Save Salim
A Marathon of Prose/Poetry/AudioDrama & Theatre-of-The-Mind Performances To Help Save My Brother’s Life
Scroll Down To Listen To Updated Theatre-of-The Mind Uploads & The Individual Programs/Episodes of various audio dramas (For the entire Marathon in one playlist, click on the YouTube video below) You can also find a directory of each episode if you hover over the video below, press play, and move to the top right corner where you will see three lines. Click on that to pull out the list of each performance.
The Entire Marathon Playlist
Background Information
As I’m sure you’ve seen elsewhere on the site (specifically at Emergency Fundraiser for Salim — VMH) my brother Salim has Stage 4 Liver Cirrhosis. Without a liver transplant soon, he will die.
He’s been on the waiting list for almost two years. His work has now moved him to long-term disability and that affects his benefits as well for very expensive medication. The financial strain on him is only exacerbating his condition.
We’ve been running a fundraiser for him, but it’s going pretty slow lately. We’ve also set up a campaign to help find him a living liver donor, but there are layers of bureaucracy that make it challenging to receive a transplant from a living donor in this country.
The fundraiser is for his rent, food & medication but more, it’s to buy us enough time to find him that living liver donor to save his life. If we can cover his expenses for the next two months, I can spend more time searching for a living liver donor to not only help him, but raise awareness for many others in our country who are in need of a transplant to save their lives (& how someone can help by being a living donor)
With that in mind, I’ll be doing a marathon of poetry/prose & audiodrama performances. Day after day, until we reach our goal, you’ll receive new work from Roncesvalles 2013 to the Audio Drama/RPGs, to This Poet Is/Not Dust (& a lot more)
Scroll down to listen to the daily releases of work, beginning on Wednesday August 30th, 2025.
Today’s Featured Recording:
We’ve also set up a site for Salim at http://savesalim.com - if you want to make a contribution through there, find out how you can be a living liver donor to him, or help others in a similar situation, or are someone who needs a transplant and needs help setting up your own campaign/search for free, message us through there.
I know it’s hard out there. I know of the financial uncertainty of things. But if everyone reading this donated $25 or more to him, it buys him that time for me to find him that living liver donor and we save his life.
If you’re willing to help us, you can visit this link - Emergency Fundraiser for Salim — VMH or simply click on the ‘Donate’ button below (& if you do, on behalf of my brother & my family, thank you)
September 1st 2025: Play A Game
Presenting audio drama in a more intimate format, constructed as a role-playing game where as the player/protagonist, you determine the outcome of the story by the individual choices you make.
Full Episodes & Pathways One & Two of “Rexdale ‘49’ & ‘Adelaide’
Rexdale ‘49:
“In the Spring of 1949, a year before Rex Heslop bought the 100 acre Wilbert Wardlaw farm on the east side of Islington Avenue (in the area that is eventually to become Rexdale) a serial murderer with a penchant for medieval medical tools, is on the loose, and their eyes have found their way, to you.’
Episode One
Episode Two
Adelaide:
“You’ve awoken in a building, on the ground floor lobby, bloodied, boarded up from the outside, falling apart in the dark, with no memory of who you are, the dark passageways breathing with dissonance, all elevators at ground floor waiting, possessing in equal parts, a desire to investigate & to escape.”
Episode One
Episode Two
Full Episodes & Pathways One & Two of ‘Rexdale ‘49’ & ‘Adelaide’ (if you wish for a longer listen)
August 31st 2025
Introduction to The Marathon - This Poet Is Dust - Episode One
Dramatic Recreations of Interviews with Noted Poets/Authors + Performances of their Poems/Works - all by r. gulamhussein ladha.