Web designer and developer Todd Sieling shares his obsession for shoes hung from power lines, which he’s been photo documenting for over a decade, and offers some theories about why people do this strange act.

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Conversation designer and process artist, Amanda Fenton, shares interesting stories of how, by changing our perspective from meetings to hosted conversations, we can meet differently and co-create the solutions we seek in this complex world.

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In this video, Stephen Abbott talks about raising the bar on fatherhood and being a really cool dad.

Thanks to Ryan Mah (@Unisonpress), Jana Hanova and Jake Hermiston for video production and Trevor Jansen for still photography.

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In this video, Johnathon Vaughn Strebly shares his photography and stories from his recent work on a film and book project titled The Tattoo Project.

Thanks to Ryan Mah (@Unisonpress), Jana Hanova and Jake Hermiston for video production and Trevor Jansen for still photography.

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Interesting Vancouver has always been a non-profit venture. Every year we donate any remaining funds to a worthy cause. This year, we’re happy to announce that we are donating $1,189.24 to our venue partner, the Museum of Vancouver. This donation serves as a ‘thank you’ for all of their support and for the fine work that they do in celebrating the diversity, history and culture of our fair city.

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Photo by Trevor Jansen

The dust has settled on the 4th edition of Interesting Vancouver and the evening is beginning to sink in.

Obviously, the biggest change this year was the venue. We didn’t really know what to expect at the Museum of Vancouver, but we knew we wanted to partner with MOV when the opportunity arose. It was better than we could have ever expected, and we’re thankful for all they did to help out. The permanent exhibitions gave us a look back on the history of Vancouver to see where we had come from, the expansive windows with views of the city allowed us to imagine where we might be going and everyone in the room was a powerful reminder of the diversity that makes a community – our community – interesting.

Without a cohesive theme, our speakers were given a blank slate and while this may sound like freedom, it takes a fair bit of courage to talk about something you care about to a room full of strangers who may not. Our speakers took a chance and did a fantastic job.

For those of you that couldn’t attend, Ryan Mah and Jake Hermiston were kind enough to donate their time and equipment to film the evening for us. Once they’ve completed editing, the videos will be added to Vimeo. On the topic of volunteers, we would also like to say thank you to Cinci Csere, Trevor Jansen and Margo Lopez. Volunteers are a crucial part of our team and we can’t thank them enough.

We also need to say thank you to Driftwood Brewing and The Butler Did It Catering for providing the food and drinks. Thanks also to MOV, Mark Anthony Brands, Driftwood Brewing and Geek Squad/Best Buy for the door prizes.

Lastly, we would like to thank everyone that attended and made the evening what it is. The conversations that happen on the margins are a vital aspect of Interesting Vancouver and we thank you for taking part.

We look forward to seeing you all again. In the meantime, if you know of anyone who would be an appropriate speaker for next year, please get in touch with us: interestingvancouver [at] gmail [dot] com.

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This year’s event will be a little different. We will be offering prizes to attendees. I don’t think we have ever offered our attendees anything, except clothes pins. We have always been generous with our clothes pins.

This year we will be offering four lucky people the chance to each win one of four prizes:

- A one year membership to the Museum of Vancouver

- Award winning beer from Driftwood Brewing

- Wine from Mark Anthony Brands, or…….

- An iPad 2 courtesy of The Geek Squad from Best Buy!

Truly amazing! You are probably asking yourselves what you have to do to win such artifacts of glory. The answer is very simple – during intermission all the attendees will be sent on a scavenger hunt that uses objects in the Museum of Vancouver. At the end of intermission all of the all of the correctly answered entry forms will be put into a hat/bag for a drawing. We will draw four people at the end of the night to determine our winners.

Pretty cool, right? We certainly think so. Thanks sponsors!

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After months of behind the scenes planning we can finally make some announcements about this year’s Interesting Vancouver.

First off, we are very fortunate to have the Museum of Vancouver as our event and venue partner this year. Therefore, we will be moving the event from the Rowing Club in Stanley Park to MOV in Kitsilano. We are very excited about this new venue and we hope that you are too.

We are also thrilled to announce that this year’s sponsor is Driftwood Beer of Victoria, BC. They make several great beers, some of which you will be able to try at the event.

If you haven’t heard already, Interesting Vancouver will be on Friday October 14th and doors will open at 6pm. We sell out every year, so get your tickets as soon as you can and don’t say we didn’t warn you.

We have a great collection of speakers and subjects this year:
Amanda Fenton – Conflict resolution
Steve Ewen – Prevailing over a terminal illness
Chris Neary – Going from executive to criminal and back again
Dave Shea – Relax. Don’t Worry. Have a Beer.
Glenne Campbell – Building her own plane
Todd Sieling – The urban myths surrounding shoes hanging on power lines
Johnathon Vaughn Strebly – The art and significance of tattoos
Stephen Abbott – Modern fatherhood

We look forward to seeing you on October 14th!

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