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Trampoline Hall is a nearly-literary event that has been delighting sold out crowds in Toronto nightclubs once a month since 2001. (Americans have also had the chance to be delighted in this way, on any of Trampoline Hall’s many visits to the USA .)

Each evening offers three people giving short talks on subjects they’re not experts in — private obsessions, lifelong passions, or crackpot theories dreamed up on a whim. These inspired amateurs stammer and sweat their way through the talks, ambushing listeners with obscure knowledge, absurd leaps of logic and, often, moving personal insights. Topics have included a plan to rid the world of small talk forever, the number 32, the wave of female poisoners in 18th-century France , and the emotional implications of infinity.

Host Misha Glouberman, “a mop-topped mix of Peter Mansbridge’s smarts and Conan O’Brien’s wit” (The Toronto Globe and Mail), encourages the audience to ask intrusive questions, and discussion erupts. The ultimate effect is “in the tradition of dime-store raconteurs and pseudo-scientific humbug” (Creative Loafing, Atlanta ), all happening in “the space between a party and a show” (Eye weekly). Afterwards, much of the audience sticks around to keep debating long into the night.

Trampoline Hall was invented by the author Sheila Heti. Information at: http://trampolinehall.net/index.html

Quotes:

“Unruly… Caustically Funny”
- Durham Independent

“They’ve been doing this for several years up in Toronto , where Sheila first started this wackiness, and now New Yorkers are in its thrall. Clearly, we love it.”
- The Village Voice

“Like Mark Twain fronting the Ramones… A good time is had by all… America will welcome them with open arms.”
- Philadelphia Weekly

“Cloud-splitting Genius”
- Lola Magazine ( Canada )

“Eccentricity and do-it-yourself inventiveness”
- The New Yorker

“Funny… Boozy… The place to be”
- The National Post ( Canada )

“Almost transcendent… a glorious mix of private preoccupations and arcane information.”
- Louisville Courier-Journal