Under The Table Open Mic Series

On Tuesday, April 4th at 6pm PST, join Massy Arts Society and a collective of brilliant poet organisers for the first event in our Under The Table Open Mic Series, featuring celebrated poet, spoken word artist and former Edmonton Poet Laureate, Nisha Patel.

Under the Table is an open mic series centering disabled and/or queer poets. This series was dreamed up out of a desire to share work, experience art, and connect with community in a covid safer, more accessible, and anti-oppressive space. Partnering with Massy Voices, Under the Table Open Mic Series will be on the first Tuesday of each month with some events in person at Massy Arts Society and others virtually on zoom.

Doors and sign-up at 5:45, show starts at 6

(we run on crip time with the understanding that bodies and brains aren’t always on schedule)

we invite you to sign up for the open mic as Under The Table welcomes us to laugh, cry, celebrate and sit in the richness of queer and disabled life, writing and poetics.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/under-the-table-open-mic-series-ft-nisha-patel-tickets-590468084937

About Under The Table:

Under the Table is an open mic series centering disabled and/or queer poets.

Under the Table is a space where the richness that is queer and disabled life and art, flourishes and finds a home. It’s a space to share work that’s asking to be told, but might not be welcomed in other spaces, if you are able to access those spaces at all. It’s a space where being queer and/or disabled (whether or not those specific words resonate for you) makes your work a brilliant fit, regardless of how queer or disabled you think the poetry you wish to share is, how connected you are to disabled and/or queer community, and whether you feel disabled and/or queer “enough” to participate. It’s a space to witness and engage with the work of incredible artists, anywhere on their path of sharing their work–from the person who has never shared in front of an audience, to artists who have read or performed work many times. It’s a space where there’s room to be scared, and choose to be in community, share, and engage with others’ work. It’s a space where we don’t claim to know all the answers, but are willing to be in the messy, nuanced space of learning together. Come to “Under the Table” to laugh, cry, celebrate, sit in discomfort, feel understood, and be together.