See Tomson Highway’s “Songs in the Key of Cree,” featuring twelve songs taken from Rose ; The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito; The (Post) Mistress ; and The Sage, the Dancer, and the Fool, at The Burlington Performing Arts Centre.

Saturday, October 19, 2019
7:30pm
The Burlington Performing Arts Centre
440 Locust Street
Burlington ON, L7S 1T7
905-681-6000

amayzing art show like yu have nevr seen!

nOIR:Z concrete sure is porous

the nOIR:Z makers –
“bill bissett”:
bradley
broudy
dedora

Opening October 19, 2019
2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Show October 19, 2019 to January 15, 2020
The Secret Handshake Gallery
170A Baldwin Street
in the heart uv kensington
Toronto, ON

Join Oana Avasilichioaei, Danielle LaFrance, and Nikki Reimer for the Knife | Fork | Book showcase of their new poetry collections.

Oana Avasilichioaei will read from Eight Track, Danielle LaFrance from Just Like I Like It, and Nikki Reimer from My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019
7 p.m.
k | f | b mezzanine
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street
Toronto, ON

Nikki Reimer will read from My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan at the Pivot Reading Series with Bennett and Abrahams.

More info here.

Thursday, October 24
Doors at 7:15 p.m., show at 8 p.m.
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2M7

Nikki Reimer will read from My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan at Novel Idea Books with Nancy Cullen and Anita Dolman.

Friday, October 25
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Novel Idea Books
156 Princess Street
Kingston, ON K7L 1B1

Jim Andrews’s Aleph Null is an online, interactive, generative art engine and a tool for creating images and animations. His new exhibition at Massy Books in Vancouver will feature collaborations with bill bissett.

Check out a catalog of the prints that will be available.

Opening: Friday, October 25, 2019
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Show: October 25 to November 20, 2019
Massy Books
229 E. Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC

Nikki Reimer will read from My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan at Manx Pub as part of the Ottawa Writers Festival with Jacqueline Turner and K.B.

Saturday, October 26
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Ottawa Writers Festival: Plan 99 Poetry
Manx Pub
370 Elgin Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 1N1

Talon author and editor Catriona Strang will perform at the Jacqueline Leggatt Celebration. Canadian Music Centre BC Region partners with Vancouver Academy of Music to celebrate the music of CMC Associate Composer and VAM composition faculty member, Dr. Jacqueline Leggatt. More info here.

Sunday, October 27, 2019
7 p.m.
Koerner Recital Hall
Vancouver Academy of Music
1270 Chestnut Street
Vancouver, BC V6J 4R9

Nikki Reimer will read from My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan in New York, Featuring Urayoan Noel. This event is free, open to the public, and accessible.

Monday, October 28
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Event Space of the NYU English Department
244 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003

“Opening Doors – Vancouver’s East End” will be on at the Firehall Theatre from November 1 to 10, 2019. “Opening Doors” is a dramatization based on Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter’s 1979 aural history of the neighborhood surrounding the Firehall building. Audiences will hear stories of the vibrant community created by those from many different cultural heritages and backgrounds. More info here.

November 1-10, 2019
Firehall Theatre
280 East Cordova Street
Vancouver, BC V6A 1L3

Sudbury’s Wordstock festival will feature Talon author Joshua Whitehead as well as Kyo Mclear, Georgette Leblanc, Monique Gray Smith, and more. Read a preview here. More info to come.

November 1 to 3, 2019
Sudbury, ON
Details to come.

Bill Richardson will read from I Saw Three Ships in Victoria!

I Saw Three Ships captures a West End community vanishing under pressure from development and skyrocketing real-estate prices. As arch as they are elegiac, as funny as they are melancholy, these stories honour a cherished period in the history of the West End. Sometimes twisted, sometimes tender, I Saw Three Ships will speak to all who have ever been stuck spinning their wheels at the corner of Heathen and Holy.

Friday, November 8
7 p.m.
Bolen’s Books
#111–1644 Hillside Avenue,
Victoria, BC V8T 2C5

From one of Canada’s most beloved personalities comes this delightful collection set around Christmastime in Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood. The eight linked stories in Bill Richardson’s I Saw Three Ships take their direction from the seasonal tug-of-war between expectation and disappointment that occurs as the light deepens. The pieces, all irresistibly funny, give shelter to characters whose experiences of transcendence leave them more alienated than consoled.

The Winnipeg launch of Bill Richardson’s I Saw Three Ships will take place at McNally Robinson on November 14. Bill will be reading with actor Mariam Bernstein. More info here.

Thursday, November 14
7 pm
McNally Robinson
Grant Park in the Atrium
1120 Grant Avenue, Unit 4000.
Winnipeg, MB R3M 2A6

Join Oana Avasilichioaei, Danielle LaFrance, and Nikki Reimer for the Montréal launch of their new poetry collections.

Oana Avasilichioaei will read from Eight Track, Danielle LaFrance from Just Like I Like It, and Nikki Reimer from My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan.

Saturday, November 16, 2019
6 p.m.
Librairie Le Port de tête
262, avenue du Mont-Royal Est
Montréal, Québec
Canada H2T 1P5

M.A.C. Farrant will be reading with Pauline Holdstock as part of the Sidney Litfest. More info here.

Check out The Great Happiness, M.A.C. Farrant’s newest book of stories, here.

November 22, 2019
7 p.m.
Shoal Centre
10030 Resthaven Drive
Sidney, B.C.

Cottagers and Indians takes a sincere and pragmatic look at the current conflicts between First Nations traditional water usage and property owners in cottage country who are looking to enjoy an undisturbed summer getaway. Written by Drew Hayden Taylor, an award-winning playwright, journalist, novelist and filmmaker, Cottagers and Indians had a successful debut at Tarragon Theatre in 2017. More info here.

November 26 to December 15, 2019
at the Great Canadian Theatre Company
300–1227 Wellington Street West
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1Y 0G7

“A deft touch for mixing comedy and commentary in an entertaining all-Canadian form of social satire.“—Vancouver Sun

Morris Panych’s The Shoplifters stars Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over some lousy seniors’ day deal. But it’s not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime – it’s also her strong convictions about social justice and economic equality. More information here.

January 15 to 25, 2020
at Main Stage at Surrey Arts Centre
13750 88 Avenue
Surrey, BC

Mom’s the Word was created out of a Saturday morning writers’ support group. Getting together to share their experiences, six women performers struck upon the idea to write about what they were going through as mothers trying to maintain their careers, their individual identities and their relationships with their partners. The result is an evening of hilarious stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes. Touching tales of giving birth to a premature baby are balanced against comic, ribald rants on diaper soup; whispered, hesitant conversations about sex after children; and the desperate confessionals of the over-stressed.

More info here.

February 27 to March 8, 2020
Palace Theatre
710 Dundas Street
London, ON N5W 2Z4

Impromptu on Nuns’ Island
Comedy/Drama by Michael Tremblay, translated by Linda Gaboriou
Directed by Donna Challis

Synopsis: An opera diva, Patricia, meets her Waterloo singing Salome at the Opera Bastille in Paris.
In an impromptu get-together in her Nuns’ Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Europe, h
​er mother (a popular Montreal stage and television actress pushing 70), and her idealistic committed-to-new-work daughter goad her. What is the sense of an international career if your art doesn’t contribute to change (or at least to widespread pleasure and inspiration) in the society you live in?

March 24 to April 4, 2020
BCP Little Theatre
102 26th Street
Battleford SK

Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. Legoland is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the Lamb siblings are dying to get there.

More info here.

April 22 to May 9
The Bailey Studio
2373 Rosstown Road
PO Box 796,
Nanaimo, BC
V9R 5M2

Based on true events, Daisy is a political drama that presents the moment in TV history that ushered in the age of negative advertising and forever changed how we elect our leaders. It also tells the more cynical tale of how a nation got led into war, distracted by the “packaging” of a seemingly peaceful U.S. president. Daisy explores the art and science of political manipulation, the forces at play on public consciousness in our mediated world, and the impact that fear has had on our democracy.

April 29 to May 17, 2020
International City Theatre
330 E. Seaside Way
Long Beach, CA 90802