Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote continue their Gender Failure launch tour this week.
Monday April 21
TORONTO Queer Fear: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, 8pm, Videofag, 187 Augusta Year one of the queer horror film series wraps up with a screening of this ever-delightful camp classic featuring the Queen of Darkness herself. Movie attire encouraged.
TORONTO Readings at the Common, 8pm, Food and Liquor, 1610 Queen Street West, free Different venue tonight! Featuring Anita Lahey, D.D. West and Matthew J. Trafford.
Tuesday April 21
MONTREAL Gender Failure Book Launch, 7pm, La Sala Rossa, 4848 boul. Saint-Laurent, $15 Two of Canada’s most treasured and celebrated trans artists, Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon, present their acclaimed multimedia show “Gender Failure,” featuring animation and video elements from Seattle artist Clyde Petersen. This is also the official book launch of Gender Failure, a poignant collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images documenting Ivan and Rae’s personal journeys from gender failure to gender self-acceptance. Look here for launches in Toronto (Wednesday April 22) and Ottawa (Friday April 25).
HALIFAX Invisible Publishing National Poetry Month Celebration, 6:30pm, Argyle Fine Art, 1559 Barrington Join your friends from Invisible Publishing as they team up with the Literary Press Group and the League of Canadian Poets to bring you a National Poetry Month celebration, including Geordie Miller reading from his brand-spanking new collection Re:union (Invisible), Rachel Lebowitz shares selections from Cottonopolis (Pedlar), Richard Norman reads from Zero Kelvin (Biblioasis), and Sylvia Hamilton presents And I Alone Escaped To Tell You (Gaspereau).
TORONTO Choir!Choir!Choir! sings Green Day, 7:30pm, No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College, $5 Sing “Basketcase” and “Time of Your Life” with the gang.
Wednesday April 23
TORONTO Undefined, 7pm, Bar Radio (formerly Wilson 96), 615 College St. A night with no limits, featuring four conceptual poets, an experimental filmmaker, music that fits nowhere and everywhere. With Liz Worth, Eric Schmaltz, Lindsay Cahill, Andrew James Paterson, Jacqueline Valencia and others.
MONTREAL Queer Revolution! Book Launch, 6:30pm, Concordia Community Co-op Bookstore, 2150 Bishop Since 2009, the Against Equality collective has been challenging the gay mainstream and revitalizing the queer political imagination. Against Equality: Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion is the collective’s opportunity to share its newest work with the world—a collection of all of the collective’s books in one concise edited volume published by AK Press in April 2014. Ryan Conrad, the co-founder of the Against Equality archive and editor of all of the collective’s anthologies, along with a number of contributors, will be present for a discussion.
Thursday April 24
MONTREAL Gala des Prix Expozine mit Lederhosen Lucil, 5pm, Divan Orange, 4234 boul. Saint-Laurent It’s the Expozine Alternative Press Awards, recognizing the best publications available at Expozine 2013 in book, zine and comic form. Lederhosen Lucil will host. Woot! See list of finalists here. (it includes our Board member Sherwin Tjia and our bud Georgia Webber.)
MONTREAL Benefit Concert for Missing/Murdered Aboriginal Women, 8:30pm, Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent, $8 Organized by HOWL! Arts Collective. Featuring Odaya, Beatrice Deer, Sarah Pagé, AroarA. Come in remembrance and share your support. This event is part of the HOWL! Arts Festival running to Tuesday April 29 in Montreal, presenting live music, cinema, creative interventions, street art and community discussions by Montréal artists and activists. See the full lineup of events HERE.
Saturday April 26
GUELPH Queers in Guelph Dance Party, Red Papaya Thai, 55 Wyndham Street North A monthly queer dance party in support of Out on the Shelf.