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312. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok

November 8, 2011

Hailing from Arviat, the most southern community on Nunavut’s mainland, Lucy Tasseor uses stone local to her home. Arviat is close to the geographical centre of Canada where the local stone is a tough grey steatite which is harder than steel tools typically used by Arviat carvers. Tasseor created a unique sculpture style by using an axe to chip at this hard stone, allowing the artist to “communicate essential ideas of form and content with a minimum of elaboration.”

Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok

The Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok exhibit takes place at the Art Gallery of Ontario and features more than 40 works by Tasseor from the 1960s through to the 1990s. For more information, go to www.ago.net.

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310. Day of the Dead Festival

November 6, 2011

What is the Day of the Dead? It’s a Mexican holiday when family and friends gather to pray for and remember friends and family members who have passed away. In Mexico the day is a national holiday in connection with All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. Traditions include building altars honouring the deceased using marigolds, sugar skulls, and the favourite foods and beverages of the deceased.

Day of the Dead Festival

In Toronto, the Day of the Dead Festival means a diverse range of music, food and Mexican celebrations at the Harbourfront Centre. Build community ofrendas, purchase crafts at the Mexican marketplace, make your own crafts with the kids, watch documentaries and of course, eat Mexican food including tortillas, burritos, carnitas and tamales! For more information on the Day of the Dead Festival in Toronto, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com.

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309. Hobby Show & Great Canadian Game Show

November 5, 2011

Whether you’re looking for a new hobby or love games of all varieties, the Hobby Show & Great Canadian Game Show is a great place to spend your day today! The Hobby Show includes seminars, demonstrations, hands-on exhibits and more – you can check out aquariums, trains, woodworking, scrapbooking, stamp-collecting, puppeteering, robotics and just about any hobby you can think of! The Great Canadian Game Show is your opportunity to check out popular games and championship events such as Dungeons and Dragons, table top hockey, Scrabble, Pac Man, Tetris and more!

Hobby Show & Great Canadian Game Show

The Hobby Show & Great Canadian Game Show started on November 4th and continues until November 6th at Downsview Park. For more information, go to www.thehobbyshow.com.

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308. Regent Park Film Festival

November 4, 2011

The Regent Park Film Festival is Toronto’s only free-of-charge community film festival, and is committed to highlighting local and international independent films relevant to the individuals and groups who call Regent Park “home.” Key themes of the Festival include inner city issues, immigration, cultural identity and multicultural relationships. “The Festival aims to reach isolated communities throughout Regent Park and beyond and provide a forum for them to engage in critical dialogue on social issues and to enjoy films from all over the world.”

Regent Park FIlm Festival

The Regent Park Film Festival takes place at Lord Dufferin Public School from November 3rd to the 6th. For a full schedule of events and screenings, go to www.regentparkfilmfestival.com.

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307. SpeakEasy’s Comic Book Show

November 3, 2011

Did you know that Toronto is home to some of the most-famous comics artists in North America? At the SpeakEasy Comics Show you’ll have the opportunity to meet an eclectic mix of some of Toronto’s talented comic book artists. Whether you’re interested in political cartoons in newspaper strips, underground comix, or the mainstream superhero comic books we all know and love, this event is an excellent introduction to the growing comics artist community in our city.

The SpeakEasy’s Comic Book Show starts at 7pm tonight at the Gladstone Hotel and is “pay what you can.” For more information, visit SpeakEasy’s website.

 

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306. Orpheus and Eurydice

November 2, 2011

A modern reinterpretation of the ancient Greek myth, The Canadian Stage Company presents the one-act ballet Orpheus and Eurydice. Choreographed by Quebec native Marie Chouinard, the show features original music by Louis Dufort and was originally created in February 2008 at the Equilibrio Festival in Rome.

Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice is the tail of a musician/poet/prophet who enters the underworld on a mission to rescue his wife, Eurydice, who died from a viper’s bite. The one-act ballet “features multiple versions of the two characters and concerns itself with the most intimate manifestations of the human body.”

For more information about this ballet and to purchase tickets, go to www.canadianstage.com.

 

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305. Make wine/beer at Fermentations!

November 1, 2011

The holiday season may still be over a month away, but if you are interested in making your own wine or beer for gifts, entertaining, or a New Year’s celebration, now is the time to get started! At Fermentations it will take only ten minutes for you to brew a batch of beer, but the fermentation process takes about two weeks. For wine, you can select fresh juice or grapes to get your ideal product, but the fermenting takes about eight weeks, so your wine should be ready just in time for you to ring in 2012 with your very own hand-crafted beverage!

Make wine/beer at Fermentations

Fermentations offers over 35 different styles of beer on their regular menu and can clone most commercial brews and even create beers that exist only in your dreams! Choose from more than 100 different wines – you can even select which country you would like your grapes to come from and decide whether you want a wine that is suited for long-term aging or quick consumption! Imagine the look on your guests’ faces when you tell them that you made the wine or beer they are drinking!

Prices depend on the type of beer or wine you choose to make. A 23 litre batch of beer starts at about $66.50 (about $1 per beer), and wine ranges from about $155 to $182 per batch (26-30 bottles). For more information and to make an appointment to craft your own wine or beer, go to www.fermentations.ca!

 

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304. Halloween Party at Church & Wellesley Village

October 31, 2011

Halloween is a HUGE deal in Church & Wellesley Village! Don your costume and head to the neighbourhood for Pride Toronto’s Halloween Party at Cawthra Park! You’ll see some of the most elaborate and unique costumes during this party, where people from all over Toronto get together to celebrate the biggest dress-up party ever. The block party is the culmination of Halloweek, a week long event of Halloween-themed events including contests for the spookiest store exterior/interior, Church Street Drag and Leather Boo-zarre, and the 3rd annual Church Street Jack O Lantern competition.

The Halloween Party features live entertainment and music, a vendor market, and of course, a costume contest beginning at 7pm! This is Toronto’s biggest outdoor Halloween celebration – you won’t want to miss it! For more information and details about tonight’s party, go to www.halloweek.ca.

 

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303. Pedestrian Sunday

October 30, 2011

We’ve featured Pedestrian Sunday on 365Toronto before, but today’s event is a special Halloween celebration. With an “Honouring Our Ancestors” theme, you can be sure that this Pedestrian Sunday will be an event you won’t forget! As usual, the streets of Kensington Market will be vehicle-free from 12pm to 7pm for this pedestrian-only event, giving you the opportunity to explore the shops, meet the people, and enjoy the one-of-a-kind atmosphere of Pedestrian Sunday in a new and exciting (and possibly “spooky”) way!

P.S. Kensington

To learn more about Pedestrian Sundays, go to www.pskensington.ca/

 

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302. All Hallows Eve + Howling Hootenanny

October 29, 2011

Only two more sleeps to Halloween – get in the spirit at Black Creek Pioneer Village! Participate in two special events today: All Hallows Eve and Howling Hootenanny. All Hallows Eve features a “Ghost Tour” around the village to learn the ghostly history of Black Creek. Howling Hootenanny offers kids the opportunity to enjoy a “Haunted Maze,” pumpking carving, apple sling shot, trick or treating and more!

All Hallows Eve + Howling Hootenanny

Admission to Black Creek Pioneer Village is $15 for adults and $11 for children ages 5-15 year. All Hallows Eve is a pre-ticketed event; for more details on how you can purchase these tickets and participate in events at Black Creek, go to www.blackcreek.ca.