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Photo of papermaking materials, including cups of pulp of various colours, a deckle box and plastic vat container & four sheets of handmade paper.
Photo of papermaking materials, including cups of pulp of various colours, a deckle box and plastic vat container & four sheets of handmade paper.

Make paper Make paper

using a deckle box, one of the oldest methods of papermaking.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for Soundstreams Mainstage presentation of The Bright Divide, featuring a person playing violin, their back to us, as a beam of light shines behind them.

Soundstreams presents: The Bright Divide

PAST EVENT. Three performances only: Fri, Nov. 10 - Sat, Nov. 11, 2023 at the TD Music Hall. Soundstreams, in partnership with Pinkhouse Productions, presents The Bright Divide, a riveting concert experience including projections. The program features Rothko Chapel by American composer Morton Feldman; and the world premiere of mark by Canadian composer Cecilia Livingston. Recommended for audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out impage of the poster for Hagar, with the Pleiades Theatre logo above the title. Close-up photo of a young woman's hand, reaching up from behind a barb wire fence, with a purple and blue-tinged night sky in the background.

Pleiades Theatre presents: Hagar

PAST EVENT. From Wed, Nov. 8 – Sun, Nov. 12, 2023: Pleiades Theatre, in partnership with the Festival of Arabic Music & Arts, presents Hagar, the gripping odyssey of a determined mother striving to find safety with her infant son amidst the chaos of war-torn Syria.

Past event: Greyed out image of a pair of small hexagonal boxes, one open and decorated in light marbled and peach paper, with the lid beside it, the other in a dark floral pattern.

Unusually Shaped Boxes Workshop

REGISTRATION CLOSED. Mondays, Nov. 6, 13 & 20, 2023: Learn how to make customized, non-rectangular boxes in this 3-day (6 hours total) box making workshop at Paperhouse Studio. All materials included. Beginner level, no experience required. Limited to 6 spots.

Past event: Greyed out image of a poster for a play. Shakespeare BASH'd presents Arden of Faversham by Anonymous. Nov 5 2pm 2023 The Monarch Tavern. In the background, an illustration of a rough knife, with three holes in the blade, the handle wrapped in leather strapping.

Play reading: Arden of Faversham

PAST EVENT. One day only – Sun, Nov. 5, 2023: Farce meets tragedy as Shakespeare BASH’d launches their 2023/24 season with a staged reading of Arden of Faversham, a sordid Elizabethan true crime story of love, lust, virtue & murder by Anonymous, at The Monarch Tavern. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text & a photograph. Eldritch Theatre presents Doc Wuthergloom Here There Be Monsters. Created & performed by Eric Woolfe. To the right, Doc Wuthergloom, a man with skull makeup on his face, wearing a black top hat and a black and red striped jacket, holds up a small wooden structure bearing a tiny skeleton and a small jar.

Doc Wuthergloom’s Here There Be Monsters

PAST EVENT. From Wed, Oct. 25 – Sun, Nov. 5, 2023: Step right up as infamous necromancer Doctor Pretorious Wuthergloom presents some ghoulishly giddy tales about the monsters, cryptids & weird creatures that haunt our mortal realm! For audiences 14+. Suitable for deranged weirdos who love horror & dark humour.

Past event: Greyed out image of a colourful child-like stick drawing of a boy, his eyes wide and mouth open. To the bottom left, the black silhouettes of two hands signing.

Anthony’s Journey: Songs That Tell A Story

PAST EVENT. One night only - Sat, Nov. 4, 2023: An accessible concert presentation of Anthony’s Journey: Songs That Tell A Story, an epic, empowering new musical that explores how we’re not alone in our struggles with grief & how we can learn from it by taking care of ourselves & each other.

Past event: Greyed out image of poster for Letters of Gratitude Writing Event. Saturday, November 4. Session One: 10AM - 11AM. Toronto's First Post Office. In the background, a close-up photo of a field of poppies and snippets of a handwritten letter, with silhouettes of a group of soldiers walking up a hill.

Letters of Gratitude

PAST EVENT. One day only - Sat, Nov. 4, 2023: Join Toronto’s First Post Office for an event to honour those who’ve served our country & secured our freedoms, past & present, by writing a thank-you letter to a Veteran. Materials will be supplied. Pre-registration required & spots are strictly limited, with 3 sessions to choose from. All ages.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for Papi Gudia. The 1995 unauthorized Bollywood version of Child's Play presented by Killer B Cinema. To the left of the text are photos, clockwise from top left: a hip young woman dressed in red PVC; a blond blue-eyed doll wearing a baseball cap and holding a hatchet; a man in a suit looking concerned and a man in black with painted symbols on his forehead and blood trickling from the corner of his mouth face glaring at us.

Killer B Cinema presents: Papi Gudia

PAST EVENT. One night only: Fri, Nov. 3, 2023. A possessed doll goes on a murderous rampage! India’s version of Child’s Play, Papi Gudia has your favourite creepy doll with, of course, Bollywood singing and dancing. The first Friday of each month, join Lizzie Violet and Zoltan Du Lac at See-Scape in the Junction for screenings of killer B-movies from the 1930s to the present. For adults 19+.

Past event: Greyed out poster image for the Canadian premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning. October 3- 22, 2023. Written by Will Arbery. Directed by Philip Aiken. The Howland Company & Crow's Theatre logos at the bottom. All against the background of a nighttime photograph of a forest of evergreens with a starry sky above.

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

PAST EVENT. Tue, Oct. 3 – Sun, Oct. 29, 2023: Extended by popular demand, The Howland Company & Crow’s Theatre present the Canadian premiere of Will Arbery’s play Heroes of the Fourth Turning. A week after the Charlottesville riots in 2017, an intimate college alumni party spirals into spiritual chaos, clashing politics & stunning revelations. For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image of medium close-up of a woman with a garland of flowers and leaves around the back of her tied up grey hair, a shawl draped over her naked shoulders, in profile gazing off to the left. The words A New Play Bremen Town by Gregory Prest on either side of her.

Bremen Town

PAST EVENT. From Thu, Oct. 19 – Sun, Oct. 29, 2023: Follow the winding journey of an aging laid off housekeeper as she travels to live with her estranged son (doing her best to avoid the stupid Kite Festival along the way) in this rural folk tragicomedy about the painful truth of outliving our use. At Next Stage Theatre Festival. For audiences 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for Comedy is Art, featuring photos of a diverse array of stand-up & sketch comedy & music performers against a pink background, arrows pointing up to the right surrounding the title.

Comedy is Art. Festival

PAST EVENT. Five nights only, from Tue, Oct. 24 – Sat, Oct. 28, 2023: The Theatre Centre presents its annual Comedy is Art. Festival. Five nights of comedy & good vibes, featuring stand-up & sketch comedy, improv & music. For audiences 18+. Mature content.

Past event: Greyed out image of a close-up photo of a deckle box with multiple colours of pulp, plus three containers of red & yellow pulp to the left.

Deckle Box Papermaking Workshop

PAST EVENT. One day only - Sat, Oct. 21, 2023: Learn how to make your own paper using a deckle box, one of the oldest methods of papermaking, in this 5-hour workshop at Paperhouse Studio, Artscape Youngplace. All materials included. Beginner level, no experience required. Limited to 6 spots.