With Erin Brubacher and Stewart Legere
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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.
โThese Songs I Know By Heart is tender, gripping and relentlessly honest… Brubacherโs novel shows off the same flair for dramatic intimacy that makes her such a sought-after collaborator in the theatre world.โ โ 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.
Stewart Legere is a multi-disciplinary artist from Punamukwatijk/Dartmouth. He is the Artistic Director of queer live-art company The Accidental Mechanics Group & Associate Artistic Director of Zuppa Theatre. His performances have been presented at theatres & festivals across Canada & the UK, including the Stages Festival (Halifax), OUTstages (Victoria), SummerWorks (Toronto), PuSh (Vancouver), FTA (Montreal), IMPACT (Kitchener), Chapter Arts Centre (Cardiff, Wales) and MAYFEST (Bristol, UK). He is a vocalist with orchestral pop outfit The Heavy Blinkers, & a solo singer/songwriter. He composes music and sound for theatre and film. He makes short films (RT Collective, SpiderWebShow, CBC). An avid and passionate collaborator, his work is fascinated with vulnerability, intimacy, the destruction of persona and the celebration of performance.
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 LIFTโs 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.