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These Songs I Know By Heart: Words and Music

With Erin Brubacher and Stewart Legere

Saturday, November 2
3:00PM – 4:15PM
Room 301, Halifax Central Library (5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax)
$0.00

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Description

Motherhood is more than giving birth, art is never finished, and love is not linear. Erin Brubacher reads from her new novel These Songs I Know By Heart, accompanied by musical guest Stewart Legere.

“These Songs I Know By Heart is tender, gripping and relentlessly honest… Brubacher’s novel shows off the same flair for dramatic intimacy that makes her such a sought-after collaborator in the theatre world.” — The Toronto Star

Subjects: friendship, art, love, step parenting, fertility and IVF. Babes in arms welcome! Pro-tip: drop your older kids off for the final hour of Kids’ Day while you attend this event.

Speakers

  • Stewart Legere is a multidisciplinary artist from Punamu'kwati’jk/Dartmouth, where he lives with his partner, their cats, and a small flock of spirited chickens. He is the Associate Artistic Director of live art company ZUPPA, artistic director of The Accidental Mechanics Group and an artist-in-residence at The Theatre Centre, in Toronto. His work has been presented across the country and around the world. A writer, singer-songwriter, composer and performer, he finds great joy in hosting, running, walking, cooking, arguing, drinking wine, writing, and exploring the nooks and crannies of melancholy. His work celebrates performance, vulnerability, and the dismantling of persona. He has very good friends.

  • Erin Brubacher is the author of the novel These Songs I Know By Heart (Book*hug, 2024), the co-author of the performance text/ travel memoire 7th Cousins: An Automythography (Book*hug, 2019), and the poetry collection In the small hours (Gaspereau Press, 2016). She has been a participant in commissioning programs and artist residencies including the Banff Playwrights Lab (Canada) and LIFT’s Concept Touring (UK). She holds a practice based MA International Performance Research, with distinction, jointly from the University of Warwick and University of Amsterdam. She has lived in ten cities, and now makes Tkaronto her home.