Special Event: Give Girls A Chance Benefit

Announcing the Second Annual Give Girls a Chance benefit concert. Vancouver area musicians band together to help educate girls in rural Tibet. Thursday, April 29, 9 pm, at the Backstage Lounge, 1585 Johnston Street .

This year's performers are:
Judy Lea & Enrico Renz
Michelle Dumond
Irene Orallo & Sinmobile MillerEastman.

Last year's event was sold out.
Judy Lea is a Vancouver based singer/songwriter. Her music spans 60's pop/r & b to funky originals to jazz. She'll be accompanied by the fabulous Enrico Renz on guitar and back-up vocals.
Michelle Dumond is a "free-spirited gypsy musician with the soul of a jazz singer and the playfullness of a burlesque performer..." - Jennifer Layton, Indiemusic.com. (ps Michelle has a brand new CD!)
Sinmobile is an indie rock band currently located on the Sunshine Coast. Led by the song-writing team of Irene Orallo and Mike Soper, their hard hitting sound was derived from early days in the Vancouver underground music scene with former band Stick Monkey.
Joni Miller and Vince Eastman (MillerEastman) have been writing songs and playing together for nearly a decade. The original music is a little bluesy, a little rocky, with some world music influences. Their master plan is to comment on the world while making you dance. Rino Marrone on keyboards.

Mission Statement: Give Girls A Chance (GGAC) is committed to raising funds to change the world through education. GGAC is unique in that it identifies grassroots educational programs for girls, and champions these programs, because education is a basic right that is being denied to millions of girls around the world.

The studies have been done, reports have been written and all point to the education of girls as one of the most significant factors to improve the health, economy, communities and basic human rights all over the world.

We hope to see you there! It's gonna be a great night! Admission by donation.

www.givegirlsachance.org

info: millereastman@live.ca

Review: Poet Slams Slam Finals

Prominent spoken word artist CJ Leon wrote this frank review
There is something seriously wrong with the slam scene in Vancouver when even its flagship Slam Finals event, which filled the Rio Theatre to capacity last night, fails to inspire even its most enthusiastic patrons. It didn’t help that while one slam-masters’ name was chanted seven times throughout the evening, none of the performing poets’ names were even in the program! While I appreciate the work of organizers, I go for the art and the artists. Fuck the Vancouver Slam for continuing to go out of its way to anonymize the artists who make it what it is. Bad form! You gave us a 14-page program and didn't even mention the artists, let alone give us their bios and links. Fuck you and your egomania! The lighting of the venue was horrible: no spotlight, and I was told the cadaverous hue of the performers was caused by event organizers who wanted the headache-inducing bluish “cleaning lights” on so poets could read their poems. Boo! And since when do slam poets read? Gimme a fucking break! I didn’t pay $15 to sit in Walmart lighting.

Read the full review here...

Special Event: Zawa Fundraiser

"The Human Right's Tribunal has been trying to make a mockery of our right to free speech" claims comedy night host Carter Horte.
According to Hortie, the news-making tribunal has cost Sal,the owner of ZAWA (formerly Zestys) over 15 thousand dollars in legal fees... and still he provides a stage for comedians.
The venue has hosted comedy for 10 years, 7 of those years with the Laff Riot Girls, a show produced by two hard working and fun loving lesbian comics, Ardell Fitzpatrick and LeeAnn Keple.

The list of Canadian comics that had their first show ever at Zawa and then moved on to a career in Stand Up is huge.
Hortie is asking fans of comedy and comedians to show their support and come down to Zawa on April 29th for the best show the place has seen yet.

If you have ever set foot on the stage at Zawa as a comedian then you need to haul your friends down to this show and help fight for our freedom to go there every week and say what ever we want.

SHOW STARTS AT 9:30PM APRIL 29TH. COVER CHARGE IS $10.00
ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO ZAWA'S LEGAL DEFENSE COSTS

THERE WILL BE NO DRIVE BY COMEDY SHOW AT ZAWA ON APRIL 22ND AS WE'LL BE TAKING THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR THIS SHOW.

Zawa's Restaurant

920 Commercial Drive