[BCMA] Vancouver Drinking About Museums - April Event

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Vancouver-area Museum Colleagues:

Come get weird with your museum community!

This months' Vancouver Drinking About Museums (DAM) event is diving into
4/20 by joining the Vancouver Police Museum's SINS OF THE CITY walking
tour, followed by a casual drink at the Portside Pub.

*Thursday April 20th - tour at 6pm, drinks at 7:30*.
Tour leaves from the Vancouver Police Museum
<http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca>, 240 E. Cordova.
Arrive early to take in their newest exhibit True Crime.
Portside Pub <http://theportsidepub.com>, 7 Alexander Street.

We hope you can make it - we surely have a lot to talk about as we all
prepare for summer - aka the tourist season.

*About the SINS OF THE CITY
<http://sinsofthecity.ca/vice-dice-opium-pipes/>*
Our walking tour, Vice, Dice & Opium Pipes, will take you through the
streets of Vancouver’s Chinatown, one of the nation’s oldest
neighbourhoods, where you will learn about the brothels, bootleggers,
gamblers and gangsters that ruled the town during its heyday of criminal
activity. Hear about famed criminals like Joe Celona, who had ties to
liquor, gambling and prostitution, and learn about the booming opium dens
that plagued the city’s rich and poor at every turn. A 90-minute walk, this
tour gives you first-hand access to the very streets and alleys where some
of the nation’s most notorious crimes took place. You’ll see a side of the
city that truly puts a new spin on the term “the wild West.”

*About Vancouver Drinking About Museums*
DAM is all about getting local museum community members together. Events
are part of the worldwide #drinkingaboutmuseums movement - they involve
chatting about our work over some sort of beverage as a common denominator.
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