Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) 10th Anniversary

Featured poets: Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony & Hollay Ghadery

+ Open Mic for poetry in any language

Host: Bänoo Zan

Time: Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Place: Main Hall, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7

This is an in-person event.

Open Mic Sign-up: 6:30 PM EST at the venue

Show   7-10 PM EST
Admission: $15-20 Cash at the door

There is an ATM machine at the venue.

Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony is an award winning artist, curator, arts educator and creative consultant.  Her high level accomplishments include being featured in When Sisters Speak, co-curating Scarborough: The Backbone as part of Toronto’s Year of Public Art, co-producing the Spoken Soul Festival, and representing Toronto as a 2x national team finalist in the Canadian Festival Of Spoken Word. In 2019 she was a TEDx speaker and in 2020 an excerpt of her play How Jab Jab Saved the Pretty Mas was featured as part of Piece of Mine’s Black Women in Theatre Festival. Her work and leadership in the community sector was recognized as she was the recipient of the Toronto Community Foundation Vital People Award and again when she was recognized as one of 150 Black Women Making Herstory (as featured on CBC) for her contribution to building the arts scene in Toronto.

www.paulinaokieffe.com         

Hollay Ghadery is an Iranian-Canadian writer living in Ontario. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions (2021) and is a finalist for The Canadian Bookclub Awards. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, came out Radiant Press in 2023 and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, is scheduled for release with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Hollay is a poetry editor with long con magazine, and the Fiction Editor of untethered. She is also the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.

www.hollayghadery.com

www.riverstreetwriting.com

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Facebook: @Hollay Ghadery-Writer

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