vancouver HUB project -- OCT 8th

You're invited to an evening of ideas sharing and visioning for a "Vancouver Hub".

Thursday, October 8th
5:30-7:30pm, BYOB
109 - 5 West Pender Street, Vancouver
778.960.5337
RSVP: hubvancouver@gmail.com

What is a ‘Hub’?
A Hub is a shared work space with a dynamic cafe-like culture that facilitates creativity, collaboration, and social innovation. Often a social enterprise itself, a Hub is comprised of a diverse interdisciplinary membership base, ranging from freelance designers to small social enterprises to mid-size NGOs and green businesses. Hubs include shared amenities like meeting spaces, social/event spaces, cafe/bar, business equipment, kitchen, telecommunications, etc.

There are a number of organizations and individuals from the Vancouver business community, arts community, non-profit community, and academic community keenly interested in starting or joining a hub. Ideally, a Vancouver Hub would include an element of all of these communities, with a common social / sustainability mandate.

Who should attend this meeting?
If you have a vision / idea for what you would like to see in a Vancouver Hub – please come prepared to share this in the discussion portion of the evening. If you are curious about how a Vancouver Hub might support or enhance your work – you are welcome to listen, ask questions and learn more.

Who will be joining us?
We are extremely fortunate to have some Hub "veterans", who will offer their inspiration, lessons from past experiences and practical feedback:

* Jeremy Murphy, Director of Sustainability Solutions Group, collaborator on Halifax Hub
* Bill MacEwen, former owner of Workspace
* Jay Catalan, Founder of The Network Hub
* Michelle Hoar, Business Director of The Tyee
* Kevin Millsip, Director of Genius, former Director of Check Your Head

We strongly feel that Vancouver needs a Hub to incubate and catalyse social and ecological innovation in our city. If you share this aspiration, we look forward to meeting you, and collaboratively exploring a common vision.

RSVP to hubvancouver@gmail.com.

Regards,

Sustainability Solutions Group, Recollective, The Natural Step Canada, Vancouver Design Nerds, Workben.ch, Building Opportunities with Business, The Tyee, Genius, The Hub, Environ, and many more...

Other similar hub-models:

* http://socialinnovation.ca/
* http://www.the-hub.net/index.html
* http://thehubhalifax.ca/
* http://www.thenetworkhub.ca/
* http://wiki.coworking.info/