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"WERE NOT REALLY STRANGERS"~ CONVERSATION GAME ~FREE: DRINK/FOOD/FUN & HOST
Deeper Connections Disguised as Game Night \| Skip Small talk\. Start Playing\! \| Facilitated Games & "Cards FOR Humanity " Play \#1 Card Game\!
#### **😍 Deeper Connections *Disguised* as a Conversation Game Night \~ Curated Community**
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5️⃣ **Welcome to "Wildcard Wednesdays!"** *Inspired by "Timeleft"* we also curate tables of 5+ people based on your **"Play Personality**" a quiz we created exclusively for our events = Intimate Experience & every week is different depending on the group & games.
🎲 **Board Game ForePlay!** \~ "Choose your own Adventure" **100+ Games** Collection \~ Something for Everyone! Connect based on our different themes
***🃏 BYOB \~ Welcome to Bring your own Board Games/convo cards/tarot deck & Booze***🍺🍹
**[💌 PLEASE](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1980401871308?aff=oddtdtcreator) *[CLICK ME](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1980401871308?aff=oddtdtcreator)* [TO RSVP ON EVENTBRITE 🎟️](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1980401871308?aff=oddtdtcreator)**
### **👩❤️👨 OUR HOSTESS RAINBOW:**
### **Extremely talented in meeting strangers & also connecting them with other strangers, one of the reasons is because she is an Airbnb Superhost = Strangers in your home - what's more personal then that! This had her realize WOW no matter where were from... "Were Not Really Strangers!"**
### **🤗 WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?...EVERYONE! :)**
* 👩❤️👨 **SINGLES** & Looking to Mingle? Curated Games "Slow Connection" vs "speed dating"
* 🙋♀️🙋🏽 **FRIENDS/FAMILY** \~ Fun way to reconnect & deepen friendships in a playful way
* 💝 **COUPLES:** New Date Nights vs "Netflix & Chill" Learn something new about your boo
* **🌈 ALL-INCLUSIVE \~** Including (& not limited to) LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC & All Ages/Abilities)
🃏 BOARD GAMES & BEYOND | "SLOW DATING SOCIAL" FREE: DRINK/FOOD/FUN & HOST 🙋♀️
**🥰 Deeper Connections Disguised as Game Night \|** STOP Swiping & START Playing\! \| Facilitated Games & "Cards FOR Humanity **= *Board Game foreplay"***
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* 5️⃣ Welcome to **"Wildcard Wednesdays!"** *Inspired by "Timeleft*" we also curate tables of 5+ people based on your **"Play Personality"** a quiz we created exclusively for our events = Intimate Experience & every week is different depending on the group & games.
* 🎲 **Board Game ForePlay!** \~ "Choose your own Adventure" **100+ Games** Collection \~ Something for everyone! = Variety of themes
* ***🃏 BYOB \~ Welcome to Bring your own Board games/convo cards/tarot deck & Booze*** 🍺🍹
**[💌 PLEASE ](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1979316462822?aff=oddtdtcreator)*[CLICK ME ](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1979316462822?aff=oddtdtcreator)*[TO RSVP ON EVENTBRITE 🎟️](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1979316462822?aff=oddtdtcreator)**
### **👩❤️👨 OUR HOSTESS RAINBOW: She hosts this event partly because she is living proof that LOVE is REAL, she has been in a Healthy & Happy relationship for over a decade! & hopes to help others find true love as spontaneously as she did, make sure you ask her how she found LOVE?**
### **🤗 WHO IS THIS FOR?...EVERYONE! :)**
* 👩❤️👨 **SINGLES** & Looking to Mingle? Curated Games for "Slow Connection" vs "speed dating"
* 💝 **COUPLES** \~ New Date Nights vs "Netflix & Chill" \~ Discover something new!
* 🙋♀️🙋🏽 **FRIENDS** \~ Fun way to reconnect & deepen friendships in a playful way
* 🌎 **SOLO** \~ Easy to meet new people or **spend an evening as a local** if your a tourist
* 🇨🇦 **NEW TO TORONTO? \~** Eager to learn english? Easier to learn while having fun!
* **🌈 ALL-INCLUSIVE \~** LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC & All Ages/Abilities)
⚠️ want more info? please find the full event description on Eventbrite
Lunar New Year | Social & Party Event @ Zui Beer Bar by Toronto Babel
🧧LUNAR NEW YEAR REDUX 2026 🧧
We’re back with our SECOND ANNUAL Lunar New Year celebration at Zui Beer Bar in Koreatown! Get ready for a night of games, DJs, drinks, and unforgettable vibes. With Insta-worthy cyberpunk neon lights, killer cocktails, and crave-worthy Chinese street snacks, Zui Beer Bar is the ultimate spot to chill, sip, and party with your crew 🍸🍢✨
🎟️ Tickets:
Use our code for $5 discount: ‘CS05’
Advance tickets available here:
https://www.event-space.net/event-details/lunar-new-year-redux-2026
Note: Admission cash price will increase closer to the date of event.
What to Expect:
✅ Special Guest Emcee hosting fun games & keeping the energy high 🎤
✅ DJ Keiko & Friends on the decks all night 🎧
✅ ZuiBeerBar Kitchen & Bar — cocktails, drinks, and crave-worthy Asian Chinese street snacks flowing all night 🔥
✅ Board Games for fun icebreakers 🎲
✅ Meet New Friends & celebrate LUNAR NYE together 🥂
📅 Wednesday, Feb 18
⏰ 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM
📍 Zui Beer Bar in Koreatown
693 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M6G 1L5
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zuibeerbar_ktown
Pull up with your crew, bring that fresh-year energy, and let’s make this Lunar New Year Redux a night to remember 🧨🐉
CONTACT:
Terry (Organizer): https://www.meetup.com/TorontoBabel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/torontobabel
WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HniC6wAm1ADJZI15UDSlwp?mode=gi_t
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t.o.babel
Check out the calendar: https://www.meetup.com/TorontoBabel/#calendar to see what other events we have coming up and to RSVP.
#TorontoBabel #LanguageExchange #MeetNewPeople #TorontoEvents
TAICO Feb 2026 Meetup!
The TAICO team is happy to announce our next meetup at the Adaptavist office in Toronto. Much thanks to [Adaptavist](https://www.adaptavist.com/) for hosting!
**Wayfinding**
* *Please be careful when using maps features on phones, some people have been redirected to a completely wrong address. The event is near Winners on Front St, which is just south, across the street, from Berczy Park (where the dog fountain is) so if you are not near that area, you are in the wrong place.*
**Registration and Event Details**
Our goal is to bring artificial intelligence and cybersecurity together. To do that, we need to explore what's happening in AI and what's happening in cybersecurity, and where the two intersect and collide. We're also working to understand how we solve problems in these areas, what that looks like, and how Canada can and will participate.
With that in mind, we're pleased to announce our speaker and the agenda for our next meeting!
**Sponsors**
And thanks to our host, [Adaptavist](https://www.adaptavist.com/)!
**Notes**
* *Unfortunately, we won't have pizza at this meetup due to a gap in sponsorship. We're actively working on securing sponsors for future events.*
**Agenda**
**Doors Open: 5:30PM**
**Event Start: 6:00PM**
* 👋 **Welcome and introductions**
* 🙏 **Thank you to our amazing hosts and sponsors!** 🎉
* 🎙️ **Speakers**
🎤 **Speaker #1: Curtis Collicutt**
*Title: Stegalographer*
*Abstract:*
***They said never write your own encryption. They didn’t say anything about steganography!***
*What if the best place to hide a secret message was in something so boring that nobody would ever look twice at it? Stegalographer is a tool that embeds data in legitimate-looking application logs by encoding information in the choices that generate the logs, rather than encrypting them. The template used, the number of trailing spaces, whether the log says 'error' or 'failure', and even the microsecond variations in timestamps can all carry hidden bits. The output isn't logs with secrets stuffed inside, but real log structure with your data silently riding along.*
*This talk will explain how Stegalographer works, from analysing existing logs to extract templates (using the Drain algorithm from log analytics research), to the encoding process that turns your message into a stream of plausible entries. We will explore practical use cases such as covert channels in penetration testing, watermarking logs to trace leaks and censorship-resistant publishing disguised as 'sample data'. However, we will also be honest about the limitations: this is steganography, not encryption, and statistical analysis can potentially detect anomalies at scale. Whether you're interested in security research or information theory or privacy, or want to know more about building security tools, come and see how the most mundane part of any system can become a covert communication channel.*
*We'll also touch on the experience of building security tools like this one using AI-assisted programming tools like Claude Code.*
🎤 **Speaker #2: Ads Dawson**
Title: *Q&A with Ads Dawson*
*Ads Dawson is an Offensive security engineer, penetration tester and red teamer with over thirteen years of experience breaking, testing, and securing applications and infrastructure across startups and large enterprises. Skilled in web application security, DevSecOps, and large-scale hybrid cloud environments, with a strong focus on offensive engineering, red team operations, and vulnerability research. Active bug bounty hunter and researcher in AI and LLM security, specializing in uncovering and mitigating attack vectors such as prompt injection, unrestricted model inference, and backdoor attacks. Experienced in leading incident response and simulating advanced adversaries to expose weaknesses before real attackers do.*
*He works with organizations like OWASP and was Technical Lead for [OWASP’s Top 10 for LLM Applications](https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/assets/PDF/OWASP-Top-10-for-LLMs-v2025.pdf).*
*This is your chance to ask Ads anything you want about AI and cybersecurity so come armed with your questions!*
**⚡ Lightning Talks and Demos**
Lightning Talks - 5 to 10 minutes long
1. Elshad Humbatli - Repo Health software project
2. **You?** \- Please reach out if you'd like to do a lightning talk or demo
Please reach out to us if you'd like to present at the meetup. We are looking for people to talk about what they are working on, what they are building and learning, and are open to any level of experience and technical depth. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you! We're all just out here building and learning.
👋 **See You There!**
Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you at the meetup!
Ghost Events This Week
Discover what is happening in the next few days
St. James Cemetery and Castle Frank
\*\***The Toronto History Walks Explorer Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email**
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**
**for more information or for signing up!\*\***
\*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket price when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:**
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**
In the photo above from the Toronto Public Library archive is an old St. James receipt from the mid 1800s.
Prior to 1844, the lands east of Parliament Street were known as the Garrison East for military purposes. York, and then Toronto was restricted to the land south of Queen Street or Lot Street from Parliament to Peter Street and Fort York to the west. With the population starting to rise, space was needed for a new cemetery out on the country, as space was limited at the original cemetery at St. James Church downtown on Church Street.
In July 1844 St. James opened for the burial of people professing the Anglican faith. Most of the city's population of 18,000 lived south of Lot Street or today's Queen Street, and the cemetery was regarded to be outside the city limits. The cemetery was necessary as the church burial ground itself was filling up fast. It was in use since 1797.
A crematorium was added in 1948, and 95,000 interments and 114,000 cremations have taken place at St. James. An historic land in the heart of the city.
In many ways a walk through St. James is a walk through history. Like opening a book on our past!
This walking tour is for all levels and walkers. The tour begins outside the Castle Frank Subway Station, and ends at the gates of the cemetery after the tour.
This tour has a ticket price of $15.00 per person.
\*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:**
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**
SPELLBOUND: Goth Darkwave Post-Punk Video Dance Party w/ Boy Harsher Spotlight
Living On Video + DJ Lazarus presents
Tickets ONLY $10: https://SpellboundFeb2026.eventbrite.ca
**Sat Feb 21 - SPELLBOUND Video Dance Party. GOTH / DARKWAVE / POST-PUNK / INDUSTRIAL w/ BOY HARSHER Spotlight**
SPELLBOUND is Canada's ONLY dark music video dance party.
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Goth A.F. Contest
$100 prize + custom trophy to the most gothed up patron.
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Saturday February 21, 2026
SPELLBOUND: Goth Video Dance Party w/ BOY HARSHER Spotlight
Ground Control - 1279 Queen St West - Toronto
Lounge 9pm - Mainroom: 10pm - 19+ Event
$10 advanced: https://SpellboundFeb2026.eventbrite.ca
$15 at the door
INVITE: www.facebook.com/events/2353845065129385/
(Please INVITE your friends)
SPELLBOUND is a goth multimedia dance experience with classic and fresh dark music videos.
SOCIAL:
www.facebook.com/groundcontroltoronto
www.facebook.com/livingonvideoclub
www.facebook.com/djlazarusrocks
www.twitch.tv/livingonvideoclub
www.mixcloud.com/livingonvideo
www.instagram.com/djlazarusrocks
www.twitter.com/djlazarusrocks
Local Social Host Sign-Up: Lunches, Drinks & Curated Experiences
**Want to help bring your city’s community together?**
We’re looking for local hosts to organize small group lunches, evening drinks, mixers, movie get-togethers and curated experiences.
**No experience necessary,** just a friendly attitude, some local knowledge, and a willingness to meet a few new people. After each event, we’ll send a short feedback form so we can improve and support you. The host will also be able to provide feedback so we can learn what worked and what didn't.
**[Click here](https://form.questionscout.com/6926c9ab87a828a5c11a79fc)** to apply and get started: if you’re selected, we’ll reach out for a quick screening call.
The Mystery of Alfreda Mae Hillier: Interactive Game and Tour (NEW FOR 2026)
\*\***The Toronto History Walks Explorer Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email**
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**
**for more information or for signing up!\*\***
\*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:**
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**
First it was **Ambrose Small** and my team of brilliant detectives who tried to figure it all out. The walkers on this tour just about cracked the case. Well done my detectives. But your smarts are needed again however. The Harley Karulis Detective Agency needs your help! And this one needs all our brain power to figure out. This one might be the toughest assignment yet.
Here is your case file. The details you will need to get started on this walking tour.
A case that shocked Torontonians when it occurred in late October of 1933, and still reverberates to this day. A cold case solved, not by a long shot. No one really knows the entire story or the truth. It unfolds like an Agatha Christie novel as you will see.
The details of this case culminates in one of the most perplexing, head scratching crimes in the history of this city and very few have heard of the sad life and end of little Alfreda Dolores Mae Hillier.
Little Bunty as they called her was born in 1932, and was the apple of her parent's eyes. Her father Alfred Hillier was a World War 1 hero, and had fallen on bad times during the depression years. He just started a new job recently. Her mother Florence was a stay at home mom and loved to play and watch her little girl out the window of their small home on Boothroyd Avenue in Leslieville.
On a cool, sunny October afternoon at the height of the depression, Alfreda, an 18 month old girl disappeared after heading out for a walk alone. Sounds on the level I must say. Warning bells!
Within a few hours questions as to what happened to this little girl started to swirl around the neighbourhood. All details of this case are taken directly from the archives of the Toronto Star and the city which paint a rather confused story culminating in the arrest of two young boys, one age 4 and the other 7 who admitted their guilt. Or was coerced into that same confession?
Let's toss in a few more details to cloud the story however:
1) a convicted criminal in the area, information told to the Calgary Hearld the day after she was found dead.
2) another man who seemed to be present when she was found and then wandered off and disappeared from the police investigation file.
3) the testimony of two underaged children that had no relevance to some of the details.
4) the coroner's report which contradicted just about everything the police came up with and witnesses testimony as well.
This walking tour/game takes participants back in time to 1933 and explores the many sites associated with the tragic death of Alfreda Hillier, and the personalities involved. You will be introduced to 10 historic characters and each has their own dark secrets, it will be up to you to render a **verdict**! Are you up for it detectives?
Our walk begins at the **Jones Branch of the Toronto Public Library** at the southwest corner of Jones Avenue and Dundas Street East in Leslieville just a few blocks north of Queen Street East.
This tour has a ticket price of $15.00 per person. Please get your tickets early if you would like to attend.
\*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket price when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:**
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**
Karaoke Fridays
Scruffy Murphy’s Irish Pub
Hosted by KJ Sharon
This sprawling pub has everything needed to kick off your weekend! Cozy booths, Sports screens to keep you in the athletic loop, pool table, dart boards & arcade games to thrill & stimulate!
BUT, THE KARAOKE THO!!🤩
This stage attracts exciting performers & kind folks from the area who grace the mics with humour AND talent as well as provide an appreciative audience!👏👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿
Ghost Events Near You
Connect with your local Ghost community
The Ghosts We Left Behind: A Velkwood Discussion
Return to the neighborhood that never lets its dead go.
Join **The Rockville Horror Book Club** for a dark, atmospheric discussion of **The Haunting of Velkwood** by **Gwendolyn Kiste**, a chilling suburban ghost story where the past is sealed off—but never silent.
Twenty years ago, an entire block of homes vanished behind a mysterious veil, trapping its residents as ghosts and leaving behind only three survivors. Since then, the Velkwood Vicinity has become an object of obsession: whispered about in occult circles, sensationalized in documentaries, and picked apart by theorists desperate for answers. None have succeeded. The truth remains locked inside the neighborhood… waiting.
When one of the survivors is drawn back to Velkwood, long-buried memories begin to stir. What really happened that night? What was lost, what was abandoned, and what still lingers inside the veil? As the story unfolds, grief, guilt, and fractured friendships rise to the surface, blurring the line between the living and the dead.
Our discussion will dig into the novel’s eerie atmosphere, unsettling mystery, and emotional undercurrent—exploring themes of survival, trauma, and the quiet horror of returning to the place that shaped you. Expect thoughtful conversation, uneasy questions, and plenty of space to linger in the shadows of Velkwood.
**Event Details**
* **Where:** Rockville Memorial Library — Medium Meeting Room 2nd Floor
* **When:** February 24, 2026
* **Time:** 6:30–7:30 PM
* **What to Bring:** Your copy of *The Haunting of Velkwood* by Gwendolyn Kiste
If you enjoy slow-burn dread, haunted suburbs, and stories that creep under your skin rather than jump out at you, this is the night to come back… if you dare. 👻📚
My Ghost Story - Sticks and Stones
Are you missing the feel of a cold breeze; the chill down your spine? The sound of steps down a darkened hallway, wings of bats in the moonlight, and the whispers on the wind?
**It’s time to share Ghost Stories!** This event is geared towards those with tales of experiences from the great beyond. Come with an open mind and a story of your own, and we will together explore and hold space for sharing experiences and embracing the spooky side of life…. And death!
We will provide popcorn – but please feel free to bring a spooky treat of your own to share with the group! Additionally, you can also bring a blanket or something cozy to sit on while we share.
Event cost: $5
Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Satanic Panics
[Profs and Pints Northern Virginia](https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc) presents: **“Satanic Panics,”** a look at waves of fear of demonic activity as an American tradition, with Luxx Mishou, cultural historian and former instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy and area community colleges.
[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-satanic-panics2](https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-satanic-panics2) .]
The 1980s found the United States gripped by fear of Satanic cults targeting children. They were believed to be corrupting young ones in daycare centers and tempting teens through subliminal messages on heavy metal albums or through the quiet inclusion of demonic rituals in role-playing games. Satanic serial killers supposedly stalked the suburbs. Doctors helped patients uncover what were claimed to be repressed memories of ritualistic satanic abuse.
Parents, police, and politicians were urged to protect impressionable youths from both moral and physical danger. With Satanic cults deemed to be a real and material threat, it was a frightening time for everyone, including those who suddenly came under suspicion for doing evil deeds.
Then, suddenly, it all faded from public consciousness, just as surely as did eighties fads such mullet haircuts, leg warmers, and Cabbage Patch Kids.
Why did it all start? Why did it stop? And has this happened before or since?
Hear such questions tackled by Luxx Mishou, a cultural historian and media specialist who has long researched the devious and villainous in cultural artifacts. She’ll discuss moral panics as a longstanding cultural tradition, with each new one stemming from fear of cultural shifts and shaped by the time and place where it occurred. Among the panics we’ll look into are the Red Scare of the 1950s and the public response to the gruesome 1969 murders committed by the Manson Family.
Delving into the 1980s panic, Mishou will describe how it began with the 1980 publication of psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder’s memoir *Michelle Remembers*, detailing the suppressed memories of ritualistic abuse reportedly suffered by a patient. As that book quickly became a best seller, its ideas saturated American culture. A California daycare center became the focus of a three-year investigation, followed by three years of trials, based on allegations that its owner had engaged in secret ritualistic abuse of the children in its care.
Mishou will lead you through the media that convinced the public that devil worshipers were among them, and she’ll talk about how reactions to imagined threats can have very real social costs. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image by Canva.
Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Terrors of Irish Fairylore
[Profs and Pints Northern Virginia](https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc) presents: **“Terrors of Irish Fairylore,”** an introduction to Ireland’s strange and unsettling folkloric “Good People,” with Brittany Warman, former instructor at Ohio State University, co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic, and co-author of the new book *Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk.*
[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-irish-fairy-terrors](https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-irish-fairy-terrors) .]
Today it is common to think of fairies as small, childlike, sparkly creatures with glittering wings and dresses made from flower petals. But the fae of traditional Irish folklore were no such things.
Amoral, capricious, even malicious when they chose to be, the too-frequently forgotten fairies of times long past would, more often than not, haunt nightmares.
Join Brittany Warman, a folklorist who has earned a devoted following among Profs and Pints fans, as she explores the darker side of Irish fairylore.
The figures she'll discuss include: The Leanan-Sidhe, a vampiric fairy who gives artistic inspiration in exchange for your mortal spirit. The Dullahan, a fairy with a human spine for a whip and a habit of hurtling across fields in a death coach made from human skin. The Banshee, a mournful fairy whose cry signals a death in the family to which she's attached herself.
Dr. Warman also will examine the surprising impact of fairy folklore on two classics of Irish Gothic literature, Oscar Wilde's *The Picture of Dorian Gray* and Bram Stoker's *Dracula.*
It’s a talk that will remind you that the relationship between the Irish and the spooky stretches well beyond Halloween. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: “The Banshee Appears,” an 1862 illustration by Robert Prowse (Wicklow Heritage / Public domain).
Mostly Romance Book Club
Hey all!
My name is Sarah, I'm a romance girlie in my twenties, and welcome to the Mostly Romance Book Club! I am a big mood reader so assigned books at book clubs don't really do it for me. I wanted to create a space where anyone can come with whatever book they want, meet new friends, and chat about what they've been reading.
When:
First and third Thursday of every month, starting in February.
7-8:30 pm.
Schedule:
First 30 minutes: Introductions and chat about all things books
Next 45 minutes: Silently read your personal physical book, ebook, or audiobook (yes audiobooks count :))
Last 15 minutes: Chat some more and wrap up the meeting
Check the home page for zoom links. Up to 100 attendees so still join the zoom even if you can't sign up for the event.
NOVA Horror Club Discussion: Hideshi Hino's Mermaid in a Manhole (1988)
**NOTE: This is *NOT* a screening, please watch the movie before the discussion.**
**CONTENT WARNING: Disease, mutilation, abortion.**
**This film contains extreme body horror and prolonged depictions of illness and bodily decay. It also includes references to pregnancy loss and a graphic act involving the removal of a fetus from a woman’s body. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.**
Please read the original manga ahead of the dicussion: https://mangadex.org/chapter/bf397fc1-17bc-4fa1-8cd7-2cfd35f8170c
Hideshi Hino's *Mermaid in a Manhole* is body horror stripped of bravado. When a lonely artist encounters a dying mermaid trapped in an underground sewer, he attempts to care for her — documenting her condition as her body deteriorates in disturbing and intimate ways.
What begins as a strange act of compassion transforms into a bleak meditation on decay, obsession, and environmental collapse. Blending body horror with tragic romance, the film replaces shock-for-shock’s-sake with an atmosphere of sickness and inevitability that seeps into every frame.
NoVABeerSec - Feb 25th @Crooked Run Brewery (Sterling, VA)
The next NoVABeerSec event - "Informal Gathering of Security Minds Over Beer'' will be Wednesday, February 25th, 5:30PM til 7ish at Crooked Run Fermentation (22455 Davis Drive, Sterling, VA ). **BONUS** there is a Senor Ramon Taqueria as part of the brewery; so it will be a “Taco Wednesday” for everyone ;)
**Venue for February:** Crooked Run Fermentation (https://crookedrunfermentation.com/sterling-virginia-2/) - Crooked Run Fermentation is a Virginia-based producer of contemporary and traditional beers, coolship sours, natural wines, ciders, and seltzers. Started in 2013 in Leesburg, Virginia, Crooked Run has developed a following for creative and nuanced beverages across a variety of styles, from lagers to IPAs, barrel-aged stouts, sours, and beyond beer. In 2017, we opened our main production facility in Sterling, Virginia, and will open a third location in northeast DC in 2022.
Opened in 2017, the Sterling location features a bustling taproom, outdoor biergarten, 10 BBL brewhouse, and best of all, TACOS! Senor Ramon Taqueria offers a full menu of tacos, quesadillas, empanadas, and more. Come relax with 12 beers on tap, weekend live music, and some great food! If you're biking, we're right off the W&OD Trail.
**Additional Info:**
We are an inclusive group, so if we missed anyone please let us know or if you want to bring your significant other/spouse please do. Have a great week and see you later this month!
Cheers,
Rinaldi Rampen & Mike McCabe of
@NoVABeerSec





















