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Image featuring text & photograph. Top: Soundstreams presents: TD Encounters. Left: Arvo Pärt at 90. February 9 7:30PM Hugh's Room. Right: Black & white medium close-up of an older man with a beard and moustache, the top of his head bald, wearing a suit. He grins, a delighted expression in his eyes, as he gazes off to the left.

Soundstreams presents: Another side of Arvo Pärt

One night only – Tue, Feb. 9, 2026: Soundstreams presents Another side of Arvo Pärt as part of their ongoing TD Encounters series. This Encounters celebrates Pärt’s 90th birthday, featuring some of his secular and folk-inspired pieces, plus works by Omar Daniel and Anna Pidgorna. Presented as a free concert at Hugh’s Room Live.

Poster image with text superimposed over a photograph in two sections. Top section: Medium close-up of a man and woman in period costume standing close together, side by side, gazing at each other, a green field and cloudy blue sky in the background. Top left: Devin Bell. An ornate gold frame with the words: Celebrating 250 Years of Jane Austen. Top right: Lizzie Moffatt. Bottom section (text on a black background): Based on the novel by Jane Austen. Adapted by Ferron Delcy & Jesse McQueen. Pride and Prejudice. Directed by Tatum Lee.

Wren Theatre presents: Pride and Prejudice

Only six performances! Wed, Feb. 18 – Sun, Feb. 22, 2026: Wren Theatre presents a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This fresh take on the beloved classic brings new life to the timeless tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, filled with clever twists and delightful surprises. On for a limited engagement at Randolph Theatre.

Image featuring text & book cover superimposed over a photograph of the Toronto skyline, taken from a distance at dusk across the harbour, over the water. Left: Toronto #VHBC February 19 / 2020 | 7 PM | How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones. Right: Book cover for How We Fight for Our Lives A Memoir Saeed Jones, with black font on an orange and yellow abstract background.

Violet Hour Book Club – Toronto Edition: How We Fight for Our Lives

One night only – Thu, Feb. 19, 2026: Another Story Bookshop hosts their second meeting of the Toronto edition of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading & discussion group dedicated to exploring classic & contemporary 2S/LGBTQ+ literature. This event’s book selection is Saeed Jones’ How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, the coming-of-age story of a young Black gay man from the American South fighting to carve out a place for himself.

Recurring event: Image featuring yellow and white text superimposed over a blue-filtered photograph. Spotlight at The Second City. Toronto. The centre of the "O" in "Spotlight" is the silhouette of a spotlight. A view from the back of a comedy venue in an old brick building with crescent-shaped windows. Cabaret seating, with tables and chairs, facing toward the stage.

Spotlight at The Second City

One Tue & Wed every month: Toronto Sketch Comedy & The Second City Toronto present Spotlight at The Second City, featuring two celebrated comedy troupes performing feature-length shows each month at The Second City’s Theatre ’73. For adults 18+.

Recurring event: A retro illustration of a far away planet with a giant sun shining in the background, where a giant bee attacks a woman in a yellow slip dress. Below it, the words: KILLER B CINEMA.

Killer B Cinema Monthly B-Movie Screening

The first Friday of every month, join Killer B Cinema hosts Lizzie Violet & Zoltan Du Lac at See-Scape in the Junction for screenings of B-movies from the 1950s to the 1990s, featuring horror, sci-fi, cult films, foreign language adaptations & more. Plus previews & retro & vintage pre-show cartoons! For adults 19+.

Recurring event: Collage image with text. Issues Magazine Shop presents Collage Night. Hosted by Alanna Chelmick & Bryonie Wise. A woman, her head thrown back and arms raised, in front of a background with water at the top and leaves of various shades of green at the bottom.

Issues Magazine Shop: Collage Workshops

Several nights a month: Issues Magazine Shop hosts their collage workshop. Come out to cut & paste and create your own collage to create memory – a reflection, a love note, a vision board or a blessing for the future. No prior experience necessary. All supplies provided. All ages welcome.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photograph. Top: Soundstreams presents: TD Encounters. A purple-filtered photo of a tumultuous ocean. Bottom: Transoceanic. January 19 7:30PM Hugh's Room

Soundstreams presents: Transoceanic

PAST EVENT: One night only – Mon, Jan 19, 2026: Soundstreams presents Transoceanic as part of their ongoing TD Encounters series. Works from diasporic composers Corie Rose Soumah, Kotoka Suzuki & Anthony Tan reimagine sound & light through science-fiction visions that shift Eurocentric narratives of progress. Presented as a free concert at Hugh’s Room Live.

Past event: Greyed out image of a Black man with a salt and pepper moustache and beard, wearing a straw brimmed hat, a white long-sleeved shirt and beige pants, smiles at us. His arm is relaxed at his side and his right arm is bent at the elbow, his right hand folded out in front of his chest, as if holding something between thumb and forefinger.

Necessary Angel presents: Moonlight Schooner

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Nov 21 – Sun, Dec. 14, 2025: Necessary Angel Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Moonlight Schooner, an evocative tale – told with humour & poignancy – about the systemic & deliberate breaking of Black men by colonial forces during the Windrush Generation & the casualties left behind. Presented in association with Canadian Stage & Tarragon Theatre at the Berkeley Street Theatre.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and illustration. Top half: BOUND Book Arts Fair in white font inside a purple rectangle. A mustard yellow needle and thread in the centre of the word "BOUND", the thread curling down to "Book Arts". Bottom half - purple font against a white background: Sun. Dec. 7th Limited Edition Hand Made Books, Artist's Books, Prints, Broadsides, Cards, Ephemera and more... Bottom centre: A black illustration of an open hard cover book.

BOUND Book Arts Fair 2025

PAST EVENT: One day only – Sun, Dec. 7, 2025: BOUND Books Arts Fair presents the 2025 edition of their annual event at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto. Come out to explore & discover limited edition handmade books, artist’s books, prints, broadsides, cards, ephemera & more while you chat with the artists & artisans. Free admission!

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of a South Asian drag performer with black 80s rocker hair, wearing a head mic and a short-sleeved black leather top with bijuriya bedazzled on the back. Her back to us and her face in profile, strong and fierce.

Buddies in Bad Times presents: Bijuriya created by Gabriel Dharmoo

PAST EVENT: Three performances only – from Wed, Nov. 26 – Sat, Nov. 29, 2025: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents Gabriel Dharmoo’s interdisciplinary drag show Bijuriya, a playful examination of the role of vocality in self-expression – utilizing song, speech and lip-sync as tools for exploring South Asian identity. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text & illustration. A stylized Indigenous illustration of a black tree with yellow circular growth at the end of each branch, a linear representation of a coyote dancing beneath the tree to the left, with a black starry night sky in the background. Under the tree, to the right: Weesageechak 38 in white font.

Weesageechak Begins to Dance 38

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Nov. 21 – Sun, Nov. 30, 2025: Native Earth Performing Arts presents Weesageechak Begins to Dance 38 at Aki Studio. An annual festival showcasing new theatre, dance & multidisciplinary works & works-in-development by 10 Indigenous creators from across Turtle Island & beyond. This year’s theme is Complexities & Curiosities.

Past event: Greyed out close-up image featuring a book cover superimposed over a perspectival photograph of train tracks heading into Toronto, the city skyline & CN Tower in the background. The book cover has black text superimposed over a collage of torn photos. What I Know About You. A novel. Eric Chacour. Translated by Pablo Strauss. The torn photo images feature a black & white close-up of a man in profile and a yellow-filtered image of a Cairo city scape.

Violet Hour Book Club Toronto Edition: What I Know About You

PAST EVENT: One night only – Sat, Nov. 29, 2025: Another Story Bookshop presents their inaugural meeting of the Toronto edition of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading & discussion group dedicated to exploring classic & contemporary 2S/LGBTQ+ literature. Their first book selection is Éric Chacour’s What I Know About You, the story of a life turned upside down & a family torn apart by an impossible love.