Don't miss the last Suitcase Scratch Night of the Season where new work, experiments, stories and creative risks are shared live in front of an audience. Scratch Nights are celebrate process over perfection and a chance to witness artists testing ideas, inviting connection and discovering what unfolds in real time. 

This special final Scratch Night of the season will feature Suitcase in Point co-founders and good friends sharing a variety of work from sweet to salacious to hilarious. See you there!

Alex Brown is professionally a mental health care provider, personally the mother of teens and privately a lamenting poet. She is co-founder of Suitcase in Point. She will share a new piece called, My Eulogy: It's 2073, Alex is 94 years old and she has just passed away. Imagine a world of peaceful co-existence; this is the world that she has died in. A comical piece that expresses her absurd fantasies. She hopes you will join her in imagining a better life for all of us.

Brian Foster is a founding member of Suitcase In Point, performing in their inaugural performance, Call To Mind. Since then, Brian has been contributing to the Suitcase Cabaret's as a writer, performer, and out-of-his-depth director. Brian has written the play Ontario Vice which closed after four performances after being deemed "too good for public consumption". Brian is currently working on his long gestating feeble attempt at stand-up/never be as good as Spalding Grey/one man show C*ck Blocked in Dystopia which he was lucky enough to perform a very first, rough, and incomplete version at one of Suitcase In Point's Scratch Nights a few years back. Next up for Brian will see him avoiding eye contact with most people he meets.

Del Stephen is an exploratory artist, interdisciplinary researcher, listener, and poem-maker.

In live performance, Del typically blends sound, spoken word, and experimental movement, often navigating sets through open-ended structures, investigative compositions, art, and selected poetry. Del Stephen has an extensive solo discography - around 40 releases - as performer, composer, visual artist, and producer. While Del Stephen’s music is generally released in limited and handmade editions, such as the cassette tapes and art objects he produces via Today Versions, he has also had albums published and more widely distributed by labels near (Vacancy Recs, Niagara ON) and far (Hyster Tapes, Finland). He has been invited to perform solo and in various group settings at concert series and festivals in Canada, Portugal, and the UK. Del is actively pursuing an unending creative process. He is currently living in Toronto and has previously lived, worked, and produced art in Lisbon, East London, South West Wales, and downtown St. Catharines, where he graduated in Applied Linguistics and co-founded the improv-electronic-multimedia group Think Of A Name. For Scratch Night Del will share an introductory presentation of a work-in-progress collection of poetry scores imagined and composed for spontaneous oral reading and group recital. Deeply influenced by outdated second-language learning textbooks, and directly inspired by a number of impactful experiences I’ve had with certain group exercises for speaking and listening, both as an educator and as a student, the idea is that through the application of pure sensation, imagination, and applied translanguaging, all of which are essential components of what I like to call ‘Translation Emotion Express’, there exists the ripe possibility of poem-making. I might also like to read aloud a few new and unpublished poems to similarly find out what they sound like.

Farai Tigere, while currently working in the aesthetic field, has been trying to reignite her creative practice more consistently from a more secure place in her life. She will be sharing 3 poems; 2 older, 1 work in progress.