Food and Ideas

I want to forward along an email I received last night from one of Urbantastic’s most active members, Kevan Gilbert. He works at Union Gospel Mission as the coordinator of interactive design, and is a board member at New Hope Community Services. Here’s what he had to say:

Hey guys,

If you’re in town this Saturday, there’s a couple events you might dig: ethnic food and good workshops.

The food part: crazydelicious ethnic cuisine to raise money for a charity in Vancouver called New Hope (They help refugees get settled in Vancouver / I help out these guys with a bit of volunteer work.) We’re talking tandoori chicken, vegetarian and meat samosas, fancy rice, Indian, Malaysian, African food and more. $30 is the cost — you should come! You can save yourself a seat on the website. [See task to help out!]

The SECOND one is an unconference called Vancouver Change Camp. It’s happening on Saturday at BCIT’s downtown campus, and it’s all about learning how the web is becoming central to government and non-profits making serious change. I actually get the chance to SPEAK at the conference, leading a 45-minute session about non-profit web strategy. (Forget my session, though, there’s a guy from Google speaking, too!) It’s $25 at the door for the full day. More info here: http://vanchangecamp.wordpress.com/