About this Event
The launch of Up:Rising — A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings from Authors with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions. Join us to meet the contributing writers and editors, hear live readings, and take home your own signed copy of the anthology!
Light refreshments will be served.
This is a FREE event but if you RSVP it helps us plan better :)
You can also come early and check out Glad Day Lit's
Queer Zine & Local Author Book Fair:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/glad-days-queer-zine-local-authors-book-fair-tickets-1971362296697
About The Book
Featuring both new and established writers, this diverse collection of short stories and poems shatters stereotypes of mental health and addiction in a miasma of razor shards as glitteringly beautiful as they are piercing. In these pages, the self is dissolved and re-made; reality is pulled from its moorings and turned inside out; and the human spirit, even in its most brutalized states, stops at nothing to find beauty in the fractures of a hostile world.Up:Rising is an unapologetic chorus of Mad voices that refuse to conform or cower in the shadows. It was born from a collaboration between two organizations rooted in community care: Workman Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization supporting artists with lived experience of mental health and/or addictions; and Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, a collectively-run publisher of radical culture grounded in anarchist ideals. We invited writers with lived experience of mental health and/or addiction issues from across Canada to send us their stories, poems, daydreams, imaginings, and manifestos around all the things it can mean to rebel.
32 Lisgar Access Information
- Lisgar Park is accessible with ramps and flat concrete paths (may be affected by snow/ice in winter).
- Elevator available just inside the entrance.
- Ground floor washroom is wheelchair accessible.
- Second floor all-gender washroom has two accessible stalls.
- WA has a scent-free policy.
- Various types of seating available on the first and second floors.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
32 Lisgar St, 32 Lisgar Street, Toronto, Canada
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