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Past event: Greyed out image featuring text superimposed over a blue-filtered photograph. TOSKETCHFEST. A vampire gazes off to the right, its arms raised as its the edges of its cloak swirls around it. TOSketchfest smiley face logo, repeated in the background.

Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival 2026

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Mar. 4 - Sun, Mar. 15, 2026: The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival celebrates its 21st anniversary! Join them at The Theatre Centre and Comedy Bar Bloor for their largest lineup to date, presenting 70+ high-energy showcases by 75+ comedy troupes, featuring 250+ comedy artists, a film festival, workshops and panels, and more. For audiences 12+. Parental discretion advised.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photo collage. Left: Women at Play(s) 8. Original one act plays by Canadian women playwrights, directors, and actors. March 6-8 + 11-15, 2026. 7PM evenings + Sat/Sun 2:30PM & 7PM. Videocabaret, 10 Busy Street (Queen St. E & Logan) Toronto. Women at Play(s) is an approved festival under Canadian Actors' Equity Association's Festival Policy. Tickets: www.womenatplays.ca Right: Image of a woman's hand & forearm, holding up a circular collage of women's faces, a lighting instrument shining down along the arm.

Women At Play(s) 8

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Mar. 6 – Sun, Mar. 15, 2026: Women At Play(s) presents its eighth festival of short one-act plays. Written, directed & performed by Canadian women theatre artists, it features seven new original works full of surprises, secrets & lies in stories that will make you laugh, cry, dream & think. Presented at VideoCabaret.

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UPU

PAST EVENT: Three performances only – from Fri, Feb. 27 to Sun, Mar. 1, 2026: Native Earth Performing Arts presents UPU by New Zealand’s UPU Collective. With powerful poetry, compelling storytelling & unforgettable performances, UPU brings the Pacific Ocean’s rich voices to life – exploring cultural struggle, joy & identity across the islands. Presented at Aki Studio. For audiences 15+.

Past event: Greyed out 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

PAST EVENT: 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.

Past event: Greyed out 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

PAST EVENT: 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.

Past event: Greyed out 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

PAST EVENT: 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.

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.

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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!

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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.