Hannah Godfrey reads “Chicago of the North”

by herself, aka hannah_g (sometimes)

6pm to 7pm at the PLATFORM gallery

from the Facebook event description:

“If the thought of extracting money from Madam had ever crossed a Winnipegger’s mind it would have been tied to the tracks of decency and disembowelled by the freight train of common sense…”

Tapdancing typists, a wallet made out of a dead dog’s ears, the most notorious boozecan in the Prairies: this is the backdrop for the battle between the reigning Madam of the city and the dangerously greedy Chief of Police.

Inspired in part by trawling through the PLATFORM online archive, this story is a work of Winnipeg Folklore.”

The lights were dim.

Guy Maddin’s “Hauntings” gauzy film projections were all around us.

Quite magical.

PLATFORM; centre for photographic + digital arts

Guy Maddin's "Hauntings" at Platform Gallery

J J Kegan McFadden; Director of PLATFORM

Hannah Godfrey reads

All of Winnipeg's cool hipsters were there. Clipsters.

The Winnipeg Art Scene

The reading took about half an hour

Some of Winnipeg's broken and glorious heritage, like that described in Hannah's story.