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Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop needs your help

posted Friday, June 17, 2016

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

The people at Glad Day Bookshop are business savvy community heroes, no doubt about it! Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto is the world’s oldest LGBTQ bookstore since the closure of New York City’s Oscar Wilde Bookshop in early 2009. Glad Day started in 1970 and has occupied its current location on Yonge Street since 1981. […]

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Drag ON! with Faye Tality

posted Wednesday, June 15, 2016

by: in Celebrity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Drag ON! takes over Dundas Square on July 2nd starting at 2pm, as Pride Toronto serves up a ferocious sequel to last year’s over-the-top and overwhelmingly successful event. Be a part of drag history as DRAG ON! snatches the official Guinness Book of World Records title for Largest Drag Stage Performance.  Featuring the fiercest looks […]

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Field Trip offers music and more at Fort York (Toronto) June 4 and 5, 2016

posted Friday, June 3, 2016

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

Adding to the music lineup, festival-goers enjoy live comedy, 20 plus vendors in restaurant row, family-friendly sing-a-long and more Arts & Crafts Field Trip Music & Arts Festival takes place on Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5 at Fort York and Garrison Common. This year’s music lineup features headliners The National and Robyn, as […]

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

posted Monday, April 4, 2016

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Kensington’s “The Round” Hosts an Eating Disorders Event

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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

  Here’s something worth checking out.  If you go to the gym often and wonder about some of the things you overhear, or if you have friends who engage in negative or conformist body image talk, you are not alone. At The Round in Toronto’s Kensington Market on February 4th, a collection of performers in […]

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President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to speak at SXSW Music, Film, Interactive

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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

South by Southwest (SXSW) has announced  that President Barack Obama will appear as part of a Keynote Conversation at SXSW Interactive on Friday, March 11 and First Lady Michelle Obama will be the opening Keynote at SXSW Music on Wednesday, March 16. This marks the first time in the 30-year history of SXSW that a […]

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Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s – 1980s – March 12 to May 29 at AGO

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Film, Gallery, Lesbian, Photography, Queer, Toronto, Trans

Outsiders, a special exhibition of unforgettable images opening at the AGO March 12, 2016, and highlights photographers and filmmakers working in the United States from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s in a time of intense political and cultural turmoil. It’s no accident that artists at the time turned to photography and film — mass […]

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