Our friends at CAPIC is inviting us to learn directly from Adobe about new features in Photoshop CS4 and how to take advantage of them in your workflow. They are tailoring this event specifically to your needs. Please participate in the event survey to tell them what aspects of PS CS4 you’d like to see covered.

Take the survey and make it your event: http://tinyurl.com/nu8nwu

When // June 17 | 6 PM - 8 PM

Where // H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 1100 Chesnut Street, Vancouver

Cost // Free for GDC members

Join our colleagues at SIGGRAPH with Bob cole, Landon Bootsma & Tim Mulvihill from MPC Vancouver to hear about the challenges adapting “the greatest superhero story ever told” (Entertainment Weekly).
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Our friends at NABS West is hosting Ladies Links Lite, a golf event that offers a fantastic day of golf for women in the Advertising, Media, and Communication industries. With the added bonus of professional golf instruction for everyone beginners to advanced!

When
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 from 8 AM – 6 PM
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Join our friends at CAPIC to learn Maria’s new media market tips to find and keep clients. Based on Maria Piscopo’s marketing books for photographers and graphic designers, this program has been updated for today’s new client. Whether you are making a transition to a new area or improving the level of assignments you want to get, this step-by-step program will get you there.

You will learn about creating a marketing plan for building repeat business, planning print and electronic direct mail strategies,  getting publicity to promote your recognition and response rate and more.

When: Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Where: Langara College, Room 136A
100 W 49th Street, Vancouver
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Celebrating its sixth anniversary, our friends at Vancouver ACMSIGGRAPH is making a big screen splash, presenting:

Directing Madagascar
with Eric Darnell · Director & Writer · DreamWorks Animation SKG

WHEN
Wednesday · May 20, 2009
6:30 pm: Licensed Industry Mixer with Book Signing
7:30 pm: Main Presentation
9:15 pm: Screening: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
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Our friends and colleague at CAPIC is looking for Creative/Art Directors to be a Reviewer for their third part in the series of portfolio construction — Portfolio Speed Review event.

CAPIC Vancouver’s third part of 3-part Portfolio series aims to have emerging and established photographers and illustrators portfolio evaluated by a diverse group of Art and Creative Directors.

As a reviewer, you will be helping the participants gain insight into the strengths of their presentation and into ways in which they can refine and tailor their work towards their desired target market.

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NABS (National Advertising Benevolent Society) hosts The Stimulus Package Shindig (theshindig.com). Meet and mingle with fellow industry colleagues from 5:30 onwards.

When: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 @ 5:30pm

Where: V at Earls Yaletown, 1095 Mainland Street www.theplacetov.ca

Tickets: $12 in advance and $17 at the door (includes admission, cocktail and appies). Advance purchase before April 15 gets you entered for some very stimulating draw prizes.

GDC/BC, BCID and ACID are very pleased to present the Vancouver premiere of Gary Hustwit’s documentary film Objectified.

Join director Gary Hustwit for a special screening and post-film Q&A.

When: Tuesday, May 5 @ 6:30pm
Where: Rio Theatre, 1660 Broadway East, Vancouver, BC
Cost: General public $20, Students, GDC, BCID, ACID members $15

Tickets will be available through the film’s website - get them while they last!

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Aside from the obvious pleasures of tasting naturally farmed wine and artisan cheese, the BCAMA Wine & Cheese event provided three distinct takes on how those very indulgences are marketed.

The first speaker, Anthony Nicalo, Founder of Farmstead Wines, shared much more than the handcrafted wines he supplied for the evening’s tasting. He spoke on his use of storytelling and social media in his evangelization of the Vinaroon Movement. For such a grass-roots approach to wine-making, the idea of community-building through social media seemed very apropos.

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