SPIZZY is ringing in the new year with a double Bruce Feature! SPIZZY LIVE! returns to The Imperial Pub in January with two very exciting special guests…
Spizzy Spezzatura Jones at The Liar’s Club
Thursday, January 9th at 7:00pm
The Imperial Pub – 54 Dundas Street East, Toronto
Free admission as usual.
Episode 10 of Spizzy LIVE!
January’s Liar’s Club will welcome heritage practitioner, writer and performer Bruce Beaton, and concept artist, and co-founder and chief archivist of the International Gay History Archive Bruce Eves.
Spizzy is searching for two special guest poets to read at the end. CONTACT SKY to put your name in the hat!
Bruce Beaton is a Toronto-based heritage practitioner, writer and performer. He has worked with the Toronto History Museums (THM) for over a decade and is currently the Museum Program Officer at Colborne Lodge Museum. His work with THM includes Eaton’s Goes To War: Family, Memory & Meaning which was a Heritage Toronto Public History Award Nominee. He co-authored Reclaiming the Ruins: A Case Study of Graffiti Heritage Interpretation at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto (Left Coast Press) in the anthology Understanding Graffiti. His novel Mrs Mackenzie was shortlisted for the Guerinca Literary Award in 2024. Bruce is a graduate of the Masters of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto. He also works as an actor and be seen playing bad guys in The Apprentice, Murdoch Mysteries, Copper, A History of Violence, Frankie Drake Mysteries and Chicago. Stage credits include work at Buddies, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille and the Blyth Festival.
Bruce Eves was the recipient of the Governor-General’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual and Media Arts in 2018, and that same year was the subject of Peter Dudar’s feature-length documentary “Bruce Eves in Polari” that premiered at
The Power Plant. Later Eves was ranked 26 th on the Alt-Power100 list compiled by ArtLyst (UK). In the past he was assistant-programming director at the Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC) in the late 1970s; and throughout the
1980s was the co-founder and chief archivist of the International Gay History Archive (now housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript division of the New York Public Library). Eves continues an active practice of exhibiting and curating on the cutting-edge, and in recent years has pushed the envelope even further by expanding his work to include (published and recorded) spoken-word projects that are performed monthly at the Black Eagle bar’s Dirty Queer Poetry Nights. Eves lives and works in Toronto.
The Liars Club Manifesto:
Art is important because it is morally ambiguous. In this totally polarized culture –where we are alone, believing the various orthodoxies we find on our computers — each of us has come to imagine that we are are a crusader for what is right and what is wrong. WE NEED ART. Art offers no truth. It offers no answers; only questions, it shocks, upsets, and unsettles, and demands that we use our own minds and hearts to think, feel, explore undiscovered countries, and change our mind. Art is a LIE. This is why we need The Liars Club!