Join us in Toronto at the Burdock on October 19th for an evening of true, personal stories about how science made things awkward.
Hosted by Sara Mazrouei and Misha Gajewski.
Doors at 7 pm. Show starts at 7:30 pm.
This event is sponsored by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science.
Stories By:
Tamara Shevon is a Toronto-based comic who started her comedic story-telling through wine-coloured glasses in Beijing, China. Since then, she has been blazing through the Toronto scene with her characteristic wit and her lovable ability to flirt with the boundaries of socially acceptable. Tamara has performed at Just For Laughs, Just for Laughs Toronto, the Comedy is Art Festival, and was recently featured on Out for Laughs on OutTV. Tamara currently has her debut album 'Purse Wine' and sophomore album ‘Table Wine’ available on bandcamp.com and all other streaming platforms.
Dr. Cassandra Hartblay is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, where she works with graduate students in Anthropology, European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Disability Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies, as well as undergraduates in Health Humanities. She is author of the 2020 book "I Was Never Alone or Oporniki" (University of Toronto Press 2020) and numerous articles, a documentary play, and co-curator of the #CripRitual art exhibition. If you can't find her, she's probably our running or swimming with her dog, an Aussie-Retriever mix named Arlo.
Edith Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Critical Museum Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. She studies the global flow of ecological knowledge within the context of transatlantic slavery. Edith is a Fulbright Scholar of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, will be a Research Fellow at All Souls College - Oxford University in 2024, and is committed to decolonizing the spaces in which she works. Her current NSF-funded field research takes place on the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda in the Eastern Caribbean, but she is not there on vacation no matter what the photos of pina coladas might indicate. She is a two-time champion of the Smut Slam sex storytelling show because of her creative use of profanity and complete lack of shame. Her dedication to logic and sci-fi fangirldom have earned her the nickname of "the Puerto-Rican Mr. Spock.”
Part-journalist, part-theatre kid, Tay Glass is a senior producer for Back Pocket Media. He helps journalists from across the US adapt their stories to the stage. When not producing stories, Tay is probably binging a podcast or doting on his Millennial dog-child, Pepper.
Set L. Shuter is a writer, filmmaker and storyteller from Toronto. She got her start in comedy as an elementary school class clown and later discovered her love of performance at The Second City training centre in Toronto. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The University of King's College and is currently querying her horror-comedy medical memoir, Ovaries Gone Wild. Her essays have appeared in The Toronto Star, Chatelaine Magazine, Understorey Magazine, CBC, and Creative Nonfiction Magazine. Set has told her stories for the RISK! podcast, True Stories Told Live Toronto, Replay Storytelling, But That's Another Story, and more. When she isn't on stage or working, she is in Nova Scotia, writing her days away by the ocean.