Don’t you just love it when a bunch of your (seemingly unrelated) favourite things – books, booze, and community – conspire to come together in one cohesive and fun event? Well, that’s exactly what’s happening on Thursday, November 7th at Upstart & Crow’s Literary Arts Studio: Party in a Bookshop!

If you value local bookstores and what they bring to the city as much as we do, then this shindig is not to be missed! Just for the event, the staff are making an extra effort to highlight some of their personal all-time favourite books available in store, which will be sitting pretty beside some of the season’s most anticipated releases. Guests will get to take it all in among the good company of your bookish peers, while enjoying wine, beer from Persephone Brewing, and cocktails by Please! Beverage Co.

Tickets are $50 each – which might at first seem steep, until you consider everything that includes: a $20 Upstart & Crow Gift Certificate; one drink of your choice; entry in the night’s prize draw; personalized reading guidance from the on-hand U&C experts to help you make the most of the aforementioned GC; and your assistance in funding the shop’s invaluable not-for-profit efforts, including writer residencies, literary workshops, and other upcoming programs supporting climate change solutions and writers with children. There’s no doubt that it’s worth it! Don’t wait. Get yours for one of two sessions (6pm or 8pm) here.

To learn more about Upstart & Crow and what it’s all about, read our 2023 interview with the Granville Island bookshop’s co-founders, Zoe Grams and Ian Gill, here.

Upstart & Crow

Neighbourhood: False Creek

1387 Railspur Alley, Granville Island

604-558-1124

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