Variety Show: Music, Book Launch, & Live Art

Variety Show: Music, Book Launch, & Live Art

Sunday, September 22, 2024

At

Unit 2

163 Sterling Rd, Toronto, ON M6R 2B2

Doors 2pm

Show 3pm

Over by 6pm at the latest

Tickets $20, or use ticket code "PWYC" to get a free ticket and pay what you want at the door.

Access:

Ramp is available, door frames are 33” wide. Washroom is accessible, grab bar installed near toilet. An accessibility overview and complete accessibility audit are available. Masks are required and will be provided. There will be a HEPA filter running. Unit 2 is not a scent-free space, but attendees are asked not to wear scented products.

Performers:

Rae Spoon is a musician, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author. They have released twelve solo albums (Coax Records) spanning folk, country, indie rock, and electronic genres and published three books (Arsenal Pulp Press). Rae has been nominated for two Polaris Prizes, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Western Canadian Music Award. They have toured internationally (Canada, Europe, the USA, Australia, China). Rae is a non-binary, trans artist who lives with multiple disabilities. Their most recent album, Not Dead Yet (2023), was written about their lived experience of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and complications.

Rae Spoon is an uninvited guest and settler with European ancestry on stolen land. They were born and grew up on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkínsstsisi/Calgary (the traditional and ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai, Piikani and Siksika as well as the Tsuu T'ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Nation). Rae currently lives between Tkoronto/Toronto (the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples) and Tiohtià:ke/Montréal (the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation).

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Theodore Walker Robinson is a Toronto-based nonbinary singer whose voice crosses multiple genres from jazz to contemporary hard rock. Their emotive vocals drive vivid storytelling and performances that command a room.

Gem Hall is an itinerant interdisciplinary artist of mixed Romani/British heritage currently based on the traditional, unceded land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Gem is interested in creative work as a means of survival & point of relation, as well as a language to express stories & songs of love, grief, beauty, longing, cultural connection, gratitude, displacement, sanctuary, fugue, healing, failure, celebration & the magic of storytelling & witnessing. With a background in DIY/zine culture & queer & trans community organizing, they work with illustration, animation, textile work, writing, harp, tarot & plants to hold liminal spaces between worlds & ways of being.

Imogen Reid and Kat Rogue are the co-authors of , two books published back-to-back by Sheer Spite Press in a single volume for a double gut-punch of heartfelt, angry, and funny reflections on transfemme coming of age.

Tyler Reid, also known as Minor Gripe is an indie songwriter who blends raw emotional lyrics with gritty, guitar-driven soundscapes. Drawing on influences from post-punk to alternative rock and folk, their music captures a sense of urgency and introspection, delivering powerful, relatable anthems for the disillusioned and the hopeful alike.

Host or Publisher Rae Spoon