Happy Monday. Here is our curated list of indie events across Canada that we think you should check out. If you have a great event for review, please send the relevant information to [email protected].
Yep – it’s a party to flex your zine-making muscles, with drinks, free food, and all the supplies you’ll need. For the first hour of this event, ideas will be written on a giant board. Then attendees will spend an hour writing, drawing, cutting and/or pasting one of the ideas from the board. At the end of the evening, the Madeline Collective (hosts of this event) will create a zine from your work and will post it online later. This event is sort of a pre-amble/training ground for the 12-hour Zine Machine art installation – also presented by the Madeline Collective – at this year’s Nuit Blanche. On September 29-30 at the Gladstone Hotel, ten groups of zine-makers (including Static Zine, Taddle Creek magazine and Mammalian Diving Reflex) will be creating a new zine every hour based on ideas supplied by Nuit Blanche attendees. Donations will be accepted this Thursday for this project. Look for more info about this event later in the week!
HALIFAX
Halifax’s sweetest backyard lecture series continues tonight with the theme of guilty pleasures: fluff, spectacle, pop culture, vanity, cigarettes, pizza and donuts. I know nothing about any of these things, of course. To stay up to date with the series’ events, join their Facebook group here.
VANCOUVER
This annual celebration of Vancouver’s lit scene boasts a packed schedule this year, featuring appearances from the Vancouver Slam team, poetry readings from the likes of Tanya Evanson, Trevor Carolan and Joe Rosenblatt, storytelling sessions, open mics, a literary game show and a panel discussion on the nature of open mics and their artistic validity. There’s also bands, food, facepainting, puppet shows and more. See a complete schedule of events here.
GUELPH
Wednesday August 22, 8pm – 10pm, Out on the Shelf Movie Night, 141 Woolwich St., Unit 106
Guelph’s landmark LGBTQ library and archive Out on the Shelf hosts a screening of Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. This hard-to-find 1992 Canadian documentary interviews 10 women – most of them in Vancouver or Toronto – and their experiences as lesbians in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The event is free.
WINNIPEG
This is a launch for Chris Walter’s new book on the legendary Edmonton/Vancouver punk band SNFU. The book interviews band members past and present as well as roadies, friends and ex-friends. Trouser Mouth and Potatoes will provide some music for this fine event. Hooray for Canadian punk books!