FREE SPEECH is back with another evening of stories and song in the intimate setting at Tinto on Roncesvalles Ave, in Toronto, where owners Ricardo Rozental and Elvia Saenz are trying to create an arts and activism based community hub, rooted in fair trade and sustainability. This installment of the reading series features Emily Pohl-Weary, White Noise Machine and Lisa McGlade. Songwriter of the month is Frank Patrick.
If you’ve been to FREE SPEECH before you know that the room usually fills up quickly so if you want a seat.
Tinto, 89 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto
Tuesday, November 27, 7pm
Pay what you will
About the artists:
Award-winning author Emily Pohl-Weary has lived her entire life in west-end Toronto. Her most recent book is Strange Times at Western High, a young adult mystery novel featuring a zine-making sleuth. She’s written a book of poetry (Iron-on Constellations), a novel (A Girl Like Sugar), a four-issue comic (Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate), and co-written the Hugo Award-winning biography (Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril). In 2004, she toured North America with contributors to her female superhero anthology, Girls Who Bite Back. She also publishes Kiss Machine magazine. www.emilypohlweary.com
The White Noise Machine was designed and built in 1980 to act on one belief: that the most radical act possible is to attempt to state the obvious. Three-time hometown rep in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, current Toronto Poetry Slam semifinalist, and columnist for NOW Magazine (under the bizarre psuedonym “Mike Smith”), he’s read to and performed for audiences across Canada and the American Midwest. For more Noise, go to www.linebreaks.com
Lisa McGlade grew up in Ottawa and has been writing since the age of twelve. Her short story “The New Wives” was recently featured in the online publication Raise the Hammer. She is currently working on a novel and works for the Royal Conservatory of Music to pay for her writing habit. Lisa has lived in Parkdale for six of her ten Toronto years - right now she’s on Dowling - and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the city. She likes the feeling of cycling home from work, turning off Brock and thinking “Ah, I am home.”
Frank Patrick is a songwriter, poet, musician and vocalist who has toured Canada, the US and Europe over the past three and a half decades. He has shared the stage with countless artists including Buffy St. Marie, Cyril Neville (Neville Brothers), Jonathan Best (David Byrne) and Dr. Timothy Leary (!).www.frankpatrickmusic.com
About the organizers:
Johan Hultqvist is an activist and the lead singer of JUNO-nominated Afrobeat collective Mr. Something Something. He’s lived in at least half a dozen different places on both sides of Roncesvalles and loves his neighbourhood so much that he leaves it only to go on tour.
Eden Arabella is a proud Parkdalian. She divides her time between running New Moon Kitchen, writing tales of her life, and singer-songwritering.
Tinto carries a selection of beers from local brewer Mill Street and offers a choice of Red Chilean and White Argentinean wines, along with a menu of Latin American flavoured Fair Trade/Organic goodies.
