SECRET HANDSHAKE POETRY READING
doors open at 1:30 - refreshments served - pwyc by donation
PHILIP CAIRNS is an actor/writer/visual artist. He has had work published in Resistance Poetry 2, Labour of Love, Xtra! & The Body Politic. He has featured at Plasticine Poetry, A Space, The Beautiful and the Damned, Cabaret Noir, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto Pride and Lab Cab Festival. He won the Best Actor award at the London One Act Festival for The Judy Monologues.
DAN CURTIS THOMPSON
Dan Curtis Thompson is a stand up comedian and actor in Toronto who once played music with The Beetles... that live in his bed. He is very unhygienic.
In preparation for his one man show "Consonance: A Stand Up Dramedy", he will be performing a segment of that show. Please pay attention or at least smile and nod when he asks you how you think it went.
LIZZIE VIOLET
Writer, editor, poet, performer, horror know-it-all, Lizzie Violet is the dark little girl, with a crooked smile. A lover of all things creepy, including horror silent movies, she is also a well-known Zombiephile. She is currently working on a novel, a poetry manuscript, a play called Arsenic and Turmeric and a few of the current books she edited, Best New Werewolf Tales, Volume One and Fatty Goes To China Royston Tester can be found at Amazon.com. Her own writing can be found amongst some of Canadas finest literary magazines including Carousel, Nest and NorthWord.
Lizzie has featured at Pride, Nuit Blanche, Wonder Women IV, V and VI, Live Words, Plasticine Poetry Series, Handshake Gallery, The Beautiful & The Damned and WordSpell reading series and was part of the weeklong Wonderfest. Lizzie has her own monthly show called Lizzie Violets Cabaret Noir, co-produces/hosts Winter Wonderland at Hirut with Arlene Paculan and stars in The Redhead Revue along with Heather Babcock and Arlene Paculan . She can be regularly found hosting The Wonderfest Poetry Series at Habits Gastropub. Lizzie recently won The Best Originals at Hirut.
DUNCAN ARMSTRONG
TOpoet.ca http://topoet.ca fills the gap between form and content where he strives to give an objective presence to imaginary constructions of bourgeois or radical psychology. He embraces the realm of the superficial as a refusal of substance, which is culturally inscribed in heteronormative terms. As a poet, short-story writer & novelist he has hit stages from Sydney, Nova Scotia to San Francisco, California - in Toronto he has performed at HOWL, Cryptic Chatter, Hot-Sauced Words, Poetic Justice, Word Jam, The Art Bar, Word on the Street, Pride, Queer West Fest, Plasticine Poetry & The Beautiful and the Damned. His blog is read around the world.
For more information about Lizzie Violet, ironic anecdotes and upcoming listings, please check out her blog, lizzieviolet.wordpress.com.