Poetry Open Mic – Queer Pride Edition

June 15 // 4:30PM // Free + PWYC at door

In the Cabaret

Featuring Sara Porter 

Join host Raymond Helkio for a super-queer night of bold, brassy, and sassy poetry, featuring Sara Porter plus some of the city’s fiercest voices!

Raymond Helkio // host
Sara Porter // featured artist

Raymond Helkio is a queer Toronto artist living on the edge of insanity. https://raymondhelkio.com

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Buddies’ Queer Pride Festival 

June 4 – 29, 2025

Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025 is a festival of theatre, comedy, drag, music, art, and parties that welcome your queerness in all its evolutions, revolutions, and possibilities. 

There’s a place for you (and your lover/chosen family/polycule/new crush) on the biggest dance floor in the Village. 

Let’s fill this sweaty sanctuary with our tenderest selves, and dream of what queer abundance, exaltation, and deviance can look like all year round. 

Thank you to our Government Partner, Canadian Heritage, and our Gold Sponsor, Freddie, for making the 2025 Queer Pride Festival possible!

Like its ambisextrous namesake, Buddies’ in-house bar and performance space Tallulah’s Cabaret does it all. It’s throbbing club nights and community tap dance lessons. High-concept drag and low-stakes open mics. Go for pre-drinks but stay late for the post-show discourse—maybe even spark that next collaboration. With local brews and sober options that aren’t an after-thought, Tallulah’s is the come-as-you-are bar for old friends, new lovers, partiers, poets, and curious passerby. See you under the chandeliers.

Tallulah’s Cabaret is open Wednesday to Sunday from 6:00pm to midnight (or later).

Check out our events calendar for more info, or follow Tallulah’s Instagram.