Thank You For Asking (Ottawa) - Brandon Wint ft. MayaSpoken & Amanda Lowe W

Name: Thank You For Asking (Ottawa) - Brandon Wint ft. MayaSpoken & Amanda Lowe W
Start: 2025-09-05T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-05T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2, Canada

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

2 Daly Ave, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2, Canada | Ottawa, ON

THANK YOU FOR ASKING celebrates and showcases poetic curiosity through experimental short films, music and dialogue between artists.
This new series of short films by Optical Collusion—a multimedia collective (Brandon Wint, Noah Lefevre, Brian Raine)—features the voices and visions of some of the country’s most compelling writers, including Sanna Wani, Hari Alluri, Erin Soros, Simone Dalton, and Shazia Hafiz Ramji
The event includes a screening of two episodes from the series, along with Moving For Love, a short film by Brandon Wint, a wide-ranging conversation with MayaSpoken and musical guest Amanda Lowe W.
Join Brandon Wint, Urban Legends, and friends for a warm, thoughtful, and expansive evening of poetics through cinema, music and conversation.
😷 FACE MASKS REQUIRED
📅 Fri, Sept. 5th
📍 Arts Court Theatre
⏰ Doors 6:30 | Show 7:00
💵 Pay-What-You-Decide (suggested donation: $15)
67 Nicholas is the accessible entrance for Arts Court. Then take elevator B to Level 3, and the theatre is to the right.
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Thank You For Asking
Powerful artistry is almost never an outcome of certainty, rather, it is a matter of approaching curiosity and mystery with humility, sincerity and courage. In that spirit Thank You For Asking is an event that celebrates and showcases poetic curiosity through experimental short films, music and dialogue between artists.
Thank You For Asking is the name of a new series of experimental short films by Optical Collusion -- a multimedia artists collective comprised of Brandon Wint, Noah Lefevre and Brian Raine --- which features the voices and ideas of some of the country's most profound writers, including Sanna Wani, Hari Alluri, Erin Soros, Simone Dalton and Shazia Hafiz Ramji. In addition to showcasing two episodes from the series, this event will also screen Brandon Wint's short film Moving For Love, and a wide-ranging conversation with Maya Spoken.
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Brandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet, spoken word artist, educator and filmmaker based in western Canada. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet, having shared his work all over Canada, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States, Australia, Jamaica, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon is ever-grateful for the power of poetry as a spiritual technology and social force. He is devoted to using poetry as a tool for refining his sense of justice, love, and intimacy. Brandon Wint's poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan, Event Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Black Writers Matter, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. In recent years, his films have screened at DOXA documentary film festival and Reelworld Film Festival and as part of Vancouver International Film Festival's VIFF Live!