There`s a geometrical term for what happens when two

 There’s a geometrical term for what happens when two lines come together to form the top of a pyramid.
Now there’s a new term for when that happens in Vancouver’s entertainment industry: Blueprint.
Adelphia Management Group and Blueprint Events have merged into Blueprint, making it a powerhouse in
Vancouver’s club and concert scene.
It brings together the club management expertise of the Kerasiotis family — who own the iconic Celebrities,
Caprice and Shine, among other venues — and the concert moxie of Blueprint Events’ Alvaro Prol, who’s
populated stages across the city with some of the most popular bands and DJs of our time.
“Our careers are parallel,” says Bill Kerasiotis who, with his brother Chris, has been working with Prol since
they first met in 1997. Prol has organized many of the events that filled Aldephia’s clubs and bars and
through those experiences, they learned that they share the same approach to business. “There’s a natural
symmetry.”
“We’ve always watched out for each other and strategically planned [with the other in mind,]” Prol says. “We
could do it without one another but together we can do better.”
“If you try to go it alone,” Bill adds, “it doesn’t work these days.”
The Kerasiotis brothers are the second generation of a quartet of Greek immigrants who arrived in
Vancouver more than 40 years ago. Their late father, John, and three of his brothers started with a small
Greek restaurant, Olympia Pizza, which is still owned by the family. Bill and Chris started working in the
family businesses as teenagers and got to know every aspect of what works and, often more importantly,
what doesn’t work.
“It’s never been an exponential growth growth thing; you have your highs and your lows,” Bill says. It’s not
that the Adelphia Group simply kept getting bigger and bigger. Yes, they added more properties, but as the
economy and people’s tastes changed, the company had to change too. The family has always had to be as
nimble as the dancers who want to see and be seen at the city’s most popular clubs.
Hence the most recent make-over of Celebrities. The Kerasiotises bought the Davie Street institution, which
has hosted the likes of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, in 1978. It closed for renovations for five years in the
early part of the century and is re-opening again this week (after a much shorter hiatus for improvements.)
They gutted the entire building and have put in a new sound system.
“Celebrities, to me, is the epitomy of a dance club in Vancouver,” Bill says. “It’s just a free place — you can be
a drag queen or a couple or whoever you want to be. The people who come there are open to that. There’s no
club I love more than Celebrities.”
This comes less than a month after the opening of their new venture, Colony Bar in Kitsilano, and a few
months after taking over Shine in Gastown — a neighbourhood that is intriguing territory for Blueprint as an
alternative for those who don’t want the Granville party scene. (Blueprint also organized the huge — 12,000
people — Boxing Day concert at BC Place.)
But making the company better and stronger in Vancouver isn’t the only thing in Blueprint’s plans. They also
hope to expand the franchise into other cities in Canada.
“This merger is built on a good understanding of who does what and a vision of where we want to go,” Prol
says. “You work hard and stay on the edge. You always have to stay ahead.”