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Monday June 24, 7pm, Launch: Escape Is At Hand, Supermarket Restaurant, 268 Augusta
Join author Joshua Kloke as he launches his new book, Escape Is At Hand, a book about his voyage around the world to follow the Tragically Hip, released by brand-new publishing house Eternal Cavalier Press. Featuring host Vish Khanna and music by Jennifer Castle, Jesse Landen and Adam Kesek. Copies of the book will be for sale.
Five-minute microtalks delivered by the Toronto video game community! Followed by a social.
Join us for a roundtable discussion with documentary filmmaker Justine Pimlott, playwright Nick Green, and scholars Cate Sandilands and Michael Connors Jackman as they debate why artists and creators continue to work on this theme.
Wednesday June 26, 8pm, Launch: All We Want is Everything, The Garrison, 1197 Dundas Street West
It’s Andrew Sullivan’s new book of short stories! Holy whoppers! The launch will feature Andrew reading from All We Want is Everything, along with readings by Emma Healey, Spencer Gordon, and Zani Showler, and dancing and boozing, as happens at these sorts of things.
Get ready for the church of Dolly Parton in what is hopefully becoming a Pride tradition. Wear your best blasphemous bouffant and rhinestones and get ready for a choir of resplendent Parton lookalikes. Also there is a Dolly-look-alike contest, DJing from Sigourney Beaver, Fay Slift witnessing Dolly’s “Lez-Erection.” ManChyna making you Kingdom-Cum, the Pining pulling you close to their bosoms and Igby Izzard delivering sacrament on a platter. Baby, I’m burning.
Bring a pal and your best poetry! Give it a try. One of Glad Day’s many amazing Pride events.
Saturday June 29, 11am, Love, Toronto: A Proud Voices Reading, Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge St, $5
With readings by: Liz Bugg, Jeffrey Round, Cathi Bond and JP Larocque.
Saturday June 29, 7;30pm, Lesbian Love Letter and ( )ound, Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge St
Lesbian Love Letter is a new piece by multi-disciplinary artist Kate Barry. In the piece she creates a fantastical love letter addressing agency, queer lust and vulnerability through a series of performance actions.
( )ound is a performance ritual and installation exploring the intersection of queerness and incarceration by Toronto’s Conam Poon.
Sunday June 30, 3-10pm, Alterna-Queer Stage, 14 Dundonald Street, free
From opera to rock, from belly-dancing to drag, here’s a dose of Pride that’s a little deviant from the usual festivities. The year features The Tryst, Matt Silver, Like Pacific, Goodnight Sunrise, and The Anti-Queens, Crackpuppy, the Judy Virago and IGBY Lizzard Trash Cabaret, Amy’s Arms, punk-hop grooves of Urvah Khan, and the gypsy beats of Jumple.
Sunday June 30, 1pm, Canada Day Weekend Slam, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, free
It’s the Toronto Slam Team’s annual day of national pride…but moreso, poetry. The team faces off against four poets in a two-round slam. Featuring Ritallin.
Godfrey’s previous cultural contributions have included a cassette exchange club and the book/cassette “Dear Peggy,” a collection of Winnipeg folklore. Her quirkiness and charm come through in the work she’s created and helped exhibit in the city after moving here three and a half years ago. Her first trip to Canada was for an art residency in Toronto. She returned home to the U.K. after her visa expired and organized a festival of Toronto art in Bristol. While looking for a job in Canada, the posting for a job aceart came up in a city she’d never heard of and came to love.