Poly Queer Love Ballad

06/07/2020

POSTPONED! Will update soon! For Pride Month, Anais West and Sara Vickruck are taking over of Buddies In Bad Times Theatre's instagram as part of Q***r, Far, Wherever You Are! June 10th at 2pm PST/5pm EST they'll be sharing songs and poems from Poly Q***r Love Ballad. In solidarity with folks fighting anti-black and anti-indigenous violence & police brutality, we'll be donating 100% of the artist fee we're receiving to two organizations supporting these communities:

-The Homeless Black Trans Women Fund in Atlanta:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip

-The Aboriginal Front Door Society on Unceded Coast Salish Territories:
https://abfrontdoor.org/index.php/about-afds?fbclid=IwAR2ujzQPrG1wNynIwUlOeEIlqK0Z79dymPeO78AQ1iK52UmSzRgTJ-RkHlI

We encourage folks to donate to these initiatives, and support BIPOC now and always.

As the world’s largest and longing-running q***r theatre, our home at 12 Alexander Street has been a place where countless q***r artists have dreamt up, rehearsed, and shared their work. Buddies is a space for q***r community to come together. …

11/30/2019

Happy birthday to Co-creator . For your birthday, the theatre gods have granted you the best review of PQLB yet! Check in out.

What happens when a monogamous le***an songwriter and a polyamorous bisexual poet fall in love? Boundaries are set, broken, upheld, muddled, and re-established over and over again in a story that reflects the complications of modern dating and romantic relationships.

11/28/2019

A glimpse of the stage at Theatre Passe Muraille. We had an incredible, sold out opening with a warm, receptive audience. We felt the q***r love 💕 Tickets are going fast so sn**ch yours up quick! 👉 https://www.passemuraille.ca/tickets/

11/27/2019

We open Poly Q***r Love Ballad at Theatre Passe Muraille tonight after a sold out preview performance! We can't wait! ✨✨✨

11/25/2019

Hey Toronto, we're here and we're q***r🤘🏻🌈
Poly Q***r Love Ballad

11/24/2019

Thanks Drew Rowsome of MyGayToronto.com for chatting with us about Poly Q***r Love Ballad at Theatre Passe Muraille​! Check out the interview below ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

After rave reviews and numerous awards in Vancouver, Poly Q***r Love Ballad is arriving in Toronto. While boasting a great title, the description - “A polyamorous bisexual poet meets a monogomous le***an songwriter at an open mic night” - sounds suspiciously like the first line of a woke joke ...

11/23/2019

Our final sacrificial poet is Cassandra Myers! They will be opening Poly Q***r Love Ballad on November 30th at 2pm! 💛💛💛

Cassandra (she/they) is a mad, cripp, poly-q***r mad poet, community woker, and arts activist performing across North America for over six years. The 2018 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word Champion and the 2018 Best Poet at the College Union Poetry Slam, Cass focuses on issues of survivorship, gender-bending, and decolonizing the body.

11/22/2019

The sensational Alessandra Naccarato will open our show on November 27th as our sacrificial poet! We can't wait. 👏👏👏

Alessandra Naccarato is the recipient of the 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the winner of the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize. Currently based in Toronto, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and has toured nationally and internationally as a spoken word artist. Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species (Book*hug, 2019) combines personal narrative and natural study to tell a story of adaptation and evolution, and was featured in Fall Previews by CBC Books, 49th Shelf, and the Globe and Mail.

11/21/2019

Our next sacrificial poet opening for Poly Q***r Love Ballad at Theatre Passe Muraille is Charlie C Petch! Check them out on November 28th at 7:30pm 🕺

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 2021. Petch is the creative director of "Hot Damn It's A Q***r Slam" a multi-city touring poetry slam series

11/20/2019

Our third sacrificial poet opening for Poly Q***r Love Ballad at Theatre Passe Muraille is Robyn Kaur Sidhu! Catch Robyn Kaur Sidhu on November 26th at 7:30pm 🖤🖤🖤

Robyn Kaur Sidhu (she/her/they/them) is a Q***r, Punjabi-Canadian spoken word poet based in what is colonially known as Hamilton, Ontario. She is currently enrolled at McMaster University, where she pretends to know what she wants to do with her life.

She has had feelings publicly, and has performed them on national and international stages in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. She is a director for the Voices of Today festival, as well as a member of the SpeakNORTH Board of Directors. She is also a facilitator with Canvas: arts action programs, and loves being an arts educator. She is trying to be gentle with herself always. You can find Robyn in vintage cardigans or also on the internet if that’s your thing

11/19/2019

Introducing our second sacrificial poet opening for Poly Q***r Love Ballad at Theatre Passe Muraille, Luke Reece! Check him out on December 1st at 2pm. ✨✨✨

In a failed attempt to escape Presto Luke left his hometown of Mississauga under the guise of becoming a Toronto-based artist. He strives to share authentic and engaging stories with audiences through his work as a producer, playwright, poet and educator. He is the Producer for Canada’s leading culturally specific theatre company, Obsidian Theatre. He continually seeks opportunities to empower and support young-in-craft artists with his collective Little Black Afro Theatre, creating spaces for artists to develop work with and for the communities they come from. After becoming the Toronto Poetry Slam (TPS) Grand Champion in 2017, Luke went on to captain the 2017 TPS team that became national champions at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and coached the 2018 national champions as well. He competed in Vancouver in April 2018 at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam and placed 2nd in the country. This spring Luke placed 4th at the 2019 World Cup of Poetry Slam in Paris, France, as the Canadian representative.