YOU'RE INVITED!
To come and volunteer your muscles, brains and hearts to the Purple Thistle Collective Gardeners great food forest plant on Sunday March 4th at 12pm. 

The Purple Thistle Gardeners spent a lot of time and sweat getting the ground ready last year, researching and ordering trees...and now we're ready to plant a big load of fruit and nut trees - but we really need your help.  There will be lots of food and other goodies to keep your belly full and body warm!

The site is located in an unlikely industrial district of the East End of Vancouver, on Charles street where it crosses Vernon Drive just a few blocks down from the Purple Thistle.  The planting of these trees is the second phase of our project on this site.  We will continue to plant other bushes, flowers, and food producing plants in addition to our plans to create some naturally built cob structures that will help the site become a functional community space as well.  

The Purple Thistle Gardening group is a collective gardening group that is committed to learning through engaging in gardening, reclamation, and wild crafting projects.  We are youth focused, but happy to have anyone of any age come and join us.  For more information please contact Marla at marlarenn@gmail.comor call her at (604) 788-3995.

Eat the Rich Community Kitchen and GOOD TOUCH! Present:

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Leave behind the parts of Valentine's Day that aren't so great - expensive flowers that only last one day, gendered relationship expectations, and/or feeling like you're //supposed// to be in a relationship.

Come celebrate radical love and community! Join us for delicious (not expensive) food, love-filled and sexy and mind-tingling performances, and one hella friendly and loving room of people (that means you!).

With special guests:

HARI ALLURI, MERCEDES ENG, and CECILY NICHOLSON of the
PRESS RELEASE POETRY COLLECTIVE

press release is a collective of movement-based poets. we first came
together out of a shared desire to bear witness to various forms of
community resistance and building, initially producing a free chapbook of
anonymous submissions, contributions and collaborative pieces, and
participating in opposition and critique of the olympics on unceded coast
salish territories. mostly women and people of colour, the group continues
to ask each other and our communities how to generate poetry, dialogue and
vision without being co-opted by processes of cultural gentrification.

KAY LAMOTHE

Kay Lamothe is a writer, poet, musician & performance artist, currently residing on unceded Coast Salish territories. When they're not onstage with their bands Velvet Fist, Screaming Queens, and Noisy Tits they can generally be found pissing off the gaygeoisie and challenging people's notions of what a "good" or "decent" trans woman is.

JILLIAN CHRISTMAS

Jillian Christmas is a poet & musician with a penchant for love stories and heart-heavy lullabies. Jill Christmas has been a feature performer at such events as Word Jam, Grad Club (Queen’s University), Sticks & Stanzas and Burlington Slam Project. She is an enthusiastic collector of wayward hearts, warm hugs and random celestial-experiences; spinning them all into stanzas that sound so sweet on her tongue that they drip from her lips like honey.

LEROY WAN

Leroy Wan is a 20 year old performance artist from East Vancouver. He takes pop culture references to direct his voice to a mainstream audience and then rips to shreads Steven Harper shirts on his body whilst singing 'Born This Way'. It's 2012, and Leroy Wan is back with bigger costumes and bigger ideas; with some new friends and some old friends.

& MORE!

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All Ages!
Food and Doors at 7. Show starts at 7:45 Sharp (We LOVE it when you come on time!)

$5 suggested donation at the door.
Love What You Can / No One Turned Away
We're trying to buy a stove and a refrigerator, so bring cash or appliances.

Food by donation. All food vegan and gluten free (with the exception of some desserts).

Accessibility Info:
Front door: 40” across
Bathroom door: 27.5” across
Kitchen door: 36” across
There is one small step at the front entrance.

Please don't wear artificial scents or strong chemically thangs.

'A Surrealist Anti-Documentary About Resource Extraction"

25 Minute Hand-processed B&W 16mm film screening, followed by discussion and opportunity to contribute to the finished film!

FREE! invite folks, there will be some treats 

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Someday, All Of This Will Be Yours charts the course of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline as it extends from the base of Burnaby mountain across the Rockies and north to the boreal forest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the center of oil sands extraction. Captured over the course of two weeks on 16mm by three young gardeners, musicians, and students living in East Vancouver, the film explores rampant resource extraction in both the ecological and social bodies to spark conversation about co-implication and the smokescreen of blame; the interconnectedness of communities across provinces and continents; the relation of the individual to the myriad of acute social, ecological, and political struggles within and outside of one's community; finally, to suggest Vancouver as the ideal site of resistance to further tar sands and pipeline expansion in the west. Shot with little time and resources, processed in buckets of questionable chemistry in the darkroom of the Purple Thistle Center in Strathcona, and cut by hand overnight in the Woodwards building, this film is meant as a living document of our neighborhood and just how far that neighborhood extends.

Presented as part of the Echo Chamber for the 2011 Culture Crawl

'A Surrealist Anti-Documentary About Resource Extraction"

25 Minute Hand-processed B&W 16mm film screening, followed by discussion and opportunity to contribute to the finished film!

FREE! invite folks, there will be some treats 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Someday, All Of This Will Be Yours charts the course of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline as it extends from the base of Burnaby mountain across the Rockies and north to the boreal forest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the center of oil sands extraction. Captured over the course of two weeks on 16mm by three young gardeners, musicians, and students living in East Vancouver, the film explores rampant resource extraction in both the ecological and social bodies to spark conversation about co-implication and the smokescreen of blame; the interconnectedness of communities across provinces and continents; the relation of the individual to the myriad of acute social, ecological, and political struggles within and outside of one's community; finally, to suggest Vancouver as the ideal site of resistance to further tar sands and pipeline expansion in the west. Shot with little time and resources, processed in buckets of questionable chemistry in the darkroom of the Purple Thistle Center in Strathcona, and cut by hand overnight in the Woodwards building, this film is meant as a living document of our neighborhood and just how far that neighborhood extends.

Presented as part of the Echo Chamber for the 2011 Culture Crawl