Mallo Nights - An Evening of Poetry and Dance

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MALLO NIGHTS

The textures of dance, the music of poetry, and the intimacy of duets over wine, beer, and nocturnal spirits. These events highlight emerging/professional poets and dancers performing together for the first time in the intimate space of Mallo Coffee & Bar.

October 26th will feature poet Hana Shafi with dancer Caitlin Griffin and poet Anto Chan with dancer Ranaganathan Rajan. Come mingle, meet some new people and enjoy some short performances by passionate artists.

Doors open at 8 pm and performances begin at 8:30 pm!!
Join us for the excitement and the fun! Saturday October 26th at Mallo Coffee and Bar, 785 Bathurst street.

Purchase your tickets here - $12
**We are unfortuantly not selling tickets at the door**

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Anto Chan is a Queer Chinese-Canadian spoken word performance artist, facilitator, mentor, producer, student and writer. His chapbook “Love So Far: Romantic Reflections” was released in 2020. He is the founder of the Canada Council-funded InnerGenerational and his OAC-funded album of the same name will be released in 2024. He was nominated for the inaugural Lillian Allen prize as a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has headlined Guelph Poetry Slam, R.I.S.E Poetry & Verses Festival Vancouver. His life's work focuses on expansion, intersectionality, and self-love through the page, stage and community.

Caitlin Griffin is a dance artist with The Margie Gillis Dance Foundation in Montreal. Some of her other career highlights include dancing with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and in the 2010 Olympic Opening Ceremonies. Her improvised dance practice is grounded in the idea of 'body as nature' and emphasizes texture and transformation. When not dancing, she is often covered in cat hair or trying to escape into the trees to hike and canoe with her beloved.

Ranaganathan Rajan, originally from India and currently based in Toronto. A performer and choreographer working innately with ideas of stress, resilience and strength in body through object work, movement and mixed media. I am currently a 3rd year student at Dance Arts Institute Canada. I have a Diploma in Movement Art and Mixed Media from Attakkallari Center of Movement Arts Bangalore India. I presented my durational performance in the 2024 Rhubarb Festival Toronto. And currently engaged in creating a work called the “Running Project”.

Hana Shafi is a writer and artist who illustrates under the name Frizz Kid. She often writes weird poems about the seemingly mundane, accompanied by even weirder drawings. She has two cats, loves Halloween, and wishes she lived in Middle Earth in a haunted cottage. People You Know, Places You've Been, a compilation of poetry and illustrations, is her third book published by Bookhug Press (October 2023), and is out in stores now.
Thank you to our sponsors Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, National Arts Center, Canadian Heritage and Ontario Arts Council

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wind in the leaves collective