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The Walrus Underground
Pages Books & Magazines presents This is Not A Reading Series
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Ever wish an award-winning magazine would take its content off the page and put it on the stage in an exciting evening of readings, conversation, and music? The Walrus is proud to join forces with The Drake Hotel, This Is Not A Reading Series and Pages Books & Magazines for the first installment of a new quarterly event, THE WALRUS UNDERGROUND. Poet and Walrus contributor DAMIAN ROGERS will serve as master of ceremonies, and will offer a reading. GREG KEELOR and JIM CUDDY of original Queen West legends BLUE RODEO will contribute songs. MARK KINGWELL will get the audience inside Barack Obama’s head, reading from his provocative essay in April’s Walrus, “All in the Game,” Canadian comics giant SETH, subject of a profile in the June issue, will talk on-stage with Walrus contributor NICK MOUNT. Author, musician, and playwright NICHOLAS HUNE-BROWN will present his piece “Searching for Loneliness,” and TRACK MEET DJs and contributors PAUL ISAACS and DAVE MORRIS will play music before and after the on-stage portion of the evening.
The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St West
Tues May 26; 8:30pm (Doors 8pm) Advance Tickets $10 (includes the June Issue of The Walrus) are NOW AVAILABLE at www.walrusmagazine.com/underground.
Walrus subscriptions will be offered at recession-friendly prices, and limited-edition Walrus merchandise will be available exclusively at The Walrus Underground.
Works by the evening’s participants will be available for purchase courtesy of Pages Books and Magazines.
DAMIAN ROGERS was born and raised in suburban Detroit. She lives and works as a writer in Toronto, where she founded the reading series Pontiac Quarterly that ran at the Drake Hotel from 2004-2007. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the The Walrus, Brick Magazine, Salt Hill, This Magazine, MoonLit, and Maisonneuve. Paper Radio, her first full-length poetry collection, Paper Radio, is due in October of this year from ECW Press.
JIM CUDDY and GREG KEELOR front iconic Canadian country rock band BLUE RODEO. Since the release of their debut album, Outskirts, in March 1987, Blue Rodeo has established themselves as one of the premiere bands in Canadian music history. Their eleventh studio album, Small Miracles, was released in the fall of 2007 on Warner Music in Canada and TeleSoul Records in the US. Over the course of their stellar career Blue Rodeo has released 11 studio albums, two live albums, a greatest hits collection and an award-winning DVD, selling in excess of four million copies around the world.
MARK KINGWELL is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a member of the Board of Directors of the Walrus Foundation, a contributor to The Walrus and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. He is the author of eleven books of political and cultural theory, among them the national bestsellers Better Living (1998); The World We Want (2000); and, most recently, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City (2008). His writing has appeared in diverse publications, including the Journal of Philosophy, the Harvard Design Magazine, the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, American Scholar, the New York Times, and the Globe and Mail. He is the recipient of the Spitz Prize for political theory, National Magazine Awards for both essays and columns, and an honorary doctorate from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design for contributions to theory and criticism. His next book, a collection of essays on art and philosophy called Opening Gambits, will appear this fall.
SETH is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville. His novels, which have been translated into 8 languages, include It’s a Good Life if you Don’t Weaken and Wimbledon Green. In 2007, Seth serialized the story George Sprott (1894-1975) in the New York Times Magazine and has expanded the story to appear as a standalone book in Spring 2009. Seth has exhibited throughout the world in a variety of group and solo shows. He was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and his artwork was also featured in a 2007 exhibition for the Phoenix Art Museum, and at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City in 2006. As an illustrator, Seth has produced commercial works for virtually all of the major Canadian and American magazines, including The Walrus. His work frequently appears inside and on the cover of The New Yorker. He is the subject of an upcoming National Film Board documentary.
NICK MOUNT is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he teaches and researches Canadian literature and cultural history, and aesthetics. He is the author of 2005’s When Canadian Literature Moved to New York, and his essay “On Hugh’s Watch” appears in the forthcoming July/August issue of The Walrus.
NICHOLAS HUNE-BROWN is a musician, playwright, and freelance writer whose work has been published in The Walrus, Toronto Life, Maisonneuve and other magazines. His musical comedy “The Lord of the Rings: The Musical: The Musical” was one of the hits of last year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, and his second musical comedy, "Just East of Broadway," will premiere at the Toronto Fringe Festival this July.
THE WALRUS launched in September of 2003 with a mandate to be a smart Canadian general-interest magazine with an international outlook. Published ten times a year, it features the best work by the best writers from Canada and elsewhere, on a wide range of topics for readers who are curious about the world. Since its inception, The Walrus has won more domestic and international awards than any other Canadian magazine. It is published by the non-profit charitable Walrus Foundation.
The Walrus Underground series is both a fundraiser for the Walrus Foundation, and an opportunity to spread the word about Canada's best magazine
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