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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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!

 

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