I’ve been taking acting classes from a local theatre director, Jay Hamburger, whose theatre group is producing a play called Bruce — The Musical. It’s part of the Heart of Vancouver Festival in the downtown eastside and it’s about a guy who was an alcoholic and a longshoreman (if I remember rightly) with a grade three education who turned things around for himself and others. He founded the Downtown Eastside Resident’s Assn. (DERA) which is now known nationally for its advocacy work in one of the roughest urban areas in the country  and he was elected to city council for a number of years. The play opens officially on Nov. 6 and runs to Nov. 16, 2008 at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue).  You can buy tickets online here.

Nanotech BC’s breakfast event titled “Wood You Believe It? Nanotechnology Transforms the Forest Products Sector” is coming up on Friday, November 7 at the Listel Hotel (1300 Robson St., Vancouver) from 8 am to 10 am, Tickets can be purchased here.