Art & Writings of Brenda Clews
◇ poetry ◇ drawing & painting ◇ videopoetry ◇
Brenda Clews is a multi-media poet, artist and video poet who interweaves poetry, painting, theory, dance and video in in her work
When Brenda Clews reads, her whole body moves to the rhythm of the lines. Nancy Walden
drawings 2021
I created a video of a selection of my mirror portraits from 2019-2021 (& picked some strange ones never shared). And overlaid/ voice-overed the show with two mirror portrait poems with animated text. Hope you enjoy this little collection of paintings and drawings! ❤️
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26April 2022
Minstrels & Bards
Minstrels and Bards is a quarterly soirée (once-a-season) in the Southern Cross Lounge at the Tranzac Club in Tkaronto/Toronto. A gathering of writers and musicians on the last Tuesday of January, April, July & October from 7:15-9:30 pm. BRENDA CLEWS organizes, hosts and videos these beautiful events. There are two poetry/writer features and one singer/songwriter feature, as well as 'Highlights' (5 min sharings of a few poems or a song, plus an open mic or so). All forms of music and writing are welcome. We pass ye olde Tranzac jug for the features - a $10. donation is recommended, though any amount is appreciated. Our gatherings are warm, convivial, supportive and very talented evenings and I would love you to come out and enjoy a marvellous couple of hours and perhaps share a poem, song or prose reading of your own. The Tranzac is fully accessible. The Southern Cross Lounge has a bar, and tables, and they will make sandwiches or you are welcome to bring take-out from the area while you enjoy the show. We began hosting the series in the Southern Cross Lounge in April 2019. Before that, the salon ran at Palmerston Library Theatre, Markham House and Charlotte Hale Gallery, both in Mirvish Village, and the beautiful and now gone Urban Gallery, where it began in 2014 when Brenda Clews had a solo show there. We now have an Artist Residency at the Tranzac Club in Tkaronto/Toronto and look forward to a beautiful, long run of Minstrels & Bards.location_on Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7 access_time 7:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Featured reader at Charles Taylor's book launch
Start Date:
2017-05-17T19:30:47EDT
End Time:
2017-05-17T22:00:47EDT
Location:
Bar Italia, 582 College St, Toronto, Canada
Event Description:
Guest Poet at Linda Stitt's Words & Music Salon
Start Date:
2017-09-02T12:30:00EDT
End Time:
2016-09-09T15:30:00EDT
Location:
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Event Description:
New members reading at The League of Canadian Poets
Start Date:
2017-06-11T12:30:00EDT
End Time:
2017-05-01T13:30:00EDT
Location:
CSI Building meeting room, 192 Spadina Avenue
Event Description:
Poetry & Music Salon Fundraiser
Start Date:
2017-05-27T13:45:00EDT
End Time:
2017-05-27T16:00:00EDT
Location:
Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston Ave, Toronto, M6G 2P7
Event Description:
Final Poetry & Music Salon (monthly series ends)
Start Date:
2017-06-24T13:45:00EDT
End Time:
2017-06-24T16:00:00EDT
Location:
Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston Ave, Toronto, M6G 2P7
Event Description:
Feature at 100,000 Poets for Change Toronto 2017
Start Date:
2017-09-16T18:00:00EDT
End Time:
2017-06-11T22:00:00EDT
Location:
Mây, 876 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6J1W1
Event Description:
Feature at Wild Writers
Start Date:
2017-11-01T19:00:00EDT
End Time:
2017-11-01T21:30:00EDT
Location:
Poetry Jazz Café, 224 Augusta Ave, Toronto
Event Description:
Feature @ Words & Music Salon
Start Date:
2018-01-06T12:30:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-06T15:30:00EST
Location:
Tranzac Club in the Tiki Room, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Event Description:
'Fugue in Green' @ Quattro Book Launch
Start Date:
2018-01-31T19:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-31T22:00:00EST
Location:
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas St W, Toronto
Event Description:
Feature @ the Urban Folk Art Salon
Start Date:
2018-01-25T18:30:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-25T20:30:00EST
Location:
Mount Pleasant Public Library, 599 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON M4S 2M5
Event Description:
Fugue in Green Book Launch/Birthday Bash
Start Date:
2018-03-07T19:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-03-07T21:00:00EST
Location:
Paupers Pub, 539 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON
Event Description:
Feature @ Word Up Barrie
Start Date:
2018-10-11T19:00:00EDT
Location:
Unity Market Cafe & Studios, 25 Toronto St, Barrie, ON L4N 1T8
Event Description:
Feature @ The Art Bar Poetry Series
Start Date:
2018-04-17T20:00:00EDT
End Time:
2018-03-28T22:30:00EDT
Location:
Free Times Café, 320 College St, Toronto, ON M5T 1S3
Event Description:
Interview on HOWL with Valentino Assenza, CIUT 89.5FM
Start Date:
2018-11-06T22:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-11-06T23:00:00EST
Event Description:
Feature @ the Urban Folk Art Salon
Start Date:
2018-11-29T18:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-25T20:00:00EST
Location:
Mount Pleasant Public Library, 599 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON M4S 2M5
Event Description:
Hosting a Song & Poetry Salon
Start Date:
2019-01-13T13:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-01-13T16:00:00EST
Location:
Tiki Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Reading at Feel the Love (Poetry Event)
Start Date:
2019-02-15T20:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-02-15T22:00:00EST
Location:
LucStudio, 663 Greenwood Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4J 4B3
Event Description:
Feature at Fat Albert's Coffee House
Start Date:
2019-02-20T20:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-02-20T23:00:00EST
Location:
United Steel Worker's Hall 25 Cecil St Toronto, ON, Canada
Event Description:
Hosting a Song & Poetry Salon
Start Date:
2019-03-10T13:00:00EDT
End Time:
2019-03-10T16:00:00EDT
Location:
Tiki Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Authors' Afternoon with Brenda Clews
Start Date:
2019-06-30T16:00:09EDT
Location:
Stella's Lunch Box 145 Lauder Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6H 3E4
Event Description:
Feature at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Start Date:
2019-07-09T20:00:00EDT
End Time:
2019-03-04T22:30:00EST
Location:
Free Times Café, 320 College St, Toronto, ON M5T 1S3
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2019-04-29T17:45:00EDT
End Time:
2019-04-29T19:45:00EDT
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2019-07-29T17:45:00EDT
End Time:
2019-07-29T19:45:00EDT
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2019-10-28T17:45:00EDT
End Time:
2019-10-28T19:45:00EDT
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2020-01-27T17:45:00EST
End Time:
2020-01-27T19:45:00EST
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Contestant in PoetryNOW: 11th Annual Battle of the Bards
Start Date:
2019-04-03T19:30:00EDT
Location:
Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto M5J 2G8
Event Description:
Green Fire: Ecology of Poetry
Start Date:
2019-04-14T14:00:00EDT
End Time:
2019-04-14T15:30:00EDT
Location:
St. Matthew's Clubhouse, 450 Broadview Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2N1
Event Description:
A Reader @ Dead Poets Society Night Fundraiser - 2019 Edition - 17th annual - presented by the Art Bar Poetry Series and the Rowers Reading Series
Start Date:
2019-12-17T19:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-12-07T22:00:00EST
Location:
Supermarket 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2L9
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards Spring Soirée
Start Date:
2022-04-26T19:00:00EDT
End Time:
2022-04-26T21:30:00EDT
Location:
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Books
Tidal Fury (Guernica Editions, 2016) is an inaugural collection by a unique, powerfully evocative and imaginative voice. In language that haunts our throats, Tidal Fury is a poetry on the edge of the text of an interior ocean of passion. The collection includes artwork from the poet.
"Brenda Clews offers us a pellucid voice that presents and interprets so clearly, it is almost as if light is shining through each one of the magnificent images in these mysterious poems." -John F. Walter
Thank you for visiting, and come back soon.
Art & Writings of Brenda Clews
◇ poetry ◇ drawing & painting ◇ videopoetry ◇
Brenda Clews is a multi-media poet, artist and video poet who interweaves poetry, painting, theory, dance and video in in her work
drawings 2021
drawings 2020 (for a manuscript-in-progress)
commissions & self-portraits 2019
due to restrictions during the pandemic there are no scheduled events at this time
Featured reader at Charles Taylor's book launch
Start Date:
2017-05-17T19:30:47EDT
End Time:
2017-05-17T22:00:47EDT
Location:
Bar Italia, 582 College St, Toronto, Canada
Event Description:
Guest Poet at Linda Stitt's Words & Music Salon
Start Date:
2017-09-02T12:30:00EDT
End Time:
2016-09-09T15:30:00EDT
Location:
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Event Description:
New members reading at The League of Canadian Poets
Start Date:
2017-06-11T12:30:00EDT
End Time:
2017-05-01T13:30:00EDT
Location:
CSI Building meeting room, 192 Spadina Avenue
Event Description:
Poetry & Music Salon Fundraiser
Start Date:
2017-05-27T13:45:00EDT
End Time:
2017-05-27T16:00:00EDT
Location:
Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston Ave, Toronto, M6G 2P7
Event Description:
Final Poetry & Music Salon (monthly series ends)
Start Date:
2017-06-24T13:45:00EDT
End Time:
2017-06-24T16:00:00EDT
Location:
Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston Ave, Toronto, M6G 2P7
Event Description:
Feature at 100,000 Poets for Change Toronto 2017
Start Date:
2017-09-16T18:00:00EDT
End Time:
2017-06-11T22:00:00EDT
Location:
Mây, 876 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6J1W1
Event Description:
Feature at Wild Writers
Start Date:
2017-11-01T19:00:00EDT
End Time:
2017-11-01T21:30:00EDT
Location:
Poetry Jazz Café, 224 Augusta Ave, Toronto
Event Description:
Feature @ Words & Music Salon
Start Date:
2018-01-06T12:30:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-06T15:30:00EST
Location:
Tranzac Club in the Tiki Room, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Event Description:
'Fugue in Green' @ Quattro Book Launch
Start Date:
2018-01-31T19:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-31T22:00:00EST
Location:
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas St W, Toronto
Event Description:
Feature @ the Urban Folk Art Salon
Start Date:
2018-01-25T18:30:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-25T20:30:00EST
Location:
Mount Pleasant Public Library, 599 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON M4S 2M5
Event Description:
Fugue in Green Book Launch/Birthday Bash
Start Date:
2018-03-07T19:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-03-07T21:00:00EST
Location:
Paupers Pub, 539 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON
Event Description:
Feature @ Word Up Barrie
Start Date:
2018-10-11T19:00:00EDT
Location:
Unity Market Cafe & Studios, 25 Toronto St, Barrie, ON L4N 1T8
Event Description:
Feature @ The Art Bar Poetry Series
Start Date:
2018-04-17T20:00:00EDT
End Time:
2018-03-28T22:30:00EDT
Location:
Free Times Café, 320 College St, Toronto, ON M5T 1S3
Event Description:
Interview on HOWL with Valentino Assenza, CIUT 89.5FM
Start Date:
2018-11-06T22:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-11-06T23:00:00EST
Event Description:
Feature @ the Urban Folk Art Salon
Start Date:
2018-11-29T18:00:00EST
End Time:
2018-01-25T20:00:00EST
Location:
Mount Pleasant Public Library, 599 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON M4S 2M5
Event Description:
Hosting a Song & Poetry Salon
Start Date:
2019-01-13T13:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-01-13T16:00:00EST
Location:
Tiki Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Reading at Feel the Love (Poetry Event)
Start Date:
2019-02-15T20:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-02-15T22:00:00EST
Location:
LucStudio, 663 Greenwood Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4J 4B3
Event Description:
Feature at Fat Albert's Coffee House
Start Date:
2019-02-20T20:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-02-20T23:00:00EST
Location:
United Steel Worker's Hall 25 Cecil St Toronto, ON, Canada
Event Description:
Hosting a Song & Poetry Salon
Start Date:
2019-03-10T13:00:00EDT
End Time:
2019-03-10T16:00:00EDT
Location:
Tiki Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Authors' Afternoon with Brenda Clews
Start Date:
2019-06-30T16:00:09EDT
Location:
Stella's Lunch Box 145 Lauder Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6H 3E4
Event Description:
Feature at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Start Date:
2019-07-09T20:00:00EDT
End Time:
2019-03-04T22:30:00EST
Location:
Free Times Café, 320 College St, Toronto, ON M5T 1S3
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2019-04-29T17:45:00EDT
End Time:
2019-04-29T19:45:00EDT
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2019-07-29T17:45:00EDT
End Time:
2019-07-29T19:45:00EDT
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2019-10-28T17:45:00EDT
End Time:
2019-10-28T19:45:00EDT
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards (quarterly soirée I host)
Start Date:
2020-01-27T17:45:00EST
End Time:
2020-01-27T19:45:00EST
Location:
The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Contestant in PoetryNOW: 11th Annual Battle of the Bards
Start Date:
2019-04-03T19:30:00EDT
Location:
Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto M5J 2G8
Event Description:
Green Fire: Ecology of Poetry
Start Date:
2019-04-14T14:00:00EDT
End Time:
2019-04-14T15:30:00EDT
Location:
St. Matthew's Clubhouse, 450 Broadview Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2N1
Event Description:
A Reader @ Dead Poets Society Night Fundraiser - 2019 Edition - 17th annual - presented by the Art Bar Poetry Series and the Rowers Reading Series
Start Date:
2019-12-17T19:00:00EST
End Time:
2019-12-07T22:00:00EST
Location:
Supermarket 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2L9
Event Description:
Minstrels & Bards
Start Date:
2020-04-27T05:30:00EDT
End Time:
2020-04-27T19:30:00EDT
Location:
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Event Description:
Thank you for visiting, and come back soon.