VERS/E 4.4: Queer Poetry Open Mic with Philip Hackborn

​Join us for queer joy, anger, and yearning the second Sunday of every month, September through April, at Frank's Community Pub.

Our December event will feature Philip Hackborn!

​Doors & open mic sign-up at 6 pm, and poetry starts at 6:30 pm.

This event series is supported by the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers' Guild of Alberta.

ABOUT PHILIP HACKBORN
Philip Hackborn (they/them/any), is a performance artist, poet, and producer situated in amiskwaciwâskahikan. They exist and make art at the intersections of race, gender identity, and madness. Over the years, they have assisted theatre productions in abandoned warehouses, improvised live with the players of escape rooms as voice-over animatronic characters, narrated circus arts shows with their philosophical writings, and discreetly threaded theatrical ritual under the surface of most of their work. Select performance credits: FEED [MZD, Zero Lab #3], Hamlet in Isolation [Thou Art Here], Krampus: a Christmas Escape Adventure [Canscare], Devour Content Here [Cowgirl Opera]. Select writing credits: (be)Longing [re:Create, RISER Edmonton], Madness and other Ghost Stories [re:Create, Found Fest], The Shadow and the Fool [re:Create, Next Fest], Fragmented Journeys [Skirtsafire, Expanse Festival], and an ongoing project known as Frag/ments; which at one point saw snippets of poetry and philosophy stuffed into old pill bottles and sold out of a vending machine. Through their emerging production company, re:Create, they blend together their passions for mythology, community, and exploration in order to build art and spaces that hold care in equal measures with creativity, with a current focus on mad-art creation.