Upcoming Events
Updated: Jul 13
Art Bar takes place every Monday*
at 7 PM at Free Times Cafe (320 College St., Toronto).
Enjoy multiple features, and perform on the open mic.
Cover $10.00 (Cash)
*Closed for holidays
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Date: July 17, 2023
Features:
Chris Pannell’s A Nervous City (2013) won the Kerry Schooley Book Award from the Hamilton Arts Council. In 2010, his book Drive (2009) won the Acorn-Plantos Award for Peoples Poetry and the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry. From 1993 to 2005 he ran the new writing workshop and published two anthologies of work by that group. He is a former board member of the gritLIT Literary Festival and a former DARTS bus driver. He hosts and helps organize the monthly Hamilton reading series Lit Live. His latest book of poetry – Love, Despite the Ache (2016) – won the 2017 Literary Award for Poetry from the Hamilton Arts Council.
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Ayomide Bayowa is an award-winning Nigerian Canadian poet, actor and filmmaker. He holds a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from the University of Toronto and is the (2021–24) poet laureate of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He has appeared in a long list of literary magazines, including Windsor Review, Kalahari Review, IceFloe Press, Barren Magazine, Agbowó, Guesthouse, Stone of Madness Press, Ampersand Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Offing and Beyond Words Literary Magazine. He is the editor-in-chief of Echelon Poetry and currently reads poetry for Adroit Journal.
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J.B. Stone (he/they) is a Neurodivergent/Autistic slam poet, writer, critic, and editor from Brooklyn, NY now residing in Buffalo, NY. They serve as EIC/Reviews Editor at Variety Pack. He is also the author of three chapbooks including, Fireflies And Hand Grenades (Bottlecap Press 2022). Their work has appeared in Hamilton Arts & Letters Magazine, Peach Mag, The Buffalo News, Noctua Review, Atticus Review, Chicago Review of Books, among other spaces. J.B. has performed and competed everywhere from Aukland, NZ to venues all-across Western NY. He recently represented Buffalo, NY as part of Pure Ink Poetry at the 2022 Southern Fried Poetry Slam in Louisville, KY, and will once again be representing Buffalo at the 2023 Southern Fried Poetry Slam in Knoxville, TN. They are currently the reigning Pure Ink Poetry Slam Champion in Buffalo, and has won multiple tag-team slam poetry bouts alongside TPS winner, Brandon Williamson.
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Date: July 24, 2023
Features: Fira Astrali, Aneglic Goldsky and Kevin Lee
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Date: July 31, 2023
Features: Devon Gallant, Willow Loveday Little and Fannon Holland
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Date: August 14, 2023
Features: Guy Elston, Silvia Felsaperia and Emma Rhodes
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Date: August 21, 2023
Features: Khaleefa Hamadan, David Bateman and Robyn Kaur Sidhu
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Date: August 28, 2023
Features: Lindsay Soberan, Robin Harvey and Layla Roche
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Date: September 11, 2023
Features: Poets from Anstruther
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Date: September 18, 2023
Features: George Elliot Clarke, Jovan Shadd and Ashley C
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Date: September 25, 2023
Features: Susie Whelehan, Susan McMaster and Marty Gervais
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Date: September 30, 2023
Features: Frances Boyle, Tanis MacDonald, and Tyler Pennock
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Date: October 16, 2023
Features: Megan Hutton, Kate Marshall Flaherty, and Donna Langevin
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Date: October 23, 2023
Features: Qurat Dar, Anna Yin, and Josie Di Scasio
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Date: October 30, 2023
Features: Anuja Varghese, Keith Garebian, and Andrew Brobyn
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Date: November 6, 2023
Features: Bruce Meyer, Bruce Hunter, and Lynn Tait
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Date: November 13, 2023
Features: Lee Parpart, David Epstein, and Dane Swan
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Date: November 20, 2023
Features: Diana Manole, Stuart Ross, and Sonja Ruth Greckol
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Date: November 27, 2023
Features: Clara Blackwood, Elana Wolff, and Chris Song
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Date: December 4, 2023
Features: Sadiqa Demeijer, Banoo Zan, Maureen Hynes
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Date: December 11, 2023
Features: Armand Garnet Ruffo, Rob McLennan, and Jim Nason
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Date: December 18, 2023
Features: Zhomkonto, Pujita Verma, and Nancy Coombs