Join us on Wednesday, June 6 at 7:30pm for another evening of skeptical fun, food, drinks, and conversation at the Billy Bishop Legion (map). Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, the Billy doesn’t serve meals, but you are welcome to bring in food from the nearby restaurants, or go in with a few others and have pizza delivered.

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You can always find the latest event information on the Vancouver Skeptics Event Calendar on VancouverSkeptics.org.

Join us on Tuesday, May 15 at 7:30pm for another evening of skeptical fun, food, drinks, and conversation in the Railway Club’s back bar (map). Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, if you arrive late and they’re collecting a cover charge at the door, just tell them you’re with the skeptics’ group to get in for free.

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Upcoming events:

You can always find the latest event information on the Vancouver Skeptics Event Calendar on VancouverSkeptics.org.

Join us on Wednesday, May 2 at 7:30pm for another evening of skeptical fun, food, drinks, and conversation at the Billy Bishop Legion (map). Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, the Billy doesn’t serve meals, but you are welcome to bring in food from the nearby restaurants, or go in with a few others and have pizza delivered.

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Upcoming events:

You can always find the latest event information on the Vancouver Skeptics Event Calendar on VancouverSkeptics.org.

Join us on Tuesday, April 17 at 7:30pm for another evening of skeptical fun, food, drinks, and conversation in the Railway Club’s back bar (map). This month Lino Coria Mendoza has volunteered to present a brief talk titled “Many skeptics for the price of one” about how he changes his strategies as an active skeptic to discuss his ideas with different groups of people and in different environments. We’ll have some time for Q&A with Lino after his talk.

Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, if you arrive late and they’re collecting a cover charge at the door, just tell them you’re with the skeptics’ group to get in for free.

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Upcoming events:

You can always find the latest event information on the Vancouver Skeptics Event Calendar on VancouverSkeptics.org.

Join us on Wednesday, April 4 at 7:30pm for another evening of skeptical fun, food, drinks, and conversation at the Billy Bishop Legion (map). Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, the Billy doesn’t serve meals, but you are welcome to bring in food from the nearby restaurants, or go in with a few others and have pizza delivered.

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Upcoming events:

You can always find the latest event information on the Vancouver Skeptics Event Calendar on VancouverSkeptics.org.

Join us on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30pm for another evening of skeptical fun, food, drinks, and conversation in the Railway Club’s back bar (map). Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, if you arrive late and they’re collecting a cover charge at the door, just tell them you’re with the skeptics’ group to get in for free.

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April 14 happens to be the 100th anniversary of the night RMS Titanic struck an iceberg, but it’s also the 383rd anniversary of the birth of astronomer Christiaan Huygens, and it’s only two days after Yuri’s Night, the worldwide celebration of Yuri Gagarin’s historic first space flight 51 years ago, so I think we should have a space/astronomy theme for the night. I’ll put together a trivia pub quiz to go with that theme so you can test your knowledge against your fellow science enthusiasts. I hope to see you there!

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Celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Kitsilano version of Skeptics in the Pub on Wednesday, March 7 at 7:30pm. Join us for another evening of skeptical fun, food, drinks, and conversation at the Billy Bishop Legion (map). Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, the Billy doesn’t serve meals, but you are welcome to bring in food from the nearby restaurants, or go in with a few others and have pizza delivered.

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Upcoming events:

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What is the Cross Canada Skeptical Smackdown?
It’s fun and challenging! But more specifically it is a British-style pub-quiz focussing on critical thinking and scientific topics. It occurs every year in multiple locations across Canada with local and national bragging rights at stake.

When is it?
This year the Vancouver event will be on day one of the smackdown, Pi-Day, Wednesday March 14th starting at 7:30pm.

Where is it being held?
Same venue as last year – the Billy Bishop Legion, located just one block from Kitsilano Beach on Laburnum just north of Cornwall.

Who can participate?
Everyone is welcome and it’s totally free – well… you’ll have to pay for your drinks, but the quiz is free. You can prepare a team in advance (up to four players per team) or come and form a team on the night of the event. There’s always room!

There will be a new national champion this year, as the reigning champion team from years one and two, The Big Wang Theory, are missing a key player!

As of this writing Vancouver teams will be competing nationally against teams from Halifax, Niagara, Winnipeg, and Victoria.

So come out, step up, think hard, drink up and geek out on science and skepticism. The Billy doesn’t serve meals, but you are welcome to bring in food from the nearby restaurants, or go in with a few others and have pizza delivered.

You can RSVP on the Facebook event page.

In addition to the usual socializing we’ll have a short presentation by Natalie Reed followed by Q&A. You may know her from her new blog, “Sincerely, Natalie Reed” on the Freethought Blogs network, from her earlier posts on the Skepchick blog or from her work as the founder of the Skepchick sister site Queereka. She will be speaking to us on the topic, “Getting skeptics to think skeptically about their skepticism.”

Come out and discuss skepticism-related activities in Vancouver with your fellow science enthusiasts, rationalists, and critical thinkers, and maybe meet some new friends. As always, if you arrive late and they’re collecting a cover charge at the door, just tell them you’re with the skeptics’ group to get in for free.

You can RSVP to this event on Facebook or Meetup.

Upcoming events:

You can always find the latest event information on the Vancouver Skeptics Event Calendar on VancouverSkeptics.org.