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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.

Past event: Greyed out painting in blues, blacks, oranges and yellows of two nude Black women with long braided hair, entwined in a dance, the sun shining between them through clouds in an orange yellow sky. The scene is framed by dark orange clouds above and a line of foliage below.

A Black Art Fair 2025

PAST EVENT: Two days only - Sat, Oct. 25 & Sun, Oct. 26, 2025: The Nia Centre for the Arts presents the third edition of their annual Black Art Fair. This time, it’s going to be bigger than ever, showcasing 30+ Black Canadian artists from all career stages from across the country – connecting artists with collectors, curators & art lovers nationwide.

Past event: Greyed out image of a dark leather antique easy chair, a floor lamp with a bare lightbulb to the right, and a circle of salt on the floor around it and fog beginning to envelop it from behind. The pale, bony hand of a darkly-clothed forearm emerges from the fog, reaching through the head rest portion of the chair, fingers gripping the back rest like claws.

The Veil

PAST EVENT: Extended to Sun, Oct. 19, 2025! Inspired by classic horror writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson, this haunting new work tells the tale of a high-powered lawyer who inherits a sinister curse. Thought For Food Productions, in association with Crow's Theatre and Guild Festival Theatre, presents the world premiere of The Veil at Crow’s Theatre.

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: October

PAST EVENT: Tue, Oct. 14 & Wed, Oct. 15, 2025: Toronto Sketch Comedy & The Second City Toronto present the October edition of Spotlight at The Second City, featuring $20 Sandwich and Sarah Bennett, at The Second City’s Theatre ‘73. For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out distressed collage image of a paper heart, curling up at the bottom, featuring a black & white photo of a young women, two band-aids in an X shape and R4J written inside a drawn heart.

Romeo Pimp by Jesse McQueen

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Sep. 17 – Sun, Oct. 5, 2025: The King Black Box, in partnership with One East Productions, presents the world premiere of Jesse McQueen’s play Romeo Pimp. A high school senior’s life transforms when she falls in love for the first time – but as her world expands, so does the distance between the life she’s always known and the life she's being pulled into. Charity preview presentation on Sun, Sep. 14. Audience discretion advised; ages 16+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text superimposed over a photo collage. Beats Breath. Nagata Shachu. Jiro Murayama (master bamboo flutist from Japan). To the right: Medium close-up of a Japanese man wearing a white fedora with a black band and a black shirt, holds a flute as he looks off to the right. To the left: An ensemble of Japanese taiko drummers performs on stage, featuring a drummer in the centre, wearing a loincloth, the light focused on him.

BEATS-BREATH: Nagata Shachu & Jiro Murayama

PAST EVENT: One night only - Sat, Oct. 4, 2025: Taiko ensemble Nagata Shachu kicks off their 28th season with BEATS-BREATH, an exciting collaborative concert with shinobue (bamboo flute) master Jiro Murayama at The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Together, they’ll perform new compositions and traditional Japanese folk festival pieces.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of a man with short curly dark hair, beard and moustache, wearing glasses, a black vest over a bare chest, gazes at us. A pixilated patterned image is projected on him and on the wall behind him, the entire image bathed in purple blue light.

The Green Line

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Sep. 19 – Sat, Oct. 4, 2025: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens their 47th season with the Toronto premiere of award-winning Canadian play The Green Line, by Makram Ayache. Two love stories twist together in two Beiruts riven by time & conflict. Produced by In Arms Theatre Company & the MENA Collective, in association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre & Factory Theatre. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out image of two South Asian clowns performing on stage, both wearing blue tutus, pale grey long-sleeved t-shirts, yellow vests and black pants. The male clown, wearing a black cap, is on the floor as the female clown, wearing a yellow cap stands over him, her left leg extended as she rests her foot against his left shoulder. She smiles with triumph, while he looks surprised and shocked.

Colonial Circus

PAST EVENT: Tue, Sep. 23 – Sun, Sep. 28, 2025: Two2Mango brings their award-winning clown show Colonial Circus to Toronto, running at Native Earth’s Aki Studio. Through bouffon, song, dance, audience interaction, gestures and morphing props, two Brown clowns give a hilarious, unforgettable lesson on the history of colonization. For audiences 16+. 

Past event: Greyed out logo for What The Festival, featuring a WTF! in white font with black shadow superimposed over a pointy pink comic book explosion bubble against a grey blue background.

What The Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Three days only – from Thu, Sep. 25 – Sat, Sep. 27, 2025: Strange Maker Collective presents their second annual What The Festival, an active celebration of all things drag, clown and puppetry. Toronto's wildest live theatre festival features eyebrow-raising spectacles, theatre and cabaret performances, plus a balloon workshop and a panel on clown and bouffon. Weird & wonderful - they have it all! Happening in spaces at Youngplace. For audiences 18+.