CalvinAyre.com turns five years old this month. To celebrate this auspicious event, we’re throwing a major industry blowout at an exclusive and very private venue in Vancouver, Canada on Saturday, May 23.

(Our actual birthday – and that of founder Calvin Ayre – is May 25, so technically we’re jumping the gun a little, but what do you expect? We’re only five years old; patience is a word we haven’t yet mastered.)

Over the coming days, invitations will be going out to a select group of individuals we believe have the proper mindset to enjoy – and the physical capacity to survive – this shindig. Calvin Ayre himself will be in attendance to blow out some candles, pop some corks and dispense prophylactic devices.

Attendees of previous CalvinAyre.com parties know that we know how to put together a night to remember and/or a night for which details are nearly impossible to recall with any degree of certainty. Our first anniversary ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ bash in Dublin was sufficiently bacchanalian that Ireland’s Sunday Times saw fit to do a lengthy recap, which included the following paragraph: