I organize events with Vancouver Curiosity Club and Vancouver Literature and Film. Here are eight upcoming sessions for people who want to build community around books, films, thoughtful conversation, and shared activities.

All dates are in October 2026; times are Vancouver time. Details and RSVPs are in the Meetup links.

Tuesday, October 6

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle

6:00-8:00 PM | Vancouver Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Level 6 North (Room 690). A short reading, contemplative meditation, journaling, and discussion. No experience needed. Bring a notebook and pen, and arrive on time for the full session.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316831931/

Wednesday, October 7

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle

6:00-8:00 PM | Vancouver Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Level 6 North (Room 690). A second meditation and journaling session with the same format: reading, quiet sitting, reflection, and discussion. Bring a notebook and pen, and arrive on time.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316831943/

Sunday, October 18

The first four sessions below are at UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Street. Please arrive 10 minutes early; doors close 10 minutes after each session starts.

🎩🔍 An Honest Liar - when does deception become fraud?

10:00 AM-12:00 PM | A discussion of James Randi, belief, skepticism, and the difference between a magic trick and fraud. Watch the documentary beforehand; this is a discussion, not a screening.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316830332/

🎩🪄 The Prestige - how far would you go to win the illusion?

12:00-2:00 PM | A film discussion about rivalry, obsession, and the cost of winning. Watch the full film beforehand; expect spoilers. No screening at the event.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829971/

🪞⚡ Emerson’s Self-Reliance - what does it mean to be yourself

2:00-4:00 PM | An essay discussion about self-trust, conformity, and being yourself. Read Self-Reliance beforehand; the event page includes the original essay and a modernized reading package.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829875/

Men’s Community Circle #2

4:00-6:00 PM | A conversation for men about adult friendship, loneliness, initiating plans, and showing up consistently. No preparation. This is a discussion circle, not therapy.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829857/

☕ Philosophy Pub - what do we owe each other?

6:00-8:00 PM | El Comal Downtown, 586 Hornby Street. An informal discussion about what we owe friends, strangers, and the people around us. No required reading or philosophy background.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829903/

Sunday, October 25

❄️🎭 The Winter’s Tale - jealousy, false certainty, and repair

6:00-8:00 PM | Trees Organic Coffee, 738 Granville Street. A discussion of Shakespeare's play, jealousy, false certainty, forgiveness, and repair. Read the play beforehand; original, modern-English, or side-by-side versions are all fine. We won't be reading it aloud.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316830378/

Please RSVP separately for each session you plan to attend.

I organize events with Vancouver Curiosity Club and Vancouver Literature and Film. Here are eight upcoming sessions for people who want to build community around books, films, thoughtful conversation, and shared activities.

All dates are in October 2026; times are Vancouver time. Details and RSVPs are in the Meetup links.

Tuesday, October 6

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle

6:00-8:00 PM | Vancouver Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Level 6 North (Room 690). A short reading, contemplative meditation, journaling, and discussion. No experience needed. Bring a notebook and pen, and arrive on time for the full session.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316831931/

Wednesday, October 7

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle

6:00-8:00 PM | Vancouver Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Level 6 North (Room 690). A second meditation and journaling session with the same format: reading, quiet sitting, reflection, and discussion. Bring a notebook and pen, and arrive on time.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316831943/

Sunday, October 18

The first four sessions below are at UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Street. Please arrive 10 minutes early; doors close 10 minutes after each session starts.

🎩🔍 An Honest Liar - when does deception become fraud?

10:00 AM-12:00 PM | A discussion of James Randi, belief, skepticism, and the difference between a magic trick and fraud. Watch the documentary beforehand; this is a discussion, not a screening.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316830332/

🎩🪄 The Prestige - how far would you go to win the illusion?

12:00-2:00 PM | A film discussion about rivalry, obsession, and the cost of winning. Watch the full film beforehand; expect spoilers. No screening at the event.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829971/

🪞⚡ Emerson’s Self-Reliance - what does it mean to be yourself

2:00-4:00 PM | An essay discussion about self-trust, conformity, and being yourself. Read Self-Reliance beforehand; the event page includes the original essay and a modernized reading package.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829875/

Men’s Community Circle #2

4:00-6:00 PM | A conversation for men about adult friendship, loneliness, initiating plans, and showing up consistently. No preparation. This is a discussion circle, not therapy.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829857/

☕ Philosophy Pub - what do we owe each other?

6:00-8:00 PM | El Comal Downtown, 586 Hornby Street. An informal discussion about what we owe friends, strangers, and the people around us. No required reading or philosophy background.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316829903/

Sunday, October 25

❄️🎭 The Winter’s Tale - jealousy, false certainty, and repair

6:00-8:00 PM | Trees Organic Coffee, 738 Granville Street. A discussion of Shakespeare's play, jealousy, false certainty, forgiveness, and repair. Read the play beforehand; original, modern-English, or side-by-side versions are all fine. We won't be reading it aloud.

https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316830378/

Please RSVP separately for each session you plan to attend.

A lot of men have friends.

Fewer have someone they can call when life gets ugly.

I’m starting a men’s community circle in Vancouver for honest conversations about friendship, loneliness, emotional risk, practical support, and the strange pressure to handle everything alone.

Our first afternoon has two connected discussions:

1:00–3:00pm: Men and Friendship - Why Is It Hard to Ask for Help?

We’ll talk about why men can spend years joking, working, gaming, drinking, or watching sports together without ever saying what is actually going on.

Why is offering practical help easier than admitting you need it? When does independence become isolation? What makes a friendship feel safe enough to lean on?

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263196/

3:00–5:00pm: Minding the Gap documentary discussion

Minding the Gap follows three young men connected by skateboarding as they move into adulthood carrying unstable homes, economic pressure, violence, damaged relationships, and experiences they were never taught how to name.

Skateboarding gives them friendship, escape, and somewhere to put their bodies when home does not feel safe. But the film gradually asks a harder question: what happens when boys survive pain without learning how to talk about it?

It connects directly to the earlier discussion. Male friendship can become a lifeline, but friendship alone does not automatically break cycles of silence, anger, shame, or inherited violence.

Watch the documentary beforehand. This is a discussion, not a screening.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263346/

Sunday, September 6 at Vancouver Central Library.

The sessions have separate RSVPs, so you can attend either one or both. Most people come solo.

I host a mix of small discussion events, movie conversations, theatre outings, meditation, and journaling around Vancouver. Here’s what’s coming up over the next two weeks.

Before this weekend

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle
A quiet two-hour session with a short reading, contemplative meditation, brief sharing, journaling, and discussion. No experience needed; small cap + waitlist.

Tue Sep 1, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 4 Room 492 North
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315805125/

Wed Sep 2, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, room announced on the day
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316278180/

This weekend

🎭🩸 Macbeth at Bard on the Beach - ambition, blood, and the crown
A public Bard performance about prophecy, guilt, marriage, murder, and what happens when ambition starts feeling like destiny. There is no Meetup attendee cap, but everyone must buy their own Bard ticket.
Sat Sep 5, meet 6:15pm / show 7:30pm / approx. end 9:45pm @ Bard on the Beach, 1695 Whyte Avenue, Vanier Park
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315588796/

📚 Silent Reading Party + book chat
Bring whatever you’re reading. Quiet reading first, then an optional low-pressure book chat near the end.
Sun Sep 6, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 4 Room 492
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316050915/

Bring Your Favorite Passage to Discuss
Bring one paragraph from a book that helped you through something difficult, confusing, or important. Not the whole book and not a polished speech.
Sun Sep 6, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316334829/

Men’s Community Circle - Men and Friendship: Why Is It Hard to Ask for Help?
A discussion for men about friendship, loneliness, emotional risk, practical support, and why asking for help can feel harder than offering it.
Sun Sep 6, 1:00–3:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263196/

🛹🧱 Minding the Gap - where do boys put pain nobody taught them to carry?
Watch beforehand, then discuss skateboarding, friendship, masculinity, family violence, escape, and what boys learn to hide before they have words for it.
Sun Sep 6, 3:00–5:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316263362/

📓 Sunday Journaling - weekly reflection hour
One quiet hour at a coffee shop to look back at the week, write honestly, and notice what it actually did to you. Simpler and more informal than the meditation circle.
Sun Sep 6, 5:30–6:30pm @ Zaatar W Zeit, 531 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315961957/

📰🖤 Vogue’s September Issue - magazine discussion
Choose one article, interview, profile, essay, or column from the issue and come ready to talk about what it is actually saying beneath the clothes and styling.
Sun Sep 6, 7:00–9:00pm @ Trees Organic Coffee, 738 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263416/

Between the weekends

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle
Another pair of quiet two-hour sessions with reading, meditation, brief sharing, journaling, and discussion. No experience needed; small cap + waitlist.

Tue Sep 8, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 4 Room 492 North
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315805127/

Wed Sep 9, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/lgvwztyjcmbmb/

Next weekend

📚 Silent Reading Party + book chat
Bring whatever you’re reading. Quiet reading together, followed by an optional short book chat.
Sun Sep 13, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 6 Room 690
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316248163/

🧠🪞 Who Are You, Really? - are we one self or many?
A Hidden Brain discussion about whether we have one stable self or different selves that appear around different people, memories, moods, and pressures.
Sun Sep 13, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263526/

🫐📚 Anton Chekhov’s Gooseberries - can happiness be innocent?
Read the short story beforehand, then discuss comfort, moral sleepiness, and whether personal happiness can remain innocent when it depends on ignoring other people’s suffering. There is no attendee cap for this event.
Sun Sep 13, 1:00–3:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316263599/

🧩👀 Debate Night - what does it mean to be weird, and who gets to decide?
A structured debate about whether weirdness is a real trait or a label people use to punish anyone who refuses to stay socially convenient.
Sun Sep 13, 3:00–5:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263680/

📓 Sunday Journaling - weekly reflection hour
Coffee, notebooks, and one quiet hour to look back at the week before it disappears into the next one.
Sun Sep 13, 5:30–6:30pm @ Zaatar W Zeit, 531 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263688/

🪞🎤 Perfect Blue - Movie discussion
Watch beforehand, then discuss celebrity, identity, misogyny, fandom, surveillance, and what happens when someone’s public image becomes more powerful than the person herself.
Sun Sep 13, 7:00–9:00pm @ Trees Organic Coffee, 738 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-fantasy-scifi-meetup-group/events/316263745/

Macbeth has no Meetup attendee cap, but everyone needs their own Bard ticket and a Meetup RSVP does not reserve a theatre seat.

Most people come solo. If something sounds like your kind of room, RSVP on Meetup so I know roughly who’s coming.

I host a mix of small discussion events, movie conversations, theatre outings, meditation, and journaling around Vancouver, to build communities. Here’s what’s coming up over the next two weeks.

Before this weekend

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle
A quiet two-hour session with a short reading, contemplative meditation, brief sharing, journaling, and discussion. No experience needed; small cap + waitlist.

Tue Sep 1, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 4 Room 492 North
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315805125/

Wed Sep 2, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, room announced on the day
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316278180/

This weekend

🎭🩸 Macbeth at Bard on the Beach - ambition, blood, and the crown
A public Bard performance about prophecy, guilt, marriage, murder, and what happens when ambition starts feeling like destiny. There is no Meetup attendee cap, but everyone must buy their own Bard ticket.
Sat Sep 5, meet 6:15pm / show 7:30pm / approx. end 9:45pm @ Bard on the Beach, 1695 Whyte Avenue, Vanier Park
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315588796/

📚 Silent Reading Party + book chat
Bring whatever you’re reading. Quiet reading first, then an optional low-pressure book chat near the end.
Sun Sep 6, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 4 Room 492
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316050915/

Bring Your Favorite Passage to Discuss
Bring one paragraph from a book that helped you through something difficult, confusing, or important. Not the whole book and not a polished speech.
Sun Sep 6, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316334829/

Men’s Community Circle - Men and Friendship: Why Is It Hard to Ask for Help?
A discussion for men about friendship, loneliness, emotional risk, practical support, and why asking for help can feel harder than offering it.
Sun Sep 6, 1:00–3:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263196/

🛹🧱 Minding the Gap - where do boys put pain nobody taught them to carry?
Watch beforehand, then discuss skateboarding, friendship, masculinity, family violence, escape, and what boys learn to hide before they have words for it.
Sun Sep 6, 3:00–5:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316263362/

📓 Sunday Journaling - weekly reflection hour
One quiet hour at a coffee shop to look back at the week, write honestly, and notice what it actually did to you. Simpler and more informal than the meditation circle.
Sun Sep 6, 5:30–6:30pm @ Zaatar W Zeit, 531 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315961957/

📰🖤 Vogue’s September Issue - magazine discussion
Choose one article, interview, profile, essay, or column from the issue and come ready to talk about what it is actually saying beneath the clothes and styling.
Sun Sep 6, 7:00–9:00pm @ Trees Organic Coffee, 738 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263416/

Between the weekends

🧘📓 Meditation + Journaling Circle
Another pair of quiet two-hour sessions with reading, meditation, brief sharing, journaling, and discussion. No experience needed; small cap + waitlist.

Tue Sep 8, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 4 Room 492 North
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315805127/

Wed Sep 9, 6:00–8:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/lgvwztyjcmbmb/

Next weekend

📚 Silent Reading Party + book chat
Bring whatever you’re reading. Quiet reading together, followed by an optional short book chat.
Sun Sep 13, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 6 Room 690
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316248163/

🧠🪞 Who Are You, Really? - are we one self or many?
A Hidden Brain discussion about whether we have one stable self or different selves that appear around different people, memories, moods, and pressures.
Sun Sep 13, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263526/

🫐📚 Anton Chekhov’s Gooseberries - can happiness be innocent?
Read the short story beforehand, then discuss comfort, moral sleepiness, and whether personal happiness can remain innocent when it depends on ignoring other people’s suffering. There is no attendee cap for this event.
Sun Sep 13, 1:00–3:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316263599/

🧩👀 Debate Night - what does it mean to be weird, and who gets to decide?
A structured debate about whether weirdness is a real trait or a label people use to punish anyone who refuses to stay socially convenient.
Sun Sep 13, 3:00–5:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, 9th floor left of the elevators
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263680/

📓 Sunday Journaling - weekly reflection hour
Coffee, notebooks, and one quiet hour to look back at the week before it disappears into the next one.
Sun Sep 13, 5:30–6:30pm @ Zaatar W Zeit, 531 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316263688/

🪞🎤 Perfect Blue - Movie discussion
Watch beforehand, then discuss celebrity, identity, misogyny, fandom, surveillance, and what happens when someone’s public image becomes more powerful than the person herself.
Sun Sep 13, 7:00–9:00pm @ Trees Organic Coffee, 738 Granville Street
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-fantasy-scifi-meetup-group/events/316263745/

Macbeth has no Meetup attendee cap, but everyone needs their own Bard ticket and a Meetup RSVP does not reserve a theatre seat.

Most people come solo. If something sounds like your kind of room, RSVP on Meetup so I know roughly who’s coming.

I host a mix of small discussion events, movie outings, and outdoor things around Vancouver. Here’s what’s coming up over the next two weekends.

This weekend

🐦🌾 Reifel Bird Sanctuary - wetlands and the rare pleasure of being quiet
A slow birdwatching walk through wetlands and marshes. No bird knowledge needed, but advance sanctuary reservations are required.
Sat Aug 22, 2:00–4:00pm @ George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Delta
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315886330/

🖨️💼 Office Space at VIFF - work is fake and the printer deserved it
A public screening of the workplace comedy that somehow keeps becoming more accurate. Everyone buys their own VIFF ticket.
Sat Aug 22, meet 6:00pm / screening 6:30pm @ VIFF Vancity Theatre
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/316159440/

🌍♟️ Game Theory #5: The World Game - why do states rise and fall?
A video discussion about incentives, power, cooperation, and why large human systems hold together—or quietly rot.
Sun Aug 23, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315776070/

📚 Silent Reading Party + book chat
Bring whatever you’re reading. Quiet reading first, then an optional low-pressure book chat near the end.
Sun Aug 23, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library, Level 6 Room 690
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/315851485/

🐺🌲 Princess Mononoke - can humans build without destroying something sacred?
Watch beforehand, then discuss nature, industry, rage, and why the film refuses to give anyone clean moral innocence.
Sun Aug 23, 1:00–3:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/315776148/

🎭🕯️ Eyes Wide Shut - marriage, desire, and rich-people nightmare rituals
A public VIFF screening plus an optional short chat about marriage, jealousy, class, secrecy, and erotic imagination.
Sun Aug 23, 4:00–7:00pm @ VIFF Vancity Theatre
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/315510890/

Next weekend

Finding Your People -Quarry Rock Lookout from Deep Cove Sunset hike and dinner
An easy sunset hike to Quarry Rock, followed by optional dinner in Deep Cove. Friendship-first and aimed at people in their late 20s and 30s.
Sat Aug 29, 5:00–7:00pm @ Quarry Rock Trailhead, Deep Cove
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/316162453/

🏆🎲 Debate Night - Is success talent, luck, or hard work?
A structured room debate on whether success comes mostly from effort, luck and timing, or social protection.
Sun Aug 30, 11:00am–1:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-meetup-group/events/315796804/

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson [Biography Discussion]
A full-book discussion about genius, cruelty, taste, myth-making, and the cost of building beautiful things while damaging people.
Sun Aug 30, 1:00–3:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-literature-and-film/events/315777434/

🧙‍♂️⚔️ The Two Towers - can fellowship survive separation?
Watch beforehand, then discuss what loyalty, courage, and fellowship look like once everyone is scattered.
Sun Aug 30, 3:00–5:00pm @ Vancouver Central Library
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-fantasy-scifi-meetup-group/events/315776566/

Some library discussions are capped small because the rooms work better that way. Outdoor events and public screenings are looser, although movie tickets and sanctuary admission are separate.

Most people come solo. If something sounds like your kind of room, RSVP on Meetup so I know roughly who’s coming.

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