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Pre-Valentine’s Singles Mingle at The Edge
Fezziwig’s Christmas Party! – Dec 17th, 2010
When: Fri, Dec 17th
7pm (sharp)Where: Serai Social Club
1660 Cypress Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 5J1
604.734.1660Non-Members are $25 at the door.
Members of Vancouver Single Professionals $10.
You have to send me e-mail to tatiana@charismamatters.com to put your name on the list.
Dear Friends!
Let’s celebrate this most festive time of the year! Serai Social Club will take us back to those fabled days of Dickensian England for a singularly memorable Yuletide event.
On Friday the 17th of December, beginning at the hour of seven, travel back in time to that most glorious of Christmas celebrations –
Fezziwig’s Christmas Party!
Inspired by the novel that reinvented the celebration of Christmas they are throwing a Dickensian party straight out of the pages of “A Christmas Carol.”
Fezziwig’s Christmas Party is arguably the most famous celebration of the season in literature and film. The story of Scrooge was a contemporary yarn of trial and redemption, published in 1843. Scrooge is potentially a contemporary of Dickens himself, but the party of Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig goes back to Scrooges youth. So it puts that part of the tale of Christmas Past at the end of the era of Jane Austin, The Prince Regent, and Merry Old England.
“According to historian Ronald Hutton, the current state of observance of Christmas is largely the result of a mid-Victorian revival of the holiday spearheaded by A Christmas Carol. Hutton argues that Dickens sought to construct Christmas as a family-centered festival of generosity, in contrast to the community-based and church-centered observations, the observance of which had dwindled during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In superimposing his secular vision of the holiday, Dickens influenced many aspects of Christmas that are celebrated today in Western culture, such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games, and a festive generosity of spirit.” (Wikipedia.org)
So for our entertainment they offer:
- Readings from “A Christmas Carol” by actor Braun McAsh
- A beautiful authentic Christmas buffet with turkey and trimmings!
- A traditional kissing ball hung from the ceiling
- English country dancing with Dance Mistress Marie Disiewicz
- Era appropriate music and theatrical hosts
- Perhaps a Parlour Game or two
- Carolling around the neighbourhood and at the club
Marie Disiewicz, head of Heartland Dance Vancouver, presents Regency English Country Dancing and Scottish Country Dancing workshops and classes in Vancouver, BC and area. Marie received her teaching certificate from the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society in Scotland, 2000. She planned the Grand Ball program for the 2007 Jane Austen Society AGM, and learned even more history of the extraordinary musicians and publishers of dance books that Jane Austen herself might have danced in the Regency era.
Braun McAsh has been a professional actor and fight choreographer since 1976. Best known for being the Swordmaster for Highlander, Mr. McAsh has received many awards for his acting and combat skills. He is also a published author and is currently finishing a book on the artistic process of fight choreography. He was also the co-founder of the Society of Canadian Fight Directors and is currently on the Artistic Advisory Board of the International Order of the Sword and the Pen.
Braun, Marie, and a cast of special guests, including Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig are invited for this magical evening!
DRESS CODE: Smiling faces! – but if you enjoy dressing up – old fashioned Christmas, Regency/Dickensian, or “A Christmas Carol” character costumes are encouraged, though not required. To give you an idea, this can be as simple as:
Ladies, empire waist, floor length nightie with a scarf or ribbon tied under your bust. Hair in a bun with curls around your face. Long gloves and fans are great. Shawl draped around your shoulders in a ‘V’ at the back. Long skirt and shawl will suffice too.
Gentlemen, dress pants, vest over a white dress shirt, white scarf tied at the neck. Knee-high boots are perfect, but dress shoes will do fine. Wool scarf and a newsie cap works as well!
Watts Costume Rentals has some appropriate costumes for rent if you’re more the “dress to the nines” type of person. (Christmas Carolers outfits or early 1800′s). Reserve outfits with them early. See any Jane Austin film or as follows for more ideas…
Scene from “Becoming Jane”
Scene From “A Christmas Carol”
How To Get a Proper Regency Look from a Thrift Store
Turn Your Dating Life from Flop to Fabulous – Nov 25th, 2010
When: Thu, Nov 25th
7pm – 10pmWhere: Serai Social Club
1660 Cypress Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 5J1
604.734.1660
Turn Your Dating Life from Flop to Fabulous – Nov 25th, 2010
When: Thu, Nov 25th
7pm – 10pmWhere: Serai Social Club
1660 Cypress Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 5J1
604.734.1660
It’s not easy to find great dates in Vancouver! We are busy, and the competition feels enormous. It would be easy to give up IF we didn’t have a dream for ourselves of sharing a loving life with a partner and perhaps a family.
How can you stop wasting time and actually find a great partner; someone you can play with and depend on with your most valued trust?
Join our November meeting at Serai and learn how to optimize your search and bring spice and enjoyment into your dating life. You will also have a chance to practice your learned skills as we mingle after the presentation. Come prepared to have fun!
And the guest speaker at our event is none else but me, Tatiana Antopova, Vancouver’s Dating & Relationship coach, and the owner of Charisma Matters.
Through individual coaching, workshops and seminars I help people to Find Themselves and then Find the One.
Meeting schedule:
7pm – 7.30pm Socializing, food, drinks
7.30pm – 8pm Interactive presentation
8pm – 10pm Socializing, networking
Bring your business cards (if you have one), make friends and mingle. Meet other sophisticated, intelligent like-minded businesspersons who are single and open to new meetings. It’s a fairly quiet atmosphere, which is good for chatting.
See you there,
Tatiana
Sex Up Your Personal Style Statement
When: Thu, Sep 30th
7pm – 10pmWhere: Serai Social Club
1660 Cypress Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 5J1
604.734.1660
In a busy room of successful professionals and good looking singles, how are you standing out from the crowd? Your image could be potentially sabotaging your opportunities even if you’re saying all the right things.
Do you know what your clothes are saying about you? Maybe you think you’re portraying “Confident, cool & smart” but everyone else is thinking, “Boring, stiff and geeky”.
On Sep 30th we will have a chance to learn how to use colour, style and cutting of clothing to create our own personal style statement. Then the next time you walk into a room, all eyes will be on you!
Our sponsor of the meetup event and our guest is Joyce Lau, the Style Sergeant of Fashionista Bootcamp.
Joyce believes that having a stand-out image is a key to personal success in business and in social settings. Fashionista Bootcamp is an exciting program that’s fun, social and kicks your old closet in the butt! She knows the anxiety you feel every time you open your closet & how you secretly long to get on What Not to Wear. Here’s your chance.
Started her business as an expert in personal branding offering individual consultations to CEOs, business owners and professionals, she expanded her business to become the first in Canada to offer style workshops and group shopping to the everyday woman. Her work has been recognized in the North Shore News, Vancouver Sun, AM1130 and most recently with a makeover for Thor Diakow on CTV Breakfast Television.
As a door prize Joyce is offering a gift certificate to a Total Fashion Workout valued at $249.
Meeting schedule:
7pm – 7.30pm Socializing, food, drinks
7.30pm – 8pm Interactive presentation on fashion, style and latest trends
8pm – 10pm Socializing, networking
Bring your business cards (if you have one), make friends and mingle. Meet other sophisticated, intelligent like-minded businesspersons who are single and open to new meetings. It’s a fairly quiet atmosphere, which is good for chatting.
See you there,
Tatiana
Social at Serai – July 8th, 2010
Join our sophisticated party at Serai Social Club. Newly renovated, this warm and welcoming place is ideal spot to catch up with your friends and meet new ones.
WHEN: July 8th, 2010, 6pm
WHERE: Serai Social Club
1660 Cypress Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 5J1
604.734.1660
Serai, a lodging place for traveling merchants in the past, is synonymous with being a great meeting place of different cultures; a place to relax and recuperate; have intelligent conversations; and be social.
Offering a warm and friendly environment, Serai attracts interesting involved people. If you are on the hunt for a novel social concept in Vancouver come and see it yourself.
On July 8th Serai is opening it’s welcoming doors for us. Bring your business cards (if you have ones), make friends and mingle. Meet other sophisticated, intelligent like-minded businesspersons who are single and open to new meetings. It’s a fairly quiet atmosphere, which is good for chatting.
The dinner menu is broad but they are also doing creative small plates and servers are happy to match the right glass of wine with each course.
Expect good DOOR PRIZES ! (SEO website evaluation, Thai Spa Gift certificates to ALL ladies, Wine tour for two and a free ticket to the workshop “Break The Cycle of Unhealthy Relationships”)
Be yourself – mingle, flirt, discuss business ideas, learn about potential leads and garner future contacts over a glass of wine in a nice elegant setting.
See you there,
Tatiana
SATURDAY Wine Tour – June 19th, 2010
Dating in Vancouver has different options, one of them is to get together with like-minded people and do something that you all enjoy.
Here is another opportunity to combine learning and pleasure – come with us to enjoy wine tasting tour – together with other sophisticated singles!
We will be pickup up and taken to Langley’s countryside to visit premiere wineries and vineyards – four of the Fraser Valley’s best picks:
Domaine de Chaberton Estate Winery
Township 7
The Fort Wine Co.
Well Seasoned
We will have lunch at the at Domaine de Chaberton’s award-winning Bacchus Bistro overlooking the vineyard ($20 – price includes tax and gratuity) or you can pack your own food. Here is the lunch menu:
Entrée:
Stuffed crêpes with Ham, Gruyere cheese and Mornay sauce or
Quiche du jour served with our Spring mix salad or
Warm Spinach Salad w/ caramelized onions, toasted walnuts, Blue Capri goat cheese
Dessert:
Chocolate Mousse with hazelnut praline croustillant or
Floating Island caramel
Regular price for this tour is $49 + tax but I’ve got 10 tickets for this tour at 50% off.
The discount is offered by Enjoy Tour and Travel, a Vancouver tour company focused on local tourists. Enjoy Tour and Travel was founded by Troy Opper in 2007. Troy has a passion for food and wine and is a fan of bringing like minded people together. Popular tours include SATURDAY Wine Tour, Seattle Mariners Baseball, A Taste of BC ~ Food & Wine Tour andGulf Islands Day Tour.
Pick up locations:
Vancouver (Waterfront Station 9:45am)
Burnaby (Brentwood Mall Skytrain 10:15am)
Langley Events Centre 10:45am
Send e-mail at tatiana@charismamatters.com to get your promocode. First 10 people who rsvp will get 50% discount!
For more information or to sign up for the June 19 Tour go to SATURDAY Wine Tour.
See you there!
Tatiana
GetFriended Private Party!
DATE: Tuesday, Apr 6, 2010, 7-10 pm
LOCATION: The Keg Steakhouse and Bar – Yaletown
1011 Mainland Street, tel. (604) 633-2534
Join us at the new “sexy” keg restaurant in Yaletown – one of our favourite keg locations – very glamorous with hot servers and yuppie-vibe, with three floors, a big heated rooftop patio with the Yaletown great ambiance, and a beautiful bar – the best place to network and meet new people!
We will provide smashing music, FREE appetizers a neat venue with some really cool people to mix and mingle with.
GetFriended is the new meeting place for people that are new to Vancouver, looking for business opportunities, single, non-single and people who are looking for new friends. GetFriended community offers a totally different concept of meeting new people – getting connected on a ‘trading-your-skills’ basis.
The new GetFriended solution will presented by founder Galya Westler for the first 20 minutes with Q&A, then we will have draw prizes and you will get to be part of the buzz!
Bring your business cards, make new friends and mingle. Expand your business opportunities and meet other sophisticated, intelligent like-minded business – men and women, who are also single.
If you would like us to know more about YOUR business, you also have an opportunity to do so at the upcoming event. If you have a gift certificate, samples of your products (at least $25 in value),please contact me asap, we have only 3 spots.
You will get 5 minutes to tell us about what you are doing and then to answer any other questions during the networking.
I hope you can join the party! Please, RSVP to this upcoming event and let’s build the Vancouver community together and get connected!
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Find a Valentine in Vancouver 2010
DATE: Thursday, Feb 11, 7 pm-10 pm
LOCATION: So.cial At Le Magasin
332 Water St, Vancouver, BC
604.669.4488
Would you like to get excited, work up a sweat, or feel the adrenaline rush in Vancouver 2010 without watching or attending an Olympic Event?
Get serious people – It’s Valentines!
If you want to meet someone special BEFORE Valentine’s Day, here is the opportunity to come out and meet your new Valentine!
Bring your business cards (if you have one), make new friends and mingle. Meet other sophisticated, intelligent like-minded businesspersons who are single, and open to a new Valentine.
So.cial at Le Magasin in Gastown is one of my favorite places. Located in the exquisite 1911 Gastown heritage building; has dark with moderate lighting, red walls, wooden columns, high, engraved ceilings. It’s a fairly quiet atmosphere, which is good for chatting.
The dinner menu is broad but they are also doing creative small plates and servers are happy to match the right glass of wine with each course.
There are two parkades nearby – off Water st. and off Cordova st, but I would recommend to just take public transit, because it’s going to be quite busy downtown, there will be no street parking available.
The Waterfront skytrain station is 3 min away by foot.
*How to find us: Look for the glowing heart
*Attire Dressy and “Sexy”
*Age Range: 25-45. If you look older, act younger, or lie about your age – you can come too!
Please RSVP to tatiana@charismamatters.com
See you there!
Talk it up over fine wine, enticing cocktails, and import beers at UVA!
DATE: Thursday, Sep 3rd, 7pm-10m
LOCATION: UVA Wine Bar
900 Seymour Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 3L9
(604) 632-9560
UVA wine bar epitomizes the spirit of it’s location in the heart of Downtown Vancouver’s arts and cultural district. The elegant modernism of it’s interior design combined with the building’s historical elements, such as it’s delicate 1908 terrazzo floors, creates a unique, yet vibrant setting that must be experienced.
Small food dishes are also available. Bring your business cards, make new friends and mingle.
Expand your business opportunities and meet other sophisticated, intelligent like-minded business – men and women, who are also single.
This event is co-listed with the Smart Singles meetup group. Expect to see new faces!
Flamenco Night
- DATE: Wednesday, Aug 26th, 7pm-10m
LOCATION: Kino Cafe, 3456 Cambie St.Vancouver
Join us to see this highly-expressive dance. Every performance carries a message and is conveyed through the rhythm of the flamenco guitar along with the chaps of the dancer and also the applauds from the audience.
All these make flamenco an extremely passionate dance, that touches the deepest of human emotions.
You can order tasty tapas, standard drinks, special tapas selection for parties of 8 people or more.
The Poema Flamenco features singer Luis Gutierez, guitarist Pedro Mole, violonist Pat Ernst and dancers Karena and Christina.
Reservation is required since the place is very busy those nights. Please RSVP promptly.
Why are Vancouver’s Women so Unapproachable? Why are Men not Approaching?
DATE: Saturday, Jun 2oth, 6.30pm
LOCATION: UnWined Dining Lounge, 1180 Howe St., Vancouver
Dear Sassy Singles with the Entrepreneurial Flair, We all know the challenges successful entrepreneurs and professionals face when searching for others who share the same values – it’s difficult to fit personal relationships and dating into our busy schedules.
The event gives you an opportunity to combine social and business networking, so you’ll always take away something valuable. You really have nothing to lose… well, except for your single life and maybe a business card or six. Why Are Vancouver’s Women so Unapproachable? Why are Men not approaching? Let’s get together and discuss.
I will kick it off with some interesting points, discussion will follow, and you will leave with some ACTION POINTS – like how to read signals, how to give the right signals and for those with signal handicaps – how to overcome them!
So and let’s eat, drink and be chatty! Dinner is optional – or decide to share some appies! The restaurant has special menu for groups.
Check our sponsors! Vancouver based Propaganda Haus provides highly customized website design services. As members we have special 15% discount.
La Donna Fina Spa located in West Vancouver provided a Gift Certificate for a door prize and offered 10% discount on all esthetic services and a 25% discount off an application of Xtreme Lashes to the members of this club.
Please RSVP as soon as possible.
See you there at 6.30pm!
Tatiana
Business & Social Networking event for Single Professionals
DATE: Thursday, Jan 22th, 2009
LOCATION: Petley Jones Gallery, 2235 Granville Street (at 7th Ave.) Vancouver-
This great event will be held in a private art gallery, located on Granville Street in Vancouver.
DO YOU WANT TO:
- Fulfill your New Year resolution and meet that someone special you were looking, hoping and praying for?
- Attend an exceptional networking event to expand your business opportunities with eager and excited entrepreneurs like you?
- Meet other sophisticated, intelligent like-minded business – men and women?
- Attend this event for FREE because we want to jump-start your 2009 with positive emotions?
If your answer is “YES” to at least one of the questions above then please keep reading because this rather short invitation could (and possibly would) change your personal (and business) life once and forever.Here’s what it’s all about:You have a once-in-2009 chance to attend the first business networking event and… meet a single professional like yourself. Someone who is as hard working as you are. Someone who has courage and burning desire to be in business for themselves. And, is looking for the right partner.Be yourself – mingle, flirt, discuss business ideas, learn about potential leads and garner future contacts over a glass of wine in a nice elegant setting with light music.Wine will be there… You will be there… Romantic atmosphere… Business environment… Can you imagine the possibilities?
WHEN: 22 January 2009, 5.30-8.30pm
You will have a chance to introduce yourself and your business. One minute introduction is not mandatory but will give you a perfect opportunity for everyone to get to know you. Donate a door prize (a book, a product, a service, a bottle of wine, a Gift Certificate, ect.) and get 5 minutes to introduce your business.
Your Introduction Should Include:
- What your business or service is
- What you hope to gain from the event (contacts? information on how to build your business? details about how to get financing? Tips on how to market or promote your business?)
- What you can offer to the other professionals and entrepreneurs (resume advice? discounts on products in exchange for services, barter advertising/marketing opportunities?)
5:30 – 6:00 – Mingling & Socializing
6:00 – 6:30 – Individual introductions from members and Door prizes
- The age range of attendees varies. The majority of guests are between the ages of 25-45.
- Have your business cards handy!
- Light appetizers served from 6.00pm.
- Dress code is upscale trendy – please try to dress to impress.
- Wine bar
PARKING:
After six there are three, free parking spots in the back parking lot. Otherwise there is plenty of street parking.
PLEASE RSVP and update any changes. The wine will be ordered according to the number of attendees. Let us know if you bring a guest, space is limited.
Start fresh in a New Year! Join us at our first 2009 classy event!
Dress to impress, and live it up! Wine bar, door prizes and more!
