Take Your Time Back

The third source cited lecture is finally upon us! 🌟 This month we will be joined by Dr. Kelly McCormick, who is a historian of modern Japanese material and visual culture. Kelly McCormick: “What do you do when you are told that someone did not exist in the past but you are certain they must have? In this talk I introduce a historian’s approach to critically engaging with the archive to find a way to tell stories thought to be impossible. Tracing “the woman photographer” in Japan from the 1930s to the 1970s I show how she was represented in the mass media, colluded with the Japanese government during World War Two, and worked to be recognized as a professional and protest systemic inequality in postwar Japan. In doing so I demonstrate how critically reframing the archive provides new possibilities for telling new stories in the present.” Event Details: Date and time: May 29, 6:30-9PM ***Location: Take Your Time Back (652 Kingsway, next door to 648 Kingsway) Note: there will be drinks (non-alc included) available for purchase Tickets are in the link in bio 🔗 Special thanks to @chim.dee for the poster design 💜

✒️✒️✒️ A RADICAL LANGUAGE-MAKING WORKSHOP - POEMS FOR WORDS THAT DON'T EXIST (YET) at TAKE YOUR TIME ✒️✒️✒️ Hosted by Winston Lê @winstonladdle Sunday, May 31, 10:30AM - 12PM 652 Kingsway $15 - Please RSVP on our website link in bio In this workshop of radical language-making, we will explore a bilateral approach through both writing neologisms (newly-coined word) and kennings (figurative meanings via compound words). Through three linked writing exercises, we will reshape, enhance and expand our lexical innovations onto our babbling world. This will be a workshop on innovative language-making that will lead to the creation of a poem based on your newly-created word. This workshop is for everyone, this could be the very first poem you have ever written. About the host: Winston Lê is a Vietnamese diaspora poet, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural worker who resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. His writing has been featured in, filling Station, ROOted Rhythms, Composed: anthology of poetry 2024, Poetry Pause, periodicities, Sparkling Tongue Press, Ekphrasis Magazine, and pagefiftyone. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks, translanguaging, hybrid utterance, Thhhhh. His debut chapbook, translanguaging was shortlisted for the 2018 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. Winston also has worked on various interdisciplinary collaborations with other artists, including multi-instrumentalist composer, Cameron Catalano, botanical artist, Katrina Vera Wong, and choreographer, Rob Kitsos. In April 2025, Lê was the poet-in-residence at Greywood Arts, an artist residency located in Cork, Ireland.

🪡🌻🪡 TRANSLATE YOUR DRAWING INTO EMBROIDERY at TAKE YOUR TIME 🪡🌻🪡 🗓 Saturday, May 30, 3 - 5PM 💸 $16 - Materials included. Please RSVP link in bio 📍 652 Kingsway Instead of focusing on super detailed filling techniques, we’ll be using embroidery more like drawing: translating lines, doodles, words, and little sketches into stitched pieces. The workshop will be led by Sol @dogpiled.art , who’ll be sharing the process that works best for them: low-pressure, tactile, and fun! No experience needed.

RETRO D&D GATHERING at TAKE YOUR TIME - EVERY SATURDAY 7-10PM $5 - Only 10 spots! Please RSVP on our website link in bio :) Pizza and pop provided! Terrain and minis <3 What's more! You can talk to our host Caleb to learn how to 3D model and print your own custom mini for your character (with a fee). Hosted and poster designed by our very talented, funny member Caleb @avocadosmith

⚡️⚡️⚡️ POKEMON TRADE NIGHT at TAKE YOUR TIME - May 20th 7:30PM - 9PM at 652 Kingsway ⚡️⚡️⚡️ We thought it’d be fun to host a small pokémon trade night at the space :) $6 - please RSVP link in bio as we have limited spots Pizza & pop included Nothing super serious, just bring some cards, trade with people, hang out, and maybe make a friend. Please, no sealed product/reseller stuff. trying to keep the night chill and accessible for collectors + casual fans alike. This gathering will be hosted by Emilio! @blapeee

🧵 👚 👖 MENDING & BONDING at TAKE YOUR TIME - Friday, May 15, 7:30 - 9:30 PM 🧵 👚 👖 $6 - RSVP link in bio 652 Kingsway Bring that sweater that’s seen better days, a pair of socks with a story, or that project you’ve been meaning to start for months. We’ve got the tea brewing, the sewing machines out, and plenty of scrap fabric to play with. Come for the mending, stay for the snacks and the slow conversation! 😊 Our cats might keep you company 🤫 This workshop will be hosted by Jasper @jasper.is.online See you soon :)

Take Your Time (Back)- The Final Show ~march•22•2026 •~•~•~• Filmed on my old Canon Camcorder Featuring musical acts: @cranberry_virgin @chriskittomusic @effortless.wav @haleluyahailu @the_magictriangle_music @carvers_of_sound • Thank you to @takeurtimeback and everyone working behind the scenes to making this space what it was and giving 648 Kingsway a new life. The Spring Solstice shows was the perfect way to send off an incredible live music space loved by many. It is so incredibly important to support local small business/venues struggling in Vancouver. Spaces like these are what help keep Vancouvers music scene alive. Without these spaces, new local artists like @piss_theband wouldn’t now be signed by SubPop and touring the world. Artists and photographers like myself wouldn’t have the accessibility to live music to build portfolios. Local venues give so many opportunities to new and known artists and musicians and creatives. These spaces make art. These spaces are art. Protect and support your local venues. Some important accounts to follow in the scene as well as people working towards giving these spaces easier access to the process of legality and protecting diy spaces as well as making local music more accessible: @williamforvancouver @seanorrofficial @intheknow_withchlo @gigpit.ca @venue.coop.yvr _____ #undergroundmusic #localmusic #diyvenue #punkscene #vancouver

🧘🧘🧘 WEEKLY COMMUNITY MEDITATION TRAINING at TAKE YOUR TIME - Saturday 2PM 🧘🧘🧘 hosted by Luis (TYT co-founder) Meditation for us is a radical act of reclamation. It helps break the cycle of “urgency culture” - shifting to a state of intentional presence. Meditation fosters the ability to observe thoughts without being consumed by them, while lowering cortisol levels and deactivating the “fight or flight” response. In an era of “attention economy” where apps and environments are designed to keep us perpetually distracted for profit, meditation is resistance training for the brain. Come sit with us in silence. Every Saturday, 2PM at Take Your Time till summer is over. Illustration of Luis by @sickadelia

💗 🐇 💗 COMMUNITY CLOTHING MARKET at TAKE YOUR TIME - SUNDAY, MAY 10, 12-5PM 💗 🐇 💗 We are organizing our first community clothing market on May 10! This will be in the old venue space 648 Kingsway. Come hang out and browse second-hand items with our community, I'm sure we all got fab styles and I'm so excited to check out the collections oooh 🤩. [CURRENTLY FULL] If you want to display some items for sale, feel free to let us know! We have limited hanging space, so first-come, first-served! Used clothes, shoes, bags, jewelry,... are all welcome. Please have your items washed beforehand! This event will be hosted by the lovely @kaleladd Excited to see yall soon!

🧶🧶🧶 CROCHET PARTY at TAKE YOUR TIME - SATURDAY, MAY 16 🧶🧶🧶 🤩 FREE YARN AVAILABLE 🤩 hosted by @crozwog 652 Kingsway Ticket $6 - RSVP on website link in bio Bring your own project and make with others. Come hang out, bring your friends, make new friends. Chit chat. Have some tea! See you soon 😗

@haleluyahailu @chriskittomusic @the_magictriangle_music @effortless.wav at @takeurtimeback last show . . 22/03/2026 . . #yvrunderground #yvrmusic #vancouverunderground #vancouvermusicscene #yvrpunks

photos from spring solstice festivities with @takeurtimefront last month in which we went over Session 1: Person-Centered & Trauma-Informed Series 1 among a group of attendees, rather than the triad structure. to report back from the mutual aid fundraiser show, we made $453.75 from ticket sales and $100 from TYTB for facilitating the MAST session that was then redistributed to mutual aid requests for Black people in "metro-Vancouver." we have the requests still up on our page for yall to circulate and send funds towards. we'll be back with session facilitation next month! until then, we are boosting the request of two women at the women's center to recieve 5G compatible phones as their phones have been phased out via planned obsolescence and need to be replaced (3G). if yall know of any places that sell new/used phones for affordable prices please let us know. if not, please ask around on their behalf!! not having access to a smartphone in this day in age is a tremendous inconvenience!!! ID in comments