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{latest update}January 11 , 2010
Tuesday, January 26
Doors at 7pm. Show at 7:30 sharp. PWYC.
FREE SPEECH turns three on January 26!
Since January 2007, West End literary salon FREE SPEECH has proudly been showcasing the prose, poetry, spoken word, comedy, storytelling and songwriting of Parkdale-High Park based writers and performers. For more info about FREE SPEECH see this recent article in The Toronto Star.
FREE SPEECH celebrates its third anniversary on Tuesday, January 26 when the 2010 season kicks off with four fantastic wordsmiths. The first guests of the year are novelist Emily Schultz, comedian Rachelle Elie and poet/playwright Shaista Justin. Songwriter of the month is the inimitable Bob Wiseman. As usual, FREE SPEECH is hosted and curated by Johan Hultqvist.
About the artists:
About the host:
Emily Schultz is the author of a novel, Joyland, and a collection of poetry, Songs for the Dancing Chicken, which was named a finalist for the 2008 Trillium Prize for Poetry. Her newest novel, Heaven Is Small, released from House of Anansi Press in May 2009 to widespread critical acclaim. She is co-founder of the online fiction magazine Joyland.ca.
Shaista Justin is a poet, playwright, and screenwriter. Within the past year, Justin launched her book of poetry, “Winter: The Unwelcome Visitor” (endorsed by Nobel laureate JM Coetzee) which explores her fascination with colonization and the contemporary manifestations of historical tragedies; she wrote and produced a post-apocalyptic vision of the near future, “Love and Human Extinction” for the Toronto Fringe Festival; and is currently producing a short film she wrote about the changing landscape of desire made illicit through technology in “Swan Asleep” for TIFF. She has previously published in “The Fiddlehead”, “New Contrast”, and “Room Magazine”. She has produced for Clay and Paper Theatre, and performed and written for Company of Sirens Theatre. She lives in Toronto with her husband and children and occasionally finds time to work on her novel in progress: “The Journal of Yaren Bahareen”.
Rachelle Elie is a writer, performer and comedian who has been showcased on The Comedy Network and The Women's Television Network, and toured all across Canada, USA and Australia. From 2006 to 2008 Rachelle has toured her latest comedy creation JOE: The Perfect Man to 8 Canadian cities. JOE is a synthesis of Rachelle’s experience and training in theatre, stand-up, clown and bouffon, and the piece was directed by Adam Lazarus (Appetite). In 2008, Rachelle won an Outstanding Comedy Award at The Ottawa Fringe Festival for her performance in JOE: The Perfect Man.
www.crowningmonkey.com
Bob Wiseman accompanies home-made art films with cute, funny or dramatic songs played on guitar, accordion and casio. An innovative and avant guard artist and activist, he bravely explores art with the deepest creative and political intent, and has been involved in seminal creative Canadian endeavors. An original member of Blue Rodeo and The Hidden Cameras, he has produced Ron Sexsmith, collaborated with Kids in the Hall, and been a live guest with Wilco, The Wallflowers and countless other artists. In 2009, Wiseman opened for Feist on her European tour and this year he will be touring Europe as well as taking his theatre production Actionable to Fringe Festivals throughout Canada.
www.bobwiseman.ca
Johan Hultqvist is a performer, activist, community organizer and the lead singer of JUNO-nominated Afrobeat collective Mr. Something Something. He is also the co-creator, host and curator of the proudly Parkdalian literary salon Free Speech.
