QUIRKY EVENTS FOR MAY 2015

  MONTREAL SLOWDANCE!  Oldies Edition!  MAY 1, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/351973111678362/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Montreal Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!)

As this is our OLDIES edition, the lion's share of the songs will be from the 20s, the 50s, the 60s and 70s.
It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.

This event is MIXED and for EVERYONE: queer, straight, bi, poly, non-gender-binaried, those who identify as Complicated and those who are Late-Onset Awesome.

PS. Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But it would be AWESOME and HAWT. Since this is our OLDIES edition, you should feel free to dress all fancy-like, whatever that means to you, if you are so inclined.

 ★★★ TORONTO STRIP SPELLING BEE - Tiki Tease Edition! - MAY 8, 2015 ★★★

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1601669470071694/

The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it's a spelling bee, and it's played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin!

TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE GOLDEN OLDIES EDITION! - MAY 9, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/870200843023870/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!)

It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.

PS. Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But it would be AWESOME and HAWT. As this is our "golden oldies" edition, with songs almost exclusively from the 1920s to the 70s any period-specific costuming from that expanse of decades would be entirely and attirely appropriate, but proceed at your comfort level.

Finally, you do not have to be queer to attend this party, but you must have an open mind, an open heart, and have open arms. Do keep in mind that the majority of folks attending are LGBTTIQQ2SA, so if you are stridently straight, and have very fixed notions of who it's normal to dance with, this will not be the most receptive community for you.

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If you know of folks who like these weird events and who might want to subscribe to this newsletter, please send them this link: http://eepurl.com/QHnpb

This email list will become more and more important because every month, Facebook is REDUCING the number of invites I can personally send to folks on my friends list. They are reducing it every month because they are trying to turn a profit with their PAGES system, where they charge you so that your posts will show up in people's feeds. Already I have friends who aren't getting invites. I don't begrudge them trying to turn a profit, but it's disappointing when they purposefully take away features and abilities to then try to charge you for them somewhere else.

Thanks to you for being part of this email list! It helps a lot!

SNEAK PEEK @ UPCOMING EVENTS further into 2015...

Save the Date! Events and dates are subject to change, but realistically, in all likelihood, won't.

May 2nd, 2015 - CARDBOARD PARTY KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES!  (If you are curious about this, the story is that years ago I got a grant to put on the weirdest event, and it was fucking amazing, and it haunts me still. The problem is that it just costs so much to enact that I actually need to create a Kickstarter to fund it. And my feeling is that it's such a beautiful event that I would like to do it annually, but I will settle for doing another one in both Montreal and Toronto. Here is a photo gallery from the very first one: https://www.facebook.com/inconsolablecat/media_set?set=a.2097595034694.120310.1089901161&type=3 ) Watch for the Kickstarter in May and consider funding an amazing thing. Your contribution would be your admission ticket for events in Toronto and Montreal! More info in May!

JUNE 3: MONTREAL FRINGE FESTIVAL - STRIP SPELLING BEE @ the MAINLINE Theatre
JUNE 5: MONTREAL FRINGE FESTIVAL - SLOWDANCE @ the MAINLINE Theatre
JULY 10: TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE @ the GLADSTONE HOTEL ballroom
AUG 7: TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE @ the GLADSTONE HOTEL ballroom
 

Thank you SO MUCH for coming out and supporting quirky events this past year! We can only continue to put on these intimate and odd experimental events because you come out and you tell your friends what wacky thing you did over the weekend and they were intrigued enough to come to the next one. So thank you.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

CHAT PERDU PRODUCTIONS creates stimulating, quirky, and all-natural events in Montreal & Toronto. We like to put on events that are participatory and lovely. Rather than ironic cool, we are after cat-belly warm. We like it when the people who "attend" are also the people who "perform". We see events as little experiments. We don't know what will happen & we do them to find out. The ultimate goal of everything is for folks to forge new friendships & to make life a little less lonely & manifestly more lovely. LESS LONELY! MORE LOVELY! Take a chance on a Chat Perdu event!

 

---------- CONTACT ME IF YOU LIKE ----------

Sherwin Sullivan Tjia

email: inconsolablecat@hotmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/inconsolablecat
Events Blog: http://janesheisaclerk.blogspot.ca/

 

♥  EVENTS FOR APRIL, 2015!  ♥

 

★★★ MONTREAL STRIP SPELLING BEE - CAPES Edition! ★★★ APRIL 3, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1566849233597824/

The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it's a spelling bee, and it's played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin!

♥ Books 4 Kids Read 2 Adults ♥ APRIL 7, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1595086280706626/

While the lovely Tessa Brown reads from a book, its pages are projected on the wall behind her so the audience can simultaneously experience its magic. Discover tales old & new, and chime in afterwards when we have a moderated discussion about each story!

The books that will be the topic of discussion this time are:
(1) I want my Hat Back.
(2) The Hole in the Dyke.
(3) The Giving Tree.
(4) The House That Crack Built.

Unlike an actual book club, do not endeavour to have fully read these books before arriving. Let yourself experience them for the first time at the event!

♥♥♥ TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE ♥ PROM EDITION! ♥♥♥ APRIL 11, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/394469944066456/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!)

It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.

PS. Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But it would be AWESOME and HAWT. Since this is our PROM edition, and we will have a complimentary PHOTOBOOTH with a charming, sparkling backdrop, you should feel free to get all dapper & dandy, frilly & fabulous if you are so inclined, as your amazing outfit will be immortalized in digital by our fantastic photographer Bryanna Reilly.

Finally, you do not have to be queer to attend this party, but you must have an open mind, an open heart, and have open arms. Do keep in mind that the majority of folks attending are LGBTTIQQ2SA, so if you are stridently straight, and have very fixed notions of who it's normal to dance with, this may not be the most receptive community for you.
 

 ♥♥♥ MONTREAL SLOWDANCE! ♥ Oldies Edition! ♥♥♥ MAY 1, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/351973111678362/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Montreal Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!)

As this is our OLDIES edition, the lion's share of the songs will be from the 20s, the 50s, the 60s and 70s.
It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.

This event is MIXED and for EVERYONE: queer, straight, bi, poly, non-gender-binaried, those who identify as Complicated and those who are Late-Onset Awesome.

PS. Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But it would be AWESOME and HAWT. Since this is our OLDIES edition, you should feel free to dress all fancy-like, whatever that means to you, if you are so inclined.


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If you know of folks who like these weird events and who might want to subscribe to this newsletter, please send them this link: http://eepurl.com/QHnpb

QUIRKY EVENTS for MARCH 2015!

♥  EVENTS FOR FEBRUARY & MARCH!  ♥

 

♥♥♥ TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - Valentine's Day EDITION! ♥♥♥
FEB. 14th, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1510457339243079/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!)

It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.

♥♥♥ MONTREAL SLOWDANCE! ♥ Naughties & Nice Edition! ♥♥
FEB 27th, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1576080612607350/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Montreal Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!) As this is our Naughties & Nice edition, 90% of the songs will be from the decade spanning 2000 (the naughts) to 2010! It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic. This event is MIXED and for EVERYONE: queer, straight, bi, poly, non-gender-binaried, those who identify as Complicated and those who are Late-Onset Awesome. PS. Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But it would be AWESOME and HAWT. Since this is our Naughties edition, you should feel free to dress like early Avril Lavigne if you are so inclined.

★★★ TORONTO STRIP SPELLING BEE - March 6th, 2015 - Animation Edition! ★★★

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/385525321628961

The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it's a spelling bee, and it's played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin!

♥♥♥ TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - MARCH 7th, 2015 - 90s EDITION! ♥♥♥

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/651392324982614

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!) It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic. As this is our 90s edition, 90% of the songs will be from the 1990s. PS. Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But it would be AWESOME and HAWT. Since this is our 90's edition, you should feel free to go wild with plaid flannel and ripped tights if you are so inclined. But don't confine yourselves to that - wear the thing that you don't normally have the opportunity to wear! Wear all the things!


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If you know of folks who like these weird events and who might want to subscribe to this newsletter, please send them this link: http://eepurl.com/QHnpb  

 

 

♥ SNEAK PEEK @ UPCOMING EVENTS further into 2015...

Save the Date! Events and dates are subject to change, but realistically, in all likelihood, won't.

April 3rd, 2015 - MONTREAL STRIP SPELLING BEE

April 7th, 2015 - Books 4 Kids Read 2 Adults - Montreal Debut of a new experimental Event

April 11th, 2015 - TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - PROM edition

May 1st, 2015 - MONTREAL SLOWDANCE

May 2nd, 2015 - CARDBOARD PARTY KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES!  (If you are curious about this, the story is that years ago I got a grant to put on the weirdest event, and it was fucking amazing, and it haunts me still. The problem is that it just costs so much to enact that I actually need to create a Kickstarter to fund it. And my feeling is that it's such a beautiful event that I would like to do it annually, but I will settle for doing another one in both Montreal and Toronto. Here is a photo gallery from the very first one: https://www.facebook.com/inconsolablecat/media_set?set=a.2097595034694.120310.1089901161&type=3 ) Watch for the Kickstarter in May and consider funding an amazing thing. Your contribution would be your admission ticket! More info in May!

May 8th, 2015 - TORONTO STRIP SPELLING BEE

May 9th, 2015 - TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - Onesies Dance?
 

Thank you SO MUCH for coming out and supporting quirky events this past year! We can only continue to put on these intimate and odd experimental events because you come out and you tell your friends what wacky thing you did over the weekend and they were intrigued enough to come to the next one. So thank you.

 

 

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

CHAT PERDU PRODUCTIONS creates stimulating, quirky, and all-natural events in Montreal & Toronto. We like to put on events that are participatory and lovely. Rather than ironic cool, we are after cat-belly warm. We like it when the people who "attend" are also the people who "perform". We see events as little experiments. We don't know what will happen & we do them to find out. The ultimate goal of everything is for folks to forge new friendships & to make life a little less lonely & manifestly more lovely. LESS LONELY! MORE LOVELY! Take a chance on a Chat Perdu event!

 

 

LINKS TO OTHER WEIRDO PRODUCTS I HAVE CREATED!

You Are a Cat!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat/

You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat in the Zombie Apocalypse:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/

The E-Z-Purr: The Virtual Cat!

Over an hour of cats purring.

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-virtual-cat!/id509240768

On CdBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/theezpurr
 

The E-Z-Purr is a CD that is exactly what it says it is: over an hour of cats purring. People have asked me if the purring is on a loop, if it's only a 2 minute purr looped for an hour. Adamantly NO. A few years ago I cat-sit my friend Dawn's cat for a week and every day I would go over for a few hours and read and he would come over to my lap and I would stroke him and record him, putting the microphone very close to his voice-box. I actually have hours and hours of raw purr recording and I edited it down to find the most effusive and vibrant purrs to put on the album. People have used it while getting a massage. People have used it to relax them and put them to sleep. People have played it to alternately calm or freak their own cats. Played loudly, it sounds like an idling motorcycle, or like a ten foot tall cat is sleeping in the room with you. All profits from the E-Z-Purr alternate between going to a local cat shelter and a local cat-fostering program.

---------- CONTACT ME IF YOU LIKE ----------

Sherwin Sullivan Tjia

email: inconsolablecat@hotmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/inconsolablecat
Events Blog: http://janesheisaclerk.blogspot.ca/

 

 

 

Our Quirky Events for FEBRUARY 2015!

Dear Lovelies,
I always feel I should say something here but I am always at a loss for words. I wish I could hug you through the internet but technology isn't quite there yet! I just got Netflix and have been re-watching Star Trek The Next Generation episodes and I feel like this is something they neglected - how real people would use hologram and replicator tech. Think of Skype, but with holographic bodies of your loved ones that you could hold and touch and reciprocate with over long distances. Why wasn't that ever a thing? Starfleet needs to get on that. 

♥  EVENTS THIS MONTH!  ♥

 

 

★★★ MONTREAL STRIP SPELLING BEE - Gryffindorable Edition! ★★★ FEB. 6th, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/833193206744484

The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it's a spelling bee, and it's played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin!
As this is our Gryffindorable edition, any contestant wearing a crazy costume referencing the World of Hogwarts, whether half-assed or high-end, will be looked upon more favourably by the judges.

♥♥♥ TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - Valentine's Day EDITION! ♥♥♥ FEB. 14th, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1510457339243079/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!)

It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.

If you know of folks who like these weird events and who might want to subscribe to this newsletter, please send them this link: http://eepurl.com/QHnpb

♥ SNEAK PEEK @ UPCOMING EVENTS further into 2015...

Save the Date! Events are subject to change, but realistically, in all likelihood, won't.

Feb. 27th, 2015 - MONTREAL SLOWDANCE
March 6th, 2015 - TORONTO STRIP SPELLING BEE
March 7th, 2015 - TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE (90s Edition)
April 3rd, 2015 - MONTREAL STRIP SPELLING BEE
April 11th, 2015 - TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - PROM
 

Thank you SO MUCH for coming out and supporting quirky events this past year! We can only continue to put on these intimate and odd experimental events because you come out and you tell your friends what wacky thing you did over the weekend and they were intrigued enough to come to the next one. So thank you.

 

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

CHAT PERDU PRODUCTIONS creates stimulating, quirky, and all-natural events in Montreal & Toronto. We like to put on events that are participatory and lovely. Rather than ironic cool, we are after cat-belly warm. We like it when the people who "attend" are also the people who "perform". We see events as little experiments. We don't know what will happen & we do them to find out. The ultimate goal of everything is for folks to forge new friendships & to make life a little less lonely & manifestly more lovely. LESS LONELY! MORE LOVELY! Take a chance on a Chat Perdu event!

 

LINKS TO OTHER WEIRDO PRODUCTS I HAVE CREATED!

You Are a Cat!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat/

You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat in the Zombie Apocalypse:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/

The E-Z-Purr: The Virtual Cat!

Over an hour of cats purring.

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-virtual-cat!/id509240768

On CdBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/theezpurr
 

The E-Z-Purr is a CD that is exactly what it says it is: over an hour of cats purring. People have asked me if the purring is on a loop, if it's only a 2 minute purr looped for an hour. Adamantly NO. A few years ago I cat-sit my friend Dawn's cat for a week and every day I would go over for a few hours and read and he would come over to my lap and I would stroke him and record him, putting the microphone very close to his voice-box. I actually have hours and hours of raw purr recording and I edited it down to find the most effusive and vibrant purrs to put on the album. People have used it while getting a massage. People have used it to relax them and put them to sleep. People have played it to alternately calm or freak their own cats. Played loudly, it sounds like an idling motorcycle, or like a ten foot tall cat is sleeping in the room with you. All profits from the E-Z-Purr alternate between going to a local cat shelter and a local cat-fostering program.

---------- CONTACT ME IF YOU LIKE ----------

Sherwin Sullivan Tjia

email: inconsolablecat@hotmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/inconsolablecat
Events Blog: http://janesheisaclerk.blogspot.ca/

 

 

Quirky Events for January 2015!

Dear lovelies,
Normally, at around this time of the year, folks look back on the year that was and take stock, ruminate on their shortcomings and bask in their successes. But I really don't have time for that. I am too busy drinking and playing videogames!
Thanks to everyone who did the hard work of actually leaving their house and coming out to one of my events this year. It's hard for me to express just how grateful I am to all of you. You make the magic happen! I remember watching an episode of ER a number of years ago and was delighted by the term, "heart massage". I know it probably means something quite clinical, but the term never left me. I just would like to say that when someone comes out to one of my events, I feel like you are literally giving my heart a little massage, and helping it to beat healthily and magically.
Thank you so much for this 2014.
I can't wait to spend another year with you all. 

♥  EVENTS THIS MONTH!  ♥

♥♥♥ TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - New Year's EDITION! ♥♥♥
JAN. 3rd, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/800160230056438

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!) It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.

♥♥♥ MONTREAL SLOWDANCE! ♥ 90's Edition! ♥♥♥
JAN. 9th, 2015

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1016999491659983/

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Montreal Halloween Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!) As this is our 90's edition, probably 90% of the slow songs played that night will be from the 1990's. It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic. This event is MIXED and for EVERYONE: queer, straight, bi, poly, non-gender-binaried, those who identify as Complicated and those who are late-onset awesome.


Oh, and PS:

Recently, we just did Christmas Crowd Caroloke here in Montreal, where we sang carols drunkenly in a group, and recorded it! If you are curious what we sounded like, you can download the album of our efforts here! It is warm and sweet.



If you know of folks who like these weird events and who might want to subscribe to this newsletter, please send them this link: http://eepurl.com/QHnpb 

 

♥ SNEAK PEEK @ UPCOMING EVENTS further into 2015...

Save the Date! Events are subject to change, but realistically, in all likelihood, won't.

Feb. 6th, 2015 - MONTREAL STRIP SPELLING BEE
Feb. 14th, 2015 - TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE
Feb. 27th, 2015 - MONTREAL SLOWDANCE
March 6th, 2015 - TORONTO STRIP SPELLING BEE
March 7th, 2015 - TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE

Thank you SO MUCH for coming out and supporting quirky events this past year! We can only continue to put on these intimate and odd experimental events because you come out and you tell your friends what wacky thing you did over the weekend and they were intrigued enough to come to the next one. So thank you.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

CHAT PERDU PRODUCTIONS creates stimulating, quirky, and all-natural events in Montreal & Toronto. We like to put on events that are participatory and lovely. Rather than ironic cool, we are after cat-belly warm. We like it when the people who "attend" are also the people who "perform". We see events as little experiments. We don't know what will happen & we do them to find out. The ultimate goal of everything is for folks to forge new friendships & to make life a little less lonely & manifestly more lovely. LESS LONELY! MORE LOVELY! Take a chance on a Chat Perdu event!

 

 

LINKS TO OTHER WEIRDO PRODUCTS I HAVE CREATED!

You Are a Cat!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat/

You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat in the Zombie Apocalypse:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/

The E-Z-Purr: The Virtual Cat!

Over an hour of cats purring.

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-virtual-cat!/id509240768

On CdBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/theezpurr

The E-Z-Purr is a CD that is exactly what it says it is: over an hour of cats purring. People have asked me if the purring is on a loop, if it's only a 2 minute purr looped for an hour. Adamantly NO. A few years ago I cat-sit my friend Dawn's cat for a week and every day I would go over for a few hours and read and he would come over to my lap and I would stroke him and record him, putting the microphone very close to his voice-box. I actually have hours and hours of raw purr recording and I edited it down to find the most effusive and vibrant purrs to put on the album. People have used it while getting a massage. People have used it to relax them and put them to sleep. People have played it to alternately calm or freak their own cats. Played loudly, it sounds like an idling motorcycle, or like a ten foot tall cat is sleeping in the room with you.

---------- CONTACT ME IF YOU LIKE ----------

Sherwin Sullivan Tjia

email: inconsolablecat@hotmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/inconsolablecat
Events Blog: http://janesheisaclerk.blogspot.ca/

 

 

Quirky Events for NOV - DEC 2014!

Dear lovelies, don't you think that we should have Halloween all the time? About a week ago I was suffering from Halloween Withdrawal, which has to be a real thing. I just kind of wanted more of it. This year it felt like people really got into it. People had a real need for it this year.

My friend Michelle is part of this small group in Toronto called Halloween Usergroup. What they do is dress up like it's Halloween, but it's just a regular day, and then they go out to a bar or something and have beers and talk. It's like Guerilla Gay Bar, but it's Halloween. It happens about once a month. And what a lovely concept.

Years ago I had this notion to put on an event called Halloween in Spring. Because Halloween is so nice, we do it twice! It would be basically a Halloween party but it would happen on March or April 31st. But I never got around to doing it. Just like Halloween is like the last big festival before we accept that winter is coming, Halloween in Spring would be the big festivity to greet the warming of days. Probably the only thing that bothers me about Halloween is where it's located in the year. It's always fucking freezing outside. It'd sure be nice to have it when the weather is actually reasonable outside.

Anyway, enough ranting. Here are the events coming up for the rest of this year! Thanks for reading and subscribing everyone. You are so kind to me!

  EVENTS THIS MONTH! 

 

★★★ TORONTO STRIP SPELLING BEE - Nov. 28, 2014 - Slytherin Edition! ★★★

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/301629650039064

The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it's a spelling bee, and it's played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin! This time, the suggested costuming for those competing is Harry Potter.

 

TORONTO'S QUEER SLOWDANCE! - 80s EDITION!

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1571938226372322

With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!) It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic. This month our theme is the 80s, so if you have neon spandex you've been itching to wear, now is the time. Additionally, this will be our 4th Year Anniversary!


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SNEAK PEEK @ UPCOMING EVENTS for the REST OF THE YEAR and a little bit into the next...

Save the Date! Events are subject to change, but realistically, in all likelihood, won't.

Montreal XMAS CAROLOKE SINGALONG PARTY (at the Mainline Theatre) – Monday, Dec. 15, 2014!

Toronto QUEER SLOWDANCE! (at the Dovercourt House) – Jan.3, 2015

Thank you SO MUCH for coming out and supporting quirky events this past year! We can only continue to put on these intimate and odd experimental events because you come out and you tell your friends what wacky thing you did over the weekend and they were intrigued enough to come to the next one. So thank you.

 

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

CHAT PERDU PRODUCTIONS creates stimulating, quirky, and all-natural events in Montreal & Toronto. We like to put on events that are participatory and lovely. Rather than ironic cool, we are after cat-belly warm. We like it when the people who "attend" are also the people who "perform". We see events as little experiments. We don't know what will happen & we do them to find out. The ultimate goal of everything is for folks to forge new friendships & to make life a little less lonely & manifestly more lovely. LESS LONELY! MORE LOVELY! Take a chance on a Chat Perdu event!

 

LINKS TO OTHER WEIRDO PRODUCTS I HAVE CREATED!

You Are a Cat!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat/

You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse!

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book from the POV of a cat in the Zombie Apocalypse:

http://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/you-are-a-cat-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/

The E-Z-Purr: The Virtual Cat!

Over an hour of cats purring.

On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-virtual-cat!/id509240768

On CdBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/theezpurr

The E-Z-Purr is a CD that is exactly what it says it is: over an hour of cats purring. People have asked me if the purring is on a loop, if it's only a 2 minute purr looped for an hour. Adamantly NO. A few years ago I cat-sit my friend Dawn's cat for a week and every day I would go over for a few hours and read and he would come over to my lap and I would stroke him and record him, putting the microphone very close to his voice-box. I actually have hours and hours of raw purr recording and I edited it down to find the most effusive and vibrant purrs to put on the album. People have used it while getting a massage. People have used it to relax them and put them to sleep. People have played it to alternately calm or freak their own cats. Played loudly, it sounds like an idling motorcycle, or like a ten foot tall cat is sleeping in the room with you.

 

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email: inconsolablecat@hotmail.com

Events Blog: http://janesheisaclerk.blogspot.ca/