Recovering/Mainstage tomorrow!

As you can probably gather by the late-ish nature of this post, the Scream Gala was a very good time. Thanks so much to the Bidiniband for rocking us properly and to Hugh's Room for the usual awesome service.

If you've got children, make sure to bring them to today's Youth event. What’s old is new again — narrative hip hop music is a dynamic occurrence of a thriving oral literary tradition. Led by hip hop artist Paul Sackichand and professional storyteller Rico Rodriguez, this year’s youth event provides an opportunity to learn how to add suspense to your rhymes and rhythm to your stories. The event starts at 1PM at Wychwood barns.

Later in the afternoon, This Ain't the Rosedale Library is hosting Musique Concrète: The Hymn of the Typesetters. This Ain’t The Rosedale Library is the setting for an extended meditation on the relationship between music and print. Join a series of surprise guests as they comb through the world of librettos and lyric sheets, ballads and concrete poems in a search for the musica universalis in the pages of a book. Long may it live. Be there at 4PM to catch all the goodness.

Tomorrow is, of course the BIG day. It's the Scream in High Park! To kick things off Bill Kennedy will be on the CBC very very early in the morning (hopefully well have a streamed version later). Then, bring a blanket and some picnic food to the Dream stage at High Park for 7PM for a fantastic night of poetry under the stars. Readers are:

Oana Avasilichioaei
Wakefield Brewster
Margaret Christakos
Peter Culley
Jeramy Dodds
Paul Dutton and Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Lisa Foad
Susan Holbrook
Ryan Kamstra
Shani Mootoo
Andrew Pyper
Adam Sol

A tremendous lineup! Tickets are PWYC, $10 suggested. Hope to see you there!