Calling all those suffering from wanderlust - travel writers and armchair travellers alike. Whether you're traipsing around the world or just enjoy hearing the experiences of others, you'll find something here if you love reading or writing about travel.

Everyone has a strong and unique voice. Everyone is born with a creative genius waiting to be unleashed.  Everyone has a right to create, express, and share. Most importantly, a writer is a person who writes. Creative Souls provides a sacred space for writers of all levels to ignite and explore their inner creativity. You do not need to be a professional writer to join the Creative Soul group. In each creative writing workshop, you will get the opportunity to enjoy: -A comfortable and quiet plac …

Building on the success of Presentation Excellence Group, Possibilities is a group to help people identify and move forward with personal, creative, and career goals.  Meet or re-connect with other writers, artists and professionals and explore your strengths, values, and goals through fun and interactive writing and speaking activities.  Share your dreams and aspirations in a supportive environment, and gain tips and strategies for overcoming obstacles like fear, avoidance, and writers block.  …

Women in Words is a group that shares their writing in hopes of receiving helpful advice on how best to improve. We will bring our writing to each meeting, read them to each other and then receive some great advice on how to hone our writing to target our audience. Women in Words welcomes any level of writer who has an interest in improving her writing skills. There will be light refreshments and coffee/tea available.

This is a Technical Writing for the Vancouver, BC region. If you are interested in technical writing, or in need of a technical writer, this is the group for you! Topics that we regularly discuss include: Job Market - Prospective jobs Technical Writing Technology - Authoring tools, Content Management Systems Resources - Technical Writing Publications, blogs, books, organizations etc.

We live in Vancouver and we love to write. We share our work, challenge and encourage each other, and embark on literary projects together.  We argue over commas and colons, whether words in other languages should be translated or not, all things poetry, and anything else that happens to have words in it. Every month we hold an afternoon of writing exercises at the library, and during the summer, we also have regular gatherings at local parks. With competitions and times when we get together ju …

This Meetup Group has been organized to help music artists and songwriters become better prepared to pursue their career interests through live local networking and educational events. Most will be geared around a specific music career or industry topic. Some of these events will be free to attend, with one or more industry professionals guest speaking/hosting, and others may involve a reasonable admission fee. Everyone attending will be provided an opportunity to participate by asking questions …

//collaborate here Canada's largest tech meetups RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and …

This is a group for people who love to sing the old American Standards of Gershwin, Cole Porter, There is no definitive list of musicians and lyricists whose work constitutes the Great American Songbook, but the following writers and songs are often included: Irving Berlin, one of the most prolific composers and lyricists of the Great American Songbook. Harold Arlen (with E.Y. Harburg "Over the Rainbow", "It's Only a Paper Moon"; with Ted Koehler "Stormy Weather", "I've Got the World on a String …

This Meetup group is about sharing our interest in Genealogy and our family history and heritage. Our venues are casual. We share knowledge, tips, ask questions, often enjoy coffee or tea, and ultimately find out who we are - past and present. Themes can include material for writers, creative presentations, family albums, heritage scrapbooks, as well as techniques to track our heritage, computer tips and assistance. Novices, practiced genealogists and the 'curious' are all welcome.

The definition of Mecca = A place that attracts people of a particular group or with a particular interest. We live in the Mecca of Junior Mining, Vancouver BC. Regardless of age or experience, no investor will ever learn everything there is to know about the stock market …. But maybe if we all come together to share our knowledge (and some pitchers), we can come out the other side with new information and a new prospective. Our city is living through some pretty interesting and challenging time …

Young Community Leaders Network (Metro Vancouver) is a space for young nonprofit and community leaders to gain skills, knowledge and connections required to create positive change. Who should join: nonprofit professionals board members social entrepreneurs nonprofit service providers (graphic designers, writers, lawyers, trainers, consultants, etc.) students interested in working in the sector others demonstrating community leadership

Welcome to the Headliners Toastmasters club. Our members include professional communicators, writers, marketers, fundraisers, PR specialists, agency owners, entrepreneurs, and more. Despite our diverse backgrounds, we share a common goal – to become more polished public speakers. We guarantee you’ll learn a lot. Everyone is welcome. Including you! We welcome anyone who wants to round out his or her professional toolkit and have a great time doing it! So drop in and check us out. You might even l …

Artists for Conservation Vancouver Meetup Group Do you have an appreciation for art, care about nature or enjoy being part of a bigger cause? Artists for Conservation does and has become the world's leading non-profit artist group supporting the environment. By joining the AFC Meetup Group you will be invited to meet local and international artists, learn about art and conservation, attend special events, and participate in environmental education through art that celebrates our natural herita …

Attention baseball geeks! This is a group for baseball and fantasy baseball fans, writers, players, and beer drinkers to get together and discuss all things baseball - games, stats, picks, live drafts, etc. Rub shoulders with the local baseball writing legends (in their own minds) behind Scoops Baseball and meet other baseball enthusiasts.

Meet other local fans of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and SGU, shows filmed right in this area. With the Stargate production facilities, writers, producers, actors, and behind-the-scenes personnel all located right here in the Vancouver area, we are at the center of the Stargate world. Meet to plan fannish activities, watch location shooting, when possible, and watch and discuss your favorite episodes!

The VAN Art Meetup is a group for local creatives to come together to share ideas and resources, improve their business and professional skills, being amongst like-minded people and support one another's artistic endeavours. The group gets together once a month to discuss various issues related to the hustle of making living from your creativity in Vancouver. Some topics that will be address are: Self-promotion • Social media marketing • Networking • Being an ARTrepreneur • Personal branding • P …

Welcome to Food Bloggers Meetup Group! Like us and follow us! Meet and socialize with like-minded foodies & bloggers while enjoying great food & company! Are you a foodie? Do you like food, like trying different cuisines and are always interested in other people's recommendations? Then welcome to the Vancouver Food Bloggers Meetup. You don't have to be a blogger or writer to join, ONLY A FEW of our members maintain their own blogs or contribute to review sites such as Yelp and Urban Spoon. Ch …

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There are so many great books that inspire us to live happier and more fulfilling lives. Why not join a book club to read some of these books together and share ideas? If you love personal growth and want to notch up the quality of your life, this is for you! In 2012 we had honest and insightful discussions on Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.  We'll be moving on to other inspiring books this year, so watch for details, and come join us!

The purpose of this Women's Referral Networking Group is to have one specialist from each industry in the group so we can get to know each other better and most importantly establish referral relationships. We started this meet-up as an opportunity to get together with other driven, motivated women starting out in their chosen career to learn from one another and discuss ideas and experiences about how to succeed and flourish. Our goal is to connect with different women in all areas of Vancouver …

Culinary Adventures is a group for people who love to eat, drink and pair the two together while meeting smart, fun, and interesting people along the way. It is organized and led by Vancouver writer/broadcaster/instructor by day, WSET Certified wine lover and educator by night Gloria Chang. While pleasure is the primary goal, we also support sustainability and food security. This group was started to facilitate in person WINE tastings, WINE dinners, and other beer, cocktails, and such focused ev …

This group is designed to help actors gain valuable experience in front of a camera working closely with filmmakers. The idea behind this group is that Romantic Child Studios (An independent Canadian film production company), is always looking for acting talent for short and feature films. This meetup takes that idea one step further providing a practice space for both filmmakers and actors. For example, a writer or director may have a small scene that they want acted out to see how it looks on …