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Launch a conversation with this week’s launches and conversations.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, and time, to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
Wednesday, April 22nd
Toronto
Theatre of the Unimpressed Book LaunchWhere: The Melody Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Queen Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: On Wednesday, April 22, join us as we launch Jordan Tannahill’s very impressive Theatre of the Unimpressed. We are now launching at the Gladstone Hotel, in their Melody Bar. To fête the newest addition to our Exploded Views series by Canada’s ‘theatre wunderkind’ (The Globe & Mail), there will be a reading from Jordan, a hilarious performance by the Sufferettes, fantastic music from Lido Pimienta and more. Come and buy your copy before it’s available anywhere else.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1573332656262458/Mercer Union | fORUM: Why Do We Do the Things?Where: Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, 1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: Mercer Union is delighted to announce that our eighth fORUM of the season will be a conversation between Aisha Sasha John and Jacob Wren. In both art and in life, why do we do the things we do? As Aisha wrote to Jacob: what might it mean to be wholesomely, hungrily ambitious – ambitious for life? And how might this connect to the multiple identities and self-questionings we often call art.Free.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1383547628636453/
Pivot at The Steady presents Jake Kennedy, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, and Matt RaderWhere: The Steady Cafe & Bar, 1051 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: Pivot at The Steady presents Jake Kennedy, author of Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, author of Their Biography: an organism of relationships, and Matt Rader, author of What I Want to Tell Goes Like This. Pay what you can.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1393173187671728/MontrealMystics of Mile End Book LaunchWhere: Librairie D&Q, Rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QCMore information: Sigal Samuel launches The Mystics of Mile End (Freehand Books) at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal.
St. Catharines, ON
Border Blur Reading SeriesWhere: Niagara Arts Centre, 354 St. Paul Street East, St. Catharines, ONWhen: 8pmMore information: Border Blur Reading Series presents Jake Kennedy, author of Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, author of Their Biography: an organism of relationships and Pearl Pirie, author of the pet radish, shrunken. Other readers: Paul Dutton, Sonja Greckol and Bill Kennedy.Free.
Saturday, April 25th
Montreal
Mark Abley at the Blue Metropolis FestivalWhere: Hotel 10, 10 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QCWhen: 2-3pmMore information: Join Mark Abley as he launches his new poetry collection, The Tongues of Earth, at the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal at Le Petit Salon, Hotel 10.Link: http://bluemetropolis.org/guest-authors/abley-mark/Mile End in Fiction: A Discussion (Blue Metropolis Festival)Where: Hotel 10, 10 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QCMore information: Sigal Samuel, author of Mystics at Mile End, appears at Blue Metropolis with Guillaume Morissette, author of New Tab, and Michel Hellman to discuss “Mile End in Fiction.”
