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Poetry Open Mic – Queer Pride Edition

The Reading Salon presents

Sunday June 15th, 2025

Sunday June 15th, 2025

4:30 PM

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7:00 PM EDT

Starts: 4:30 PM EDT

Ends: 7:00 PM EDT

Tallulah's Cabaret

12 Alexander St, Toronto

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Free

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This event is free to attend with no pre-registration required! You can visit buddiesinbadtimes.com/events/ to view other events in our calendar.

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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.

Important Info

Ages 19+
No Outside Food or Drink

Contact Information

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is Toronto's leading destination for artistically rigorous alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices and stories for the stage.

Refund Policy

If you would like to exchange your ticket or be granted a refund, please email tickets@buddiesinbadtimes.com. Requests will be approved at the discretion of Buddies in Bad Times and Tallulah’s Cabaret, as well as any producing partners. No refunds or exchanges will be granted within 48 hours of the event start time. If approved, a full refund of the ticket cost minus any applicable service fees will be credited to your account within 30 days.