{"id":1004,"date":"2014-02-19T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2014-03-17T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:37:11","slug":"a-literary-cabaret-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"A Literary Cabaret, live literature and music"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1005\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1005\" alt=\"Literary Cabaret poster, highlighting the evening line-up of readers, including A.M. Matte\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-poster-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-poster-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-poster.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Literary Cabaret poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of the Toronto Writers&rsquo; Co-operative&rsquo;s annual outreach efforts, I participated in the 2014 Literary Cabaret at Alleycatz Lounge last February. Eighteen members of the Co-op took the stage to perform their writing, accompanied by a varying array of musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Though I&rsquo;d never met him before we shook hands on stage, my reading of my short story\u00a0<em> Paper Dolls<\/em> was accompanied by\u00a0James Faulkner on acoustic guitar. James&rsquo; spry yet mournful strumming was a touching backdrop to a story of a late-blooming friendship in the life of an older woman.<\/p>\n<p>I will make a video of my reading available in April.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1006\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-AMMreadingPaperDolls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1006\" alt=\"Under a spotlight and by a few microphones, A.M. Matte reads excerpts of her short story, Paper Dolls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-AMMreadingPaperDolls-300x276.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-AMMreadingPaperDolls-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Alleycatz-AMMreadingPaperDolls-1024x942.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.M. Matte on stage, reading excerpts of her short story, Paper Dolls (photo courtesy of Omar Samara)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-dd\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Toronto Writers&rsquo; Co-operative&rsquo;s annual outreach efforts, I participated in the 2014 Literary Cabaret at Alleycatz Lounge last February. Eighteen members of the Co-op took the stage to perform their writing, accompanied by a varying array of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[492,491,421,505,345,493,504,435,85,99,78,12],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alleycatz","tag-cabaret","tag-co-operative","tag-james-faulkner","tag-literary","tag-music","tag-paper-dolls","tag-performance","tag-reading","tag-toronto","tag-writers","tag-writing","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}