Not Quite What You Think

Jonny Types is a typewriter technician and poet for hire.

In 2026, he founded the Hamilton Typewriter Company to meet the growing need of hobbyists, collectors, and wordsmiths to access experienced typewriter expertise.

A lifelong poet, he has spent the last few years honing his craft by doing live typewriter poetry at festivals, markets, and special events. Recently he has begun creating art using only vintage typewriters, bringing new life to these traditional writing machines.

For more information or to work with Jonny Types, visit HamiltonTypewriterCompany.ca.

Most people think getting better means training harder. For Claire Haines, the breakthrough came from slowing down.

When she first stepped onto a yoga mat, she wasn’t training for a world championship — she was looking for a better way to manage anxiety, move, recover, and stay healthy.

What she found changed far more than her flexibility. It reshaped how she trained, recovered, and responded to pressure, and helped propel her to become an elite HYROX athlete representing Team Canada at the HYROX World Championships.

Claire is a yoga instructor, swim coach, and lululemon ambassador at The Pen Centre in St. Catharines, where she leads yoga classes and community wellness events while coaching athletes in swimming and endurance sport.

On September 21, she will share how slowing down, breathing with intention, and moving mindfully became the foundation for greater strength, resilience, and performance — and why sometimes the fastest way forward is to slow down.

Just for Laughs once told Gavin they wanted a Canadian Chris Rock. He said no.

He wasn’t asked back — but he has the résumé anyway: a Juno nomination, a Canadian Screen Award for writing, SXSW, the Hamilton Fringe, and a column at CBC Hamilton.

What he makes now is Park Bench Ontology — stand-up, video essays, and theatre that take apart the ideological scaffolding of ordinary life and doesn’t put it back together. Today that means Becoming Carl Winslow, a solo show using the Family Matters character as a map for identity compression: how a Black man moves from “threatening” to harmless “sitcom dad,” on TV and off it.

On September 21, he will share how a movie about a shape-shifting monster in the Antarctic can be seen as a framework for something less fictional: how marginalized communities get beta-tested for social and economic collapse first.

After the presentations, we are keeping the night going.

Malarkey’s custom-made, 22-foot competition-size shuffleboard tables will be open, and Nerd Nite guests will receive discounted play.

It is the kind of room where conversations linger.

Come for the ideas. Stay for the community.

Address:
300 Ottawa Street N.
Hamilton, Ontario
L8H 3Z9