Time flies when you’ve sprouted facial hair for a good cause. With December around the corner, it’s almost time for all those well-meaning “mo bros” to dust off their razors and shave their Burt Reynolds wannabes down the sink (to the gratitude of supportive “mo sistas” and mo bro partners everywhere, we’re sure). But hold on. Before the bros get reacquainted with their upper lips, there’s an awesome tribute party to go to at The Great Hall tonight.
The event is brought to you by the ‘mo-sporting Kyle Iannuzi and Steven Fish, who are behind the Movember for Jack network, and it promises to be a good time.
There’s reason to celebrate. So far, the group has raised over $90,000 as part of a nation-wide homage to Canada’s beloved, perpetually-moustached Jack Layton, earning it one of the top rankings amongst Movember fundraising networks nationwide.
With performers such as Tanika Charles and The Wonderfuls, Guiness World Record-holding escape artist Scott Hammell — performing Houdini’s famous milk can escape — and a DJ set by Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning, the event stretches to the wee hours.
It all started, Iannuzi says, with a phone call to MP Justin Trudeau (who, it seems, can really rock the ‘stash).
“I said, look, we’re running a network,” Iannuzi says. The call got other MPs to join the network, and, once word spread, city hall’s moliticians signed up too. Mike Layton and Olivia Chow, Iannuzi says, are happy about the event.
What a great way to fight prostate cancer while honouring the man and the moustache.
Movember for Jack, The Great Hall, Nov. 24, 9:30 p.m.