Meet other local Musicians to talk about gigs, gear, and techniques and the music business, and network with and support each other. Share experiences regarding creating, composing, playing, and performing music, and learn with workshops about these elements of music and the changing music business!

If you want to talk with native speakers to learn a new language, improve your language skills, or are simply eager to discover new cultures, you have found the right place!. The goal of the Vancouver Newcomers and Immigrants is to connect local people and people who have come to Canada from other countries in order to help them understand each other's culture and languages while developing new friendships. Whether you are someone fond of foreign languages, a student, a recent immigrant, an empl …

The Vancouver Underground Party Network (VUPN) is for anyone interested in forward thinking or old school electronic dance music (EDM) in Vancouver. If you have a passion or curiosity for all shades of House, Techno, Minimal, Italo, Disco, Psytrance, Glitch Hop, Midtempo, Electro, and/or 80's obscure grooves, this group is for you! Maybe you're curious as to what this scene and music is all about, and want to experience it. Maybe you're already a party-goer/EDM fan, and want to go out with a rad …

Selected concert listings for the Vancouver area. Try out some new artists, or some new venues while meeting great people who enjoy the same music as you! We rely on feedback from our members to find out more about artists and venues so get involved and spread the word!

Welcome to one of the largest and most active Friend & Social Meetup Groups in the Vancouver area! This group is all about finding friends and making new friends. It's for anyone who enjoys events and activities that are socially interactive, interesting, laid-back, easy-going and lots of fun. This group is for fun socializing only and there is no cost to join our group. Whether you're single, married, divorced, separated, temporarily in town, new in town, new to Vancouver, bored and looking for …

Vancouverite: (van-koovr-ite) A person residing in Vancouver or any of the surrounding lower mainland (Burnaby, Coquitlam, Port Moody, Surrey, Langley, Richmond, etc.) This group welcomes all young adults in the the lower mainland and greater Vancouver area between the ages of 19-30 yrs. Here we will plan events and activities where everyone can have fun, just relax, and be themselves! Come meet new people, make friends and overall just have fun! - movie nights, beach trips, pubs, clubs, dinner …

Salsa & Latin dance classes & Latin dance parties in Vancouver, Coquitlam, Surrey & New Westminster. You don't have to drive to Vancouver to enjoy sounds of Latin Music, to learn how to dance Salsa and to have a good time in our Salsa & Latin parties. Everybody is Welcome! Singles Welcome! No Partner needed! No Age limit! No Dance Experience Required! Our website is http://www.HotSalsaDanceZone.com

This groups is for DJs and music producers of the electronica bent in the GVA to get together, hang out, bullshit about 'the Scene', share playlists, talk smack about hardware & software, and generally build some solid networks that will support and encourage good music being played for good crowds in Vancouver. Join up if you're passionate about your tech, your breaks, your trance and your prog. Stand up if you rave about your rave, you get up on your hip hop, and you rock your pop top40s. (Du …

ARTCODE is a group dedicated to the combination of Art, Design, and new Technology. We are hands-on enthusiasts in hardware or software. We are into stuff like PureData, Max/MSP, Haskore, QuartzComposer, Csound, Kinect, 3D printing, OpenNI, Frankencamera, Open Framework, Cinder, OpenCV, Processing, Wiring, Arduino, HIDs, HUDs, Android, WP7, iPhone/iPod, and iPad. We would like to meet others in order to exchange knowledge, skills and perhaps work on larger projects.

Our workshops are a way for artists and those wanting to get involved in music making, production, software, songwriting and/or social media to meet and connect. We provide regular songwriting cafe meetings where songwriters can share their music, get feedback from experts and get support from other musicians. We do monthly intro to audio recording workshops to give you a base for understanding how music is made. We offer regular demos and tips and tricks of recording software. We will also host …

This Meetup Group has been organized to help music artists and songwriters become better prepared to pursue their career interests through live local networking and educational events. Most will be geared around a specific music career or industry topic. Some of these events will be free to attend, with one or more industry professionals guest speaking/hosting, and others may involve a reasonable admission fee. Everyone attending will be provided an opportunity to participate by asking questions …

Interested in visiting that new art exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery or that classical music concert, but have a young child who may be less keen? You and baby should join Culture Babes once a month for a museum tour or musical concert, in and around Vancouver! Geared towards creating an enriching experience for both parents and children, each event will be the perfect chance to do something a little different.

The only drum circle on Vancouver's North Shore! All ages! All levels! All abilities! This regular monthly drum circle meets at Lynn Valley United Church (3201 Mountain Highway) on the last Saturday of each month (not Dec, Jul or Aug) for a 2 hour session under the leadership of Lyle Povah and includes some social time. Drums are provided, but you are welcome to bring your own instrument(s). $15 per session, with discounts for annual or flex-fit membership. See the church's website for details w …

Music and comedy improv... A unique evening of family friendly fun that will leave you laughing for the whole week! Friday night live is not spiritual in nature, but does center around a "universal theme" of a positive and/or uplifting nature. Cast members of AddLibretto (who also perform regularly at Vancouver's Improv Centre on Granville Island) provide their expertise to weave audience suggestions into a hilarious story or song- all made up on the spot!! Each week's show is further enhanced b …

We DANCE! No experience necessary! Have an opinion or suggestion for a big night out? All dance and music styles are welcome! Our members / organizers are INVITED and HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to organize an event or at least post information about events so someone else can host! Our members / organizers post a thank you on their review of any events attended! If an event is child-appropriate, that information will be posted. Please indicate if you allow other organizers to copy and post your event but …

After just five months this Meetup has grown to 40 members, at least half of which regularly attend Rock Movie Club every second Saturday night. So far it has mostly attracted Boomers and 40-somethings. Now we are reaching out to younger people who love any genre of rock 'n roll, which includes pretty much everything other than classical, jazz and world music. We meet in the host's house a five-minute walk from Joyce skytrain station. Doors open at 7pm, we start the rock movie of the night at 8p …

Our group loves outdoor concerts, attend Festivals around N.America and Europe. We love music , great wines and the inner core of the worlds great cities. Let's start at Dimitrios Jazz alley in Seattle and work our way south stopping at every city along the way to San Diego. When we're done, lets go to Europe and do the same. Jakob

Welcome to the Vancouver Musical and Live Theatre Meetup Group! We are a group of musical (in the Broadway sense) and live theatre (as in plays/monologues etc) loving people of all ages who love to get out and about and support our local arts/theatre community – and help you meet like-minded people in the process! Vancouver is full of fantastic live theatre and our aim is to let you know when it’s coming to town – and encourage you to go and see it! There’s the annual Fringe Festival, Queer Arts …

A regular meeting group for people who want to learn or share Hindi or Urdu language skills. Reasons I have heard so from other members for joining: Enjoy bollywood movies and want to learn the language(s)? Love Desi (Indian, Pakistani) culture? Have a smattering of Urdu or Hindi but want to improve it? Perhaps you are born in Canada and haven't had much chance to use your parents native language? Or you know one of the other Desi languages well but want to learn Hindi or Urdu? Haven't spoken t …

...where we come together, 2 or more, to talk, walk, eat, play, cycle, hike, play ping pong, watch movies, discus and ponder interesting topics and ideas about life, the environment, personal growth, the environment .... Hi there, I'm Mandana :) and by starting this group I'm hoping to get people together in small (as small as 2 people) or bigger groups to spend quality time, doing one or more of the above activities, and to just basically spend our free time doing something we enjoy. I'm open …

This is a group for all people who loves Africa regardless of their origin, living in the Vancouver, B.C. area who are interested in the best in cultural(Art, food , Music, Dance) experiences, cherished traditions, charity and business development opportunities that Africa and Canada offers. Whether it's a braai or bazaar, dance or dominoes, business networking or educational workshop, charity activities, travelling and tours to Africa, this is where the activities will be posted.

This is a group for people who love to sing the old American Standards of Gershwin, Cole Porter, There is no definitive list of musicians and lyricists whose work constitutes the Great American Songbook, but the following writers and songs are often included: Irving Berlin, one of the most prolific composers and lyricists of the Great American Songbook. Harold Arlen (with E.Y. Harburg "Over the Rainbow", "It's Only a Paper Moon"; with Ted Koehler "Stormy Weather", "I've Got the World on a String …

Let's get together to play some great bossa nova, swing and jazz songs. Girl from Ipanema, My Funny Valentine, All of Me, Wave and other great jazz standards.

Hello! Do you live in Vancouver? Do you like international cultures and languages. Do you speak Spanish? French? Swahili? Korean? Arabic or any other language from any other continent, whether Asia, Africa, Europe, South Ameria, North America or Australia. Are you open to interact in a multicultural dynamic group of people and learn more about the languages and cultures of other countries? All of this, via some interactive activities....Are you ready to explore culture, art, music, games, dance, …

Hourglass Cabaret is a performance troupe of women who dance, sing and entertain for charity in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. With studio space in Port Coquitlam and an ability to "take it on the road" they can showcase their talents almost anywhere in the Lower Mainland! Hourglass Cabaret provides Variety Shows for the benefit of local charities and an opportunity for its members to learn, have fun and blossom.This group of fabulous ladies offers a "broad" range of dance routines, gorgeous …

This group is about two things: About bringing together dancers who share a passion for Flamenco dance, as there are not many venues for this art form; and also about brining the art of Flamenco into a family friendly setting where everyone may enjoy the entertainment. So, whether you are a dancer, student of Flamenco or wanting to learn, or if you are someone who enjoys the entertainment, this group will be fun and exciting. As with all things culture, for a good evening of live entertainment, …

This group will appeal to anyone interested in making art which integrates with technology, and finding new and unusual ways to achieve this using open source software and hardware. Interactive Media Create installations with real-world inputs to interact with various forms of mixed media such as video, stills and sound. Experimental Music For folks interested in the sounds of dissonance, drones, creaks, echoes, muted voices, thumping rhythm, screeching crescendos, electronic blips/blurps/blips …

This is singing club for people who love the pop, folk, soft rock and disco tunes of teh 1960's, 1970' and 1980's. This is an informal social and recreational to share and reminisce about our music.