Room Magazine

“The Pens” have enjoyed reading Room Magazine over the past few years (the Room Team generously donated boxes and boxes of back-issues for our consumption in 2009). So we’re *really* looking forward to a visit from one of the  ”Growing Room Collective” volunteers this Saturday (Feb. 25th). Jennifer Z. will guest teach a session on [...]

CACV & World Community Arts Day

This past weekend, Mary Bennett and a team of volunteers from the Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) attended an Intrepid Pens session to work with the group as part of the “SHARE THE LOVE” Project for World Community Arts Day. I was so disappointed to have missed it (the first session I haven’t led [...]

Vancouver International Writers Festival

V125 Poetry Conference

Heart of the City Festival

This Sunday (2:00pm – 3:30pm at the InterUrban Gallery, 1 E. Hastings), Intrepid Pens will join Megaphone Magazine and The Studio Society for a reading of original work as part of the Heart of the City Festival. For more information on the Festival, click here. * * * Reading WRITING OUR STORIES Sunday October 30, [...]

Intrepid Pens and Festival Cinemas

Thanks to another donation (their second, see Thanks Page) by the generous team at Festival Cinemas, Intrepid Pens will have the opportunity to spend an evening at the theatre next month! We’ll be seeing an advanced screening of “The Debt” — a film starring Helen Mirren which follows three Mossad agents in pursuit of a [...]

VanDusen Gardens, Vancouver

Several Book Club and Writing Group members joined me for a trip to VanDusen Gardens yesterday [Jul. 10, 2010]  – a trip made possible by “Sharon” who generously donated free tickets to us). It was beautiful day and the garden was spectacular. One group member said, as we strolled through the ‘formal rose garden’: “I’ve [...]

Intrepid Pens @ The Cultch (2010)

This weekend [Nov. 22, 2010], thanks to a generous donation from Derrick O’Keefe and The People’s Co-Op Bookstore, Intrepid Pens enjoyed a magical evening (with Karl Marx!) at The Cultch, Vancouver East’s Cultural Centre. The show, People’s Co-Op Bookstore presents: Howard Zinn’s Marx in Soho starring Brian Jones, included a reading by Intrepid Pens member [...]

Intrepid Pens @ VPL (2010)

Thanks to VPL (Central Branch) and Literature, Social Sciences, and Multicultural Services Manager, Ross Bliss, Intrepid Pens had the opportunity to spend several hours in a private computer lab this week [Oct. 22, 2010] learning about the internet, email, blogging, and word processing. It was a chance for us to learn how to further promote [...]

Intrepid Pens @ The Movies! (2010)

Thanks to a generous gift from the Vancouver International Film Festival Marketing Committee here in Vancouver, Intrepid Pens had the opportunity to see a VIFF show last week — “Foreign Parts” by Verena Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki. Not only was the film good (it’s an award-winner), there were real connections between the community it [...]