The Network

We have decided not to organize a First Friday in April since we didn’t have enough people from the organizing committee who could commit this month. So we will be celebrating the end of the school year at our next get-together in May, at The Wolf and Hound in Kitsilano.  See you there!

PS. If you would like to get involved in the organizing committee, email us at queergrads.ubc [at] gmail.com. We can always use some help.

Outweek 2012 starts Monday at noon! There are lots of events happening over the next two weeks, so don’t forget to check out the full schedule of events.

And of course, we especially look forward to seeing you at our Games Night on February 9, the film screening with Ugandan LGBT activist Val Kalende on Feb 14, and at the Queer U academic conference on Feb 15!

We have two events coming up!

The February First Friday is happening this Friday at the Speakeasy bar downtown (at Davie and Bute). See you there between 6 and 8!

And next week we will be getting together for a board games night at Ruth’s house. All are welcome! RSVP to rvsharpe.ubc@gmail.com for directions.

There is also a graduate conference (Queer U) being organized at UBC on February 15. For more information, visit their website or check out the poster below.

For the last First Friday of 2011, we will be heading to the Commercial Drive area! Join us at St Augustine’s at Commercial and 7th, at our usual time (6-8), on December 2. We will have a rainbow flag with us to help you find us, if this is your first time.

And in January, we’ll be back to the Kits area!

Join us for bowling with other queer grad students, post docs, and professional students at Grandview Lanes Bowling Centre. This is a great chance for us to get to know each other in a less bar-like environment. Feel free to invite friends, or even put together your own group and bowl in the lane next to us. Pizza, burgers, and drinks are available at their restaurant if desired, or just focus on the athletic rigor of bowling.

Where: Grandview Lanes Bowling Centre. Commercial Dr. and East 6th Ave., a few blocks North of Commercial skytrain station.
When: Friday, November 18, 8:00 p.m. Be there a bit early to rent shoes.
Cost: ~$5 per game, plus $3 shoe rental (plus tax)
RSVP: Email us at queergrads.ubc@gmail.com so we know how many lanes to reserve, or call Alex at 604-354-0536.

The Network is off a fantastic start! We had a wonderful crowd show up at The Wolf and Hound for our first First Friday of the 2011/2012 school year, so we wanted to thank all of you.

We will soon be announcing the time and date for our next admin meeting, so stay tuned, and we hope to see all of you (and more!) on the first Friday of November.

September is a bit of a crazy time for all of us, so (as is evident by the lack of gathering yesterday!) the Steering Committee decided not to skip directly to October. We will meet on October 7 at 6pm, at The Wolf and Hound. We’ll also organize to have a group leave campus together, to help grad students who have just arrived at UBC (but not just them!) find the Wolf and Hound and join us.

We held a booth on Thursday at the grad student fair during the GSS orientation, and it went fantastically – I hope we will see many people check out this website as a result! If this is your first time here, don’t forget that you can follow us on facebook and/or join our mailing list (see column on the right).

Finally, the start of the year seems like a good time to do a shout-out to Pride UBC, the UBC Resource Groups for LGBTQ students and their allies. They have lots of good events coming up already, as well as regular weekly discussion groups and other things that can be of interest to grad students.

August First Friday Social

Friday, August 5, 2011
6:00-8:00
The Electric Owl
928 Main St. at Prior St.

RSVP: queergrads.ubc@gmail.com, or just show up!
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This month’s First Friday will be held at The Electric Owl, a cool place straddling the East-West divide. Come out for some drinks, food, and socializing! If this is your first First Friday, this is an excellent opportunity to get to know some people before the new crowd comes in September. We will have a rainbow flag on the table to help you recognize us.

See you there!