Join us for a free (donations welcome) Open Mic event at Moodswing Bar in New West! This month, we’re welcoming feature poet Ellie Sawatzky. Open Mic will follow her set, Music, poetry, stand-up, and all genres welcome!

SAPP and Moodswing celebrate ALL folks — come hang out with us in a welcoming space with good drinks, food, and community. Mocktails available for non-drinkers.

This event is sponsored by The Sapperton Press.

Ellie Sawatzky (@elliesawatzky) is the author of two poetry collections: None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021) and Hottest Smartest Self (ECW Press, forthcoming spring 2028), which won the 2026 Pamela Paige Porter Poetry Prize through the League of Canadian Poets. Recent poems have appeared in The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, EVENT, and elsewhere. Ellie lives on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver), where she works as an editor and is founder and facilitator of the Strathcona Poetry Studio. Write with her on Tuesdays at Tuesday Night Write, a drop-in style, generative poetry class on Zoom.