Upcoming local queer and lesbian events in Vancouver
Below is our listing of local lesbian events in Vancouver for June. These Vancouver queer women events have something for everyone, and are updated on a regular basis by someone who lives in Vancouver.
Are you a bi-national couple new to Vancouver? We're a group of LGBT bi-national couples who get together informally at Rhizome Cafe about once a month. Rhizome has a varied menu (including vegan & veg), a full bar, coffee, tea, and treats.
The ladies have spoken!
(We knew you were out there ;) )
Yes, we received you emails.
Yes, we got your Facebook messages.
Yes, we saw your votes....& now we're coming to you!!
The upcoming Lez Hookup Speed Dating event is going to be in the Tri-Cities (Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam & Port Moody)
Whether you're looking for new friends in the area or something more, remember: she wouldn't be at a Lez Hookup event if she wasn't looking too.
GIRL-GIRL SPEED DATING
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
You must be 19+ to attend this event
Registration is required. View details and venue information at:
http://www.lezhookup.com/Tri_City_Event.php
If you love hip hop, if r&B and soul is your thing, if dancehall makes your body move GRIND is where you wanna be. This Saturday Dj's DeLux and Analog will be creating the vibe pon tha dance floor. Come dance with me people it's been forever!!!
And further more Lick deserves your support!!!! I've lived across this country and know of no other queer community space where you can book a club fully staffed and stoked for your event to happen without a contract or rental fees. If you have a purpose present a plan and LICK will do it's best to support your charity or vision.
A true community space can only exist if the community doesn't take it for granted. If we haven't seen you in a while show up, show some love, lets get unified because one day the opportunity may be lost and that would be a very sad day for this community. See you this Saturday BIG LOVE BRIGEE. K
In conjunction with Bob Loblaw Queer Arts Society, Vancouver Pride cordially invites you to join us in unholy matrimony at My Big Gay Wedding II, the Journey of Jen and Jasmine.
The evening includes a night of food, marriage, music and mayhem followed by an after party at Celebrities. This event promises to be the most outrageous and salacious wedding of the year!
Tickets are on sale until June 10th only and $75 (or $700 for a table of ten) and available at Little Sisters, 1238 Davie St, and by credit card at the Vancouver Pride office, 604-687-0955.
Funds raised assist the Pride Parade and Legacy Fund. Say 'I Do' to buying tickets before they sell out!
Nobody puts Baby in a corner! How do you call your loverboy? Come here, loverboy. Da-do you love me, now that I can dance? I carried a watermelon. She's like the wind through my tree. Now I've got you in my sights, with these hungry eyes... I feel the magic between you and I.
I've had the time of my life, I've never felt like this before!
Welcome back to summer at Prancerman's Lodge. June 12, Prancerman's main ballroom, we'll show you dancing like you've never seen before. Join us for a summertime fling! Experiment with new moves and get sweaty, it doesn't matter what your parents think. Short-shorts, boat shoes, twirly dresses, dirty prancing.
Featuring PHILLIPS beer!
9:30pm - 2:00am. $5-10 sliding scale. Venue & bathroom are wheelchair accessible. Childcare funds and “Oops, too trashed to get home” funds available. Prance believes in maximum danceability. prance.prance.revolution@gmail.com and pranceparty.wordpress.com
In honour of that Dirty Dancing subplot, we will be donating bar tips to a local organization which supports access to abortion. There is a poll here: http://pranceparty.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/vote-for-who-gets-the-prance-donation/ Go vote before June 10!
EPIC MARBLE PROJECT and TRUE ENTERTAINMENT bring you...
-=SPARKLE every SATURDAY=-
This week is LADIES' NIGHT OUT where ladies get in free before 11
DJs this week starring ALL GIRLS LINE UP:
Miss Marz
Amanda Rude
Rhia Wellbelove
Cho Cha
Jak Drum on the percussion
and
FLO-GO dancers.
$15 advanced and $20 at door.
Remember... DRESS to IMPRESS!!!
Email info@trueentertainment.ca for advance tickets.
SPARKLE every SATURDAY brings to you a very high standard of production every weekend with live instruments and FLO-GO dancers. With an ALL GIRLS DJ LINE UP, this weekend is going to be a great time!
Birthday party? Please email info@trueentertainment.ca for RSVP. We offer:
- bottle of champaigne
- birthday cake
- seating
- other surprises
- for larger parties of 20 and up, we can supply a limo which holds up to 35
Are you interested in connecting with other queer parents?
Join Pomegranate Community Midwives for the last installment of our free info series on conception, pregnancy and parenting outside of the straight-couple box. We will explore multiple routes to becoming parents, fertility and insemination basics, as well as culturally-specific issues to being pregnant and giving birth for queer families.
On Sunday June 13th from 7-9 pm (see our street address below) we will be hosting our popular "Rainbow of Experiences" panel.
Listen to queer parents share their stories about adoption, conception using known and unknown donors, issues unique to the non-biological parent, and more! Connecting with each other through panel discussion offers a great opportunity to explore and celebrate some of the different paths to parenting in our community.
If you're interested in attending the event, save the date and email us to let us know you'll be coming . It's sure to be an enriching, informative and community building evening!
In Celebration of Vancouver's Pride Season and the LGTBQ Community
THE QUEER SLAM
is
MONDAY JUNE 14TH
Hosted by Spillious
Featuring: Portland, Oregon's tash shatz
since beginning to write poetry at eleven and starting to slam at eighteen, tash shatz has found a channel to the heartplace through words. tash has been honored to perform with the Tranny Roadshow, share the stage with Athens Boys Choir and Katastrophe, and to present at community events from Take Back the Night to Trans Day of Remembrance. committed to community organizing, tash is dedicated to building beloved community as a trans genderqueer survivor and an ally to movements for racial, economic, disability, and reproductive justice. tash believes that we can do it all without leaving anything out. continuously learning about self-love, tash is a fan of singing off key and being naked in the sun. a blog is in tash's near future, but for now you can find some work here: www.youtube.com/user/tashatz
ALL POETS AND POETIC STYLES ARE WELCOME TO SLAM;
Teen Angst, Elder Angst, Love Poemmes,
Manifestos, Womanifestos, Trannifestos,
Naughty Confessions that Rhyme, Freestyle Tributes to Chaz Bono
DOORS AND POET SIGN UP 8PM
OPEN MIC AT 8:45
SLAM STARTS AT 9 PM
STILL ONLY $5
Contact (604) 818-5796 for more info
*All ages, genders, sexualities and dress sizes welcome and encouraged to participate*
(unfortunately the washrooms at Café Deux Soleils are not wheelchair accessible- for complete details on accessibilty at CDS email definitelybeautiful@gmail.com)
Come!! See!! and hear!! WINTERMITTS with AUNTS AND UNCLES, and the debut of the new WINTERMITTS MUSIC VIDEO!! The long awaited video for "Accord Mineur" is so fricking awesome. And we'll play some new, never before heard songs!! Wow, we can barely contain our excitement!! Filmed and produced and made completely by the talented Natasha Ali. Check out her work at: http://www.natashaali.com/
Also check out Wintermitts stuff at: http://www.wintermitts.com/
And Aunts and Uncles at: http://www.myspace.com/auntsanduncles
This event is a fundraiser for the Girls Rock Camp.
http://girlsrockcampvancouver.ca/
An all inclusive, elegant & playful party for women and friends! A perfect spot to sip martini’s, unwind from the week, meet new friends and rock-out the dancefloor!
DJ Rocket
9pm-2am
$12 advance
Limited advance tix for this event available online www.flygirlproductions.com only. Door admission available. Please arrive early.
CAP AIDS is pleased to announce that the 7th annual Bike 2 CAP AIDS Bike-a-thon, a fun family event, will be held in Vancouver on Saturday, June 19th. Come join us as a Team or individual rider!
The Bike 2 CAP AIDS Bike-a-thon is an annual CAP AIDS campaign aimed at raising awareness about the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Africa, while also demonstrating to Canadians that they can make a difference. For every $200 that is raised by the bike-a-thon, CAP AIDS will provide either:
a) One new bicycle and other supports to an HIV AIDS outreach worker in Africa. With a sustainable and affordable means of transportation, these local heroes can provide HIV AIDS prevention, care, and support services to 5 times as many people, and have a much bigger impact,
OR
b) vocational skills training for one AIDS-orphaned African youth. With a skilled vocation, orphaned youth can gain employment, earn a better living, rebuild their confidence, and care for their younger siblings.
Thanks to valuable support of concerned Canadians, CAP AIDS has to date provided more than 500 bikes and other essential resources to AIDS service organizations and outreach workers in Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
Online registration is easy and secure. Please go to the Bike 2 CAP AIDS 2010 Event HomePage at
https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/LoginRegister.aspx?EventID=43426&LangPref=en-CA
Once you log in, you'll be able to:
· Register (registration fee: $25)
· Sponsor a participant
· Sponsor a team
· Create your own team
· Join an existing team/group
· Download paper pledge forms and fundraise offline.
Day-of registration for the ride will happen at Trout Lake Park (south of the lake) at 9:00am, with the ride beginning at 10:00am. The ride will move safely along bike paths to the Inukshuk near English Bay and return to Trout Lake between 11:30am – 12:00pm for complimentary refreshments and entertainment, including a Zimbabwean marimbas group. We are in the process of securing city permits but ask you to please hold the date as June 19th.
Can't participate? If you are unable to participate in the bike-a-thon, please consider making a donation or sponsoring other riders. Our goal this year is to raise at least $15,000 in Vancouver, and $60,000 across Canada!
CAP AIDS is a registered Canadian charity and tax receipts will be issued for donations $15 and above, including your registration fee.
For help with the registration process or to pose questions, please contact Lindsay Marsh, Bike2CAP AIDS Coordinator, at lindsay@shantiuganda@gmail.com or 778-388-4130.
By biking or donating you are helping us to put a CAP on AIDS. Thank you for making a difference! For more information about CAP AIDS' work, please visit our website: www.capaids.org
Musical Brunch hosted by award winning lesbian duo Sugarbeach (www.sugarbeachmusic.com) , with special guests Rae Armour (www.augustmusic.net/armour.html) and Dave Deveau (www.davedeveau.com).
12 - 2pm
Cost: just the cost of whatever you want for brunch
East Side Pride celebrates our community at this neighbourhood friendly event. Community organizations and funky artisans have a village of booths set up and the stage has live entertainment with musicians and dancers. Catch up with old friends and make new ones while your kids run and play. Stop by the VPS tent to buy your Pride merchandise, annual memberships or to volunteer for Pride. Come to East Side Pride and kick off the 2010 Pride Season.
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Facilitated by weaver - on "the drive" in Vancouver - open to all...
Let us gather together in community to celebrate & honour the Summer Solstice...
Greeting to the Summer Solstice... Glory to Day-Star, hail! Lifter of the Light, Burnisher of the Sky... Gifts of love to earth are bringing... Summer's shimmer, dew's delight... Dancing be the heart within us... Open be our souls to bliss... Courage vanquish every shadow... Greet midsummer with a kiss. —Caitlin Matthews
Come drum for peace... come drum for healing... come drum for our blessed earth mother... yes, we know this year's date is later than usual - due to availability of venue, etc...
You don't have to drum to attend... all are welcome... this event is a time for all of us to gather together to send our intentions out into the world of our dreamings and prayers as community which will include a stone people ceremony... and, of course, we'll have fun drumming, singing and chanting together...
7:30 - 9 pm * doors open @ 7 pm
$20 @ the door or..
$12 by Pre-Registering through paypal - see link below
(a portion of the door will be donated to the DTES Women's Centre)
* note: we will begin smudging & opening sacred space @ 7:30 sharp!
We appreciate it for you to please arrive a little early around 7:15 pm to sign-in & get set up...
- bring your drums (any type) & rattles,
- some water to drink,
- your mesa, (sacred bundle) if you carry one,
- a small stone for prayers with the stone people ceremony,
- something to place and share on the central altar if you wish...
This sacred circle drums in the free & open style...
We welcome ALL skill levels... beginner to advanced!
* Pre-registration is kindly requested so we know how many to expect & set up for...many thanks...
* also, a limited number of drums will be available for rent @ $5 rental each (payable on the night)... If you need a drum, please register by email with Heathir at hrhyasen@agentofchange.ca to reserve a drum prior to event so weaver knows how many to bring... with much appreciation! ...
There will also be available some shakers & rattles, etc., if you don't wish to drum... we invite you to come hold space, sing and chant with us to celebrate together... open to all...!
SPECIAL NOTE: The space will be prepared with smudging of cedar and white sage and/or palo santos incense prior - not during - we will smudge each other with dry cedar boughs (no smoke) when we gather to open sacred space...
• More info and Pre-Registration (via paypal) at http://www.carolweaver.com/drum-home.html#equinox
Cris Derksen, The Cultch Curator in Residence, has assembled a group of young women who will create a collaborative performance with an Aboriginal perspective. The ensemble will work together for a month, culminating in a performance at The Cultch on June 27th.
The collective includes electronics artist Amanda Young, opera singer Melody Mercredi,Video Artist Kathryn Jean, Aboriginal Fancy Dancer Shyama Pria, and Derksen herself.
Tickets are available now through The Cultch's Box Office: https://tickets.thecultch.com/
NEPTUNE AT NIGHT plays the J Lounge with special guest CRIS DERKSEN
Alternative new wave rockers Neptune At Night first came together in early 2009 and have skyrocketed to popularity since then. Neptune At Night seek to defy both social and sonic boundaries through Penelope Parker's songwriting & searing guitar riffs, Tiff Kopp's melodic keys, Morgana Duque's hypnotic bass lines, and Sandrine Devin's grace & authority on the drums.
Neptune At Night are an all female, all queer group. They often describe their musical genre as "intergalactic lounge rock".
Where The Girls Are! One hot-mess of a party not to be missed!!!!!!! We are SO excited to bring back DJ AMARA from LA, Club Skirts The Dinah so get ready to party like a rock star!!!
DJ AMARA brings to the tables an unmatched style, mixing various genres and giving listeners a unique flavor of hybrid beats and rhythms. She’s been captivating crowds and can be found playing exclusive events such as Hardy Fashion Show, Oscar after parties, movie premier galas and opening for artists such as Katie Perry, Pat Benatar, Crystal Waters, Lisa Lisa, India Arie, Lady Gaga, and Colbie Caillat to name a few.
Red Rooms refresh echoes a sexy, sultry New Orleans nightclub featuring granite table tops, hardwood floors, enveloping red velvet booths and one of Vancouver’s best sound and lighting systems so………..
Check your inhibitions at the door and get ready to be a part of the largest and hottest lesbian parties in Canada!!!
This Hershe showcasing - DJ AMARA (LA, Club Skirts The Dinah) & DJ RIKI ROCKET (UK)
9pm-2am
$12 advance
Tickets available:
Online www.flygirlproductions.com
Little Sisters Bookstore-1238 Davie St. 604-669-1753
Kokopelli Salon-2052 Commercial Drive @ 4th Ave
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