Time: Doors 2:30 pm | Show 3:00 pm
Location: Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton (please enter using the glass doors on the right side of the building).
Pricing: Cover is $10 to 20 sliding scale.** There will be no advance tickets.
Schedule:
2:30 pm – Doors Open
3:00 pm – Anne Hedonia
3:30 pm – Rebecca Salazar
4:10 pm – Wangled Teb
5:00 pm – Rae Spoon
Post-Show Collage Making with Pride/Swell will begin at 6:00pm.
Performers:
Rae Spoon is a musician, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author. Rae will be performing and sharing a reading from their newest book.
Rebecca Salazar is a queer, disabled, Latinx writer who will be reading from their upcoming poetry collection.
Wangled Teb is an electronic music artist who will be performing recent work.
Anne Hedonia is frills and flowers, oldtime and acoustic punk, gentle and fierce. It’s like being swept up in memories you’ve never had.
After the show, Pride/Swell will facilitate a free, participatory collage-making event in the back garden (weather permitting).
Artist Bios:
Rae Spoon is a musician, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author. They have released twelve solo albums(Coax Records)spanning folk, country, indie rock, and electronic genres and published three books (Arsenal Pulp Press). Raehasbeen nominated for two PolarisPrizes, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Western Canadian Music Award. They have toured internationally (Canada, Europe, the USA, Australia, China). Rae is a non-binary, trans artist who lives with multiple disabilities. Their most recent album, Not Dead Yet(2023), was written about their lived experience of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and complications.
Rebecca Salazar (she/they) is a queer, disabled, Latinx writer living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Her first full-length collection, sulphurtongue, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards, the Atlantic Book Awards, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Their second book, antibody, is forthcoming in 2025.
Wangled Teb creates dense, thoughtfully constructed electronic music with a strong emotional centre. MusicNB’s electronic artist of the year for 2018. https://wangledteb.bandcamp.com/ Additional information will be added soon!
Anne Hedonia is frills and flowers, oldtime and acoustic punk, gentle and fierce. It’s like being swept up in memories you’ve never had. After years of hiatus, this project from Tzomi Sara is emerging for this special event before disappearing back into the fir trees and mosses. https://tzomi.bandcamp.com/
Accessibility:
There will be ASL interpretation
This is a dry, all-ages event
The venue is physically accessible. There is accessible parking, a ramp outside the door, and an elevator between floors. Minimum door width at the venue is 32”.
There will be accessible, gender-neutral washrooms
There will be seating at the event for all attendees
There will be a quiet, low-sensory area available
Please avoid wearing scented products
COVID Harm Reduction:
Masking is required (respirator masks recommended).
KN95 masks will be available at the door courtesy of ElderPride.
COVID self-testing is encouraged before the event.
If you have a positive test or know you have been in contact with COVID, we ask that you please stay home in the interest of collective community care and safety.
All volunteers will test before the event
We will have 3 H13 HEPA filters in the room (each with a CADR of 550 m³/h) and a CO2 monitor.
**No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 5% of proceeds from the door after expenses will be donated to Crips 4 eSIMs 4 Gaza.
Contact contact@elderpride.com with any access questions or concerns.