“Bloom” on stage at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre until April 8, 2018

posted Tuesday, March 27, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

  Twelve years since its debut, Modern Times Stage is pleased to bring renowned Argentinean-Canadian playwright Guillermo Verdecchia’s BLOOM back to Toronto with a new production.  Inspired by T.S Eliot’s celebrated modernist poem The Wasteland, BLOOM is once again directed by award-winning Iranian-Canadian theatre artist Soheil Parsa featuring a powerful and diverse Canadian cast on stage at Buddies and Bad Times Theatre. […]

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AGO’s “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” – new block of tickets available March 27, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Monday, March 26, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Art Gallery, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, this is the first institutional survey exhibition to explore the evolution of the celebrated Japanese artist’s immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms. The exhibition continues until May 27, 2018 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and will be the only Canadian stop after drawing large crowds in Washington, Seattle, and Los Angeles […]

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REVIEW: “I Cook, He Does The Dishes” (While The Audience Sorts The Laundry)

posted Saturday, March 24, 2018

by: Raymond Helkio in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Written and directed by Sky Gilbert, I Cook, He Does The Dishes is as much about the value of relationship as it is a questioning of how we relate to being in, out of, or enmeshed in it. The play is a modern take on the real-life love affair between John Cage and Merce Cunningham who were […]

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Sky Gilbert’s “I Cook, He Does the Dishes” – March 22 to April 1, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, March 21, 2018

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

Whenever composer John Cage was asked about his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham he would say ‘I Cook, He Does the Dishes.’ In fact they were a gay couple who remained together for more than 50 years. And oh — by the way — they also managed to create the American Avant-Garde. Their sexuality is […]

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“Yoko Ono: The Riverbed” exhibition at the Gardiner Museum- Until June 3, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, March 20, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

The Gardiner Museum is pleased to present a three-part installation by Yoko Ono entitled THE RIVERBED. Yoko Ono is a forerunner of Conceptual art who frequently involves collaboration, audience participation, and social activism in her artwork. YOKO ONO: THE RIVERBED invites visitors to collaborate with the artist, the museum, and each other, participating in the artwork through […]

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“Let Nina Prosper” comedic QPOC lesbian webseries

posted Monday, March 19, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Featured Events, Lesbian, Queer, Television

Let Nina Prosper is a comedic web series about Nina, a creative-type without a steady source of income and Laila, the well-to-do, semi-supportive girlfriend. Each episode tackles a different issue on a non-linear structure. Each episode is 7-15 mins and calls action to participate in social media discussions. Eboni Sade is the writer, director, producer and plays Nina in “Let Nina Prosper”. Born […]

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“Love, Simon” – a modern day love story, in theatres March 16, 2018

posted Friday, March 16, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Featured Events, Film, Queer, Toronto

Love, Simon is a modern day teen love story. All the elements are in place, life is grand, except that the main character is gay and not yet out to anyone. For seventeen-year old Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) his coming of age is as confusing as any teenager, and while knowing inside that he has […]

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Memoir of Author and Activist Rupert Raj – “Dancing The Dialectic: True Tales of A Transgender Trailblazer”

posted Thursday, March 15, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Books, Featured Events, Queer, Trans

Rupert Raj is a trailblazing, Eurasian-Canadian, trans activist and ex-psychotherapist, who transitioned from female to male in 1971 as a transsexual teenager. He is (co-)editor of “Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader” and “Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender: A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse from 1967 to 1991. He is also included as […]

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“Around The World in 30 Days” art fundraiser for annual 10 X 10 Exhibition

posted Tuesday, March 13, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Art Gallery, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

  Now in its third year, AROUND THE WORLD IN 30 DAYS aims to raise funds to publish the  annual 10X10 Photography Project book. This 10X10 fundraiser and annual event is curated by James Fowler, who’s practice as a visual artist is complimented by his curatorial pursuits and his community involvement with Toronto’s LGBTQ communities. Seeing a […]

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Joe Orton’s “Loot” on stage March 8 to 17, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, March 8, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Featured Events, Queer, Theatre

Bygone Theatre has partnered with the Loot Collective to support their production of Joe Orton’s Loot, running March 8-17th, 2018 at the Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St., Toronto. England, 1965: Only hours before her intended burial, the late Mrs. McLeavy is removed from her coffin by her son, Hal (Kevin Forster), and his best pal, Dennis […]

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