Event Details
Pender Island, do not miss this special screening of feature film PAYING FOR IT and in a separate event, music accompanied by multi-media visuals in concert with Sook-Yin Lee!
Paying for It
Sunday, October 18, 2026 – 7:00pm
Screening of the 2024 Feature Film
Co-Writer & Director Sook-Yin Lee will be in attendance. Joining them will be composer, Dylan Gamble, and supporting actor, Becky Johnson.
Paying for It is a 2024 film adaptation of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown’s 2011 graphic novel of the same name. The book follows the dissolution of Brown’s romantic relationship with Sook-Yin Lee and his transition into exclusively paying for sex. For the film adaptation, Lee has added in the details of her life at the time and directed a thoughtful look into sex work, love, desire openness and Toronto at the turn of the millenium. Starring Dan Beirne (The 20th Century, Fargo, Priscilla), Emily Lê (Riceboy Sleeps, Mile End Kicks) and Andrea Werhun (Modern Whore).
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Sook-Yin Lee, composer Dylan Gable and supporting actor Becky Johnson, moderated by Spectacular Optical’s Kier-La Janisse.
Presented by Becky Johnson and Spectacular Optical with support from Ptarmigan Arts, Hawkeye Films and Crave Canada.
https://www.payingforitfilm.com/
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Sook-Yin Lee in Concert
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 – 7:00pm
Iconic Canadian music and visual artist, Sook-Yin Lee, performs an expansive set of her particular brand of experimental genre-bending music surrounded by immersive multimedia visuals. A perfect evening for the gentle expansion of mind and heart. Sook-Yin Lee has been a prolific and singular creator on the Canadian scene since her emergence out of the 80’s/90’s punk scene of Vancouver. She is known for her groundbreaking work on MuchMusic’s alternative show the Wedge as well as countless radio outings (Definitely Not the Opera and the Sleepover on CBC). Lee’s work always lives in welcoming experiment – where idea leads to medium leads to audience.
With a short opening act of performance poetry and a bit of improvisation by Becky Johnson and Dylan Gamble.
https://www.sookyinlee.com/
https://www.beckyjohnson.ca/