Free Hot Docs Cinema Holiday Screenings Throughout December

posted Tuesday, December 6, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Family, Featured Events, Film, Toronto

Holiday cheer will be spread at Hot Docs Cinema’s Free Festive Favourites series screenings, featuring the Christmas slasher Black Christmas, the 1984 black comedy-horror Gremlins, the lavish Technicolor Irving Berlin musical White Christmas, the beloved Dickens’ adaptation and cult-classic The Muppet Christmas Carol; the nostalgic comedy A Christmas Story; the 1990 family blockbuster Home Alone; Frank Capra’s heartwarming classic It’s a Wonderful Life; Bruce […]

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Festival of Cool offers eclectic programming, including a Moby Dick puppet performance – December 8–18, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, December 6, 2022

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

Festival of Cool wraps up Harbourfront Centre’s year-long cultural initiative, Nordic Bridges, with spectacle and celebration. It features 10 days of exciting programming that focuses on theatre, visual art, music and community. This year includes the one-night-only North American premiere of Jingyi Wang’s ground-breaking and interactive Post Capitalistic Auction, a reimagined spin on the traditional auction […]

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Echoes Of The Flame: Art Inspired By The Lyrics Of The Tragically Hip – Dec 2 to 10, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, December 1, 2022

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

Song-Word Art House are bringing their one-of-a-kind art exhibition, Echoes Of The Flame: Art Inspired By The Lyrics Of The Tragically Hip,  to Toronto following a successful two-month summer engagement in Muskoka. The fine art exhibit showcases an eighteen-piece collection of original artworks created by internationally acclaimed artists from Canada, Europe, and the United States, and […]

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Hot Docs Cinema screens Music Docs on Neil Young, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon

posted Thursday, December 1, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Film, Music, Toronto

In December, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema will screen a selection of the most acclaimed and awarded documentaries of 2022, premiere new films featuring music icons like Neil Young in Nashville, Paul McCartney in Abbey Road Studios, and John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band in Toronto’s Varsity Stadium. First-run films featuring music icons include Neil Young: Harvest Time, an intimate […]

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The Second City Toronto’s new location opens November 30, 2022 with holiday programming

posted Monday, November 28, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Comedy, Toronto

The Second City Toronto has announced that its new home at One York Street will officially open November 30, 2022, with the first public performances to begin December 1. The new flagship home will be The Second City’s largest, most state-of- the-art venue since the world class comedy company first opened its doors in Canada in 1973, and will […]

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Deanne Taylor Theatre presents New Works Festival – Nov 30 to Dec 18, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Sunday, November 27, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Queer, Theatre, Toronto

The Deanne Taylor New Works Festival takes place between Nov 30th – Dec 18th, 2022 at the Deanne Taylor Theatre, located at 10 Busy Street in Toronto. Newly appointed General Manager of Video Cabaret, and Artistic Producer of the Deanne Taylor Theatre, Aaron Rothermund, is the producer of this new festival, and he stated, “This […]

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Don Pyle book launch for “Shot In A Mirror” photography book – Nov 26, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, November 24, 2022

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

Mark your calendar for a double launch for two (plus) new publications by musician/photographer Don Pyle. The release event happens on Saturday November 26th, 2022, 7pm, in the Two Twos room at The Annex Hotel, 296 Brunswick Ave in Toronto. Shot In A Mirror is a new 100-page collection of 50 intimate portraits, and is […]

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Kink Observed – A Workshop Presentation by Sky Gilbert – on stage Nov 25 to 27, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, November 23, 2022

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

A provoking and immersive theatre experience directed by Sky Gilbert, Kink Observed is a workshop presentation of a collective creation produced by Kink-on-the-Run Productions, and financed by the Canada Council. Guests are invited to attend this special workshop presentation to experience the first stages of the creation of this controversial and immersive theatre production. On […]

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The Birds – psychological thriller will have you ducking in fear – on stage Nov 25 to Dec 10, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, November 23, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Theatre, Toronto

THE BIRDS is a new psychological thriller inspired by the Daphne DuMaurier short story and Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. New York socialite Daphne Daniels is headed to an old family cottage for a weekend of R&R with her brother and husband, but when her husband is unexpectedly delayed and their neighbours turn out to be Daphne’s old flame […]

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Requiem for a Gumshoe – surreal, who-dunnit, murder mystery – on stage Nov 24 to Dec 4, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, November 22, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Theatre, Toronto

Requiem for a Gumshoe premieres November 24th, 2022 at Red Sandcastle Theatre, and is the second part of The Apocalypse Trilogy which began with the cult hit and Dora Award winning: Space Opera Zero. Rick Fischmascher is a rumpled private detective and warlock for hire, haunted by the death of his son, and entrenched in […]

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