search tips advanced
search engine by freefind

Author: Bryen Dunn

The Terrible Parents @ Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – Until April 17, 2016

posted Thursday, April 7, 2016

by: in Events, Featured Events, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Buddies in Bad times founder, Sky Gilbert, is back with a comical gender-bending take on family and how it shapes one’s life. The Terrible Parents sees well  established actors Edward Roy and Gavin Crawford reunited on stage as the parents, and introduces emerging actors Robin Sharpe and Katie Sky as the children. Both Crawford and Roy […]

Read more

Robert Mapplethorpe biopic on HBO Canada

posted Wednesday, April 6, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Celebrity, Featured Events, Film, Photography

HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS presents MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES “Look at the pictures,” said Senator Jesse Helms, denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed boundaries with frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism, igniting a culture war that rages to this day. More than 25 years later, the HBO Documentary Films presentation […]

Read more

Spur Toronto – April 7 to 10, 20-16

posted Wednesday, April 6, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Books, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

Join fellow citizens and great thinkers for some serious fun at Spur 2016 and add your voice to the national conversation. The 21st century has brought unprecedented change when it comes to personal freedoms. What were once distinct, assigned roles are inhabited more freely. Many greet this fluidity — whether it be cultural, sexual or […]

Read more

Drag-in-a-Bag Fundraiser – April 17th at Buddies

posted Monday, April 4, 2016

by: in Uncategorized

Join fresh-as-a-daisy Skipper Meds for the Nuit Rose Drag-in-a-Bag fundraiser, as she guides eager, inexperienced contestants to engage in a fabulous drag lip-sync competition with a twist! Contestants receive a complete drag outfit in a random tote bag, then they spin the wheel to select a Spring song which they will perform for the audience […]

Read more

Fashion Art Toronto (FAT) – April 12 to 16, 2016

posted Monday, April 4, 2016

by: in Uncategorized

Fashion Art Toronto presents its annual, five-day celebration of provocative, avant-garde and cutting-edge fashion and art, April 12-16, 2016. Expect to be awed and inspired through 50+ runway shows and performances, photography exhibits, interdisciplinary art installations and a selection of curated fashion films. In its 11th year, Fashion Art Toronto continues to be Canada’s foremost […]

Read more

Tough As Nails: Transgressive Queer Glamour at YTB Gallery (Toronto) – April 5 to 23, 2016

posted Monday, April 4, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Lesbian, Queer, Toronto

Tough As Nails: Transgressive Queer Glamour Alchemy, drag, flash, haunting, shade, wild, glitter, shame, sex, violence, trash, fame. Tough as Nails brings five emerging Toronto based artists together to flaunt the glamorous side of queer resistance. Seeking to complicate ideas of marginality, Tough as Nails explores the relationship between glamour and agency. Drawing on the […]

Read more

INsulator – April 13/14, 2016 at Artscape Sandbox in Toronto

posted Saturday, April 2, 2016

by: in Art, Events, Featured Events, Music, Toronto

Long Winter & Heretical Objects Cooperative proudly presents Insulator: a giant audio-virtual maze installation that takes place inside the Sandbox, Artscape’s new, 6000 sq ft performance space at Adelaide and Widmer. 2 nights of different Improvised collaborative performances by Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Holy Fuck, Lido Pimienta, DOOMSQUAD, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Not the Wind Not […]

Read more

Bonham Centre Awards Gala – April 13, 2016 – University of Toronto

posted Saturday, April 2, 2016

by: in Activism, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

The annual Bonham Centre Awards Gala will be held at the beautiful Hart House at University of Toronto on Wednesday, April 13. This year’s awards will recognize LGBT business leaders and policy experts who are helping to make workplaces, and the business community as a whole, more welcoming and inclusive spaces for sexual and gender […]

Read more

“Voices That Care” fundraiser March 27, 2016 with Murray McLauchlan and friends

posted Wednesday, March 16, 2016

by: in Celebrity, Charity, Events, Music, Theatre, Toronto

Canadian folk legend Murray McLauchlan is spearheading a concert featuring stars from the jazz, rock, opera and classic genres, with a special performance from actor Eric Peterson. Voices That Care is a benefit for Room 217 Foundation and Hospice Toronto. While Canadians know McLauchlan as the author and singer of “Honky Red”, “Farmer’s Song”, and […]

Read more

Toronto’s Luminato Festival Turns 10 in 2016 – Special Programming Throughout June

posted Monday, March 7, 2016

by: in Art, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Music, Pride, Theatre, Toronto

Once again this year Luminato will create something super special at the Hearn Generating Station to celebrate the creativity and inventiveness of the city that gave birth to the Festival. In June the festival is going to #TurnOnTheHearn and transform this incredibly epic decommissioned power plant into a public art centre with a theatre, a […]

Read more

Back to top