About this Event
*Doors @ 6:30pm, structured discussion 7-9pm, stay and hang out after!! Tickets include a bampot drink ticket, which is good for: a regular tea pot, a pint/can of beer, a 5oz pour of wine, or a bar rail.*
Event description:
Toronto sapphic yappers! When you think about the ways you relate to yourself and those (people, communities, places, systems, institutions) around you, what question(s) feel ✨most alive ✨ for you right now? Is there something you want to talk about in a sapphic space? Are you looking for community, but have a hard time connecting with people on a deeper level? Do you just love to yap or listen to others yap?... If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, come join me at Bampot on October 8th for our second iteration of Sapphic Yap Night. Unlike most of my other events, this one has a much broader theme. The idea is that you get to pick what you want to talk about under the broad umbrella of relating. This could be how you relate to your community, the world, yourself, your situationship, your friends, a certain belief system, etc. etc.. Maybe you want to talk about sapphic spaces, or a recent relationship, or connecting to yourself, or mutual aid work, or faith, or something totally different. Or maybe you just want to let others suggest topics and join a discussion circle that resonates with you.
We’ll start off with a few guided warm up conversations, and then you will each have the chance to participate in 2 or 3 mini discussion circles on topics that you choose, with whole-group debriefs in between. Then we can stick around after to keep hanging out in a less-structured manner. My hope is that this gives us a chance to connect with each other and ourselves.
**Please note this event is only for queer women, and trans and nonbinary people who identify with the sapphic/wlw experience. If you are a cis man, this is not a space for you.
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Some stuff to know about how this works:
- This event is facilitated by me, Sophia Whicher. I use she/her pronouns, and I’m queer, and yes, for me queerness is deeply political. I’ve been doing stuff like this for a few years and I think I’ve gotten pretty good at making discussion spaces feel safe (but maybe not too comfy), inclusive, and warm.
- This event is intended to be a sapphic space, for queer women, and trans and nonbinary people who identify with the sapphic/wlw experience. If you are a cis man, this is not a space for you.
- No photographs will be taken at this event without the explicit permission of the people in the photographs first.
- You will be rotating between small and large groups, and the aim is for you to have a chance to share and learn about your own and others’ thoughts and feelings about, and experiences with and of relating to yourself and others. You will have the opportunity to propose your own topics, but you don’t have to!
- You don’t have to talk if you don’t want to, but it will probably be better if most of you come prepared to talk at least a little bit.
- More accessibility info below :)
Accessibility Info:
- If cost is a barrier to attendance, are free tickets available for anyone who needs them, no questions asked. Please email [email protected] to arrange this.
- There are four or five steps or a ramp that is (unfortunately) not wheelchair grade to get in. From that entry point, there are no further stairs to the bathroom located beside the bar.
- The bathrooms at Bampot are gender neutral.
- This event involves verbal discussion. There will be a handout with the questions we will be discussing printed on it.
- There might be some background music before and after, but we’ll try to keep background noise at a minimum during the structured discussions themselves. There will be customers at the front of the venue throughout our event, but our space is enclosed behind a soundproof curtain that works relatively well (but not perfectly).
- The space is not super scent heavy, but sometimes staff wear scented perfume.
- Should you be accompanied by a support person, please contact me ([email protected]) in advance so that I can add them to the participant list. Their ticket will be included, for free, as part of yours.
- This list is far from comprehensive. Please reach out to me at [email protected] if you have a concern that’s not listed here.
Event venue & nearby stays
Bampot House, 201 Harbord Street, Toronto, Canada
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