We’re thrilled to launch Up:Rising — A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings from Authors with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions. Join us on November 30th to meet the contributing writers and editors, hear live readings, and take home your own signed copy of the anthology! Light refreshments will be served.
Date: Sunday, November 30th at 7PM
Location: Glad Day Lit at 32 Lisgar St. Toronto, ON, M6K 0C7
About The Book
Featuring both new and established writers, this diverse collection of short stories and poems shatters stereotypes of mental health and addiction in a miasma of razor shards as glitteringly beautiful as they are piercing. In these pages, the self is dissolved and re-made; reality is pulled from its moorings and turned inside out; and the human spirit, even in its most brutalized states, stops at nothing to find beauty in the fractures of a hostile world.
Up:Rising is an unapologetic chorus of Mad voices that refuse to conform or cower in the shadows. It was born from a collaboration between two organizations rooted in community care: Workman Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization supporting artists with lived experience of mental health and/or addictions; and Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, a collectively-run publisher of radical culture grounded in anarchist ideals. We invited writers with lived experience of mental health and/or addiction issues from across Canada to send us their stories, poems, daydreams, imaginings, and manifestos around all the things it can mean to rebel.
32 Lisgar Access Information:
Lisgar Park is accessible with ramps and flat concrete paths (may be affected by snow/ice in winter).
Elevator available just inside the entrance.
Ground floor washroom is wheelchair accessible.
Second floor all-gender washroom has two accessible stalls.
WA has a scent-free policy.
Various types of seating available on the first and second floors.
Also check out other Arts events in Toronto, Health & Wellness events in Toronto, Literary Art events in Toronto.
