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We usually post new events on Thursdays. #ArtsAndLetters #YWEvents
Time to showcase some of our latest #ArtsAndLetters community events. Last week, we’ve added a B-movie screening, a graphic novel launch, a restaurant music residency & a 30-artist spring art tour.
Get the details: https://www.youngw.ca/events/ #Art #Reading #Performance #YWEvents
Currently playing at Red Sandcastle Theatre until Sun, Apr. 30, 2023:
Eldritch Theatre presents... TWO WEIRD TALES!
Kafka meets Lovecraft in this double-bill of cosmic horrors, dark magic and hideous puppetry.
Created & performed by @ericwoolfe
#Performance #Leslieville #Toronto #Theatre #Puppetry #theaTO
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/eldritch-theatre-presents-two-weird-tales/
From Thu, Apr 20 to Sun, Apr 30, 2023: Eldritch Theatre presents... TWO WEIRD TALES! Kafka meets Lovecraft in this nightmarish double-bill of terrifying transformation and cosmic horrors, featuring dark magic, hideous puppetry and protoplasmic terrors. For audiences aged 14+. Suitable for horror fans, freaks and geeks, and anyone who loves puppets.
Currently playing at Alumnae Theatre until Apr. 29, 2023:
String of Pearls
Follow the fateful journey of a pearl necklace as it travels from one woman to another over the span of 35 years, weaving a thread of love & loss.
#Performance #Toronto #TorontoTheatre #theaTO
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/alumnae-theatre-presents-string-of-pearls/
Playing at Page 1 Theatre's OutFest starting Apr. 26:
Parry Riposte's #TheElephantGirls
A riveting tale of Britain's most notorious all-female gang: they stole from the rich, gave to themselves & terrorized London for over 100 years.
#Performance #Halifax #Theatre
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/the-elephant-girls-halifax/
Five performances only, from Wed, April 26 – Sun, Apr 29, 2023: Page 1 Theatre OutFest 2023 presents Parry Riposte Productions’ riveting, bloody tale of the most notorious all-female gang Britain’s ever seen, as told by gang member Maggie Hale (Margo MacDonald). Pull up a chair and give her a listen, if you’ve got the guts for it. For audiences 14+.
Only on Apr. 27, 2023:
The #BookLaunch of Patrick Jenkins' debut graphic novel Tales from Phantom City.
Happening in #KensingtonMarket, it includes a live action reading & book signing.
#Reading #Toronto #GraphicNovel #ComicArts
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/tales-from-phantom-city/
One night only – Thu, Apr. 27, 2023: The Assembly Theatre, in association with At Bay Press, presents the launch of Patrick Jenkins’ debut graphic novel Tales from Phantom City. Includes a live action reading & book signing. Free admission. For adults 18+ & lovers of graphic novels, film noir & magic realism.
Every Tuesday night until May 30, 2023:
Join music artists Arlene Paculan & Kevin Dvorak restaurant Coriander Green in Oakville, ON, as they perform some of their favourite cover songs plus some originals.
#Performance #Oakville #LiveMusic
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/arlene-kevin-at-coriander-green/
Only on May 5, 2023:
Watch the 1950s movie Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers at Killer B Cinema, a monthly series of B-movie screenings at See-Scape, a cyberpunk-themed bar in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood.
#Art #Toronto #FilmScreenings #BMovies
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/killer-b-cinema-presents-earth-vs-the-flying-saucers/
One night only: Fri, May 5, 2023. Get ready for an invasion from outer space – 1950s-style! The first Friday of each month, join Lizzie Violet and Zoltan Du Lac at See-Scape in the Junction for screenings of killer B-movies from the 1930s to the present. For adults 18+.
Only on May 11, 2023:
Act 1 of Carolyn Fe’s play Go Fish! gets a staged reading at Le Festival Accès Asie.
On her last day, an old woman plays a game of Go Fish with various versions of herself at different stages of her life.
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/go-fish/
(Photo credit: Dahlia Katz)
One night only – Thu, May 11, 2023: Festival Accès Asie presents a reading of Act 1 of Carolyn Fe’s new play Go Fish! On her last day, an old woman becomes a witness to her past, preparing to let go as she plays a game of Go Fish with various versions of herself at different stages of her life. Theatrical reading, presented in English.
Starting May 25, 2023:
Theatre Myth Collective presents the world premiere of a new Canadian musical: Inge(new) – In Search of a Musical.
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
#Performance #Leslieville #Toronto #Musicals
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/ingenew-in-search-of-a-musical/
From Thu, May 25 – Sun, Jun. 4, 2023: Theatre Myth Collective presents the world premiere of the musical Inge(new) - In Search of a Musical. On the eve of her 40th birthday, Bridget finds herself navigating a metatheatrical world where past and present collide as she attends an audition with no role for her.
...and on the last weekend in May (May 27 & 28):
Scattered Artists is back with a spring art tour in Saanich, BC, feat. 30 artists at 8 locations.
#Art #SaanichBC #Saanich #VictoriaBC #Community #YYJEvents #ScatteredArtists
Details: https://www.youngw.ca/event/scattered-artists-2023-art-tour/
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