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.

This group is for all of us who have a desire to write but never seem to find the time to do it regularly. It is open to all levels and is for those who would like to do more writing on a set date & time each week. It doesn't matter what type of writing you are doing, or if you have never written before.  Just arrive with a notebook and pen (or laptop) and write. We usually begin by chatting for a number of minutes and getting to know each other though talking is not required. After a while most …

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.  …

We come from the four corners of the world all with one shared passion: writing.  This group was created to celebrate and explore the craft we all love.  It is designed to appeal to all levels.  Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, come and share your thoughts and ideas, and bring your observations and questions.  Who knows - we might just encourage you to write the next bestseller!

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.

The Story We Be: Memoir Reading and Writing Intensive Call for Applications Deadline May 15th The Story We Be is a 5-Week Memoir Reading and Writing Intensive that will run in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories, June-July, 2013. This Intensive will bring together an intergenerational group of 12 community members, artists from a diversity of disciplines, and community organizers, 18 years and older, to develop and strengthen skills in craft in cross-genre memoir writing, and performative storyt …

Discover the writer within you! Join a journaling and writing community that is finding joy, personal transformation, and creative expression through journaling. Learn different ways to write in your journal, adding color, perspective, and dimension to your reflective writing. With the help of these journal tools, you can gently but powerfully explore the various aspects of yourself, your life, and your relationships with others. Organizer Solanna Anderson is a certified instructor for the Journ …

Plain Language offers tools and techniques that improve materials written for the public and for targeted segments of it. The is a networking group to connect people whose works involves or should involve using plain language.

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 …

The Vancouver Screenwriters Meetup Group (VSMG) is an active community-minded group for Screenwriters and Filmmakers interested in networking, discussing and collaborating on screenplay development for all mediums. Our love of the craft is what binds us - this group's members are dedicated to helping each other improve - offering support and sharing knowledge and resources, while having a good time in doing so! VSMG provides guidance, contacts and support in all areas of the field - offering our …

Do you love the arts? Do you like meeting up? Do you like making friends? Well, you've come to the right place. Members of this group are creative and intellectual with a desire to expand our circles of friends to enjoy life and explore the arts in its myriad forms. The group is all about getting together to enjoy creative discussions with friends, to view art, the making of art and how art influences our lives. And the best things is, it's run by all of us, collectively. Each of us can decide w …

A supportive group of songwriters where we can gather and workshop new songs, bringing them to a new level of polish and presentation. Inspiration in the form of songwriting assignments will be presented, so that we come in with fresh material each month. Workshopping songs, through live presentation, is crucial to song development.  Learn through assessing others' songs and build a reperotoire of tools to apply to your own songwriting.

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.

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 is a group for anyone interested in listening to stories, or interested in practicing their stories and improving storytelling skills. (English language learners are also welcome!) Stories can be inspired from personal experiences, real-life events, literature, or your imagination. Everyone has a story! Stories can have various purposes from entertainment to teaching principles to starting conversations to sharing life lessons. As a creative form of communication, a story is a great way to …

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

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 …

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.

This group is for people who like to write and perform sketch comedy, and who are interested in spoofing current affairs, or pop culture trends, particularly the human potential/New Age movement. The focus is on intelligent humor that pokes fun at human foibles rather than at any person or group in particular. If you're interested in using humor to expose truth, and to inspire people to laugh at themselves in a good natured way...this will be for you. People bring ideas to explore, and then we u …

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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Hear and enjoy the best of storytelling in the Lower Mainland. Opportunity to meet the tellers. Share your experience of story listening. All can participate in the discussion and planning of events. For those who love the traditional art of storytelling; stories told from the heart and from memory. Three regular venues from North Shore to Steveston. Also an all day of storytelling; and a week end of epic storytelling.