**TONIGHT!!!!** SISTER SPIT 2015: Vancouver show!

YES, we will have lots of tickets at the door for $16!! Advance tickets: https://www.picatic.com/sisterspitvan Signal boost to our raffle sponsors!! Queer as Funk's Pride show https://www.facebook.com/events/916448395054364/ Verses' Festival's Sounds Like Fire show https://www.facebook.com/events/1377652575890857/ Bump Volleyball Club https://www.facebook.com/BumpBeachVolleyball?fref=ts Bonerattle Music http://www.bonerattle.com/ SISTER SPIT is San Francisco's legendary, raucous, rowdy queer and feminist literary and spoken word performance gang, and they're returning to Vancouver! Now under the umbrella of Michelle Tea's RADAR Productions, Sister Spit's punk rock roots still show. The original team in the '90s banded together to form an alternative to the misogyny-soaked poetry open mics popular in the era, and became the first all-girl poetry roadshow. In its new incarnation, Sister Spit: The Next Generation welcomes artists of all genders as long as feminism, queerness, humour, and provocation are front and centre in their work. EVENT INFO Doors at 7pm $13 soon/$16 later Venue is accessible except for stage (full info below) 19+ THE LINEUP! Local opening artists: KIMMORTAL and Lucia Misch OH GOD OH GOD, VIRGIE TOVAR is back!! Certified sex, sexuality, and self-love expert and educator, this hot fat Latina femme has a M.A in Human Sexuality, host of The Virgie Show on CBS Radio, and editor of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (nothing has flown off the merch table as quickly as this book after she reads from it). KATE SCHATZ is a City Lights Books debutante with her upcoming children's book, Rad American A-Z, where A is not for Apple, but Angela Davis, the iconic Black Panther. She is co-founder and editor of the Encyclopedia Project, and chairs the literary arts department at Oakland School for the Arts, where she teaches fiction, poetry, and journalism. MYRIAM GURBA is back on tour after winning RADAR's Eli Coppola Memorial Chapbook Contest for Sweatsuits of the Damned. She is the author of the award-winning Dahlia Season, poetry collection Wish You Were Me and has published several other 'zines and chapbooks. Gurba was an editorial assistant for the defunct lesbian periodical On Our Backs. MICA SIGOURNEY is a veteran improv, theatre, and drag performer who shuns traditional venues and focuses his energies on go-go performance installations and the populace stages of nightlife. He is behind SomeTHING, a weekly drag arts event, and the WORK MORE! bi-annual drag production which features nightlife performers and exposes their artistic process. TOM CHO is an artist with over 70 fiction pieces published in journals and anthologies. His collection of fictions, Look Who's Morphing, was originally published in Australia to acclaim. It was shortlisted for various awards, including the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. In 2014, it was released by Arsenal Pulp Press for North America and Europe. Tom has performed his work on the stages of many festivals, from Singapore Writers Festival to Sydney Mardi Gras. He has a PhD in Professional Writing and is currently writing a novel about the meaning of life. His website is at www.tomcho.com ACCESSIBILITY The main area and the washrooms of the WISE is fully accessible. However, the stage is not. Radical Access Mapping Project's full audit of the space can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-uIAp3FLiljaJuvL9JcFD83fvKD5QP5299hXov2jqwk/edit?hl=en_US The wheelchair-accessible entrance to the WISE Hall is through the alley. Volunteers will be posted at the door for any assistance. Washrooms will be gender-neutral.