Events - The High-Flying Adventures of Captain Grief

Current Events

Reiki and Readings at The Ram & Rebirth! Hello everyone, I’m back on the horse and appearing at “A Very Peculiar General Store.” If you are like me and love crystals, oils, candles, oracle cards you could not find a better bookshop! They will carry The High-Flying Adventures of Captain Grief and on July 28th during the Jazz Fest! I will do readings, sell books and also there will be a tarot card reader available. It is an intimate space where I am now doing 15min Reiki sessions every Thursday!

A Very Queer Book Launch. Captain Grief is going to The Village and she is inviting anyone and everyone who wants to get to know my Super Hero Alter Ego a bit better. The event is on a holiday so if you are sticking around, groovy. I will read sections from my book, have a little interactive fun with the Captain and hopefully sign and sell some books! The event runs from 7pm to 830pm and I’m sure there will be folks around to go for a drink after!

Past Events

Books For Brunch! For my Kickstarter Supporters whom I owe one and anyone else who wants to grab my $20 paperback this brunch is for you! Come and join me for a Sunday tuck-in and a book signing. If I have invited you I figured you might be on my list or interested in having a copy. Brunch will be one bill gratuity included so bring cash. My books are $20 so it can be cash or cheque. You can also e-transfer me at brave.creative.kelly@gmail.com. If you are just interested in picking up a signed copy and skipping brunch please DM me so I make sure I bring extra copies. Hope to see you there!

Broadway Book Launch! This is the mother load. On June 26th at a local Toronto Cafe (972 Danforth near Donlands station) at 7pm I will be springing my snotty, messy, unfiltered super hero alter ego on the world. There will be musical entertainment, my good friend Charlotte Moore Canadian Broadway singer will be gracing us with her voice, Sarah Steeves with play cello and Beth Hanson will tinkle away on the piano. I will read sections of my book which hopefully will be in my hands to sell.Click here for the details! I want to go to a book launch!

The Bereaved Families of Ontario present at free online zoom Laughing in the Face of Death, in their “Grief Talk” series Thursday June 20th 2024. Kelly speaks to the use of creativity to cope with loss and the power of healing and learning to manage grief exactly the way you need. She will also read sections of her new memoir The High-Flying Adventures of Captain Grief introducing her Super Hero alter ego Captain Grief.

Here I will keep you updated on any book launches, public appearances, readings, theatrical productions, workshops or other holistic healing events.

Past Events

Spoken Lives I presented at the motivational speaking series Spoken Lives. My title was none other than The Merry Widow. There were a lot of jokes about death! Myself and four other amazing women shared a little of our stories, a little of our struggles and a little laughter! Dinner 6pm, presentation at 7pm. Date Monday September 30th 2019 at The Mustard Seed at 791 Queen St. E. Purchase Tickets

The Brave Space Join me at the HERStoryCounts Theatre Company fundraising cabaret. Monday April 24, 2017 at a fabulous Filipino restaurant Lamesa 669 Queen St. West near Queen and Bathurst. Tickets $10 at the door; cash only. Doors open 7:30pm. Tickets are purchase them here.

I will be reading a section of my current book project The High Flying Adventures of Captain Grief. Help the Captain and I help HERStoryCounts ensure a next production and provide a platform for marginalized voices in the arts community!

HERstoryCounts” Theatre production at Red Sandcastle Theatre. Played April 22nd-24th 2016. Was one of six other women performing an autobiographical monologue in support of telling women’s stories and addressing the lack of diversity in theatre, specifically for actresses of colour. I appeared as myself as well as…Captain Grief!

“Episode 5: The Bedpost Podcast” Aired December 18^th 2015 Interviewed By Erin Pim of Online Erotica Magazine Reading; download on ITunes or Lybson.

Spoke about coming out, holistic healing, sexuality and being a LGBT Parent
Read erotic poem “Infinity”
Spoke about “The Kink in My Pen” PinkPlayMags article Summer 2015.

“Three Poems that Begin with A and One That Doesn’t. ” Bedpost; Online Erotica Magazine Reading, Social Capital Theater, Toronto, Ontario, March 27, 2015.

“Laughing in the Face of Death” Rebel Girl Salon; Metropolitan Community Church Fundraiser for the TBLG Refugee Program, March 7th 2015

Read article published in PinkPlayMags Spring 2015
Read “Oh The Places I’ve Been” an adult picture book about bereavement

“Accidents” and “Out of Body.” Queer Confessions; an LGBTQ+ Memoir Reading Series. 519 Community Center, Toronto, Ontario. September 2014 Monthly theme: “My Summer Vacations” and August 2014 Monthly theme: “Addictions.”www.queerconfessions.com

Excerpt of an unpublished collection of short stories “Far From the Tree”
Focused on my family members and our cabin on Manitoulin Island.
Focused on problematic coping with emotional trauma from chronic pain, questions of orientation and the death of a parent.

“My Butch Wife” Cunning Linguists, World Pride 2014 at the Nuit Rose Festival, Toronto, Ontario, June 2014.