Common Readings, the July Edition: Come for the Words and the Wine!

Events, Literature

Common Readings is an exciting literary reading series hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.

Join us on Monday, July 23rd at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Al Moritz, Nyla Matuk, Jeff Latosik who will all be reading from their recent works.

Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm. 

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AL F. MORITZ has written more than twenty books of poetry, and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection The Sentinel won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year. His most recent collection is Sequence. He lives in Toronto. www.afmortiz.com

NYLA MATUK is the author of two collections: Sumptuary Laws (2012) and Stranger (2016), and a chapbook, Oneiric (2009). Her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including The New Yorker, Poetry, PN Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries, and The Literary Review of Canada. This winter she was the 2018 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence at McGill University. Her work has been nominated for the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. www.nylamatuk.ca

JEFF LATOSIK’s third full-length collection of poetry, Dreampad, was released in Spring of 2018. He is also the author of Helium Ear, a chapbook from Anstruther Press. He’s the former poetry editor of the Humber Literary Review and is a current Collective Member of InkWell Workshops.

Common Readings aims to create an environment that supports all aspects of diversity within the Toronto literary community and beyond. This literary reading series creates a forum where both emerging and established writers can be exposed to new work from those at differing stages of their career. Every Common Readings is an opportunity for a variety of voices to interact in order to establish artistic and community dialogue.

For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.

Common Readings Literary Reading Series runs at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday.

Museum Closed Sept 1 – Sept 14

News

Please note that the museum will be closed Sept 1 – Sept 3 for Labour Day weekend.

This is also our fourth year to join TIFF celebrations, as part of Mongrel Media’s annual takeover. The museum will be closed for the public during this time, Sept 4 – Sept 14.

We will resume our regular business hours on Saturday, September 15.

If you have any questions about our hours or concerns about the noise during this time, please do not hesitate to contact us at 416-597-0227 x2 or info@campbellhousemuseum.ca

Happy TIFF!

The 6th Degree: Interactive Theatre Show at Campbell House

Events, News, Theatre

Thursday, May 9th / 2002; The body of 30-year-old Chloe Traeger was found brutally murdered in the basement of her own home through what appeared to be some kind of sinister sacrificial ceremony. The Hastings County Police Department believe of the 6 suspects they have rounded up so far, they are definitely harbouring the guilty party.

The Police Chief has them contained in an unused witness protection house somewhere outside of Marmora, Ontario; they are each in their own locked, guarded room waiting to be questioned. Youll have to scan through the case files of the suspects, look over photographs taken at the scene of the crime, and examine physical evidence found on the night of to aid in this disturbing investigation.

As an officer of the Hastings County Police, it is up to you and your partner to talk to, question, and interrogate these suspects in order to decipher not only the truth of this complex and harrowing crime, but determine who exactly is the most culpable of the murder of Chloe Traeger.

Be warned, this investigation contains content involving crimes of a sexual and religious nature, explicit images of the results of this crime, interacting directly with those that may be involved in said crime, walking around the house for an extended period of time, climbing stairs to multiple levels of the house, and potentially working with a friend to solve a case the likes of which this precinct has never seen before.

Also be warned, once the interrogation period starts, you will NOT be allowed to join in late; please arrive early or on time if you expect to be a part of this investigation.

The max number of investigators taking part in this process is 16, and everyone will be split into pairs of 2. If you arrive with another partner, you may work together. If you arrive with 2 others (Making 3 of you), expect to get split up; the outlier will either have to work with a stranger or figure things out on their own.

This is a two-and-a-half hour process. Drink a strong coffee, wear comfy shoes & roll up your sleeves; its going to be a long night.

Show dates and times:
May 23, 6 pm & 9 pm
May 24, 6 pm ONLY
May 25, 6 pm ONLY
May 26, 9 pm ONLY
May 30, 6 pm & 9 pm
May 31, 6 pm ONLY
June 1, 6 pm & 9 pm
June 2, 6 pm & 9 pm

Get your tickets here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3396243
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