July 4 - 16: The Toronto Fringe's Festival Hub! Postscript Patio, Box Office and special events. POSTSCRIPT is the community hub of the Toronto Fringe Festival. Located in the heart of the Annex at the Tranzac, it hosts our central festival box office, a full-service bar, food vendors, free entertainment, crafts, and activations. Come for a chill hangout with friends, meet other artists […]
MAB: Founded in Cleveland, Mourning (A) BLKstar is an afrofuturist collective who combine live instrumentation with hip hop production techniques. Deploying a captivating multi-front-person formation, their songs refract glimmers of hope and despair through a prism of American black music forms, from jazz and soul through rap and other forms of sample based music. Their […]
Ben Gunning, and a very special group comprised of the Bernice band plus Joseph Shabason, celebrate the release of his latest album No Magic Hand, on the Halocline Trance label. Limited run cassettes will be available for purchase. The evening will be kicked off by special guest and Halocline label mate Aminata. Doors 8:00 Aminata 9:00 Ben Gunning […]
With a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to), Toronto Queer Summer Slowdance has all slow songs, all night long! (Except for the occasional intermission when we play the fastest songs we can find!) It's high school with a happy […]
New Friends DIY presents Your Arms Are My Cocoons, a lo-fi bedroom emo sensation from Chicago, IL swooning Gen-Z hearts. Also featuring Foxtails, violin-laden introspective and often jazzy emo from Monroe, CT, and Toronto's own Treehouse of Horror.
Friday, July 28: Nice Pals Presents By Divine Right/Shotgun Jimmie with guests Burs & Dave Schoonderbeek. Doors: 8 pm, $20 adv, $25 on doors. Advance tickets through Nice Pals. In the Main Hall. Nice Pals 08: By Divine Right Shotgun Jimmie Burs Dave Schoonderbeek Friday 28 July 2023 | 8pm doors $20 adv, $25 on doors […]
Get ready the Dark Day Cabaret: a night of amazing music that features some of Toronto's best from the Music Theatre industry! Hear our singers belt out all their favourite classic and contemporary tunes while enjoying drinks, raffles, snacks and more!
Ento Ei w Ento La2, A lebanese stand up comedy show by Johnny ElHage
Are you sexable?”- a question asked when encountering disability, alongside “what’s your kink?” As the disabled body swings back and forth between being an object of repulsion and fetishistic desire, can it ever find tenderness or “just sex” amidst wheelchairs, assistive devices and medical equipment, open sores, tricky bones, slurred moans and surprising bowel movements. […]
In 2007, Albertan songwriter Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour ever since, touring almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, averaging 150 shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and releasing seven albums […]
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