LGBT events at Verses Festival of Words: Sounds Like Fire and Radical (Re)Imaginings

While there are LGBT performers peppered throughout the schedule of events at the 2017 Verses Festival of Words, here are some queer-specific events to consider.

Sounds Like Fire: Femme4Femme will be held tomorrow (April 25) from 8 to 10:30 p.m. at the Cultch (1895 Venables Street). This showcase will feature four fierce femmes: Vancouver's Amber Dawn, Toronto and Oakland's Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Montreal's Kama La Mackerel, and Toronto's Kai Cheng Thom.

Thom's poetry collection a place called No Homeland will have its Vancouver launch at this event.

Meanwhile, Radical (Re)Imaginings: Visions of a Queer Future Showcase will offer a showcase of work by youth, along with poets Amal Rana, Molly Billows, and jaye simpson.

It'll be held at Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial Drive) from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday (April 29).

Some of the works will be from the workshop with youth mentors Billows and Rana held a day prior (11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., April 28) at Havana Theatre, and some will be from the Tomorrow is Ours: IBPOC Futurisms workshop series held by Billows and Rana over the last few months.

For full details and information about even more events, visit the Verses website.

The festival kicked off on April 20 and runs until Sunday (April 30).