Spur Festival Literary Cabaret
Spur Festival Books & Brunch
Dual book launch with Carl Wilson (at the Monarch Tavern)
Official book launch (at the Cardinal Tea Room)
Ottawa Writers Festival with Eva Stachniak and Steven Galloway
Blue Metropolis writing festival: This Really Happened: Lost in Translation storytelling event
Blue Metropolis writing festival: Sean Michaels and Socalled in Conversation
Incite @ Vancouver Writers Fest
Reading at the Solstice Café with theremin gig by Cleopatra and the Nile
Afternoon reading at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Public Library
KGB Bar with Largehearted Boy and Michael Hearst
Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art with thereminist Mano Divina and a screening of the theremin documentary 21st Century Classical Music
Atomic Books with thereminist Robby Neubauer and Fulton Lights
Letters Bookshop with thereminist Dave Yarwood
Highland Inn Ballroom with A Capella Books and Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel
Literary Death Match at the Hammer Museum
"Moving Through Space Toward You" @ Largo: a celebration of the theremin, electricity, song and Us Conductors ft Califone, This American Life's Starlee Kline, thereminists Eban Schletter and Probyn Gregory, and special guests! (buy tickets!)
Booksmith with Joshua Mohr.
An amazing reading/concert at the Eden Mills Writers Festival, featuring Sean and Carl Wilson, plus musicians Sandro Perri, Scott Merritt and thereminist Jeff Bird. ($22)
Two appearances as part of Word On The Street: as part of the Spring Stars panel (Bestsellers Stage; noon), and then a solo reading and discussion, joined by thereminist Clara Venice (New Narratives tent, 4:45).
Writers and Mixtapes: Pechakuckha Style, as part of Calgary Wordfest
Dedicated reading at the National Music Centre, with thereminist Brandon Smith, as part of Calgary Wordfest
Ryeberg Live, with Guillaume Morissette, Heather O'Neill and Kim Thúy, as part of Calgary Wordfest
Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists
Reading at Paragraphe Bookstore with QWF prize nominees.
Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists
Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists
Montreal Press Club reading with Heather O'Neill and Arjun Basu. (RSVP required)
Grownups Read Things They Read As Kids at La Vitrola
Summer Literary Seminars reading with fellow Soulgazers: Melissa Bull, Anna Leventhal and Jeff Miller. (Drawn & Quarterly)
Resonance Reading Series with fellow Soulgazers: Melissa Bull, Anna Leventhal and Jeff Miller.
Reading at Queens University.
Westmount Pubic Library reading.
Prince Edward County Authors Festival, alongside thereminist Chris Trimmer.
Ottawa Writers Festival, with Mike Dubue, Russell Smith and Neil Smith.
Wakefield Writers Festival with Charlotte Gray.
Côte St-Luc Library Writers Out Loud reading.
The Eh List author series at Toronto Reference Library.
Reading alongside thereminist Thorwald Jorgensen at Music and Beyond Festival.
Sean will be writing his daily Sappy Times at the SappyFest Music Festival.
Reading with Christopher Jory at Topping Bookshop.
Writers' Alliance reading at Swirsky's, 8pm.
Writers' Alliance reading at Fisher's Loft Inn, 6pm.
Writers' Alliance reading at Ship Pub, 8pm.
Free reading at Trent University (Durham campus).
Free reading at Trent University (Peterborough campus).
Colorado College Visiting Writers Series, with Jeff Treviño and thereminist Dorit Chrystler.
York University Canadian Writers in Person lecture series.
Lancement Corps conducteurs, French translation of Us Conductors (Romans Savons).
St Mary's (Lorenzo Reading Series).
Acadia (Lorenzo Reading Series).
UNB (Lorenzo Reading Series).
McGill University Words and Music event with Kim Thuy, Saleema Nawaz, Pasha Malla, Neil Smith, Curtis Brown and members of Barr Brothers, the Luyas, Snailhouse, Monogrenade.
McGill University Words and Music event with Kim Thuy, Saleema Nawaz, Pasha Malla, Neil Smith, Curtis Brown and members of Barr Brothers, the Luyas, Snailhouse, Monogrenade.
TeensWrite! Conference
Beaconsfield Library
Beaconsfield Library
Concordia University
Drawn & Quarterly with Alix Hawley, Maxime Raymond Bock and Alice Petersen.
AX Centre
Mount Allison University
To celebrate the theremin's 100th anniversary, I will be reading from Us Conductors at this performance by French thereminist Grégoire Blanc, with the Hadron ensemble.