TORONTO
Local author/rad dude Richard Scarsbrook will be launching his latest novel Nothing Man and the Purple Zero with a live dramatic reading from the book featuring a group of real bona fide actors. Come, listen, drink, enjoy.
Monday September 16, 7pm, Storybook Confidential, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, PWYC
It’s a grownup benefit for Small Print Toronto’s interactive literary programs for kids. Readers like Natalie Zina Walschots, Liz Worth, Stacey May Fowles, Damian Rogers, Grace O’Connell, Evan Munday and many others will share samplings of works they wrote while they were youngsters. A cluster of ace picture book designers and illustrators will be offering semi-permanent tattoos. Also, dancing and DJs, and pretty decorations by Type Books window-decorator Kalpna Patel.
Join your fellow vampire freaks at the launch of Toronto scribe Liisa Ladoucer’s new book How To Kill a Vampire. At 8pm there will be vampire trivia with prizes! Test your knowledge of True Blood, Let the Right One In, Twilight and some book called Dracula. Also, The Lost Boys, which is my favorite movie basically. Whee!
Join writers Catherine Bush and Douglas Glover as they launch exciting new fiction. Both will be interviewed about their works by Mark Medley of the National Post.
Tuesday September 17 and Wednesday September 18, Choir Choir Choir! Nights One and Two, No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College Street, $5 (night one link) (night two link)
Who loves September? Choir Choir Choir does, and they will be leading you in two fall-themed tunes that are totally different from each other: BIG STAR – SEPTEMBER GURLS: http://www.youtube.com/
EARTH, WIND, & FIRE – SEPTEMBER http://www.youtube.com/
HAMILTON
Help celebrate the launch of Hamilton’s newest queer arts/culture zine this Wednesday with the mighty VAG HALEN. Norfolk, Dorthea Paas and Manhatta will also be playing.
MONTREAL
Tuesday September 17, 8pm – 1am, Poetry Night at Kafein, Kafein, 1429A Bishop Street, free
Check out headliners Cam Novak and Nathaniel Marchand, plus a whack-load of other great poets. Free!
Celebrate Void Magazine’s (slightly belated) 10-year anniversary with readings from Marie Darsigny. Joseph Simmons, Megan-Jane Renshaw, Alex Bourque and Julie Mannell, with music by Head Honcho, Ruff Talons, and more. BIG FUN GUYS!
Get spicy. Get sexy. Get spelling. Queer/trans-friendly. No booing, no cameras. Just sexy brainy body-positivity and nudity. BAM!
EDMONTON
Saturday September 21, 7:30pm, A/V Art Show #9, The Artery, 9535 Jasper Ave, $10
A reprisal of the great multi-disciplinary art/music show. Featuring 11 artists, including Sabrina Hanson, Victoria Guzman, Abra King and more, and music by the likes of Jeffrey Straker and Baltic Form. Wheeooo!