TORONTO
Monday Nov 18, 7pm, Talonbooks Fall Launch, TYPE Books, 883 Queen St. East
Talonbooks launches three new titles, including Rogue Cells/Carbon Harbour by Garry Thomas Morse, Wigrum by Daniel Canty and Singed Wings by Lola Lemire Tostevin.
Monday Nov 18, 7:30pm, Blue Coffee Reading Series, Magpie Taproom, 831 Dundas West
With Liz Howard, Spencer Gordon and Spencer Butt.
Readings from Aaron Cometbus (of Cometbus Zine) Jeff Miller (of Ghost Pine zine) and Maggie McDonald (former Hidden Cameras player, Broken Pencil board member, opera composer, environmentalist, activist, novelist.) Aaron and Jeff will also be reading in Hamilton on Wednesday and Ottawa on Thursday. Presented by our pals at the Toronto Zine Library and Stuck in the City!
Tuesday Nov 20, 7:30pm Choir Choir Choir! No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College Street, $5
Everyone is sick of Mayor Rob Ford in Toronto. Why not voice your mayoral fatigue with some good ol’ righteous rage-jams, including Sex Pistol’s “Liar” and Alice Cooper’s “Go To Hell”? Do it. It will feel good.
Featuring San Diego slammer Ruby Francisco. Doors 7pm, signup 730pm, show 8pm.
VANCOUVER
Tuesday Nov 19, 7pm, Dr. Sketchy’s: The Sane Asylum, HOT Art Wet City, 2206 Main Street, $10
With Voodoo Pixie. Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School is what happens when a simple question is asked- why can’t figure drawing be sexy? Part art class, part cabaret, join us for 3 hours of drinking, drawing and decadence.
MONTREAL
Artist, author, inventor of brilliant events such as Strip Spelling Bee and Queer Slowdance and Broken Pencil board member Sherwin Tija launches his latest book, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style journey of Holden Catfield, the titular feline protagonist who finds his owner getting a little bitey….You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse! is the much anticipated sequel to the first book in the Pick-a-Plot series, You Are a Cat.
Who wants a mustache ride? With WORDS.
The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it’s a spelling bee, and it’s played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin!
As this is our MOVEMBER edition, any contestant wearing a moustache, whether faked, drawn, or real, will be looked upon more favourably by the judges.