From our weekly open mic showcases in Scarborough to our newly curated monthly showcases in the Annex. Please join us in our cornerstone to Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE). Similar to our RISE Poetry Mondays, RISE Thursdays is an open mic event that will take place on the first Thursday of every month. Our mission […]

Kristen Mark Westwood's debut "What I Heard, What I Saw," was born from almost a decade of wrestling with, and re-discovering, the stories from the Book of Mark. It's a folk meditation on these core narratives of hisfaith, told through the eyes of the characters he find myself next to most often as I live with these accounts year after year.