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Regular PEAVI Meeting - January 2009 (Monday, January 19, 2009)
Monday, January 19, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
This month's topic was Marketing.
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Annual PEAVI Christmas Party (Monday, December 15, 2008)
December 2008
PEAVI members and their guests attended PEAVI's annual Christmas party on December 15, 2008 at 6pm.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - November 2008 (Monday, November 17, 2008)
Monday, November 17, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
John Eerkes-Medrano, award-winning editor and member of PEAVI, spoke about editing trade books and the editor’s relationship with the publisher. He also gave tips for those who would like to edit trade books.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - October 2008 (Monday, October 20, 2008)
Monday, October 20, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Our guest speaker was Dorothy Field, a Victoria-based poet and author of Paper and Threshold: The Paradox of Spiritual Connection in Asian Cultures (bronze medal winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Legacy Press http://www.legacy-press.com). Dorothy spoke about papermaking and her new book of poems, Wearing My People Like a Shawl (Sono Nis Press). She also spoke about what a privilege it is to be edited by a good editor. Dorothy Field studied design at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in textiles, and her work on Asian papermaking in Japan, Korea and Nepal is recognized internationally.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - September 2008 (Monday, September 15, 2008)
Monday, September 15, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
This meeting included an introduction of the new Executive, an editing "show and tell" and short brainstorming session on professional development.
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PEAVI Social - June 2008 (Monday, June 16, 2008)
Our year end social was held at Abkhazi Gardens on June 16, 2008.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - May 2008 (Monday, May 26, 2008)
Monday, May 26, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Jillian Ridington and Robin Ridington discussed the means and processes involved in creating final works in a variety of media. They will present examples of source materials and how they were used in a final document, evaluate hardware and software that can be used, and discuss the problems and challenges encountered with translating source material to various media.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - April 2008 (Monday, April 21, 2008)
Monday, April 21, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Topic to be announced.
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PEAVI Pub Night - March 2008 (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
6:00 pm
PEAVI's annual Pub Night was held at the Penny Farthing Olde English Pub in Oak Bay.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - February 2008 (Monday, February 18, 2008)
Monday, February 18, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Craig Shemilt, VP of Island Blue Print & Printorium Bookworks, joined us to discuss how books are produced, including book design and layout and creating print ready files. He also talked about Offset Printing vs Digital Printing, marketing materials, and services and policies.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - January 2008 (Monday, January 21, 2008)
Monday, January 21, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
How do you edit poetry? Not the same way you edit prose! Bob Amussen, one of the founding members of PEAVI, and Jane Munro (whose fourth collection of poetry, Point No Point, was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2006) joined us for a discussion of strategies and guidelines for editing poetry.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - November 2007 (Monday, November 19, 2007)
Monday, November 19, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police
Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Stephanie Ritchie, an Independent Health Benefit specialist for business
group insurance, will talk to us about how an individual proprietor or small
company can obtain affordable heath and dental insurance benefits through the
non-profit Chamber of Commerce Group Insurance Plan or save on taxes
through the Private Health Services Plan (PHSP).
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - October 2007 (Monday, October 15, 2007)
Monday, October 15, 2007 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Victoria Police Station Community Room, 850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Roundtable discussion: Members were invited to participate in a roundtable discussion and sharing of ideas on the topic of Rate Setting and Pricing Editing Jobs.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - September 2007 (Monday, September 17, 2007)
Monday, September 17, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Join us for the first meeting of the 2007/08 PEAVI season. Let's talk! Bring samples of your recent work as well as your editing questions.
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PEAVI Summer Social at Abkhazi Gardens (Monday, June 18, 2007)
Monday, June 18, 2007
6:00 pm - 9 pm
Abkhazi Garden
1964 Fairfield Road, Victoria, BC
PEAVI members and their guests are invited to attend our annual Summer Social at Abkhazi Garden at 1964 Fairfield Road in Victoria. A hidden gem in Fairfield, Abkhazi Garden is located on the north side of the street, just east of Foul Bay Road. Parking is limited on Fairfield Road, but there is some parking on Shotbolt Road (opposite the garden) and Foul Bay Road (just west of the garden). Please do not park on the south side of Fairfield Road. Carpool, walk, or cycle if possible. See you there.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - May 2007 (Monday, May 28, 2007)
Monday, May 28, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Editor, journalist, and author Ross Crockford joined us at this PEAVI meeting. Crockford is former editor of Monday Magazine, an award-winning freelance writer, a one-time journalist for the Prague Post, a long-time Intrepid Theatre board member, and the author of the bestselling guidebook Victoria: The Unknown City. He also teaches a course called “Polishing the Diamond: Writing Spectacular Non-Fiction” at the Victoria School of Writing.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - April 2007 (Monday, April 16, 2007)
Monday, April 16, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
Dr. Gerry Philippson is a natural storyteller, an avid fisherman, and a respected physician whose career has spanned 50 years. His interest and ability as a storyteller led to his exploration of narrative therapy, a well-researched and documented form of therapeutic practice.
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PEAVI Pub Night - March 2007 (Monday, March 19, 2007)
Monday, March 19, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
PEAVI's annual Pub Night was held at the Penny Farthing Olde English Pub in Oak Bay.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - February 2007 (Monday, February 19, 2007)
Monday, February 19, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
NOTE: Bob Amussen and Jane Munro's discussion of poetry has been postponed until a later date.
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Regular PEAVI Meeting - January 2007 (Monday, January 15, 2007)
Monday, January 15, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Victoria Police Station Community Room,
850 Caledonia Ave., Victoria, BC
PEAVI member Fran Aitkens discussed editing numbers, tables, and graphs. As a complement to our workshop on plain language editing, Fran provided some guidelines for helping numerical data to speak plainly.
Fran has worked as a freelance editor of scientific and technical material since 1990. Her clients have included Smithsonian Institution Press, McGraw-Hill, UBC Press, several medical journals, and many federal and provincial scientific ministries. In 1998, Fran passed the board examination and was certified as an editor in the life sciences (ELS).
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