Kapusta’s cabbage-like layers launch on Tuesday in Vancouver.
Monday, March 30
TORONTO
The Canadian Book Professionals’ Association kicks off their year’s events with a panel about covers! David Gee, Michel Vrana, Natalie Olson, Emily Keeler and Nathan Maharaj make up book covers with crowd-sourced ideas. Hosted by Steven Beattie from Quill & Quire.
Tuesday, March 31
TORONTO
Monitor 11: South Asian Experimental Film + Video, 7:30pm, OCADU, 100 McCaul St, free
The well-loved and always groundbreaking annual video show by SAVAC takes up the theme of trauma, fiction as a way of speaking to hard realities, and fantasy.
The Art Bar Poetry Series, 8pm, 154 Danforth Ave, free
The popular Danforth poetry series welcomes Carmelo Militano, William Kemp and Rob Welch.
VANCOUVER
Erin Moure launches a new book of poems in the form of an impossible play or cabaret, “layered like a cabbage”. Reading begins at 6pm.
Wednesday, April 1
Fifteen Dogs Launch, 7pm, Type Books, 883 Queen St W, free
André Alexis launches his new novel at this dog-themed launch!
Thursday, April 2
Queer Confessions, 8pm, The 519, 519 Church St, PWYC
Toronto’s favorite (only?) queer confessional reading event includes film critic and bright guy Peter Knegt on the line-up, treating the theme of “Brave New World”