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Pinch #51 act spotlight!

For this month's Pinch Zine Series we’ll release "Canada is a Shell of Itself" by Nathaniel Hicks-Voll. Nathaniel (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, a settler in the Willow River Watershed, and a frequent flyer on the Pinch Cabaret stage. They make art about interconnectedness, collective responsibility and what it means to be human. Their zine is a reflection on Canada's identity in a modern colonial era, using analogue photographs by Toronto-based artist Isaac Giles and blackout poetry sourced from Dennis Tourbin's 1992 visual poem, "Canada Is".

Pinch #51 is Sat June 27 at
Sliding scale tix ($5-30) at link in bio.

Thanks to and our individual donors for their generous support with the series.

Pinch #51 act spotlight!

Vanessa Ricci-Thode is a q***r, disabled speculative fiction author living in Waterloo. She's a community organizer, running the region's largest writers collective, KW Writers Alliance, and always looking for opportunities to help writers level up and to connect with readers. She's the first self-published author to win a Nebula Award, and primarily writes fantasy novels including her firebending sword-lesbian dragon-rider series, Fireborn, and her award-winning kids book, The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts. Sometimes she writes short stories about plagues that kill billionaires, but for Pinch she'll be reading something loosely based on a true story about a large guardian dog vs an eldritch horror.

Pinch #51 is Sat June 27 at
Sliding scale tix ($5-30) at link in bio.

Thanks to and our individual donors for their generous support with the series.