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Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Performance Performance

Past event: Greyed out image of three performers of varying ethnicities & gender expressions, the one on the right holding a puppet, stand outdoors side by side, with a cloudy blue sky in the background.

Toronto Fringe Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jul. 2 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: The Toronto Fringe Festival presents its 37th annual performance festival, with over 100 shows at 22 venues across the city, including three dance shows, five KidsFest shows, over a dozen new Canadian musicals, the Next Stage Series, plus dramatic theatre, clown, storytelling, comedy, puppets & more. Best of Fringe returns this year, from Fri, Jul. 18 – Sun, Jul. 20 at the Meridian Arts Centre.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring illustration and text in black and orange against a white background. To the left: A medium close-up retro illustration of a man wearing a suit and an orange tie, winking and smiling as he gives a thumbs up with his right hand. To the right: "People Suck" in black font, with the words "a musical airing of grievances" in white font inside an orange rectangle.

TOFringe: People Suck: a musical airing of grievances

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jul. 2 – Sat, Jul. 12, 2025: Megnpete Make Cool Stuff's award-winning People Suck: a musical airing of grievances returns to the Toronto Fringe Festival at Theatre Passe Muraille with new songs, new laughs & the same terrible people. This hilarious & all-too-relatable musical theatre song cycle dares to ask: WT*A*F is wrong with humanity? For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out image of a mystical creature enshrouded in a cloak of multi-coloured strips of fabric, the face covered in a red patterned fabric, gazes out. A selection of African drums in the background.

TOFringe: LULU

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 3 – Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: The Walking Griot, a TYA collective for Black children and youth, brings its joyous new show LULU to the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. A music-filled adventure into the mystical folk realm, young Lulu is running out of time to save her ailing grandmother. On at Soulpepper Theatre’s Tank House Theatre in the Distillery Historic District. For audiences 8+.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of two women facing off in three-quarter profile, both wearing dresses that reveal their shoulders and arms. The woman in the foreground, left, has long brown hair, pulled back and hanging down her back, and wears a dark brown dress, while the woman in the background, right, has her dark hair styled up and wears a red dress, a string of pearls and pearl drop earrings.

TOFringe: The Iron Mask

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 3 - Sun, Jul. 13, 2025: Breakaway Entertainment presents the world premiere of The Iron Mask at the 2025 Toronto Fringe Festival. A jazz-filled dance jukebox musical, it’s a bold reimagining of the classic Dumas tale. This production is presented at Theatre Passe Muraille, in partnership with the Alliance for Canadian Musicals, spotlighting new Canadian musical theatre at this year's Fringe.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and a graphic representation of the Dora Mavor Moore Award. Top: 45h Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Presented by the Romano D'Andrea Foundation. Hosted by Peter Fernandes. June 30th 2025. Below the text, six abstract human figures, arms raised to form a circle above their heads. Each figure is in a rainbow colour: red, orange, yellow, green, blue & purple.

The 45th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards

PAST EVENT: One night only – Mon, Jun. 30, 2025: The 45th Anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards at Toronto's Meridian Hall, celebrating the outstanding theatre, dance and opera that filled Toronto stages last season. Hosted by celebrated theatre actor Peter Fernandes, the Doras are presented by the Romano D’Andrea Foundation and administered by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA).

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photographs. Top: A Cornucopia of Canada's Most Fabulous Queer Comedians. Pride-A-Palooza. Centre left: A man with short brown hair wearing a plaid jacket over a white t-shirt smiles as he glances to the right. Headliner Andrew Johnston. Right centre: A pentagon of photos of comics of various genders & ethnicities with the GAYAF Comedy logo in the centre. Right: Ajahnis Charley, Anasimone, Heather Mariko, Viza & special guests. Hosted by Robert Watson. Bottom: Friday June 20th 8PM | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre | Linktr.ee/gayafcomedy Top right: Queer Pride logo.

Gay AF Comedy Pride-A-Palooza

PAST EVENT: One night only – Fri, Jun. 20, 2025: Gay AF Comedy, in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, presents Pride-A-Palooza as part of Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025, serving up a cornucopia of Canada’s top queer comedic talent just in time for Pride! Hosted by Robert Watson, with headliner Andrew Johnston & featuring Ajahnis Charley, Heather Mariko, Anasimone, Viza & more. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of two women standing close together against a red background, just about to kiss. The woman on the left is dressed in white & the other is dressed in black, her right hand raised to touch the woman in white under the chin.

Secret Sisters

PAST EVENT: One night only – Wed, Jun. 18, 2025: Les Femmes Fatales, in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, present Secret Sisters as part of Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025. Curated and hosted by Dainty Smith, this is an evening of burlesque performance celebrating queer, sapphic and femme love. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out detail of an illustration of two Indigenous people standing side by side, the one on the left wearing an animal skin headdress and the one on the right with long black hair. A rainbow arch above them, with a yellow circle enclosing a raven at the top of the arch. Above the rainbow, an arch of plants and flowers.

2-Spirit Cabaret: 9th Edition

PAST EVENT: One night only – Thu, Jun. 12, 2025: Native Earth Performing Arts, in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, presents the annual 2-Spirit Cabaret, produced as part of Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025. A celebration of the strength, beauty & talent of queer & 2-Spirit Indigenous people, featuring a mix of music, dance, drag, burlesque & comedy. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out collage image including overlapping text and photographs. Left: A young Asian woman with long blonde hair in a squat position, her tilted head resting against her right hand as she gazes at us. The word Genrefuck. in script writing. Right: A young Latino man, made up as a woman, and dressed in a red polka dot head scarf and a strapless dress with a frill at the neckline, gazes downward to the right.

Genrefuck: two world premieres

PAST EVENT: From Wed, May 21 to Sat, May 31, 2025: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, in partnership with fu-GEN Theatre, PNSNV and Pencil Kit Productions, presents the world premieres of Julie Phan’s Never Walk Alone and Augusto Bitter’s Reina. Two intimate, movement-driven solo pieces that transcend genre and gender. Welcome to Genrefuck.

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Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Three days only. From Fri, May 30 – Sun, Jun 1, 2025: The award-winning Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival presents its 2025 program at various venues around downtown. 40+ music artists showcasing Canadian talent – plus workshops, motorcycles and classic cars, artisanal and craft vendors, and local retailers. Live music all weekend long!

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text overlapping a photograph. asses.masses May 24 @ 1pm - English. May 25 @1pm - Spanish. A man with his back to us stands at a podium with a video game controller, watching a large screen showing a pixelated image of a donkey.

The Theatre Centre presents: asses.masses

PAST EVENT: Two days only – Sat, May 24 & Sun, May 25, 2025: The Theatre Centre, in association with Aluna Theatre, presents asses.masses, a custom-made video game about labour, technophobia & sharing the load of revolution, designed to be played from beginning to end in a live theatre. This is a full-day experience with gaming as performance; an immersive, cheeky & highly original work. No previous gaming (or donkey) experience required.

Past event: Greyed out image of a black female ballet dancer wearing a black tank top & white tutu poses on stage under a spotlight, arms raised and left leg forward, toes pointed to the floor.

Native Earth Performing Arts presents: Black Ballerina

PAST EVENT: Three performances only – from Fri, May 23 to Sun, May 25, 2025: Native Earth Performing Arts presents Black Ballerina, created and performed by Syreeta Hector, at Aki Studio. A powerful dance exploration of the nuances within one’s identity, and the unconscious ways that we all try to fit in. For adults 18+.