of CelticFest Vancouver and Stefania Buonocore, Special Events Coordinator for the GVRD, who will share their valuable insights, look at your project and offer their feedback. Go to my Learning Events blog to get more info.

This course is part of the Vancouver School Board’s brand new Liberal Arts Certificate program.

Special Event: Mark Berube CD Launch

	CD Release party for "What the river gave the boat"
	With String Quartet and band - Last show in Vancouver for a while...moving to Montreal!!

Start Time:	Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 8:00pm
Location:	The Wise Hall
Street:	1882 Adanac
City/Town:	Vancouver, BC
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Contact Info

Phone:	604.254.5858
Email:	mark@markberube.com

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Tickets are now available at Highlife, Zulu, and Scratch records in Vancouver. The show is Thursday, August 23rd, doors at 8pm. Opening set from the lovely Dan Mangan. $12 Advance, $15 at the door.

Special Event: The Boxer Who Just Returned From London

STARRING
C.R. Avery
Micheal Louw, Shane Koyczan, Mike McGee of TOFU, The C.R. Avery Band, The Fugitives, Bill and Diana and Sue as "Mom"

TUESDAY AUGUST 21
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22
THURSDAY AUGUST 23
FRIDAY AUGUST 24
SATURDAY AUGUST 25

****Saturday close to being sold out!!!! Tickets at Highlife on Commerical Drive.

Happy Birthday Alejandro!!

I just wanted to pass on this little note i received from the founder and co-host of the World Poetry Cafe, Alejandro Mujica-Olea (seen here with co-founder Ariadne Sawyer, which I found to be inspiring. Today is his birthday.

Tomorrow I complete 60 years.

Good evening another time and welcome to the fantastic world of poetry with Ariadne Sawyer.

And at the technical board, Medi.

Your host and poet, Alejandro Mujica-Olea, will turn 60 years old, tomorrow, the 8th of August,2007.

Some of these periods of my life have been like an earthquake.

After an excellent youth, with a profession, stable work, married with one son and with great political possiblities.

My life brought me the first bite.

It has been 34 years since I was tortured and damaged psychologically which lasts until today.

My life was worthless and I could have been assasinated by the facist soldiers at any time.

Later I lived in the liberty that Canada brought me, and another blow knocked at my door.

There has passed 25 years from the day in which it was discovered that I had cancer and was given

3 months of life to work.

This diagnosis was confirmed by the US, Cuba, the Soviet Union and Germany.

I have lived 25 years and have ten times this fatal illness, only 3 years ago I had it again

and I was in danger of losing my life. Thanks to God, the treatment of vitamins and a vegetarian

lifestyle has saved my body of copper sheath..

This is the treatment that is in my book: Your Love Killed My Cancer, by World Poetry Publishing.

I will celebrate my 60 years in a Tibetan Buddist temple with a special ceremony and refreshments.

This will be good since I want to reflect on the past and think of the future.

“My soul is happy

I sing, laugh and recite poetry.

I am content to live

in this ocean of Earth.

white, green and gold.

Oh Canada

(Qoute from page 179, Contentment from Your Love Killed My Cancer.)

Commentary by Mark Perrault

Judge won't reopen pizza case

Owner lied about income from Commercial Drive pizzeria

Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun

Published: Saturday, August 04, 2007

VANCOUVER - A Commercial Drive restaurant owner's application to reopen his divorce case has been dismissed after an earlier trial resulted in the man being ordered to pay his ex-wife about $1.2 million, plus $14,368 per month in child support.

In a judgment released Friday, the judge found that Marcello Lombardo, who owns Marcello Pizzeria, repeatedly lied and misled the court about his income -- he now admits the pizzeria had sales of $2 million last year.

Read the full story here...

Literary: David Stray Ney at the Poetry Slam

THE VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM

http://www.myspace.com/vancouverpoetryslam

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CAFÉ DEUX SOLEILS: 2096 COMMERCIAL DRIVE

(5TH AND COMMERCIAL)

THE 1ST, 3RD AND 5TH MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH

THE NEXT SLAM IS THIS MONDAY

AUGUST 6TH

FEATURING

BELLINGHAM'S POETIC BRAIN STORM

DAVID STRAY NEY

http://www.myspace.com/davidstrayney

WITH YOUR SPECIAL HOST

SPILLIOUS

DOORS AND SIGN UP ARE AT 8PM

OPEN MIC AT 8:45

SLAM STARTS AT 9 O'CLOCK

STILL ONLY $5

ALL POETS, ALL AGES, ALL STYLES WELCOME

IN THE SPIRIT OF FAIR PLAY AND GOOD TIMES

Special Event: Mindful Pain-Coping Class

When we are visited by pain, it can often be difficult to deal with. North American culture teaches us that pain equals suffering and encourages us to cope by turning automatically to drugs. Though pain in life is pretty much inevitable, suffering can be a path we choose (or don't choose).

Aimee Sturley invites you to a one-hour introduction to mindful pain-coping. The class will cover six different styles of mindfulness practice from breathing in awareness to exploring the edges of pain. This is a free class and you will be able to take away useful tools that you can put to work in your life without further instruction ( i.e. this class is not a loss-leader; I don't want to sell you more classes or anything of the sort!).

What: One-Hour Mindful Pain-Coping Class
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Where: Please RSVP for location (Commercial Drive area)
Who: Aimée Sturley is mentoring and a mish-mash of her friends are invited to attend
Cost: Free!

Please RSVP to drivegirl@gmail.com or call Aimée at 604.288.8608.

Looking forward to sharing this with you!

Be well,

Aimée