Naked Heart in Our First Year Is Absolutely Crucial
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nakedheart.ca Financial support for Naked Heart in our first year is absolutely crucial. How do we join a community we are not born into? We want to build a tradition that brings people together from across the North America, How do we nuture our desires? How do we turn pain into love? that compensates people for sharing their gifts with us, that has a broad marketing How do we find each other? How do we build a better future? outreach and that removes financial barriers so more people can participate. The answer for many of us is story. The organizations and people below have made the Festival possible this year. This list includes both financial and significant in-kind donations. What’s missing in our lesbian, gay, bi, trans, two-spirit and queer communities? We are deeply indebted to you and we look forward How do we create space for possibility? to many years of reciprocity, solidarity and love. Where do we listen to each other when we don’t feel heard? How do we circulate our own stories outside of industries owned and controlled by forces that use us for their own gain? FESTIVAL FAIRY GODPARENT FESTIVAL CATALYST Where can we build relationships and solidarity in the flesh? $2000 Donation $200 Donation The answer for us might be Naked Heart. Glad Day Bookshop Oasis Aqualounge Buddies In Bad Times David’s Tea You are an important part of this Festival created by Glad Day City Park Library Zipperz / Cell Block Bookshop and our allies. We hope you share our Festival vision Brad Pyne Design and our goals this year and that we can count on your support in the coming years. Your presence, your creativity, your openess FESTIVAL ALLY and your story is deeply appreciated. FESTIVAL SUPERSTAR $100 Donation $1000 Donation The Men’s Room OPSEU Rainbow Alliance Arc En Ciel Woody’s Let’s make a little history this weekend. Michael Erickson FESTIVAL CHAMPION YOUTH SUPPORTER Festival Coordinator, Naked Heart $500 Donation $95 Donation Co-owner, Glad Day Bookshop The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual University of Toronto Student’s Union Diversity Studies The Ryerson Student’s Union OUR VISION C & D Graphic Services FESTIVAL SUPPORTER To establish a yearly Canadian LGBTQ literary festival that UNITE HERE, Local 75 $50 Donation amplifies love, language & freedom. Jeffrey Round Susan Olding The Black Eagle OUR GOALS The Campaign to Elect Bill Morneau • Strengthen literacies and the literary community of LGBTQ people. EVENT SPONSOR • Create spaces for people to find new work, new opportunities, $250 Donation new friends and new lovers. Bold Strokes Books • Increase supports for underrepresented identities, experiences Plenitude Magazine and forms of language. The York Federation of Students • Build bridges between people of different generations and cultures in the LGBTQ community. presented by sponsored by • Use story as a catalyst to resist oppression, explore desire, increase love & heal trauma for anyone whose gender or sexual identity doesn’t fit society’s narrow limits and expectations. DESIGN BRAD PYNE BOOKSHOP 1 The clear choice for change SCHEDULEAt-a-glance PROGRAM TYPE VENUES PANELS: A panel is a group of GLAD DAY BOOKSHOP (GDB) speakers who discuss a topic with 598 Yonge Street a moderator and some audience 3rd Floor event space participation. BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES (BBT) WORKSHOPS: Our workshops 12 Alexander Street focus on building skills, insight and knowledge. They are often interactive CITY PARK LIBRARY (CPL) and are led by someone experienced 31 Alexander Street and skilled on their topic. Wheelchair access is through the apartment building READINGS: This is your classic literary event – it is a gathering DAVID’S TEA (DT) of writers reading brief selections 530 Church Street Driven. Tenacious. Compassionate. of their writing. There may be time for audience questions at the end. OPSEU HALL (OH) 31 Wellesley On October 19, let’s SPECIAL EVENTS: Social events, keynote talks & book launches. ZIPPERS (Z) elect Linda and make history 72 Carlton Street in Toronto Centre! YORKVILLE LIBRARY (YL) 22 Yorkville Ave 7:00 First Person Queer Love :15 Pleasure: :30 Non-fiction :45 T 16 T Sex Writing 8:00 Disrupting CPL OC GDB :15 Queer Inclusion :30 Book Launch (416) 657-2531// LindaMcQuaig.ca :45 9:00 BBT FRIDAY FRIDAY 9:30- netWERK! A Social Event at Buddies in Bad Times BBT 12:00 3 Paid for and authorized by the official agent for the candidate. 10:30 Out Loud! Bending the Writing as Indoor Voices 10:30 Workshop on Libel Hail Yeah Mary: In Our Voices: :45 Youth Conference Genres of Practice :45 with Marcus Exploring Faith in Writing Oral 11:00 Sci-Fi, Fantasy with Karishma 11:00 McCann & Queer Characters Histories with :15 :15 with Marnie Jackson Wright Free for youth & Thriller Kripalani HG Watson Shultz :30 14-22 BBT CPL YL :30 GDB Woodrow BBT CPL :45 :45 12:00 Must pre-register with 12:00 [email protected] Hyphens Introduction to 2 The Publisher Writing as Building The Contract Plentitude :15 & Hybrids Spirited Literature Speaks :15 Resistance intergenerational with lawyer Presents: :30 with Giles :30 Bridges Sheetal Nanda :45 Benaway :45 1:00 BBT CPL YL 1:00 GDB BBT CPL DT :15 :15 :30 LUNCH BREAK :30 LUNCH BREAK :45 :45 2:00 Alex Sanchez: Pitch Perfect Shewriteshe 2:00 Self-publishing Spectrums of To Print or Readme :15 Identity, Inspiration with Jeffrey Round :15 —The Hope and Sanity—Mental to Post? with Trevor :30 & Impact :30 the Horror Health & the Campbell :45 :45 Writer 3:00 BBT CPL DT 3:00 GDB BBT CPL OH :15 :15 T 17 T :30 18 T :30 Indigenous Get the Word Out! IN:VERSE Swell: Feeding & Freeing Like it is: Non- Volcano Farming OC GDB Hungry Ghosts: In :45 Dreaming with Farzana Poetry Queer :45 fiction & Memoir with David 4:00 & Tea Erotic OC 4:00 Deep with Shyam Writing Benjamin Fantastic Worlds Doctor Selvadurai :15 Readings :15 Tomlinson :30 BBT CPL DT Z :30 BBT CPL OH :45 GDB :45 5:00 UNDAY 5:00 ATURDAY ATURDAY :15 S :15 S Hardcore Hearts The Crucible Howling Against My Inspirations Too True Owena Navigating :30 of Trauma Assimilation :30 Ohne:Ka: A the Publishing :45 :45 Water Writing Industry 6:00 6:00 Workshop :15 :15 :30 GDB BBT CPL :30 GDB BBT CPL OH :45 :45 7:00 7:00 Write Like You Grit Lit : Blackness Mixed Messages Loudspeaker Writing From the :15 Mean It Writers Read in Books :15 Heart :30 :30 :45 BBT :45 8:00 8:00 :15 :15 GDB BBT CPL GDB :30 CPL :45 8:30- 9:00 11:30 Denouement A Festival Closing Party at Buddies In Bad Times BBT :15 BBT :30 Panels GDB Glad Day Bookshop DT David’s Tea Readings BBT Buddies in Bad Times OHOpseu Hall Workshops CPL City Park Library Z Zippers Special Events YL Yorkville Library 4 5 ALEX SANCHEZ is the author of the teen novels Boyfriends with Girlfriends, Bait, The God Box, Getting It, Rainbow Boys, Rainbow High, and Rainbow Road, as well as the Lambda Award–winning middle-grade novel So Hard to Say. Lambda Literary Foundation honored Alex with an Outstanding Mid- AUTHOR Career Novelists’ Prize. www.alexsanchez.com AMBER DAWN lives on unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples (Vancouver). Her How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir won the 2013 Vancouver Book Award. She is author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, and editor of the Bios anthologies Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With A Rough Tongue. Her newest book, Where the words end and my body begins, is a collection of glosa poems. ADAM GARNET JONES’ films tell sensitive stories that ANDREW MORRISON-GURZA is the Founder/Co-Director touch on little-seen experiences in the Aboriginal and Queer of Deliciously Disabled Consulting, where he strives to make communities. Also a television writer, he wrote scripts for the disability accessible to everyone within pop culture and series “Cashing In” and “Mohawk Girls.” His first dramatic intersectional communities. His written work has been highlighted feature, Fire Song, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International in Out Magazine, The Advocate, Huffington Post and The Good Film Festival. The script won the Jim Burt Screenwriting Prize. Men Project, where he candidly discusses the realities of sex and disability as a Queer Cripple. AKHAJI ZAKIYA is an award-winning writer. Her first BEN LADOUCEUR is a writer originally from Ottawa, collection, Inside Her, introduces readers to the steamy lives now based in Toronto. His work has been featured in Arc, of Jaka, Nina, Tashi, Sean and friends. Akahji is also the creative The Malahat Review, PRISM international and The Walrus, force behind Write On!, a monthly open-mic night. Based in and in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology. He was awarded Toronto and NYC, her roots extend from West Africa to Barbados. the Earle Birney Poetry Prize in 2013. Watch for her first novel in fall of 2015. http://benladouceur.com/ ALEX CAFARELLI is a genderqueer femme Jewish Witch BRAD FRASER is one of Canada’s best known playwrights, writer and performer who has performed with Body Heat in addition to being a director for stage and film, a talk show Femme Porn Tour, Heels on Wheels Roadshow, Nomy Lamm host and wearing many other hats. Born in Edmonton, Alberta and Sins Invalid. She co-founded the Minneapolis-based Sex in 1959, Brad won his first playwritings competition at the age Magick performance troupe, the Psycick Slutz. Alex has been of 17 and has been writing ever since.