[venue] The first event needs a home

[Qard]

Anyone have venue suggestions for the first event? I don't know what the size of the first event will be yet, but I want it to start with a bang!

Somewhere accessible would be great. Gastown, Yaletown or somewhere near Skytrain stops not too far from downtown would be best. The warehouse feel of Oakland event worked well, and it'd be nice to be able to bring some other cool art stuff in there. Oakland had dropship, Vancouver will have...?

[bcoe]

CC: @gsilk you said you might have some people you'd like to put @Qard in touch with?

[gsilk]

@bcoe I've contacted my buddy Ken Pratt via gmail, assuming he's interested I'll add him to this group?

[Qard]

@canuckistani mentioned http://openstudios.ca/.

[gsilk]

Here ya go -- @kenpratt

[kenpratt]

@gsilk and I attended an event at the hall above the Legion on Commercial Drive -- 2 blocks from the Skytrain. WISE hall is another common local place, but it's far from the Skytrain.

You could also get in touch with the Centre for Digital Media (http://thecdm.ca/). They have space, are close the VCC-Clark Skytrain, and might be into hosting this since it's a tech-y event.

HiVE hosts plenty of tech stuff, in Gastown, not sure about a dance party though: http://www.hivevancouver.com/

You may also want to ping the local VanJS and PolyglotVancouver meetup group organizers, they'd probably have suggestions for space and/or be willing to promote and maybe co-host.

[flyingoctopus]

the vancouver hackspace just found another space and will be moving in soon. I tend to host events there. They are a great community of people there.

[Qard]

I've already chatted a bit with @sintaxi about Node Brigade. Now that I'm back in town, I'll see about talking with @apike about VanJS.

I'm going to start properly evaluating venues this week and trying to figure out a date.

[gsilk]

@Qard you may also want to investigate The Anza (or The Anza Club, I forget which)

[flyingoctopus]

Bump for the hive.

[jeffgca]

@Qard @gsilk The Anza club is a good suggesstion - friends of mine hosted a 'producer's forum' event there last year associated with Sequential Circus and it was quite cheap for the daytime space - plus they have an existing sound system and an expectation from neighbours that things will get loud. If you want to do the event at night on a weekend you'd be paying regular rates, but that might be pretty cheap as well.

[Qard]

Yep, I'm shooting for a Saturday night to make it easy for Oakland folks to come up, if they want.

Anza looks interesting. The one thing I'm not entirely sure about is the SOCAN license stuff. Anyone have experience with that?

[affinity-matrix]

I would absolutely love to make it up for this! Do you have a date set yet?

+1 for Gastown (the only part of Vancouver I'm familiar with).

[Qard]

Not yet. I'm trying for sometime in March though.

[Qard]

Does Saturday, May 16th work for any Oakland folks interested in coming up?

[bcoe]

@Qard May works for me. can't wait.