bill bissett appointed to Order of Canada/gentil ask for th secret handshake peer support group

 NEWS | TUESDAY JULY 2, 2024

bill bissett Appointed to the Order of Canada!

Legendary pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry bill bissett has been appointed to the Order of Canada! bill is the author of over 60 books of poetry including its th sailors life / still in treetment, breth, and inkorrect thots and co-founded the Secret Handshake Gallery, a peer-support facility for people with schizophrenia. A huge congratulations to bill for this well-deserved honour!

Read all about it here.

from Talonbooks website 

Subject: a loveing n gentil ask on behalf uv th secret handshake peer support group network 4 peopul with schizophrenia

Date: July 4, 2024 at 10:08:49 AM EDT

To: bill bissett <centralianwings@gmail.com

From: bill bissett <centralianwings@gmail.com>

Subject: a loveing n gentil ask on behalf uv th secret handshake peer support group network 4 peopul with schizophrenia

Date: July 2, 2024 at 1:58:11 AM EDT

a loveing and gentle ask on behalf of the secret handshake peer support group network 4 peopul with schizophrenia

 

you can dew direkt deposit     recipient  the secret handshake  email  thesecrethandshake3@gmail.com  

or you can send a chek  if yu like   2 the secret handshake  c/o bill bissett   60 homewood ave  apt #219  toronto  ontario   

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the secret handshake   peer support network  group  4 people with schizophrenia is looking 4 donaysyuns  n help with

th rising costs   wud you like 2 help   no amount is 2 small   wud yu lke 2 help out th secret handshake   a wundrful 

group network n its club hous 4 manee hours uv peer support sessyuns pr week 4 people with schizophrenia a place

2 go without stigma  condescensyun  or creating mor problems thn it solves   heer we sort out our lives ourselvs

people with schizophrenia  ar also oftn artists   painters n writers   poets  novelists  dansers  singers   and we have a gallery  

showing the works of members  friends  fellow travelers and  supportiv allies  and likewise   many poetry readings similarlee 

put 2gether    IAM is wun uv our biggest donors  and sum private donors also big time   but we are always needing 2 rais more

 

sew we are opn six dayze a week  monday 2 friday   1-4 and saturday  2-5 pm   drop in n see our art shows   ask 2 be on our 

mailing lists  and we will b abul 2 let yu know evreething that's going on in our club house  at  360 college st  #301  third floor

elevator from th ground  only a few bloks west of spadina

evry second monday of evry month honey novick teeches vois yoga  relees of pent up paradigms thru singing

n if yu ar on our mailing list yu will reseev epostrs uv all our publik events

thanks sew much 4 tuneing in here  n if you donate you will receave very quiklee a charitabul donaysyun receipt

helpful 4 yr incum tax deductions     and if you’ve already given   cud you 4ward this ask on to other people  friends and allies

I'll always be indebted to bill for publishing my first non-selfpublished poetry collection, Unacknowledged Legislator, with his blewointmentpress in 1981