… You’re going to get to see a couple of big names, which allows me to reveal a couple of lesser-known names that should be known,” says Collett. “There’s incredible talent among writers in this country and they truly are the bottom rung in the art world.” (At this, Collett’s told he preaches to the choir; he laughs in turn.) “It’s pretty enriching to see a poet read not in front of a stuffy audience, but in front of people who aren’t even there for them, but really get turned on by it. That’s what really interests me in exploring this thing further.”
Music geeks can expect the odd impromptu jam session to break out, however. Collett notes such instances “expose what we do when nobody’s looking, the moments musicians are privy to in the privacy of a rehearsal space where we discover a hook or a harmony” which can often lead to albums.
Moreover, it’s an opportunity to sniff the guts of the burgeoning enclave of artists around Ossington and Dundas, a neighbourhood Collett and his family have called home for some six years since its bygone days of “a seedy strip bar, doughnut shop, and some drug exchange.”
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