TORONTO
Tuesday June 11, 8pm, The EW Reading Series Presents Jurassic June, Duffy’s Tavern, 1238 Bloor Street, PWYC
Featuring Maria Cichosz, Naomi Freeman, Mark Jordan Manner and Phoebe Wang.
Wednesday June 12, 8pm, Broken Pencil and NXNE Present: A Night of Sex and Death, Creatures Creating, 822 Dundas Street West
Let’s get creepy-sexy. Featuring music from: Terry Clement, Gregory Pepper and Isaac Paris.
Featuring readings by: Liz Worth, Joey Comeau, Natalie Zina Walschots, Hal Niedzviecki and Aaron Manczyk. Hosted by Lindsay Gibb and Alison Lang.
Thursday June 13, 20, 27, 7pm, Mammalian Diving Reflex Presents: Socialist Games, The Theatre Centre, 1095 Queen Street West, PWYC
The Socialist Games calls on strangers to play with strangers in wave after wave of summer-camp style activities – minus the summer camp, plus awkwardness and double the hotness. Oh Mammalian! For descriptions of the games (and photos) visit the Facebook event.
Thursday June 13, 7:30pm, Pastoral Concert and Hidden Treasures, Graven Feather, 906 Queen Street West, free
An art opening AND a storytelling event? OMG.
Using a miscellany of materials, we’ll explore cut-and-paste collage technics and black-out writing to create rough and roguish pieces of ingeniousness – just how we like our zines!
Original fan-generated material from authors all over the world, performed live by Toronto’s funniest comedians. Featuring zombie makeup artists on site, special guests, scenery, costumes, and braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiinnnnnnnnnnnns.
Sunday June 16, Static Zine #7 Release Party, 2:30pm, Christie PitsStatic Zine is thrilled to announce the release party for Issue 7: The Future! Come hang out and have a picnic with us and listen to music by EONS, Patti Cake and Pat LePoidevin and readings by Misha Bower, Jessica Westhead and Sarah Pinder. There’s cupcakes, free copies of the zine and much more. #Parklife
Alison Lang is the editor of Broken Pencil Magazine. She also writes about music and horror for a number of publications, including the Quill & Quire, Exclaim! and Rue Morgue, and has lectured on Satanic cults in cinema for The Black Museum lecture series in Toronto. She loves dogs, doom metal and karaoke and makes a mean motherfuckin' rice pilaf.