open.mic.night.1 ft. nate nate nainers

Schedule

Mon Nov 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

436 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T5, Canada | Vancouver, BC

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Calling all poets who love clowns, clowns who love poets, and church defectors who love Sunday mornings now!
Nate Nate Nainers is hitting DCTRL's stage with a 30 minute set of alternative poetry that reads like a jester disavowing evangelicalism to find a bizarre and more personal sense of divinity.
Featuring sets by:
Deirdre Morgan on jawharp
Goldbard Moonchild, Kier Gray, & Thom Frank as a choir
Nate Nate will read from their forthcoming book, "Smokin' Holy Spirits" (Galleon Books, Fall 2026). Always keen to celebrate at every opportunity, there will be a chocolate Costco cake to celebrate the good news!
Oh ho ho, you bet your tookers it's an open mic! So bring your poems, stories, clown turn, and more!
This will be a lovely night to meet other poets, ex-vangelicals, and lovers of the stranj, absurd, and surreal!
November 10, Monday
Doors 7:00
Show 7:30
by donation
***REVIEWS***
"Filled with humour, grace and the sensibilities of a giant socialist tortoise, Nate Nate Nainers brings to the stage and page a joy of words, an explorative understanding of their star-crossed upbringing and the many voices of rural British Columbia."
- Sean McGaraggle
"Be prepared to go on a verbally psychedelic journey that melds story time and lyrical spoken word in a way that only Nate Nate Nainers can create! An unforgettable experience!"
- Jenny Garcha
"A spectatcular show. Comedy, theatre, and raw emotion"
- Aaron Hunter
"A privilege to witness. Playful silliness, wild surrealism, naked honesty, and bold vulnerability. Nate holds out their radiant humanity with both power and tenderness in a way that invites you to encounter your own. Cosmic and grounding."
- Jon Affleck
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436 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T5, Canada

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