QUIRKY EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2015!

Hi lovelies! This is kind of an exciting time for me! I am in the midst of launching my new book, YOU ARE A KITTEN! The final book in my trilogy of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style books from the POV of a cat. But I am also continuing to put on my intimate & odd events. A couple weeks ago we had the best turnout ever for the Montreal Slowdance, which touched my heart. And in the picture above, this is what it looks like to work on the prototype for a slipcase, which I've never had to do before, and which is a charming challenge. My publisher tells me that a possible box set will be available late next year, so I'm trying to work through its logistical problems. I know it doesn't look like much right now. The fact is, things tend to look like shit for a long time until they don't. Just look at me in high school. Ba dum pssh!

Anyway, haha, without further ado, here are the...

  EVENTS FOR NOV 2015! 

VANCOUVER Booklaunch of YOU ARE A KITTEN!

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 at Lucky's Comics

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/861468893951173/

You are cordially invited to the Vancouver book launch of Sherwin Sullivan Tjia's YOU ARE A KITTEN! A choose-your-own-adventure style book from the POV of a KITTEN, and prequel to YOU ARE A CAT, and YOU ARE A CAT IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.



Thursday, October 22, 2015
7-9 PM
LUCKY'S COMICS
3972 Main St.
Vancouver, BC

The author will give a short, charming talk and Powerpoint purresentation, and be available to sign books.

 

TORONTO Booklaunch of YOU ARE A KITTEN!

Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 at Page and Panel Bookstore

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/510041272485208/

You are cordially invited to the Toronto book launch of Sherwin Sullivan Tjia's YOU ARE A KITTEN! A choose-your-own-adventure style book from the POV of a KITTEN, and prequel to the cult hits YOU ARE A CAT!, and YOU ARE A CAT IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!



Saturday, November 7, 2015

At 2 PM The author will give a short talk on the inherent nature and strengths of interactive fiction as part of the WORDPLAY festival, occurring in the main room of the Toronto Reference Library. (more info here: http://handeyesociety.com/wordplay/)

Then at 3 PM he will move to Page and Panel bookstore located Inside Toronto Reference Library at 789 Yonge Street, and give a short, charming talk and Powerpoint purresentation, and be available to sign books. (more info here: http://www.torontocomics.com/tcafshop/?p=9)

Come for either, or both!
  

TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE - FOLLOWEEN Edition!

Saturday, NOV 7, 2015 at the DOVERCOURT HOUSE

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/751628148298141/

You are cordially invited to Toronto's QUEER SLOWDANCE! - FOLLOWEEN Edition!

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.

Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But it would be AWESOME and HAWT. Since this is our FOLLOWEEN Edition (ie. the weekend that follows Halloween), a costume of some kind would be fucking amazing.

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 many of our attendees fall within the LGBTTIQ continuum and may or may not be interested in dancing with the 'opposite' sex, so if you are stridently & adamantly straight, this may not be the most receptive community for you.


★★★

Dovercourt house
805 Dovercourt Rd. (1 block North of Bloor, 3 blks. west of Ossington)
Saturday, Nov 7, 2015
Doors at 9:30, Dance from 10 PM - 3 AM.
$10 admission includes your Dancecard-booklet!

Regretfully, the Dovercourt House is not wheelchair-accessible.
19+

★★★

 MONTREAL EXPOZINE

Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 14 & 15

MORE INFO here: http://expozine.ca/en/

THIS IS NOT MY EVENT! This is an annual fair in Montreal that focusses on small-press prints and zines and is awesome and amazing and has been going on for more than ten years and I always have a little table where I sell my random things and sign books if people want and it's nice just to sit all day and talk to your neighbours and get samosas and beers from the kitchen. Anyway, I will be there. Will you?

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CANCELLED STRIP SPELLING BEE IN TORONTO: So, in my "sneak peek" section (below) I usually put upcoming dates that I haven't made an event page for. Anyway, for a long time I had Nov. 6 marked for a Strip Spelling Bee in Toronto. Unfortunately there was some miscommunication between myself and the venue and I got lost in the shuffle! So if you marked that date in your calendar, sadly I must ask you to erase it. I seldom cancel events. It's not my style and it upsets me that I have to. I am taking steps to ensure this doesn't happen again in the future. Thanks for understanding! 

 

SNEAK PEEK @ UPCOMING EVENTS further into 2015...

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


Thursday, December 3, 2015: MONTREAL STRIP SPELLING BEE @ the MAINLINE THEATRE

Friday, December 4, 2015: MONTREAL MIXED SLOWDANCE @ the MAINLINE THEATRE

Saturday, December 5, 2015: TORONTO QUEER SLOWDANCE @ the DOVERCOURT HOUSE

 

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.

 

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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!