Creeds (ANNEX)

OPEN FOR PITCHES!

Accessibility: Venue is fully accessible including washrooms on the same level

$10 tickets (link coming soon)

5 true stories centred around vulnerability

• 1 open mic spot (just throw your name in the hat on the night and tell a story in 5 mins or less)

Contact rachel@rawstorytellingtoronto.com if you want to pitch. Please send your full story, written out.

The 519 Church Street Community Centre

Queer-friendly writing group supports and promotes writers from the LGBTQ community and their allies. Bring copies of your work to get critiqued, and don't forget some writing materials to participate in some of the most unique and inspiring exercises. Join one of the longest running writing groups in the city.

Durham Storytellers gather to tell and listen to stories at the Northview Community Centre.

Each gathering includes Featured Tellers and Open Mic.

Guests are always welcome.

Come Listen, Come Tell, Catch the Magic!

Another season of the Open Mic LIVE series has started at the Living Arts Centre Restaurant and Arlene Paculan is hosting once again!

Enjoy an evening of entertainment with performances by local artists.

The 519 Church Street Community Centre

Queer-friendly writing group supports and promotes writers from the LGBTQ community and their allies. Bring copies of your work to get critiqued, and don't forget some writing materials to participate in some of the most unique and inspiring exercises. Join one of the longest running writing groups in the city.

Free Times Cafe

The monthly evening of tall tales, remarkable reminiscence, fascinating fables, and comical conflicts returns. Join us for a night of entertaining stories told by some of Toronto's best raconteurs.

• Dinner Reservations guarantee seating: 416-967-1078 *

Co-Host and Co-Producer Christel Bartelse is an actor, writer, producer, clown, teacher and comedian, known for her five solo shows which have toured across Canada, the US and twice to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is the creator of the Podcast all KIDding and cohost/coproducer of Chris and Christel's Collection at the Peacock Pub.

Co-Host and Co-Producer Briane Nasimok is a Gemini-nominated writer, comedian, producer and the creator/performer of Fringe favourite, "Confessions of an Operatic Mute". A current member of the Storytelling Toronto Board, Briane had a previous career as a Canadian film star, which is why most people don't know him.

Gallery 1017

Join us for an intimate evening filled with carefully chosen performers gracing our beautiful stage.

We will also be having an open mic for the community to bare your souls. 1017 is building an incredible collective of creative collaborators, and we are so excited for you to be apart of the incredible journey that is true expression on stage!

Creeds (ANNEX)

OPEN FOR PITCHES!

Accessibility: Venue is fully accessible including washrooms on the same level

$10 tickets (link coming soon)

5 true stories centred around vulnerability

• 1 open mic spot (just throw your name in the hat on the night and tell a story in 5 mins or less)

Contact rachel@rawstorytellingtoronto.com if you want to pitch. Please send your full story, written out.

The 519 Church Street Community Centre

Queer-friendly writing group supports and promotes writers from the LGBTQ community and their allies. Bring copies of your work to get critiqued, and don't forget some writing materials to participate in some of the most unique and inspiring exercises. Join one of the longest running writing groups in the city.

Free Times Cafe,

Our Feature Readers:

tba

Queen Books

Join the Toronto International Festival of Authors and Inanna Publications in celebrating the release of their spring titles—Heather Babcock‘s Filthy Sugar, Nina Munteanu‘s A Diary in the Age of Water, Ruth Panofsky‘s Radiant Shards: Hoda’s North End Poems and Mary Rykov‘s some conditions apply—with a Toronto Lit Up launch!

at Burrows Hall Community Center

Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE) is a community led by youth, comprised of artists, activists, free-thinkers and revolutionaries. Together, they help to create a safe and welcoming platform for self-expression and healing through the performance arts. Located primarily on the east-side of Scarborough, RISE is able to reach out, and draw youth from all corners of the GTA and beyond.

Join Us! Peace, Love and Unity, RISE Edutainment brings you a weekly dose of artivism, self-expression, and healing every monday! What better way is there to start off your week?

Registration for open mic opens up every week at 6:30pm! Arrive early to solidify a spot on the performance list. $5 at the door. DJ Lewy spinning tracks from our Community every week!

Great vibes, great food, community gathering.

Durham Storytellers gather to tell and listen to stories at the Northview Community Centre.

Each gathering includes Featured Tellers and Open Mic.

Guests are always welcome.

Come Listen, Come Tell, Catch the Magic!

Another season of the Open Mic LIVE series has started at the Living Arts Centre Restaurant and Arlene Paculan is hosting once again!

Enjoy an evening of entertainment with performances by local artists.

Free Times Cafe,

Our Feature Readers:

tba

at Burrows Hall Community Center

Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE) is a community led by youth, comprised of artists, activists, free-thinkers and revolutionaries. Together, they help to create a safe and welcoming platform for self-expression and healing through the performance arts. Located primarily on the east-side of Scarborough, RISE is able to reach out, and draw youth from all corners of the GTA and beyond.

Join Us! Peace, Love and Unity, RISE Edutainment brings you a weekly dose of artivism, self-expression, and healing every monday! What better way is there to start off your week?

Registration for open mic opens up every week at 6:30pm! Arrive early to solidify a spot on the performance list. $5 at the door. DJ Lewy spinning tracks from our Community every week!

Great vibes, great food, community gathering.

The 519 Church Street Community Centre

Queer-friendly writing group supports and promotes writers from the LGBTQ community and their allies. Bring copies of your work to get critiqued, and don't forget some writing materials to participate in some of the most unique and inspiring exercises. Join one of the longest running writing groups in the city.

Staircase Cafe Theatre

Join us for an entertaining evening of local storytellers sharing their tales of flesh wounds (real? metaphorical?).

Koffler Centre of the Arts

The Koffler's Books & Ideas Series presents the launch of Madhur Anand’s memoir, in conversation with Ali Kazimi.

The launch of Canadian poet and Professor of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Madhur Anand’s experimental memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves, which traces the author’s family’s immigration and settlement in Canada, following the upheaval of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan into separate states. In this unique genre-bending work, Anand weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma to illuminate how the pasts we carry cast a shadow on our current lives.

ABOUT BOOKS & IDEAS Koffler Centre of the Arts’ Books & Ideas series spotlights provocative writers, artists and thinkers, celebrating literary excellence and fostering critical dialogue through compelling book launches, author talks and on-stage interviews. With a thematic focus on counter-narratives, the series features books that employ fiction, memoir, and photography as tools of resistance.

Free Times Cafe,

Our Feature Readers:

tba

at Burrows Hall Community Center

Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE) is a community led by youth, comprised of artists, activists, free-thinkers and revolutionaries. Together, they help to create a safe and welcoming platform for self-expression and healing through the performance arts. Located primarily on the east-side of Scarborough, RISE is able to reach out, and draw youth from all corners of the GTA and beyond.

Join Us! Peace, Love and Unity, RISE Edutainment brings you a weekly dose of artivism, self-expression, and healing every monday! What better way is there to start off your week?

Registration for open mic opens up every week at 6:30pm! Arrive early to solidify a spot on the performance list. $5 at the door. DJ Lewy spinning tracks from our Community every week!

Great vibes, great food, community gathering.

Free Times Cafe,

Our Feature Readers:

tba

at Burrows Hall Community Center

Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE) is a community led by youth, comprised of artists, activists, free-thinkers and revolutionaries. Together, they help to create a safe and welcoming platform for self-expression and healing through the performance arts. Located primarily on the east-side of Scarborough, RISE is able to reach out, and draw youth from all corners of the GTA and beyond.

Join Us! Peace, Love and Unity, RISE Edutainment brings you a weekly dose of artivism, self-expression, and healing every monday! What better way is there to start off your week?

Registration for open mic opens up every week at 6:30pm! Arrive early to solidify a spot on the performance list. $5 at the door. DJ Lewy spinning tracks from our Community every week!

Great vibes, great food, community gathering.

Free Times Cafe

The monthly evening of tall tales, remarkable reminiscence, fascinating fables, and comical conflicts returns. Join us for a night of entertaining stories told by some of Toronto's best raconteurs.

• Dinner Reservations guarantee seating: 416-967-1078 *

Co-Host and Co-Producer Christel Bartelse is an actor, writer, producer, clown, teacher and comedian, known for her five solo shows which have toured across Canada, the US and twice to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is the creator of the Podcast all KIDding and cohost/coproducer of Chris and Christel's Collection at the Peacock Pub.

Co-Host and Co-Producer Briane Nasimok is a Gemini-nominated writer, comedian, producer and the creator/performer of Fringe favourite, "Confessions of an Operatic Mute". A current member of the Storytelling Toronto Board, Briane had a previous career as a Canadian film star, which is why most people don't know him.

The Tell

Cape Town spoken word songster croc E moses makes things lyrical and abstract, Owen Sound Poet Laureate Richard-Yves (Rico) Sitoski makes it terse and earthy, and Brickyard's Adebe DeRango-Adem makes it reflective and transformative.

A full 90-minute show of poetry that takes the roof off the house and doesn't mind the rain if you can see the stars from bed. (Oh, and come decompress and schmooze with us after the show at a location TBD.)

PWYC w/ suggested price of $20 -- no-one turned away for hardship. Accessible.

Up close and personal with your local authors, in the Canadian community, at The Canadian Coptic Center.

The Festival of Literary Diversity brings diverse authors and storytellers to downtown Brampton for essential conversations and workshops.

Harbourfront Centre

How does an artist breakthrough without breaking down? In their latest works, Vivek Shraya (The Subtweet), Amber Dawn (My Art is Killing Me) and Jillian Christmas (The Gospel of Breaking), voice themes of industry and community pressure, lateral violences, hard-won friendships and intergenerational healing. The Breakdown book tour is part cultural criticism, part resistance and wholly a celebration of narrative, verse and song.

Join these three outspoken femme writers, with host Terese Mason Pierre, for the Toronto engagement of this national tour, for a provocative set of poetry readings and music, followed by a book signing and audience Q&A. Books by all the authors will be available for sale courtesy of the U of T Bookstore.

Free Times Cafe,

Our Feature Readers:

tba

at Burrows Hall Community Center

Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE) is a community led by youth, comprised of artists, activists, free-thinkers and revolutionaries. Together, they help to create a safe and welcoming platform for self-expression and healing through the performance arts. Located primarily on the east-side of Scarborough, RISE is able to reach out, and draw youth from all corners of the GTA and beyond.

Join Us! Peace, Love and Unity, RISE Edutainment brings you a weekly dose of artivism, self-expression, and healing every monday! What better way is there to start off your week?

Registration for open mic opens up every week at 6:30pm! Arrive early to solidify a spot on the performance list. $5 at the door. DJ Lewy spinning tracks from our Community every week!

Great vibes, great food, community gathering.