TORONTO
Tuesday May 21, 7:30pm, Write Club Toronto, The Garrison, 1197 Dundas West
The most bitchin’ writer’s contest returns for another installment. Featuring four rounds of two writers with two opposing ideas for seven minutes each. With Brendan Pinto, Chris Graham, Anne Thériault, Zebulon Pike, Kimberly Huie, Jason Donovan, Sean K. Robb and Alex Tindal.
Wednesday, May 22, Pivot Reading Series, The Press Club, 850 Dundas West, suggested donation $5
Featuring Chris Eaton, Shannon Maguire, and David Seymour. Hosted by Jacob McArthur Mooney.
Friday May 24, 7pm, Queer Noise Solidarity, Christie Pits
Conducted by Wednesday Lupypciw, featuring Alaska B, Celina Carrol, Conny Nowé, Eleanor King, Heidi Chan, Kareem, Karen Frostitution, Laura Hartley, Rita McKeough, Samara Liu, Shavonne Tovah Somvong, and Tyla Crowhurst-Smith. From the Facebook event: “One dozen drummers, each with their own kit, will occupy a space between the baseball field and the wooded area in Christie Pits Park where they raise the racket of their percussional superjam to the outer limits of the stratosphere over 3 different, intense sessions. This event also blows the roof off the traditionally white dude-dominated art world of rock n’ roll.” F’YEAH AWESOME!
MONTREAL
Friday May 24, 7pm, The Coming Envelope 7: Launch, Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, 211 Bernard Ouest
It’s the launch for The Coming Envelope 7 (BookThug Press’s journal of innovative prose) featuring new work by Masha Tupitsyn, Jesse Huisken, Kyle Buckley, Valerie Witte and Moez Surani. Our special guest Oisin Curran is author of the novel Mopus.
The evening will also feature a reading by writer and cultural critic Masha Tupitsyn.
VANCOUVER
Thursday May 23, 7pm, Dr, Sketchy’s Anti Art School: Summer of Sin, Hot Art Wet City, 2206 Main, $12
The part art class, part cabaret launches into its first mid-month session featuring Dezi Desire. Join them for three hours of drinking, drawing and decadence!
HALIFAX
Saturday May 25, 7pm, (((Mis-Fit))), Parentheses Gallery & Art Projects, 2168 Gottingen
A show celebrating misfit art of all stripes – namely, “that one piece that sits outside of an artists usual practice or body of work.” Featuring work by Melissa Marr, Eleanor King, Mitchell Wiebe and many others.