Before you pack up your costumes for the year, come to one of the many spooky indie events happening across Canada.
TORONTO
October 31, Short & Sweet Weekly, No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College Street, 8pm
Short n’ sweet ain’t just for Halloweenie chocolate bars. Come to the weekly short-story, short film installment of Short & Sweet.
Mark Miller will be launching his latest book, Way Down That Lonesome Road, about blues guitarist Lonnie Johnson and the last five years of his life in Toronto. The evening will be punctuated by the blues stylings of singer and guitarist Danny Marks.
Kevin Chong will be launching his new book Beauty Plus Pity and fellow authors Hal Niedzvieki (Broken Pencil co-founder!) and Kathryn Mockler will be reading from their recent works at this literary evening presented by Arsenal Pulp Press, Joyland and
Broken Pencil.
November 4, Strip Spelling Bee: Halloween Hangover Edition, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street, Toronto, 10:30pm
See how many brain cells you killed over the Halloween weekend at the latest edition of Strip Spelling Bees, presented by Chat Perdu. I before E except after C…
November 5, Book Launch: You Are a Cat!, The Drake Hotel (Underground), 1150 Queen Street West, 3pm
Check out the Toronto launch of Sherwin Sullivan Tjia’s (Chat Perdu) choose your own adventure book, You Are a Cat! (Conundrum).
HAMILTON
November 6, The Lit Live Reading Series, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street, 7:30pm
Get cozy on one of the many couches at the Sky Dragon Centre and listen to live readings by some great writers as part of the Lit Live Reading Series.
MONTREAL
November 1, Book Launch: Hark! A Vagrant, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, 7pm
Hark! A Vagrant author Kate Beaton is getting major media attention for her new book of hilarious and historical comics this week. Catch her give a reading at the D&Q headquarters this week.
VANCOUVER
November 4, Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead, W2 Media Cafe, 111 West Hastings, 6pm
Come out to a Day of the Dead celebration at W2, featuring plenty of Mexican food and dancing.