Rhubarb Festival’s 40th Anniversary at Buddies – Feb 13 to 23, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Monday, February 11, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Canada’s longest-running new works festival returns for its 40th year! For two weeks, The Rhubarb Festival transforms Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre into a hotbed of experimentation, exploring new possibilities in theatre, dance, comedy, music, installation, and performance art. Rhubarb is the place to experience the most adventurous ideas in performance and catch your favourite […]

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Five Questions with Capital (Winter) Pride, Festival Director, Christian Garceau

posted Friday, February 1, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Ottawa, Outdoors, Pride, Queer, Trans

theBUZZ had the opportunity to connect with Capital Pride Festival Director, Christian Garceau, to find out what’s being planned for the organization’s first-ever WinterPride, taking place in Ottawa, Feb 6 to 10, 2019. 1. How did the initial concept of WinterPride come about? Capital Pride adopted a mandate in 2018 to create more programming for […]

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The Misandrists – Bruce LaBruce’s latest flick finally playing Toronto – Feb 1 to 3, 2019

posted Wednesday, January 30, 2019

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

In Bruce LaBruce’s incisive comedy, The Misandrists, a member of a radical feminist terrorist group takes pity on an injured male leftist on the run and hides him, threatening to disrupt the group’s mission from within. For those who know LaBruce, his films are as far from the mainstream as one can get. As is […]

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Pendance Film Festival – January 31 to February 3, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Monday, January 28, 2019

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

Toronto has yet another film festival on the scene. The Pendance Film Festival is an independent film festival supported by a bevy of great sponsors and key artists in the Canadian film community, with the goal to give a serious platform to innovative storytellers, and to spark a new love affair with cinema among modern audiences […]

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Interior Design Show – January 17 to 20, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 16, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Celebrity, Design, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

The Interior Design Show is Canada’s design fair. Since the doors first opened in 1999, IDS has been visited by over 700,000 design professionals, design-savvy consumers and media; it has served as a design industry hub providing a unique and unrivalled business opportunity for thousands of design-driven businesses. Each year, world-renowned designers and architects participate […]

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Come Up To My Room – four floors of fun at the Gladstone Hotel – January 17 to 20, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 16, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Art Gallery, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Photography, Queer, Toronto

Walk into a universe of art and design at Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) 2019, the Gladstone Hotel’s annual 4-day alternative design exhibition running from January 17-20. Find out what happens when art and design intersect through site-specific installations, within the walls of a historic hotel. Visitors can explore, discover and engage in conversation […]

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“Hair”, 50 years later – on stage Jan 18 to Feb 2, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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

Hair, the original rock musical, celebrates its 50th anniversary at a time of new-found social justice movements and civil unrest. When a tribe of freedom-loving hippies is confronted with the realities of war and an oppressive government hell-bent on conflict, they become even more committed to their ideals of freedom, liberty from social shackles and […]

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“Making Montgomery Clift” – reflections on a Hollywood heartthrob – screens January 16th (Toronto)

posted Monday, January 14, 2019

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

Montgomery (Monty) Clift was one of the most influential actors in the history of cinema, bucking traditions on and off screen, but countless biographies have reduced him to labels like “tragically self-destructive” and “tormented.” The iconic Hollywood actor Montgomery Clift is brought to a new light by his nephew Robert Clift, who uncovers never-before-seen footage […]

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Slava’s Snowshow – a one-of-a-kind spellbinding adventure in Toronto and Montreal

posted Friday, December 7, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Montreal, Toronto

Show One Productions and Civic Theatres Toronto presents the international sensation Slava’s Snowshow, December 7 to 16, 2018 in the Bluma Appel Theatre at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Returning to Toronto for the first time in two decades, the scruffy, disarming troupe of Slava’s Snowshow clowns will take audiences on a spellbinding adventure, […]

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“Almost Almost Famous” – what’s it like being a music tribute artist?

posted Friday, December 7, 2018

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

On a road trip through an alternate universe, where famous musicians never died, Almost Almost Famous explores the lives of three of the world’s top tribute artists, the cost of borrowed fame, and the risk of getting ‘lost in the act’. Fifty years after trailblazers like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Jackie Wilson defined music […]

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