Hello and welcome! We are here once more with a roundup of a few stories from our neighbourhood that we wanted to make you aware of, it’s your Weekly WEP.
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Missed last weekends Save Ontario Place telethon? FRET NOT!
You can view the whole dang thing, all 8 hours, on Youtube!
The fight continues for the future of Ontario Place, make sure to follow the incredible work happening with Ontario Place For All.
The Tranzac New Year’s Eve party returns!
The evening will include several amazing performances and a tap take-over from our partners at Burdock.
Featuring The silt, Pursuit Grooves, The Burning Hell, New Chance & Shotgun Jimmie
with DJ SADSTAB
Tap takeover by Burdock Brewing
Sunday December 31st
8pm doors, 8:30pm show
Tranzac (292 Brunswick Av.)
$25 advance, $30 door
buy tickets HERE
Coming up at WEP Central
Poetry At The Phoenix returns for one last show this year on December 12th at WEP Central!
Our poets for this month; Jim Johnstone and Susan Glickman!
Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. His most recent books include a poetry collection, The King of Terrors (Coach House Books, 2023), and a book on micropress: Write, Print, Fold, and Staple (Gaspereau Press, 2023).
Susan Glickman writes, paints, gardens, and makes soup in Toronto, where she used to be an English professor, then a creative writing instructor at both Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto, and now works as a freelance editor. Her first novel, The Violin Lover (Goose Lane, 2006) won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction and was named one of the year’s best novels by The National Post. Her eighth book of poetry, Cathedral/Grove, is coming out in September 2023 from Signal Editions of Véhicule Press, back in her hometown of Montreal, who have also published all her previous collections, starting with Complicity in 1983.
We are blessed to be able to host poets of such immense talent at our lovely space at 3 Bartlett, we hope you’ll join us!
Doors open at 7:00 PM, show starts at 7:30! Tickets are Pay What You Can at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds!
All funds raised will be split between the poets and the house.
Please RSVP to reserve a seat as there is limited space available: hello@westendphoenix.com !