The annual Word Play festival celebrates Seattle’s diverse LGBTQ arts community, bringing together queer poets in recovery for an evening of spoken word highlighting their experiences living with addiction. This evening program (followed by an artists’ reception) will feature local artists from different recovery backgrounds, who’ll take the mic to speak the truth about bottoming out, getting back up, and moving on. Past performers have included Jodie Knowles, Tara Hardy, Okanomode, and Cole Arden Peake.

This one-day spoken word festival also includes two workshops at Gay City Arts prior to the evening performance Town Hall.

Special event note: This is a sober program; there will be no alcohol sales in the cafe for this event.