Queer Pride @ Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre have announced their line-up for Queer Pride 2012 (June 8 to July 1) – a community-focused festival of comedy, theatre, art, music, and parties. For four weeks, Buddies hosts a stellar line-up of Toronto’s most exciting queer entertainers, while Buddies After Hours offers up some of the most outrageous clubbing [...]
An installation of photography for Exposed 2012: Be.Here.Now – Part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Launching on May 3, from 7 – 10 p.m., a collective of five Workman Arts photographers will present individual new works responding to the theme which the group will curate. 5 in Focus is part of Exposed 2012: Be.Here.Now, the [...]
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Hot Docs is the largest documentary film festival in North America, and this year there will be nearly 200 films screened from over 50 different countries at various cinemas across the city, including the recently refurbished and renamed, Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. As one of the hosts of the weekly Sex City radio program heard [...]
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Following the huge success of the inaugural Script-Tease Project in 2011, three-time Canadian Comedy Award-winning improv theatre company The National Theatre of the World, are thrilled to announce The Script Tease Project 2012. The 2012 participating playwrights are: Maja Ardal, Ins Choi, Sky Gilbert, Michael Healey, Karen Hines, Lee MacDougall, John Murrell, Adam Pettle, Anusree [...]
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Sweden has introduced a gender-neutral pronoun into the country’s National Encyclopedia this week. The pronoun “hen” (they) is to be used as a singular gender version for those who identify with neither “hon” (he) nor “han,” (she). The neutral pronoun has gained increased usage and recognition via schools, children’s books and most recently, the National [...]
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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre proudly welcomes a Cabaret Company production written and directed by the boundary bursting founder of Buddies, Sky Gilbert. If that wasn’t enough in itself, the show is being choreographed by outrageous and outlandish Keith Cole. A beautiful young man moves to the big city. There, he falls in love with [...]
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The lawyer for the man accused in the beating death of well-known gay rights activist Raymond Taavel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, says his client shouldn’t have been given a one hour pass from a nearby psychiatric facility. Andre Noel Denny now faces a second-degree murder charge, and investigators haven’t ruled out the possibility of the [...]
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This three day event celebrates sexuality and is open to all to attend. Wednesday April 18th - Sexing The Transman with Buck Angel Muzzo Family Alumni Hall (121 St. Joseph Street), 7-9pm $15 advance or at the door (free for SDS and Cinema students) Pioneering filmmaker Buck Angel gives an audio-visual tour of transman sexuality with [...]
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Legendary New York performance group Split Britches offer up a tribute to what we have lost in the rising sea of urban gentrification. Lost Lounge is a refuge for a culture that sits on the edge of extinction. Through loving recreations of seminal lounge acts from the glory days of NYC’s Bowery Corridor, Lost Lounge [...]
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Mad Couture Catwalk is a unique performance and party that will launch Workman Arts’ 25th Anniversary prior to the one-day symposium Extraordinary Artists: The Convergence of Art and Mental Illness in the 21st Century. This runway-style presentation of wearable couture by Workman artists will challenge norms, shift boundaries and inspire dialogue about mental illness and [...]
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