From November 18–20, the Hot Docs Podcast Festival takes over the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Canada’s first international podcast festival will showcase creative non-fiction storytelling with chart-topping and award-winning podcasters, live podcast recordings, industry panels, and listening parties. READ MORE
This year marks the 12th Annual European Union Film Festival in Toronto. The festival continues to bring some of the finest films from Europe; including comedies, dramas, action, and documentary films. READ MORE
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) returns for its 20th edition! This year’s programming includes Marquee, Vista, Canadian Spotlight, Pulse, Reel Asian X, Reel Ideas and introduces the inaugural Wee Asian curated especially for kids and in honour of the 20th anniversary, the Cinematic Celebrations commissioned works. The Reel Asian Film Festival begins today November 8 until November 19 in Toronto and Richmond Hill. READ MORE
Another beautiful Autumn weekend in Toronto begins. There are several events happening around town that are worth noting… herein a list of personal choices to share with you.
Simply put, when you’re the only koto-playing indie soul jazz singer-songwriter in the west (the koto is a traditional Japanese 13-stringed instrument) whose trademark red hair and genre-bending dancefloor grooves have taken you on multiple tours throughout Asia and Australia, despite being Vancouver born and a Toronto native, you’re bound to raise an eyebrow (or 2000?). This is the fate of Jessica Stuart from The Jessica Stuart Few who will be in concert to celebrate their new album The Passage, tonight October 27 at 8:30pm, Supermarket. READ MORE
For their final show after a very successful 2016 season, Seven Siblings Theatre is pleased to present Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s most violent and bloody play. Not seen in Toronto since CanStage’s 2014 production in High Park, Titus Andronicus is a story of revenge, betrayal, murder, lust, duty and honour. READ MORE
Based on real people and events, The People vs. Fritz Bauer focuses on Bauer (Burghart Klaußner) — a German Jew, serving as an attorney general in West Germany in 1957. As attorney general, Bauer’s work included tracking down former Nazi officials. In the process, he is constantly undermined by superiors and colleagues who are still sympathetic to the Third Reich. READ MORE
The Meet the Presses collective has announced the finalists for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award. The prize, awarded annually since its establishment in 1985, goes to the author of the best poetry chapbook – in the estimation of the judges – published in Canada in the previous year and submitted for consideration. It is named in honour of the late poet, novelist, and micropress publisher bpNichol. READ MORE
Pleiades Theatre, in co-production with Théâtre français de Toronto, presents the Toronto premiere of The (Post) Mistress (in English, from October 25 to November 6) known in French as Zesty Gopher s’est fait écraser par un frigo (from October 12 to 23), the latest musical by Canada’s acclaimed First Nations’ playwright, Tomson Highway. READ MORE
Off The Rails introduces us to Darius McCollum, a New York City man who has been jailed 32 times for impersonating NYC bus drivers and subway conductors. The issue: He was taught the ins and outs of the subway system from childhood by transit workers who adopted him as a sort of ‘mascot’. READ MORE
