Word Playful Open Mic

Thu May 28 2026 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm UTC-04:00

Understory Café | Toronto

Lavender Horizons Events
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Word Playful Open Mic
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A light-hearted queer open mic event hosted by Lavender Horizons Events centred around playful uses of words and language.
About this Event

Lavender Horizons Events is back at it again with our second open mic night, "Word Playful!" For this open mic, we encourage you to bring poetry, music, and anything else that doesn't just engage with language, but plays with it! Bring us your weird rhyme schemes, your unconventional forms—poems where you ask if we’d still love you if you were a worm and ones that made sense in a dream. Songs that sound like poems, and poems that sound like songs. Your punny, and your funny, and your lyrical and satirical. Poems that use words you don't hear often, or used in that way. Words that are made-up entirely, or just really fun to say! Work that remixes words that have already been said and then churns up their meanings and spits them out on their head!

So often we think about poetry in particular as needing to be heavy and serious, but poetry is art, and so much of art is play! Consider this your invitation to come play with us! Event hosted by Thaddeus Cramer. Special guest performers TBA soon! Doors open at 6:30 PM, and the open mic will start at 7:00.
Lavender Horizons Events is still a new initiative and a labour of love. Your ticket purchase helps us to fund more community events and shows like this. Stay tuned, because details for our upcoming scripted narrative poetry show, White Screens: Tales of a Coffee Shop Novelist will be announced soon! We also have a Patreon where you can see exclusive behind-the-scenes sneak peeks and bonus poetry if you have the funds and really want to help support what we do. And a big thank you to our lovely venue, Understory for hosting us again. Please support them by purchasing a snack or drink!



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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Understory Café, 505 Church Street, Toronto, Canada

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CAD 0.00 to CAD 8.79

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