FREE SPEECH turns two on January 26
Dear friends,
Since January 2007, I (Johan) have curated and hosted a reading series/neighbourhood cabaret called FREE SPEECH in Toronto’s West End. The series proudly showcases the prose, poetry, spoken word, comedy, storytelling and songwriting of Parkdale-High Park based writers and performers. FREE SPEECH has featured some of the country’s finest writers, actors and musicians including Michael Winter, Justin Rutledge, Bob Wiseman, Mary Jo Leddy, Shyam Selvadurai, Carl Wilson, Claire Jenkins, Ray Robertson and Elizabeth Shepherd.”
FREE SPEECH celebrates its second anniversary on Monday, January 26 when the 2009 season kicks off with four exciting wordsmiths, including soulful singer-songwriter Brian MacMillan and multi-talented storyteller Eden Hertzog who helped kick off the series two years ago. Also featured is theatre artist and community organizer Lisa Marie DiLiberto and writer/scholar Terry Goldie.
Monday Jan 26, 7pm. Show starts at 7:30 sharp. PWYC.
Tinto (89 Roncesvalles)
About the artists:
Lisa Marie DiLiberto is an actor and the Artistic Director of
FIXT POINT THEATRE. Her most recent training has been in mask, vaudeville, character and clown at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, an international school of physical theatre in Paris. FIXT POINT THEATRE has a home studio in Parkdale, Toronto but has toured original work across Canada and Europe. Lisa Marie is
the Associate Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre and the Artistic Director of Arts4All at Toronto’s Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre.
FIXT POINT’s newest piece
THE TALE OF A TOWN is currently in development and will be produced in August 2009 in The Studio.
www.fixtpoint.com
Terry Goldie is the author of the memoir queersexlife (Arsenal Pulp Press) and the editor of the anthology In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context (Arsenal Pulp Press). His other books include Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction (Broadview 2003), and Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill-Queen’s, 1989). He is a professor of English at York University in Toronto, where he teaches Canadian and postcolonial literature with particular interest in gay studies and literary theory.
Eden Hertzog is a multi-disciplinary artist; entrepreneur, musician, and writer. Eden released her first CD of original music “Come Fall” in Autumn of 2008. She is a writer of poetic prose and creative non-fiction, and is currently working on her first book. Her day job is the running of New Moon Kitchen, a gourmet all-natural cookie company she started up at the age of 19. Oh – and she has been a parkdalian for 14 years now.
Brian MacMillan is a Toronto based musician currently working on a follow up to his 2006 release, “Let the Darkness Go.” Songs full of hope and celebration, coupled with Brian’s keen observations of the human condition, always leave the listener inspired. His music was aptly described as “very human” by Garth Hudson of The Band. Brian’s sophomore album “Shine”, will be released in May.
Dear friends, 
