For the past 6 years, Breakthroughs Film Festival has been the only festival in Canada devoted exclusively to short films directed by emerging women directors. Breakthroughs 2017 will run June 16 and 17 at the Royal Cinema at 7:30 pm each night. READ MORE
Musical theatre company Angelwalk Theatre celebrates Canada’s 150th with the world premiere of Everybody’s Got A Story: A Celebration of Canadian Women in Music. A tribute to the nation’s strong history of women in music, the concert runs Thursday June 15 to Saturday June 17 at 8pm nightly in the brand-new Lyric Theatre at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. READ MORE
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 6th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival will be held from June 8 to 28 and features over 20 films including many International, North American and Canadian premieres. READ MORE
commonplacetheatre presents No Bombs on Mondays (or, the Dandelion Queen) at The Collective Space from June 1 – 10, 2017. The play, written by Devon Allen Jackson, is commonplacetheatre’s second production of their 2017 season where all of the shows have been written by emerging Canadian Playwrights.
To learn more about commonplacetheatre, their goals, and their upcoming show, Artistic Director Chantel Martin is featured in this 5 Questions With... series. READ MORE
The InspiraTO festival kicks off its 12th season from June 1st – 10th, and will take over Toronto’s historic Alumnae Theatre over nine days. The festival will showcase the work of 24 writers from across the globe. The plays, which made the very competitive cut out of over 450 submissions, address what it means to ‘grow up’. READ MORE
Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in Canada, has a great selection of films in two of its most popular programming streams: Special Presentations and Icons. Toronto audiences can experience the best in queer cinema featuring immersive documentaries spotlighting real and remarkable LGBT figures. READ MORE
In Situational Anarchy, Graham Isador (Soulpepper Playwright’s Unit, VICE) shares stories about his teenage years spent on internet message boards, in strip mall record stores, and at concerts in basement and backrooms. Runner up for Outstanding Production at the 2016 Summerworks festival the show is about the growing pains of adolescence and the inevitable heartbreak of teenage conviction. READ MORE
“There is no longer any shame in hypocrisy; it is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue… hypocrisy is a privileged vice which closes the mouth of everyone, and enjoys in peace a sovereign impunity.” READ MORE
The fourth edition of the RISER Project includes playwright and director Marilo Nuñez‘s El Retorno/I Return. READ MORE
