Name: Poetry Open Mic
Start: 2025-02-16T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Buddies In Bad Times Theatre

Join host Raymond Helkio for some of Toronto's most saucy, sassy, brassy, and daring poets with featured artists Nadia Zaman + Cassandra Myers!
This is an all-ages, licensed PWYC event. Open mic slots are 3 minutes and if you’d like to read please sign-up at the door.
Our open mic is photographed and timed by Jordyn with Jonathan Freeman at sign-up. Buddies is a fully accessible venue with barrier-free, gender-neutral washrooms.
Stick around for a drink after the show, Tallulah's Cabaret is open late! Thank you to the League Of Canadian Poets, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre and The Reading Salon.�
Sign-up + doors from 4:00 PM
Open Mic 4:30 PM
ARTIST BIOS
Nadia Zaman is a feeler. A retired people pleaser. A poet. An artist. A lawyer. A lover of words. A creator of worlds inside her mind. Neurospicy. Swimming between extremes. A Mama to a 5-year-old sassy child. She has been nominated for Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada. Oh, and fun fact, she can sit on your head for hours and organize your thoughts in piles. @mythoughtsrhyme_nadia
Cassandra Myers (My’z) (they/she/he) is an award winning poet, performer, dancer, illustrator, and counselor from Tkaronto, Ontario. As a queer, non-binary, South-Asian-Italian, crip, mad, survivor of sexual violence, Cassandra's work is cinematic and juicy with it's critical anti-oppressive eye. Cassandra’s work has won national literary and spoken word titles including the National Magazine GOLD Award in Poetry and Champion of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Their work has been internationally received at the Ada Lovelace Festival in Berlin, and elsewhere. Find their poetry in ARC Poetry Magazine, Canthius, the Tahoma Literary Review, and more.