This month, July 16th is Tales of Minimum Wage! 8PM at The Ossington Queen West & Ossington

We all have one so come out and join us for some walks down memory lane. Brian Finch is hosting.

A few facts about Brian:

Has been telling his personal stories since the 1980s. He is a former of many things, activist, AIDS - STD Infoline co-ordinator oh the stories, make up artist, corporate trainer, to present present-day storytelling performer, and co-producer of Tales of

Our storytellers are:

Shannon McDonnough:

Shannon-actor, writer, comic, co-host of the world's most watched LGBT travel series BUMP, one half of the comedy duo The McComedy Show, most recently she was on an episode of Rookie Blue and hosted the Yonge and Dundas stage on World Pride Day.

Ted Morris:

Hes been called fresh faced and hilarious by NOW Magazine, and slightly ruder things by strangers in the street. Ted is a writer, producer and all around super guy. His TV appearances include 2 stand-up specials for Pridevision TV, The Toronto Show, The Comedy Networks Canadian Comedy Shorts, MuchMoreMusics Heat Meter and so much more. During the day he works as a veterinarian.

Lauren Mitchel

Lauren is a Toronto-based stand-up comedian who spends her days working in the glamorous world of academic publishing and her nights telling jokes to unsuspecting strangers. Do you want to know a weird fact about Drake? Lauren can probably help you with that. Other hire-able qualities include: snappy dresser, compassionate lover, proficient with Microsoft Office.

Elliot Allen:

Elliott is an aspiring storyteller and public speaker. He's performed at Raconteurs, Caplansky's and Confessions storytelling nights. He is currently talking to as many people as will let him about storytelling and speaking opportunities, but don't tell his boss at his construction job about it.

Katharine Ferns:

Katharine Ferns began her stand up career in Vancouver where she performed at the Comedy Mix, Lafflines and was part of the inaugural show of the new Yuk Yuks in the city. Now that Katharine has moved back to her hometown in Toronto, she has been developing her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy in the basement bars all over the city. Please come out as we are very sad that Katherine is leaving to London, UK. This will be your last chance to see her on our show.

Francis Brian Shaw

Francis Brian Shaw is a stand-up comedian and story-teller based in Toronto, Ontario. Originally born and raised on Vancouver Island, he first started performing stand-up at age 11 at local talent competitions before moving on to improv and sketch-writing at age 14. Since restarting in stand-up in 2009 and moving away from BC in 2011, Francis has been sharing his frantic, obtuse and occasionally heart-warming style of performance with audiences in Toronto and area. He also recently wrote, produced and performed his first hour-long one-man show, The Fancy Brain Show: Poorly Put Together as part of the 2014 London Fringe festival.

This is a pay what you can event.