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Nuit Blanche is less than one week away! So is Lizzie Violet’s all horror set!

Nuit Blanche is less than one week away and you know what that means!  An all horror spoken word set read by ME at 3:30 am for Theatre Local.  Our venue is this amazing theatre space located at the Wychwood Barns.  I have posted the details below!  We are trying to raise funds for the event and one of things we are doing is selling buttons of the performers!  AND they are only $2 per button (I sold out the last batch so grab the new batch while they last).  I will have some on me for sale, but they will sell out fast.  Not to worry!  You can still buy them on the Esty site!

Theatre Local invites you to “Small Audiences” at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, a 12 hour season of performance, film, short words and sound art.Lizzie Violet will be performing an all horror themed set at Canada’s Smallest Theatre (sponsored by Theatre Local).  Lizzie Violet‘s set will be at 3:30 am. There will be lots of other Nuit Blanche events at Wychwood Barns and in the St. Clair West area, so make sure you set aside a bit of time to check everything out.

Theatre Local is a conceptual artwork and producing project which serves the city of Toronto and wider performing arts networks. “Small Audiences” is the second Scotiabank Nuit Blanche social sculpture presented at Canada’s Smallest Theatre and proffers traditional performer/spectator experiences within the intimacy of a small group setting.Mark us down. Of course we want to see you there in our annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festivities. Canada’s Smallest Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie St (look for the signs in Barn 2) IMPORTANT: BOX OFFICE is located in Barn 2, because it is Small Audience, arrive early to get your tickets, they will be gone fast!FOR MORE INFO:
info@theatrelocal.org
416-879-3416
http://theatrelocal.org/
FREE
For all the show times please check out www.theatrelocal.org

A new Lizzie Violet Feature and Raising Funds for Theatre Local for Nuit Blanche

Hey all!  As mentioned in previous posts I will be featuring at Nuit Blanche.  I am doing an all horror themed set at 3:30 am for Theatre Local.  Our venue is this amazing theatre space located at the Wychwood Barns.  I have posted the details below!  We are trying to raise funds for the event and one of things we are doing is selling buttons of the performers!  AND they are only $2 per button.  I will have some on me for sale, but they will sell out fast.  Not to worry!  You can still buy them on the Esty site!

Theatre Local invites you to “Small Audiences” at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, a 12 hour season of performance, film, short words and sound art.Lizzie Violet will be performing an all horror themed set at Canada’s Smallest Theatre (sponsored by Theatre Local).  Lizzie Violet‘s set will be at 3:30 am. There will be lots of other Nuit Blanche events at Wychwood Barns and in the St. Clair West area, so make sure you set aside a bit of time to check everything out.

Theatre Local is a conceptual artwork and producing project which serves the city of Toronto and wider performing arts networks. “Small Audiences” is the second Scotiabank Nuit Blanche social sculpture presented at Canada’s Smallest Theatreand proffers traditional performer/spectator experiences within the intimacy of a small group setting.Mark us down. Of course we want to see you there in our annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festivities.

Canada’s Smallest Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie St (look for the signs in Barn 2)

IMPORTANT: BOX OFFICE is located in Barn 2, because it is Small Audience, arrive early to get your tickets, they will be gone fast!

FOR MORE INFO:
info@theatrelocal.org
416-879-3416
http://theatrelocal.org/
FREE

For all the show times please check out www.theatrelocal.org

Free Times Cafe ~ Lizzie Violet featuring at The Best of Open Stage

Free Times Cafe ~ Lizzie Violet featuring at The Best of Open Stage


Hey all,

I will be featuring at the Free Times Cafe as part of The Best of the Open Stage Night. I know it’s a school night, but hopefully you can come out! I will be featuring some new material!

The room fills up fast, doors open at 8, so come early to snag a seat. The Free Times also has amazing food!

http://www.freetimescafe.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Times-Cafe/174145575975894

Where:  Free Times Cafe, 320 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5T1S3
When: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 8 pm – 1 am

Cover $6

Upcoming shows

Hey all!  Below are my upcoming shows, with more dates to come!

POtea


Hear Poetry, Recite Poetry, Be Poetry, Drink Tea

Featuring Poets:
Cassandra Witteman
Vanessa McGowan
Lizzie Violet
Stedmond Pardy
Victor Cirone

and…you?

When: Friday, August 24, 2012, from 5 pm to 9 pm
Where: Harvest Noon, 16 Bancroft Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

https://www.facebook.com/events/250892761680056/

Free Times Cafe ~ Lizzie Violet featuring at The Best of Open Stage


Hey all,

I will be featuring at the Free Times Cafe as part of The Best of the Open Stage Night. I know it’s a school night, but hopefully you can come out! I will be featuring some new material!

The room fills up fast, doors open at 8, so come early to snag a seat. The Free Times also has amazing food!

http://www.freetimescafe.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Times-Cafe/174145575975894

Where:  Free Times Cafe, 320 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5T1S3
When: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 8 pm – 1 am

Cover $6

Nuit Blanche
Small Audiences

https://www.facebook.com/events/142552015873989/

I’ll be on at 3:30 am and doing an all horror set!

Theatre Local invites you to “Small Audiences” at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, a 12 hour season of performance, film, short words and sound art by:

Rebecca Singh with Jonathan Heppner and Kim Purtell
Leslie McCue with Lindy Kinoshameg
Elva Mai Hoover
Gail Nyoka
Ruth Tait
Neema Bickersteth
Norman Yeung
Émilie Gauvin
Lizzie Violet
Darren Copeland
Coleen MacPhearson with Rachael Ellis
Marjorie Chan and Friends

+ treats TBA

Mark us down. Of course we want to see you there in our annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festivities.

When: Saturday September 29, 2012
Where: Canada’s Smallest Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie St (look for the signs in Barn 2)
7 pm ongoing to 7 AM Setlist: http://theatrelocal.org/showtimes/
info@theatrelocal.org
416-879-3416
http://theatrelocal.org/
FREE

My reading at PRIDE accompanied by Amoeba Starfish

This is my reading at PRIDE.  I was accompanied by Amoeba Starfish.  I also have a YouTube video.  Once it uploads I will post it as well.

http://soundcloud.com/amoebastarfishperc/live-at-pride-toronto-2012-the

My Great Big Pride Love In

I’m not even sure how to start this blog.  I have so much swimming around inside my head right now.  I have had one of the best weekends in a very long time, all starting Friday night with a last minute decision to go see some live music.  This entire weekend has been about being with people I love, adore and respect, about celebrating a community I’m so effing PROUD to be part of and about being on stage with some absolutely amazing talent. In 3 days I managed to see live music, The Dyke March, celebrate my dear friend Cate McKim’s birthday (she lost track of how my times she celebrated 😉 ), PRIDE, reading at PRIDE and see a lot of my favourite people and friends perform.  Yesterday actually felt like a great big party with all my friends and family, without the drunken uncle trying to start a fight.  It was about celebrating the freedom to express who you are without judgement, about showing your true colours without fear.  We live in a city where you can be Queer without fear!

Below are some photo’s from the weekend and a link to Cate McKim’s blog about the events.  http://lifewithmorecowbell.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/friends-words-music-toronto-pride-2012/.  So many amazing performances and friends in these pictures.  (Cate McKim, Kat Leonard, Arlene Paculan, Laurie Fredheim, Leah Walker, Duncan Armstrong, Philip Cairns, David Bateman, DM Moore, Harrsion Fine, Brandon Pitts, Janis Tipping, Iman Wain, Rex Baunsit, Dan McClean Jr., Meghan Morrison, Evan Le Blanc, Stuart Everitt, Myke Mazzei, Jaime Alexandra, Adrienne Smith, Alissa Vox Raw)

Dyke March and Pride

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Upcoming in May

Upcoming in May!!!

This Wednesday am reading at the Jang Bang bar for the Gorgeous Ellie Anderson! At Get Your Groove On!

https://www.facebook.com/events/229444180488546/

Though not hosting this month, would love to see you at the monthly event I run called The Beautiful & The Damned on May 10 at Zelda’s! https://www.facebook.com/events/242748215824326/

AND if that wasn’t enough… another great reading series I’m involved with. The Plasticine Reading Series at Paupers. (I won’t be at this one, but it’s a great series to support!)

https://www.facebook.com/events/219345641501281/

May is all about Lizzie 😉

WWIV Awesomeness!

A photo of the features and Beverly Webb.

(from right to left – Arlene Paculan, Lizzie Violet, Kat Leonard, Beverly Webb, Cathy Petch)

Ellie Anderson… You make me smile so hard my face cracks!

This morning, I woke up to the below blog post from a woman I am equally not-so-secretly in love with. I first fell in love with this hot tamale the first time I saw her perform at The Central during a Songwriters Showcase being hosted by Marcus Walker. She is beautiful, talented, empowering and just so damn sexy! She is also one hell of a musician and slam poet! AND she inspires me to write naughty haiku’s. Please read her blog about Wonder Women IV, and get yourselves out to see her play. She is hosting the upcoming Get Your Groove On! Music and Poetry Night With Ellie Anderson @ the Jang Bang Bar on College, which I’m honoured to be part of.

xo

http://www.ellieandersonmusic.com/2012/04/the-wonderful-women-at-wonder-women-iv/


Vaudeville!

Hey all! I am putting out a call to Vaudeville performers who are in the Toronto area. I will be posting more details as I have them, but please contact me in the meantime.

An idea of what I’m looking for:

Silent movie shorts
Burlesque
Vaudeville music acts such as 20/30’s style jazz and rag time
Victorian Parlour Magic
Jugglers
Comedians
Literary burlesque (spoken word)
Vaudeville skits

Please contact me privately at lizzieviolet13@gmail.com