WE NEED YOUR HELP to make this event happen! If you haven’t already seen or shared our Kickstarter, check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644643371/reverb-a-queer-reading-series
***FEATURING***
JEN SUNGSHINE
Jen Sungshine speaks for a living but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer artist-activist she facilitates with creativity and social justice media to evolutionize and revolutionize youth education in the classrooms and beyond through Out in Schools. Her artistic practice involves unlearning while learning and learning while unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in – to make artful social change with her through the language of love and nerdy codes. She is very wordy.
KARA SIEVEWRIGHT
Kara Sievewright is a writer, artist and designer who creates comics, websites, prints, and posters. She has published comics and illustrations in many magazines and anthologies including Plenitude, Descant, filling Station, carte blanche, Briarpatch, and Certain Days: Political Prisoners Calendar. She lives on Haida Gwaii and is working on a graphic novel. You can see more of her work on www.makerofnets.ca
PRAGYA SHARMA
ZAIN MEGHJI
LADAN SAHRAEI
Alex Leslie has published a collection of short stories, People Who Disappear, which was shortlisted for a 2013 Lambda Award, a chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects for the New World, and a collection of prose poems The things I heard about you, published last fall by Nightwood. Alex’s poetry is included in Best Canadian Poetry In English 2014 published by Tightrope Books. Alex edited the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead magazine and is currently working on a collection of stories entitled We All Need To Eat. Alex was born and has lived their life on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
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Doors at 7 PM; show at 7:30 PM sharp. We’re asking for a dollar at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. There will be some seriously great stuff to buy at our merch table, so bring your bucks if you can!
We’re going to have some great stuff to give away as well, so don’t forget to enter our draw in the hat on your way in the door!
***ACCESSIBILITY INFO***
ASL Interpretation Provided.
There will two active listeners available if people need to check in with someone throughout the event.
For Gallery Gachet:
front door: 5 feet width
front door step: 6 inch height (but we have a ramp)
ramp: 31 inch width
washroom door: 33 inch width
toilet: 10 inch clearance on left side
14″ inch clearance in front to sink
There is an all genders washroom.
Gallery Gachet is an art gallery and as such may have some chemicals present that some maybe be sensitive to including paints, pottery glazes, or other art supplies. In order to create a space where folks with multiple chemical sensitivities can participate, please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented products (including essential oils) and smoke far away from the entrance to the space. We do clear out the space with an air purifier prior to the event. For info on how to support folks with multiple chemical sensitivities, visit: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html
For a full accessibility audit of Gallery Gachet, visit: http://radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/this-audit-of-gallery-gachet-was-performed-on/
We provide snacks! Including gluten-free and vegan options, and do not sell alcohol at the event.
If you’re attending and will need particularly comfortable seating, please let us know! We have a few comfy and large office chairs that we’re stoked to save for folks who need that kind of seating, so if that’s you, please message or email us with your name so that we can be sure you’ll be comfortable throughout the event (and please also show up early to make sure you get in the door!). If you would be made more comfortable by the addition of a cushion, please bring one with you — and if you don’t have one you can bring, let us know and we’ll do our best to rustle up something for you.
REVERB: A Queer Reading Series aims to support and showcase emerging and established LGBT2QI writers through a quarterly reading series with an anti-oppressive framework. We believe that writing is a radical act that can transform dominant narratives about whose lives and loves are important and valued, and that sharing that writing can empower, inspire and transform ourselves and our communities. We write and read on unceded Musqueam, S?wxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh land, and are committed to radical inclusion in our series, recognizing that access to the world of writing, literacy, and even queerness continues to be limited. As organizers, we endeavour to create a reading series where white-identified readers are always in the minority to ensure a space that centres the voices of Indigenous, Black, mixed writers and all writers of colour. All our writers self-identify on a spectrum of queerness that centres trans* and femme experiences. All of our events are held in physically and financially accessible spaces, and with every event, we make at least one change to ensure that REVERB becomes more and more accessible. We promise to do all we can to create a safer space — bring your suggestions! Check your assumptions at the door; REVERB is a body-positive, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and hella queer- and trans-positive event.
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