Blind Pig Speakeasy Soirée takes Sudbury back to prohibition time

Morning North3:15The Blind Pig Speakeasy

Back during prohibition, a speakeasy was an establishment that sold alcohol illegally. The Blind Pig Speakeasy Soiree is coming up in Greater Sudbury. Carmen Simmons joined us in studio to tell us more about this fundraising event.

A fundraiser that promises to take people to a time when prohibition was in place is happening in Greater Sudbury this weekend.

Blind Pig Speakeasy Soirée will raise money for the Sudbury Community Foundation.

Carmen Simmons, executive director of the foundation, said the event will take people back to the 1920’s.

Simmons said prohibition happened mainly in the United States, but also in some areas in Canada as well.

“Speakeasies did serve liquor,” she said.

“The purpose of a Speakeasy was that you would get liquor there that you couldn’t get anywhere else.”

She said the foundation wanted to organize a unique event that hasn’t really been done in Sudbury before — since the 1920s.

Simmons said her mother told her details about Speakeasy events in Sudbury.

She said when her mother was a young woman living in Copper Cliff, she and her two cousins were invited to take a road trip to Montreal with one of their uncles.

“The purpose of the road trip was to bring back rum for a Blind Pig that happened in Copper Cliff,” she said.

This weekend’s event will take place in Copper Cliff at Bryston’s at the Park.

People who attend are encouraged to wear clothing from the 1920's era.

The Sudbury Community Foundation is registered charity that raises money to provide grants for local organizations.