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Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” premiers during the final weeks of his “At Home With Monsters” exhibition at the AGO

posted Saturday, December 9, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Books, Celebrity, Comedy, Entertaining, Events, Film, Gallery, Toronto

December is a magical time at the movies! The holiday season is ornamented with some of the best premiers of year, from blockbusters we’ve been waiting for (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) to adaptations reeling Oscar buzz (Call Me By Your Name), there is no shortage of fantasy, suspense, heart and soul in movie theatres this […]

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Queen West Art Crawl – Special Canada 150 Programming (Sept 23/24 Toronto)

posted Wednesday, September 13, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Events, Featured Events, Outdoors, Queer, Toronto

Queen West Arts Crawl (QWAC)  is an established cultural and artistic hub in Toronto, allowing visitors to see art, buy art, make art and taste art on the weekend of September 23-24, 2017, and this year it once again promises to be an exciting artistic and cultural experience. The annual two day Outdoor Art Exhibition takes […]

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Art Spin June 15th – Humber Bay (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, June 7, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Events, Featured Events, Outdoors, Photography, Queer, Toronto

Who enjoys cycling? Who enjoys art? Who enjoys cycling to see art? Well this event is for you then! Art Spin is a roving curatorial project that situates commissioned, site-specific works in unique public spaces throughout the city. Each Art Spin tour gathers a large audience on bicycles to visit the multidisciplinary installations and performances […]

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Timeraiser150 – Volunteering for Art – May 24, 2017 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

Since 2003, the Framework Foundation has worked to expand the capacity of thousands of nonprofit organizations by creatively connecting people to causes and causes to people. Through innovative programming Framework has delivered tangible results to artists, volunteers, nonprofit organizations and corporate sponsors and partners. Timeraiser150 is a Canada 150 Signature Project supporting emerging Canadian artists […]

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CONTACT Photography Festival focuses on Canada – May 1 to 31, 2017- (Toronto)

posted Sunday, April 30, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Photography, Toronto

In recognition of the 150th anniversary of confederation, the Festival focuses on Canada through a series of exhibitions, public installations and events. From documentary explorations of the nation’s shifting landscape and inhabitants, to projects that challenge perceptions of history and definitions of photography, CONTACT 2017 presents outstanding projects by established and emerging Canadian artists and […]

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Robert Mapplethorpe’s “Fluid Beauty” exhibition opens April 29, 2017 (Toronto)

posted Monday, April 24, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, New York City, Photography, Queer, Toronto

The Olga Korper Gallery is pleased to present Fluid Beauty, an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. The exhibition will open on Saturday April 29th and will remain on view until Saturday May 27th. The opening will take place from 2-5pm on Saturday April 29th at  17 Morrow Avenue Toronto, Canada M6R 2H9 Robert Mapplethorpe’s […]

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“Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” held over until Feb 10 at the AGO (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

Using two retrospectives at LA’s Getty and LACMA museums as a backdrop, this definitive portrait profiles the controversial artist from early childhood, to his beginnings in New York City and his meteoric rise in the art world, to his untimely death in 1989. The only thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs was his life. […]

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Glad Day Books: Literature with Flavour

posted Thursday, January 5, 2017

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Glad Day Books, Toronto’s longest-running bookstore and always an awesome place to drop around and visit, has turned overnight into one of the hottest places to hang out in all of Toronto. With an espresso machine, many metres of red granite bar surface, talented bartenders, bright new tiles with neon pink grout, tables with a […]

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Woody’s Has Winter Festivities…and the Best of…Everything!

posted Saturday, December 17, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Woody’s is quite possibly Toronto’s most famous gay bar, especially if you’re a fan of “Queer as Folk”! It’s even fun to go here on the quiet afternoon. There’s a pool table, the daytime music is good, and the DJ’s that arrive later are always hot. There are monitors playing in the background, with usually […]

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Eulogy for a Videofag

posted Monday, June 27, 2016

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Drag, Film, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

How do queers mourn the death of someone they love? With brunch of course! If you haven’t heard already, Toronto’s beloved Videofag is closing up shop and so they’ve been holding funeral services (yes, that’s plural) to help our community mourn. I went to the brunch service to deliver the following eulogy in honour of this tragic […]

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