Wednesday November 24 - Screening of the film Tatárszentgyörgy Roma Human Rights:@ OISE Library, Europe's Disgrace, Canada's Shame and panel discussion with Romani writer Hedina Sijerci and others. 6:30-8 pm. Free. OISE Library, 252 Bloor W, 416-561-0770.
Friday November 26 - 22 Reasons To Fear The Future Comic book series launch party. @ The Garrison 9 pm. $10. , 1197 Dundas W, west of Osignton south side twentytworeasons.com.
Saturday November 27 - Storm Film screening and discussion on human rights in Europe with Mark Kingwell. 4:30 pm. Free. Royal Cinema, 608 College, goethe.de/toronto.
Saturday November 27 Artisans' Gift Fair @ Tranzac Club One-of-a-kind and handmade gifts. Nov 27 to 28, Dec 4 to 5, Dec 11 to 12 and Dec 18 to 19 noon-6 pm. Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick, artisansgiftfair.com.
Saturday November 27 - Cavalcade Of Lights Lighting of the city's Chrismas tree with performances by Sarah Slean, Shawn Desman and Divine Brown plus fireworks and a DJ skating party. 7-10 pm. Free. Nathan Philipps Square, Queen and Bay.
Saturday November 27 - Women's Blues Revue @ Massey Hall. Year after year, the Women's Blues Revue promises the bluest of blues and the hottest of nights. From its roots in the small clubs of Toronto to the big stage at Massey Hall, this show has consistently delivered the most eclectic and excellent mix of the best female vocalists, musicians and special guests. This year's revue features the always great Alana Bridgewater, Kellylee Evans, Little Ms. Higgins, Robin Banks, Rita Chiarelli, Alejandra Ribera and a fabulous house band. Hosted by CBC radio personality and blues-lover, Shelagh Rogers. Sat. Nov. 27 Massey Hall, 178 Victoria St. | Tickets: $35 - $45 Phone: 416 872-4255 TICKETS
Monday November 29 - Foundry Theatre Company reading of The Heretic@ The Rearview Mirror. Beatrice revels in sensuality and independence but she and her lover are playing with fire. In medieval Languedoc the long struggle between the church and the heresy it hates has flared up again. As extremism strangles sanity, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Think Sex, Vatican and women.
The writer: Lea Daniel is a founding member of Pat the Dog Playwright Centre and Theatre & Company's Writers Bloc. She was a resident artist at Theatre & Company from 2005 – 2007, and has written an illustrated award-winning material for children.
The director: Autumn Smith is the co- founding member and artistic director of MacKenzieRo - The Irish Repertory Theatre of Canada. In December of 2009, Autumn was named amongst the Top 10 Theatre Artists of the year by NOW Magazine. This past season she was at Shaw Festival as a Director’s Intern and most recently directed The New Electric Ballroom which received a 3.5 out of 4 Star review from the Toronto Star and a 4 out of 5 from Now Magazine.
The Details: Forging Ahead YouTube Clip: The Heretic by Lea Daniel, Directed by Autumn Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwvBg1_QNvw November 29th, 7pm (Doors open at 6:30) The Rearview Mirror, 193 ½ Baldwin Street Kensington Market.
Wednesday December 1 - Voices Of Hope (Casey House) World AIDS Day concert with the Nylons, Dr Draw and Forte-Toronto Men's Chorus plus drag performer Christian Jeffries and others, and an outdoor candle ceremony. 7-8:15 pm. Donation ($20 sugg). Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen E, caseyhouse.com.
Wednesday December 1 - 300 Tapes @ The Theatre Centre. Imagine recording your life on 100 tapes. Record. Rewind. Play. Listen. Stop. Three men recorded their lives onto 100 tapes each for this intimate archive of fact and fiction that explores how our memories and identity are shaped (and warped) by time, our own ideas of ourselves and the eyes (and ears) of others.With a groundbreaking sound design, a choreography of our everyday twitches and three performers revealing everything, this bold experiment in storytelling thoughtfully and playfully provokes questions about authenticity. Runs 1 – 12 December, 2010. Tuesday – Saturday, 8pm. Sundays, 2pm Ticket Info: $22 The Theatre Centre 1087 Queen St. West www.theatrecentre.org Queer West Village, Toronto.
Wednesday December 1st - Snakepit @ The Henhouse - (HenHouse has DJ's now wahoo!) a queer party featuring DJ Waterfalls (Sojourner-Truth and Julia Kennedy) and DJ the J (Coco Taylor). Starts at 10pm. 1532 Dundas St. West. just west of Dufferin North side.No cover and Wed December 8 Snakepit at the Henhouse - a queer party featuring DJ Stunts and DJ Elle Nino, (famed for Yes Yes Y'all, Snatch, Sticky Fingers, Business Woman's Special). Starts at 10pm. No Cover.
Wednesday December 1 to 5th - Italian Film Festival Italian and Italian-Canadian films. $10. Bloor Cinema 506 Bloor W, 416-516-2330, italianfilmfest.com
Thursday December 2 - Authors Nairne Holtz and Suki Lee Reading from book "Girl Unwrapped" @ Type Books. A powerful tale of the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole, Girl Unwrapped is a coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with the expectations of her Holocaust-scarred parents and with the conservative mores of her times. Yearning to re-invent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her; instead, she finds the realities of life in the Middle East more complex than she imagined, and that her quest for normalcy has been thwarted. Only on her return to Montreal, when she discovers kindred spirits in the underground lesbian bar scene, does Toni begin to accept herself and find her own path. Girl Unwrapped By Gabriella Goliger www.gabriellagoliger.com Price: $22.95 CAD $19.95 USD ISBN-13: 9781551523750 For more information contact sales@arsenalpulp.com Reading Location: December 2nd, 2010. 7 to 8:30 pm Type Books , 883 Queen Street W.
Saturday 4 - Parkdale Bazaar @ Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre Vintage Christmas special marathon, a portrait studio, and handcrafted and vintage goods. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, 220 Cowan Avenue
Saturday December 4 - Toronto QUEER SLOWDANCE NIGHT! @ Dovercourt House.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), Queer Slowdance Night 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 ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and ...why love is not ironic. PS. Fabulous and inspired attire, while desired, is not required. But would be AWESOME & HAWT. Finally, you do not have to be queer to attend this party, but you must have an open mind, an open heart, and have open arms.
The Details: Dovercourt house, 805 Dovercourt Rd. (1 block North of Bloor, 3 blks. west of Ossington), Doors at 9:00, Dance from 9:30 PM - 2 AM., $10 admission includes your Dancecard-booklet! For more info, please go to our online presence at www.queerslowdancenight.blogspot.comor join our facebook group, "Slowdancers of the World Unite & Dance Slow" Queer West Village, Toronto.
Can't Stop Esther is a hi-NRG, non-stop, multimedia Madonna extravaganza. This is the party's 11th edition! Previous editions of Can't Stop Esther have been held at Revival, The Phoenix, The Courthous...e, and The Drake Hotel.
Links: Can't Stop Esther www.cantstopesther.com DJ doctor BAGGIE www.myspace.com/doctorbaggieVida Lounge Facebook Group www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6869110518 Madonna www.madonna.com
The Details: Vida Lounge 1345 St Clair Av W (at Lansdowne), Toronto 10 pm doors $7 cover, 19+ Vida Lounge is conveniently located at the corner of St. Clair Avenue West and Lansdowne. There is plenty of free street parking on St. Clair. TTC: 512 St. Clair streetcar (312 St. Clair Blue Night bus) and the 47 Lansdowne bus (329 Dufferin Blue Night bus). Get there early as interest in this party is always high! Guest List: sorry, but it's reserved for corporate sponsors, accredited media, and past, present, and future lovers.
CALL FOR SHORT ART FILMS AND SHORT PERFORMANCES for December 11, 2010
Illogical Animal Snowpants @253469 Saturday December 11, 2011, 8 - 11pmWinter approaches. Mouths fill with acorns, birds rocket to the moon and geese-like shadows head south. Illogical Animal Snowpants is a one-night art event @ Gallery 253469 that resists current cold climates, bucks and bellows in the new art ghetto to fill one small room with large and unpredictable dreams. Do you have what it takes to wear illogical animal snowpants? Send in your short (30 seconds to 15 minutes) absurdist, artful, artless, fun-stuffed, poetic, animated by all natures, clearly positively deranged animal like art films and performance ideas by December 1 to 253469. Past events include Kick Exposed Alive, New Bok Choy Moon, Dessert of Woo woo, and Movement Comma Movement Collective Dream 26. Illogical Animal Snowpants will be the final event @253469 for 2010. JUMP IN AND BE JUNIPERED!!! Gallery 253469, 1267 Bloor Street West, just east of Lansdowne, Gallery 253469 is an interdisciplinary art space that is not ruled by commerce, academia, politics or common sense. 253469@gmail.com
Tomboyfriend is a "performance-art whirlwind" (Eye Weekly) led by Toronto poet-songwriter Ryan Kamstra that plays politically charged glam-rock about androgyny, karaoke, the wealth divide, Esperanto wars and what to do about romantic love.
For the task, Kamstra recruited a small army of other artists, not necessarily trained musicians, from a mix of Toronto's diverse cultural scenes. “It was important for me to make a 'community band' that was viable as music and still had artistic pretensions on top of that,” he says. “The songs mutated with the performers.”
With his compound-eyed storytelling sensibility and shamelessly theatrical singing, Kamstra can be at once heart-rippingly moving, intellectually vicious and absurdly camp. He's abetted by the teen-runaway cabaret vocals of illustrator Marlena Zuber and the Elton John-gone-Gaga keyboard stylings of painter-critic Sholem Krishtalka, along with a changing cast of scientists, burlesque performers, lesbian boxers, graphic designers and more. Together they flagrantly abuse Auto-Tune and rip off Beatles choruses. Nothing is sacred but everything is sanctified.
The Details: Dec. 12th at the Garrison (1197 Dundas St W., just west of Ossington southside, across from beer store) with Sasha Van Bon Bon, The Craft Economy and other special friends and guests! The event will begin at 9pm and is $5 or PWYC.http://tomboyfriend.com/
Tuesday December 14 - Queer Karaoke @ The HenHouse. This is not your parent's karaoke night. We want you to get your drink on, get your outfits made, get your hair did and get obnoxious...let's do SLUTTY-OKE!!! Starts at 10pm. Henhouse 1532 Dundas St. West. just west of Dufferin North side. No cover Note Bene HenHouse closed December 24, 25 and January 1 www.henhousetoronto.com/events.html
THEATRE EVENTS
Paradise By The River by Vittorio Rossi (Shadowpath Theatre). This drama looks at the internment of Italian-Canadian men during WWII. Opens Nov 25 and runs to Dec 5, Thu-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, shadowpaththeatre.ca.
Pinkalicious, The Musical by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Opens Oct 9 and runs to Dec 26, Sat 11 am and 1 pm, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca.
Roshni @ Theatre Passe Muraille. Two-time Dora Award-winning Anusree Roy is back with a two-hander that follows the story of a pair of fearless youths who works as beggars in a Calcutta train station. As they shine shoes, pick pockets and beg, Chumki dreams of the gift of sight, while King Kumar dreams of stardom. Some dreams can come true. Some cannot. A story of hope and friendship in the most dire of circumstances. Runs Thursday November 18 to Saturday December 11, 2010 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm Theatre Passe Muraille 16 Ryerson, Toronto ON www.passemuraille.on.ca
The Silicone Diaries. @ Buddies In Bad Times Theatre The Silicone Diaries is Nina Arsenault's tour de force account of her transition from an awkward man into a jaw dropping silicone bombshell, a process that spanned eight years, sixty surgical procedures and a lifetime of preparation. After a sold-out run last season, Buddies is thrilled to welcome back this inspirational, hilarious and harrowing encounter with one of the most provocative queer voices in the country as she wrestles with the contradictions that surround the pursuit of inner and outer beauty. Nov. 25 - Dec. 11 Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. | Phone: 416 975-8555 www.artsexy.ca
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