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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.

 

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301. Toronto International Art Fair

October 28, 2011

Art-lovers, this is your weekend! The Toronto International Art Fair opens at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre today at noon, giving you the opportunity to explore, browse, and purchase some of the most unique and extraordinary art from all over the world. With an intense concentration of Canadian artists, you’ll rub shoulders with big names in the industry; curators and art aficionados from every corner of the globe will be shopping for their own collections and galleries, so you can be sure that only the best art will be on display during this fantastic Fair.

Toronto International Art Fair

 

 

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300. Halloween Howl

October 27, 2011

Gather at the Toronto Zoo tonight from 6:30pm to 8pm for a night that will have you “howling with excitement!” This adult program addresses the unique characteristics about wolves and their primary communication tool: howling. At the end of the evening you’ll have the opportunity to work on your own howl – see if the Arctic wolves will respond!

Halloween Howl

Halloween Howl continues until October 29th. For more information on this unique event, go to www.torontozoo.com.

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299. The Sankofa Trilogy

October 26, 2011

Featuring the plays Blood.Claat, Benu, and Word! Sound! Powah!, the Sankofa Trilogy is “d’bi.young anitafrika’s offering to her mother who taught her dubpoetry. to her grandmother who taught her resilience. to jamaica who taught her black is beautiful. to canada who taught her wombanism. and to the world who is teaching her love.” These three plays are a return to d’bi’s own childhood as she examines her family’s memories and remembers the “herstories” of her ancestors in an effort to “better love herself, her children, her peoples, her planet, and the entire universe.”

The Sankofa Trilogy

The Sankofa Trilogy is playing at the Tarragon Theatre until December 4th. For performance times, go to www.tarragontheatre.com.

 

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298. Hands-on cooking class: The Making of a Cook Series: Learn the Basics of French Cuisine

October 25, 2011

Always dreamed of whipping up a feast a la Julia Child? Inspired by the hit film Julie & Julia? Learn “the art of French cooking” starting today as the “Making of A Cook Series: Learn the Basics of French Cuisine” begins at the St. Lawrence Market!

French Cuisine

Featuring a series of four classes over the next four weeks, you’ll learn how to make a serious salad, work with meat and fish, and perfect your pastry. Tonight, Chef Pamela McDonald introduces you to the world of French sauces. Learn the making of world class French sauces and become a “saucier”  tonight from 6:30pm until 9:30pm.

Each class of the French Cuisine series is $85/per person (making the entire series $340). All classes are on Tuesday evenings, with the final class on November 15, 2011. To register for one or all of the classes, email kitchen@stlawrencemarket.com or call 416-860-0727.

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297. Toronto After Dark Film Festival

October 24, 2011

Be afraid…be very afraid. The Toronto After Dark Film Festival is ready to spook and scare you with eight nights of horror, sci-fi, action and cult movies! Taking place at the Toronto Underground Cinema from October 20th to 27th, you’ll have the opportunity to get thoroughly frightened just in time for Halloween, as the Festival showcases some of the creepiest new films of 2011. Previous years’ festivals have premiered films such as The Last Exorcism, Let the Right One In, Dead Snow, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Robogeisha and Black Dynamite, so who knows what you’ll have the opportunity to see (or peek at from behind your hands over your eyes!) at this year’s After Dark Film Festival!

Toronto After Dark Film Festival

For a schedule of screenings and for more information on the Festival, visit http://torontoafterdark.com.

 

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296. Boo at the Zoo

October 23, 2011

Perhaps you passed on yesterday’s event because you…or your children…are prone to nightmares when it comes to zombies. Today’s event may be more your speed: Boo at the Zoo! Two kids in costume (12 and under) get in free to the Toronto Zoo when accompanied by an adult during this event, and there’s plenty of Halloween-themed activities and exhibits to explore! Follow the Pumpkin Trail to discover trick-or-treat activity stations throughout the Tundra Trek area, where you can meet Arctic wolves, foxes and polar bears. Take part in the Critters and Costumes Parade at 12pm and 2pm daily, and of course, explore the rest of the Zoo (in costume!)

Boo at the Zoo

Participate in Boo at the Zoo this weekend or next weekend (October 29th & 30th). The Tundra Trek will be open from 10am until 4pm. Adult admission to the Zoo is $23. Go to www.torontozoo.com for more information.