Art & Writings of Brenda Clews

◇ poetry ◇ drawing & painting ◇ videopoetry ◇

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Brenda Clews is a multi-media poet, artist and video poet who interweaves poetry, painting, theory, dance and video in in her work



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drawings 2021
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The strength of women
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drawings 2020 (for a manuscript-in-progress)
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Balance
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Pregnant with the future
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due to restrictions during the pandemic there are no scheduled events at this time
    • 27
      January

      Minstrels & Bards

      Minstrels and Bards is a quarterly soirée (once-a-season) in the Southern Cross Lounge at the Tranzac Club in Toronto. An early evening gathering of writers and musicians, Brenda Clews hosts these beautiful events. There are two writer features and one singer/songwriter fearture, as well as highlights (open mic). All forms of music and writing are welcome. We pass the hat for the features, a $5. donation is recommended.
      location_on Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7 access_time 5:30 PM - 7:30 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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    '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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

    See Event

    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:

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    Fugue in Green (Quattro Books, late 2017) is a gothic fairy tale. In resonant, echoing images of psychic connections between characters, a tale of abuse, madness, love and release emerges. The book is sumptuously written with a deep understanding of the nascent creative mind's relationship to nature.

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    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.

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    the luminist poems, a chapbook (LyricalMyrical Press, 2013, SOLD OUT), a romance, its dazzling and dangerous light, questions the paradoxes of who we are before the text blazes into visionary rapture.

    "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


    © 2021 Brenda Clews Contact Me

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    Art & Writings of Brenda Clews

    ◇ poetry ◇ drawing & painting ◇ videopoetry ◇

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    Brenda Clews is a multi-media poet, artist and video poet who interweaves poetry, painting, theory, dance and video in in her work

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    due to restrictions during the pandemic there are no scheduled events at this time
      • 27
        January

        Minstrels & Bards

        Minstrels and Bards is a quarterly soirée (once-a-season) in the Southern Cross Lounge at the Tranzac Club in Toronto. An early evening gathering of writers and musicians, Brenda Clews hosts these beautiful events. There are two writer features and one singer/songwriter fearture, as well as highlights (open mic). All forms of music and writing are welcome. We pass the hat for the features, a $5. donation is recommended.
        location_on Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7 access_time 5:30 PM - 7:30 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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      '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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

      See Event

      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:

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