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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!

July’s First Friday event: Queer BBQ on the Beach!

RSVP: queergrads.ubc@gmail.com (email for phone information if you need it)
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You asked for it, so we’re doing it! The Network will be hosting a Queer BBQ at Kits beach in the afternoon on Canada Day. There will be a fired-up BBQ, lawn games, music, and great company. Bring your own drinks (or “drinks”) and food for the BBQ, or we will have some burgers available for purchase (veggie option available). The fun starts at 3:00, and we will head to a local pub afterwards. Feel free to bring your friends, loved ones, and pets. Please let us know if you plan on coming.

DIRECTIONS
We will be set up on the grassy area with picnic tables at the North end of the beach. The closest intersection is McNicoll Ave. and Maple St, close to the Maritime Museum. We will have a pride flag set out.
You can get there by bus (22, 2, 4, 84, 44, 7), car, or even by that cute little blue ferry from downtown (False Creek Ferries).

See you there!

Our location for the June First Friday has been up on the right for a couple of days, but let’s make this an official announcement!

– The upcoming First Friday (June 3) will take place at The Speakeasy (Davie and Bute) at 6pm. As usual, we will be there from 6 to 8, and everyone is welcome to attend! Look out for a rainbow flag and/or a bunch of grad students.

– Our next admin meeting will be on Monday, June 6 at 4pm at Calhoun’s (Broadway and Carnarvon). We will discuss survey results, summer plans, appointments for steering committee, and any other issues that people bring to the table! Again, everyone is welcome to attend, the more the merrier.

Please fill out this survey to let us know about how you feel about activities over the summer, to share suggestions about future plans, and to tell us more about what you’d like to see The Network do.

We would love to get your input so that we can continue to grow and be better.

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We’ve also just sent out emails to grad secretaries across campus, so hopefully this will get the word out for this group. Friendly reminder: if you want to receive our (very occasional!) emails and stay in touch with us, you can sign up for our mailing list by entering your email in the box on the right column. As usual, you can email us with any question.