Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LIX

Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LIX

Toronto’s most diverse poetry reading and open mic series

At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity to happen: we actively invite it.

Please spread the word through social media and any other way you know. Let our event become as diverse as we are.

Featured poets: Canisia Lubrin and David C. Brydges

Host: Bänoo Zan

Time: Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Place: Church of St. Stephen in-the-Fields, 365 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2N8

Doors open 6:15 p.m.

Open-mic sign-up 6:30 p.m.

Show 7 p.m.

Admission: $5

Canisia Lubrin is a writer, critic, teacher, community arts administrator. Find her work in journals, anthologies, on TV, radio and stage, including Room Magazine, The Puritan, The Rusty Toque, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Unpublished City, Globe & Mail, Lemonhound, The Capilano Review, Cordite Poetry Review, CBC, TVO among others. Lubrin was named to CBC’s 2017 list of 150 exemplary Black Women Canada and is currently a Poetry in Voice poet in residence. She’s an editor at Humber Literary Review, an advisor to Open Book Ontario, and Consulting Editor for Buckrider Books/Wolsak & Wynn. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and is the author of Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) and augur (Gap Riot Press, 2017).

@canisialu (twitter)

@canis.lubrin (instagram)

David C. Brydges is a League of Canadian Poets member, Ontario Poetry Society branch manager Cobalt, artistic director of Northern Ontario’s Spring Pulse Poetry Festival, organizer of Ontario’s first painting/poetry competition called PoeARTry North. David is an event planner, cultural entrepreneur, and recent coordinator for the 9-day Wild West Poetry Festival adventure.

Links www.springpulsepoetryfestival.com and www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca

Both Shab-e She’r and St-Stephen-in-the Fields strongly support freedom of expression and encourage our features and open-mic’ers to use any language they wish.

This event is partially sponsored by St-Stephen-in-the Fields Church.

St-Stephen-in-the Fields accessibility information:

The venue has a wheelchair ramp entrance and is all on one level; however, the wheelchair ramp door does not yet have a pushbutton, so someone needs to hold the door open. There is one fully barrier-free washroom.

All washrooms are gender-neutral.

Twitter: @BanooZan & @ShabeSherTO

Instagram: @banoo.zan