The Liars Club — a FREE monthly talk show & reading series

Sky Gilbert is pleased to announce the Winter 2024 launch of the new and improved Liars Club! Throughout 2023, Sky hosted this free writer’s open mic as his drag alter ego Jane at The Imp on the Danforth – the last Wednesday of every month. It’s been a huge success. Jane is going on vacation for awhile, but The Liars Club will continue with a new host – introducing Sky’s new alter ego Spizzy!!

‘Spizzy Spezzature Jones at The Liar’s Club!’
Wednesday, January 31st at 7:00pm
The Imp – 123 Danforth Ave.
Free admission as usual

The Liars Club will now be in two parts; Spizzy will host a new talk show followed by the open mic hosted by award winning poet Paul Edward Costa.

The first incarnation of Spizzy’s talk show will feature two celebrity writer guests — stage, film, and television writer Hope Thompson; and poet, writer, legendary Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and queer icon Patricia Wilson — who will read from their work and be interviewed by the fabulous and unpredictable Spizzy. The talk show will run from 7:00-8:30pm (including intermission) and then at 9:00pm Paul Edward Costa will host The Liars Club open mic.

About Paul:
Paul Edward Costa is an award-winning poet, spoken word artist, and teacher. He is a former Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga, Ontario and has published many poems in journals such as DarkWinter Literary Magazine, The Drom Arts Collective Quarterly Magazine, Train: A Poetry Journal, and Blank Spaces Magazine. His book of poetry, The Long Train of Chaos was published by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His book of prose poetry and flash fiction, God Damned Avalon, was published by Mosaic Press. As a spoken word artist, Paul has featured at many poetry readings online and in-person across Canada and in the U.S such as Shab-e She’r, The Victoria Poetry Project, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the Oh!Sound Reading Series, and Port Veritas Poetry.

The Liars Club Manifesto:
Art is important because it is morally ambiguous. In this totally polarized culture –where we are alone, believing the various orthodoxies we find on our computers — each of us has come to imagine that we are are a crusader for what is right and what is wrong. WE NEED ART. Art offers no truth. It offers no answers; only questions, it shocks, upsets, and unsettles, and demands that we use our own minds and hearts to think, feel, explore undiscovered countries, and change our mind. Art is a LIE. This is why we need The Liars Club!