Harbourfront Centre

How does an artist breakthrough without breaking down? In their latest works, Vivek Shraya (The Subtweet), Amber Dawn (My Art is Killing Me) and Jillian Christmas (The Gospel of Breaking), voice themes of industry and community pressure, lateral violences, hard-won friendships and intergenerational healing. The Breakdown book tour is part cultural criticism, part resistance and wholly a celebration of narrative, verse and song.

Join these three outspoken femme writers, with host Terese Mason Pierre, for the Toronto engagement of this national tour, for a provocative set of poetry readings and music, followed by a book signing and audience Q&A. Books by all the authors will be available for sale courtesy of the U of T Bookstore.