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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.

Past event: Greyed out image of a performer, transformed into a two-foot tall bag of trash walks along the floor on an area rug in front of an audience.

Literal Trash: A Comedy Experience

PAST EVENT: Tue nights on Aug. 19, Sep. 16, Oct. 21 & Nov. 25, 2025: Toronto comedian Adam Mohammed invites audiences to join him for a wholesome evening of irony with Literal Trash: A Comedy Experience. Follow Trash, a two-foot tall sentient garbage bag with a heart of gold, in an experimental physical comedy show at The Tranzac. For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring a photograph with overlapping text. Two mature dancers, a man and a woman, dance together in front of a grey wall. His hands are on her hips and her arms are raised, both heads tilted back as they look up. Above them, silver paint drips down from the centre of the image. Text: Older & Reckless. 25 years of recklessness.

Older & Reckless 25

PAST EVENT: Three performances only – Fri, Nov. 21 & Sat, Nov. 22, 2025: Moonhorse Dance Theatre celebrates the 25th anniversary of Older & Reckless at the Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre. An annual dance show presenting works by lifelong performers & creators age 45+, this year’s program features four dance works by luminary dance artists + a community ensemble of 20+ mature dance enthusiasts.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring a medium close-up photograph with overlapping text. A violin explodes from the inside out, creating a ripple aftershock of soundwaves against a black background. Bottom right: Dissonant Species.

Theatre Gargantua presents: Dissonant Species

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Nov. 6 – Sun, Nov. 23, 2025: Theatre Gargantua presents the premiere of Dissonant Species, delving into the symphony of human discord that surrounds us all through a dynamic blend of storytelling, live music and physical theatre. Running in the Factory Theatre Mainspace. For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring a photo in the top half and text at the bottom. A woman with tied back ash blonde hair, wearing a sleeveless black dress, stands hip-deep in a river, arms behind her back as she gazes up and off to the right. A riverbank of trees and bushes, with subtle signs of lower water level and soil erosion, in the background. Text: Mass for the Endangered. Nov 22, 2025. Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul's Centre. Produced by Soundstreams in association with FLAP Canada.

Soundstreams presents: Mass for the Endangered

PAST EVENT: One night only – Sat, Nov. 22, 2025: Soundstreams opens its 2025-26 season with the concert Mass for the Endangered. Featuring choral, instrumental & orchestral works, it’s a deeply moving reflection on our responsibility, relationship & connectivity to the planet & its creatures. Presented in association with the bird charity FLAP Canada. At Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.

Past event: Greyed out 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: November

PAST EVENT: Tue, Nov. 18 & Wed, Nov. 19, 2025: Toronto Sketch Comedy & The Second City Toronto present the November edition of Spotlight at The Second City, featuring Red Hot Sili Peppers and Summer Dad, at The Second City’s Theatre ‘73. For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text & photograph. Another Story Bookshop and McGill-Queen's University Press present The Translating Subject by Melissa Tanti in conversation with Lorraine York. 7pm. Thursday, November 20th. In Store, 315 Roncesvalles Ave. To the left of the book title is a circular close-up of a woman with long dark brown hair, wearing a black top, gazing at us. Bottom right: Bookshop & publisher logos. Font in shades of purple, all against a pale purple grey background.

Book Launch: The Translating Subject

PAST EVENT: On Thu, Nov. 20, 2025: Another Story Bookshop hosts the launch of The Translating Subject by Melissa Tanti, in conversation with Lorraine York. Tanti’s book explores how queer women writers use multilingual strategies to create intimacy with the unknown, and enable ethical engagement across social, cultural and linguistic differences. Presented in partnership with McGill-Queen's University Press.

Past event: Greyed out fish-eye lens view of a young man wearing a white shirt, black tie and blue dress pants drinking a coffee and a young woman dressed in black seated on stools at a diner counter, both looking off to the left. Behind the counter stands another young man in a black t-shirt with a white towel draped over his right shoulder, gazing straight ahead as he leans on the counter, arms spread wide. On the counter in front of him is a keyboard and note books.

tick, tick… BOOM!

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Nov. 7 – Sat, Nov. 15, 2025: Bowtie Productions presents tick, tick… BOOM! on the Alumnae Theatre Mainstage. Set in 1990, this autobiographical musical by Pulitzer & Tony award-winning American composer, lyricist & playwright Jonathan Larson takes audiences on a personal journey of discovery that led to an award-winning Broadway blockbuster.

Past event: Greyed out extreme close-up of an open leatherbound antiquarian book, resting on the spine, its ivory pages open to around the middle of the book, light hitting the page on the left side.

Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair 2025

PAST EVENT: Fri, Nov. 14 – Sun, Nov. 16, 2025: The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of Canada hosts the Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair (TABF), an annual event to encourage and support bookish enthusiasm, featuring over 20 exhibitors from Canada, the U.S. and overseas. Think of it as a mashup of Antiques Roadshow and a refined pop-up market – with books!

Past event: Greyed out poster image featuring text and illustration on a black background. Top: Doc Wuthergloom's Little Lib'ary of the Damned. Left side: Created and performed by Doctor Pretorious Wuthergloom with the assistance of Eric Woolfe. October 30 - November 9, 2025. eldritchtheatre.ca/tickets Toronto Arts Council log. Right side: A man with a skeletal face, wearing a black top hat and round wired-framed glasses, poses with hands raised, holding a wand in his right hand, mouth open as if shouting. Bottom: Red Sandcastle Theatre. 922 Queen St. E. Eldritch Theatre logo.

Doc Wuthergloom’s Little Lib’ary of the Damned

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Oct. 30 – Sun, Nov. 9, 2025: Eldritch Theatre opens their 2025-26 season of sundry horrors & night terrors with Doc Wuthergloom’s Little Lib’ary of the Damned at Red Sandcastle Theatre. Armed with a caravan of creepy puppets & dark parlour magic, Toronto’s favourite itinerant exorcist returns to warn us all of the horrific dangers that lurk within the pages of the ancient forbidden books that line the shelves of his Little Lib’ary. Audiences 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photographs. Top left corner: Comedy Is Art. October 23 - 25. Bottom left: The Theatre Centre. Centre: A series of photos, in 4 rows of 5 images each, of comedians of various genders, ages and ethnicities. Right: 3 comic book explosion bubbles, followed by a circle, each with text: Three nights. 20+ artists. Tickets on sale now! & More!

Comedy is Art. Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Three nights only, from Thu, Oct 23 – Sat, Oct. 25, 2025: The Theatre Centre presents its annual Comedy is Art. festival. This year’s programming includes 20+ comics from Toronto and beyond, plus a symposium on inclusion and diversity in comedy hosted by Bad Dog Theatre. For audiences 18+, unless otherwise noted.