I live in an area a little West of downtown Toronto. I am often amazed at the amount of events happening on any given night. Here I list a few events taking place this week, in an effort to get some of you out of your comfort zone aka your ‘hood.
Wednesday, November 18, 9pm
Nick Digaetano & Adam Paolozza
Holy Oak Café
PWYC
Nick Di Gaetano (Toronto, I Love You, Melancholiac: A Scott Walker Tribute) and Adam Paolozza (Melancholiac: A Tribute to Scott Walker, Bad New Days Theatre Co.) team up to bring you two solo sets of music from two of Toronto’s charmingest live performance makers. Suds, spirits and songs about space, animals, weird love and computers all for the amazing price of whatever you think it’s worth.
Thursday, November 19, 7pm
Corpusse
Sellers & Newel
Tickets: $10 (in adv); $15 (at door)
A rare intimate solo show by Corpusse, shock-opera performance artist/rock superstar. A unique experience in a unique space. Playing many songs never heard before live. (I’ve been informed there only a few tickets left; book soon!)
Thursday, November 19, 8pm
Presencia
The Great Hall
Tickets: $10 (in adv); $15 (at door)
Presencia is a new platform to promote the work of artists engaging in intercultural dialogue through music, with a focus on Latin@ diaspora identities. Artists include Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, A New Tradition, Lido Pimienta, Mas Aya, and Primitiva. There will bevendors from the community and delicious food by Maizal.
Thursday November 19, 9:30pm
Vincent Price: Master of Menace,Lover of Life presentation by Victoria Price
Scream and Scream Again screening
Revue Cinema
Tickets: $15 – $25
The late actor’s daughter, Victoria Price, will be on-hand for this special film screening of Scream and Scream Again. She’ll also be available for photo opps, and poster signing.
Friday, November 20, 7pm
Exhibition opening | Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry
Mercer Union
Free
This exhibition will feature a new video work commissioned by the gallery and Partners in Art. There will be an artist talk followed by the opening reception. Laser stages situations, dialogues, monologues or plays and uses the urban environment and its population as the context for her artwork.
Friday, November 20, 7pm
A Young Man’s Follies
Black Cat Gallery
On display for 5 days only
Free
Triumphs & trials of 1950s kinda love found in a tin trunk, re-interpreted by fourteen couples of 2015. This is in a sense, a collection of youth through letters of love & friendship, photographs, maps and more buried for decades.
Friday, November 20, 9pm
Latin Urban Roots
The Great Hall
Tickets: $10 before 11:30; $15 After
Latin Urban Roots is an event that we are putting together in community to create a new scene in the city that is missing, Latin music is diverse, it’s more than Salsa, Reggeton or Bachata. On this night, you can also hear some Hip hop, Afro Cuban Jazz and Tropical vibes. Various artists will be performing. There will also be food available at the venue. A gozar se ha dicho! (Let’s go party!)
