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Cross Queer Quarterly
PRIDE in the WORD:
Canada’s Largest Pride Festival Literary Event
Victoria Pride Society’s Erin Cotton is a Victoria-based
Pride in the Word is Canada’s
largest Pride festival etry is a handwritten love let-
spoken word artist whose po-
literary event. Each year it ter filled with dirty jokes and
showcases both some of the proudest queer politics. Previously, she has
and most talented writers from Victoria
and across the country and is al-
Gay Cabaret and last year’s Pride in
performed in Cabaret Outre, the Big
ways a great time.
the Word. She has one too many poems
about genitalia and is secretly a
bit proud of it. Super queer and super
weird, she’ll bring all the absurdist
sexual politics you can handle.
Nicola Harwood is a writer
and interdisciplinary artist
with a background in theatre
and performance, particularly
collective creation, comedy
and feminist practice. Her first book,
Jillian Christmas is a celebrated
poet, musician and educator,
who has won Grand Poetry-Slam
Championship titles
at both the Vancouver BedRocc poetry-slam
(2011), and the Vancouver
Poetry Slam (2012, 2014). She has
also represented Vancouver at the
Women of the World Poetry slam.
Born and raised in Markham, Ontario,
she currently lives in Vancouver, BC.,
where she serves as Artistic Director
of Versəs Festival of Word.
Oakland-based comedian
Heather Gold is best known
for her unique ability to
make performance an intimate
conversation in which people get
real in public. She’s made over 50,000
cookies with audiences in her hit interactive
show “I Look Like An Egg,
but I Identify As A Cookie,” named
Best of the Bay. She has appeared at
places like NY’s Dixon Place, Toronto’s
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,
Google, Finland’s YLE Media and
SXSW. More virtually she’s appeared
in Wired, NPR, regularly on the CBC,
and almost daily on twitter where she
invites you to hang out with her @
heathr. She is currently working on a
new show called: Everything is Subject
to Change.
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