Tranzac Club - Main Hall
7th Anniversary Show
Featured poets: Charlie C Petch & Tunchai Redvers
Featured musician: Kianoush Khalilian
Hosts: Bänoo Zan & Terese Pierre
Tunchai Redvers is a Dene/Metis two-spirit social justice warrior, writer, and wanderer from Treaty 8 Northwest Territories, currently living in Tkaronto. By the age of 25, she is the Co-Founder of We Matter - a national organization dedicated to Indigenous youth hope and life promotion, has been published across a number of works, and recently released her debut poetry book, Fireweed, with Kegedonce Press. Her advocacy and writing work focuses on intergenerational trauma, LGBTQ and two-spirit rights, youth and womxn's empowerment, and the decolonization and indigenization of identity, mental health and healing. She has spent considerable time living, travelling, speaking, and working with Indigenous communties internationally and across Canada, and considers herself a nomad just like her ancestors.
Charlie C Petch is an award winning playwright, spoken word artist, haiku deathmaster, host and musical saw player. Petch is touring their spoken word theatre piece, "Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum's Rush" which got "Best of 2017" from Electric City Magazine for the radio play accompanying album "Odes & Acts". They have published books with Wordpress and LyricalMyrical and poems with Descant, The Toronto Quarterly, Matrix and Oratorealis journals. They will be publishing a full length poetry book with Brick Books in Fall 2019. Petch is the creative director of "Hot Damn It's A Queer Slam" a multi-city touring poetry slam series. Find out more at www.charliecpetch.com
Kianoush Khalilian is a ney player and composer in traditional Iranian style. He has performed in Iran, Czech Republic, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, and various venues in Canada. He was awarded a Certificate of Traditional Iranian Music in the category of radif performance from oustad Hassan Nahid. As a music teacher, he has compiled and published technical studies and repertoire he used in his teaching into an instructional book for the ney.
This event is partially supported by the League of Canadian Poets and the Toronto Arts Council.
Tranzac Club is an accessible venue with no stairs (aside from the stage) and they have two accessible gender neutral washrooms.
Please refrain from using perfume.