If you happen to be entirely unfamiliar with this city's spoken word scene, here's a chance to meet the big players in one stop: The Impure Benefit: A Music and Word Extravaganza. Mainstays like Alex Boutros, Kaarla Sundstrom, Ian Ferrier and Alexis O'Hara will be wielding words and Strawberry, Goa Gajah and Alexandre St-Onge will be making music. Plus, many more movers and shakers will be, um, moving and shaking on stage. The proceeds go to help in the publication of Impure: Re-inventing the Word in Montreal a collaborative book by Mirror contributor Vincent Tinguely, and performance artist Victoria Stanton. At Jailhouse Rock (30 Mont-Royal W.), Nov. 17, 8 p.m., $6.
If you happen to be entirely unfamiliar with this city's spoken word scene, here's a chance to meet the big players in one stop: The Impure Benefit: A Music and Word Extravaganza. Mainstays like Alex Boutros, Kaarla Sundstrom, Ian Ferrier and Alexis O'Hara will be wielding words and Strawberry, Goa Gajah and Alexandre St-Onge will be making music. Plus, many more movers and shakers will be, um, moving and shaking on stage. The proceeds go to help in the publication of Impure: Re-inventing the Word in Montreal a collaborative book by Mirror contributor Vincent Tinguely, and performance artist Victoria Stanton. At Jailhouse Rock (30 Mont-Royal W.), Nov. 17, 8 p.m., $6.