Mallo Nights - An Evening of Poetry and Dance

MALLO NIGHTS

The textures of dance, the music of poetry, and the intimacy of duets over wine, beer, and nocturnal spirits. These events highlight emerging/professional poets and dancers performing together for the first time in the intimate space of Mallo Coffee & Bar.

February 8th will feature poet Morgan Tessier with dancer Alli Carry and poet Peace Akintade-Oluwagebeye with dancer AJ Yuetong Li. Come mingle, meet some new people and enjoy some short performances by passionate artists.

Doors open at 8 pm and performances begin at 8:30 pm!!
Saturday February 8th at Mallo Coffee and Bar, 785 Bathurst Street.

Purchase your tickets here - $12
**We will be selling door tickets if tickets are available ** (CASH ONLY)

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Morgan Tessier is an artist & poet living in Tkaronto. She has based the majority of her art around poetry & collage, with an intentional focus on the soft-white internet underbelly of the human experience. Her work has been featured in Stone of Madness Press & QT Literary Magazine, and she is a regular performer/attendee at Probably Poetry & Undisciplined. She's currently interested in Instagram Reels, laundromats, and hot, rich women.

Alli Carry is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She is inspired to explore her artistry and produce work through the mediums of choreography, film, photography, and theatre. Alli celebrates collaboration as a pillar for her art practice and creates work through a feminist lens. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance Dance with distinction from TMU.

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye (she/her), Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwright, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Recipient of the RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the Platinum Jubilee Queen's Medal. The past 2020-2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laurate and 2022 READSaskatoon Poet Laureate, currently working as Poet-in-Residence with the Remai Modern Gallery, City of Saskatoon, and Persephone Theatre. And Co-organzing Write Out Loud, a Youth Poetry Collective. Other playwrighting credits include Maddeness with Rocks with Obsidian Theatre and CBCGem, Painted Elephant with Black Theatre Workshop AMP, I Am Who I Am with SUMTheatre's First Monday, But First Let Me Breathe with Theatre on the Beat. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world.

AJ Yuetong Li (she/they) is a 1st generation Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC with focus on street dance and freestyle practicing. AJ has been working on different interpretations of different sounds and layers in music, with the context of hiphop freestyle movements. AJ has also been exploring her self identity as an East Asian living in a western world, using the music and culture she bases her dance off. It's a long and wild journey and welcome to the ride :)
Thank you to our generous sponsors Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, National Arts Center, Canadian Heritage and Ontario Arts Council.

Photos by Marine Oh

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