The Liars Club — a monthly talk show

Spizzy Spezzatura Jones is taking over The Liars Club!! This brand new edition of Sky Gilbert’s monthly event will feature new epic special guests every month, interviewed by the fabulous and unpredictable Spizzy.

February’s Liar’s Club will feature performance poet / painter / theatre critic David Bateman, and actor / painter Kirsten Johnson.

The Liar’s Club hosted by Spizzy Spezzatura Jones
Wednesday, February 28 at 7:00pm
The Imp – 123 Danforth Ave.
Free admission

David Bateman is a performance poet whose work has been presented internationally. He has taught creative writing at various post-secondary institutions across the country. His four collections of poetry were published by Frontenac House Press (Calgary) from 2005 to 2014. His collaborative long poem with Hiromi Goto was shortlisted for the Relit Award in 2010 and his first collection of poetry, Invisible Foreground, was nominated for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award in 2006. His first novel, DR SAD, published by University of Calgary Press in 2020, was a finalist in the LGBTQ+ INDIE Awards. A Mad Bent Diva, a collection of short stories and creative non-ficiton, was published by Hidden Brook Press (Brighton Ontario) in 2017.

Kirsten Johnson is an actor and painter who occasionally makes short films. She first worked with Sky Gilbert in the late 80s in dna theatre’s infamous 8 hour Hamlet where her Ophelia threw a tomato at his King Claudius. She last worked with him last fall where she played conjoined twins with her sister, Sigrid in his “Greg’s Cookies”. There was some stuff in between too.

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!