Juno Award winners and powerhouse vocalists Divine Brown and Steven Page headline UnCovered: Madonna & Cher, The Musical Stage Company’s high-energy tribute to two of pop music’s most enduring icons.
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In There Are No Words, filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns inward to confront and explore silence, memory, and grief across continents in a poetic meditation on personal and communal loss and family legacy.
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Finch and Midland is an intersection in Scarborough. Like other intersections in the suburbs of Canada’s largest city, this intersection also has many a story to tell. In Finch & Midland, writer/director Timothy Yeung focuses on four stories from the wave of Hong Kong immigrants who came to Canada in the 1990s hoping for a new life.
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Acclaimed drummer, composer, and bandleader Ernesto Cervini has launched a new initiative in the heart of Toronto’s jazz scene. The Next Set, a monthly concert series at The Emmet Ray in Toronto, pairs seasoned professionals with top emerging artists in a rotating ensemble that showcases the depth, diversity, and future of Canadian jazz.
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) will launch its inaugural Ever After Romance Festival Presented by Rakuten Kobo from November 21 to 23, 2025.
The Ever After Romance Festival is a “celebration of beginnings, in books, in love, and in life”, as described by Festival Artistic Director Roland Gulliver.
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In the grand expanse of cinematic history, few movements are known as rebelliously as the French New Wave. In Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater gives us more than homage: he offers a genuine tribute to filmmaking itself and to the youthful spirit of Jean‑Luc Godard’s 1960 debut, À Bout de Souffle (Breathless).
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This year’s Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) features more than 100 events, including author talks, panel discussions, masterclasses, workshops, book signings, and special performances. Taking place October 29 – November 2, at the historic Victoria University at the University of Toronto, the Festival debuts its new 5-day format.
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Workman Arts’ 33rd edition of the Rendezvous With Madness (RWM) Festival, the largest and longest-running arts festival in the world dedicated to the intersection of mental health and artistic expression, returns to Toronto, Canada this week.
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The Theatre Centre hosts its sixth edition of the Comedy is Art festival, with three nights of can’t-miss comedy with over 20 comics from across Toronto and beyond.
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The time spent at TIFF each year always feels like a blur once the festival wraps up.
This year, I met fellow media friend Emmanuel Akanbi who was covering TIFF for the first time. Emmanuel is a writer and editor with Antler River Media Co-Op, based in London, Ontario, Canada.
We managed to see one film together during the festival but decided to catch up after it wrapped up to discuss our festival experience and some of the films we covered as well.
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