2024-05-11

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
safeTALK for the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community
Roots of Hope and Healthy Minds Cooperative are proud to offer a free safeTALK training for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Livingworks' safeTALK is a four hour certificate course that equips people to be more alert to someone thinking of suicide and better able to connect them with further help.
In addition to the training, this opportunity will also comprise of a focus group on the lived experiences of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and suicide and how the safeTALK training can be applied and modified in culturally competent ways. Full event description online.
This event is free but registration is required.
Location: Findlay Community Centre, 26 Elliot Street, Dartmouth

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8:00 p.m.
Martha Chaves
Martha describes herself as the "most famous Nicaraguan-Canadian LGBTQ+ stand-up comedian in the world," but despite being an act of such a unique nature, she’s hilariously relatable, universally funny and accessible. She is an award-winning comedian, writer, and actor whose career spans over two decades. Now Magazine described her as "smart, sassy, provocative, and very funny."
Tickets: $22.50 in advance, online (+ fees and taxes).
Location: Yuk Yuk's, 1665 Argyle Street

8:30 p.m. to Midnight
The Addams Family Reunion
Welcome to a birthday party of Addmas Family proportions as TishinaLaTush? and AsylumJack? have joined forces to bring you an Addams Family Reunion show that will have you rolling in your grave!
Visit with the cast of drag and burlesque artists showing off their cooky and mysterious Addams Family (and adjacent) acts and celebrate the agelessness that is the Deadman of Dartmouth and the soon-to-be forty, fabulous, and flirty Tishina La Tush.
Please wear some black... it's such a happy colour.
Tickets: $16.50 online or $20 at the door. Doors open 8:30 with show to commence at 9.
Location: StaggersPub, 26 Portland St, Dartmouth