On Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m., mystery author Jill Edmonson makes a stop at Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Avenue) to read from Blood and Groom: A Sasha Jackson Mystery and sign copies of her books. The event is free. Over at the Brass Taps Pizza Pub (934 College Street), the annual March Hare event, an uprooted extension of a Newfoundland poetry and performance festival, kicks off on Friday night with a full roster of local and Newfoundland authors and performers. Lloyd Bartlett, Michael Crummey, Antony Christie, Anthony Da Sa, Randall Maggs, Pamela Morgan, Sara Tilley, Ron Hynes, Stephen Brunt all take the stage Friday night, with Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall and Caroline Rowe replacing Hynes and Brunt on Saturday afternoon. Friday’s event gets started at 8:00 p.m., Saturday’s at 2 p.m., with tickets for each show setting you back $20.
On Saturday night, words of love will fill the rafters of the George Ignatieff Theatre (15 Devonshire Street) at an event entitled Saturday Night Love – a Night of Talent, Talk and Teaching. The evening is the brainchild – or is that heartchild? – of the Toronto Poets, and tickets are $15 at the door, $10 advance if you call (416) 737-0843.
The Skin Tight Outta Sight burlesque troupe celebrate a less noble branch of love on Sunday with the first Canadian rendition of New York City’s popular Naked Girls Reading Series. So there will be a reading, and the readers will be naked. Get it? The event starts at 8 p.m. at the Painted Lady, (218 Ossington Avenue) and tickets are $15 or $25 for a couple.
