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Upcoming Events
As a service to our community and to you, Gloucester Square maintains an updated list of special events happening in Toronto. We invite local bars and clubs and business to submit information in order to maintain this section.
PRIDE WEEK 2007 Date: June 15th to June 24th Theme for Toronto Pride Week: "UNSTOPABBLE"
Pride Week 2007 is the 27th annual Pride Week. This year's theme is UNSTOPABBLE! UNSTOPABBLE is about how far we've come and how far we've to go; it’s about being bold, proud and true; it's about the courage to be open about who you are, and to celebrate people in our past and present who make it increasingly possible to live without fear. www.pridetoronto.com
PRIDE TORONTOPride Week 2007 will feature hundreds of artists over three days from Friday, June 21st - Sunday, June 24th. Pride Week Toronto is North America's largest LGBTTIQ2S outdoor, free, multi-disciplinary arts festival. This year, Pride features performances by: Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Debbie Harry, The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip, The Cliks, and Margaret Cho. FLAG RAISING CEREMONY The Pride Week Proclamation and Flag Raising Ceremony at Toronto City Hall is an annual Pride tradition. Every year on the Monday of Pride Week citizens, politicians, friends and community members gather at noon at Toronto City Hall to hear the Mayor read the Pride Week proclamation, raise the Rainbow Flag and enjoy food and entertainment. Join everyone Monday June 18th for the Flag Raising ceremony. 12:00 noon at Toronto City Hall (100 Queen Street West) second floor mezzanine – all welcome.
Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm We welcome you to participate in one of North America’s largest Pride parades. Bring an outburst of energy, flamboyant colour, costumes, humour and creativity to express your interpretation of "Fearless". The Pride Parade is the climax of Pride Week; a week during which we honour our history and our future with everyone who chooses to support us. The Parade is the community's opportunity to express freedom, gratitude and pride for being able to live in harmony. Pride Parade Route The Pride Parade starts at the corner of Bloor Street East and Church Street, moves westward to Yonge Street, proceeds south on Yonge Street to Gerrard Street, moves eastward on Gerrard Street and finishes at Church Street. FFN4 WEEKEND Friday, July 20 - Sunday, July 22nd - - - www.ffnto.com The world’s sexiest & hottest leather and fetish lovers will gather again in Toronto for FFN4 this July! FFN4 Weekend will take place Friday, July 20 – Sunday, July 22 – plan to take Monday off! We are honoured by the recognition we have received from all over the world and especially… being called “one hot mother-fu***er” by Instigator Magazine, "The Best Event to Attend in Toronto" and "the one of the top Best Destinations Events in the World" by Instinct Magazine, & being nominated again “Best Largest Event of the Year” by Pantheon of Leather. LEATHER BALL Saturday, August 17th - - - www.mrlt.com The CWVBIA is equally proud to contribute to the Mr. Leatherman Toronto Competition Leather Ball weekend, now in it's 13th year. The popular Leather Ball dance party takes place Saturday night, August 19, 2006 at the Opera House, 735 Queen Street East. CHURCH STREET FETISH FAIR Saturday, August 18 - - - www.churchstreetfetishfair.com The street fair will take place on Sunday, August 18 from noon to 10pm. Enjoy the day and get into the spirit of the event by dressing in your fetish and/or fantasy. fantasy. MR. LEATHERMAN TORONTO 2007 COMPETITION (MLT) WEEKEND November 2007 - - - www.mrlt.com Mr. Leatherman Toronto (MLT) once again hosts one of North America’s largest and most acclaimed leather celebrations, American Thanksgiving weekend. Four days of official events, including meet-and-greets, dinners, brunches, leather market, Bootblack Toronto Contest, and much more, climax at the Mr. Leatherman Toronto Competition 2006 and Victory Ball on Saturday night. If the hunks competing for the coveted title of Mr. Leatherman Toronto 2006 don’t get your attention, try the daddies, muscle boys, titleholders, and beautiful leather folk in attendance from all over the world. MLT Weekend Pass includes VIP admission to leather contest and Victory Ball, Friday Reception, Saturday Breakfast, SM seminars, Victory Brunch and more. Click here to book your stay now!
TORONTO 2006 IS "LIVE WITH CULTURE!"
A creative culture is the cornerstone of a great city. It's Toronto, 2006... and Creativity is Everywhere! Please visit Live With Culture for more details on what's happening in our city. New Public Artwork Celebrating Toronto’s Aboriginal Roots NEW PUBLIC ARTWORK CELEBRATING TORONTO'S ABORIGINAL ROOTS Toronto’s Aboriginal roots will be celebrated with the initiation of a commission of a new public artwork. This legacy of Live With Culture will be carried out a through equitable and objective selection processes with valuable input and guidance from community members and relevant professionals. The awarding of the commission will be unveiled towards the end of 2006. This multi-project community arts initiative will address social issues in Toronto such as underserved communities and youth at risk. Six to twelve community arts projects, in partnership with community arts groups, will be designed to increase the arts in troubled neighbourhoods (i.e. Malvern, St. James Town, Kingston/Galloway and Jane/Finch). These projects will be documented on video as a testimony to the effectiveness of such projects to promote community pride.
Three projects have been initiated:
HipTix
Blues Harmonica in the Schools 
Rainbow Songs
7th ANNUAL DOORS OPEN TORONTO One weekend a year Toronto tells its stories during Doors Open Toronto, a citywide event celebrating buildings of architectural, historic and/or cultural significance. Step inside heritage landmarks, places of worship, hidden gems, modern structures, boardrooms, bedrooms, private clubs, mansions, museums, ‘green' roof gardens, theatres, national historic sites, centres of rail and air travel, campuses, warehouses, banking halls, architects' offices and more. Many of these buildings are not normally open to the public. No tickets or pre-registration required; admission to all buildings is free. The official program guide will be available in the Toronto Star, May, 2006.
Doors Open Toronto invites you to get to know the city, whether you've lived in Toronto all your life or you're visiting for the first time. See Toronto like you've never seen it before and discover the stories that emerge when doors are opened. Go to www.doorsopen.org for more information.
HUMANITAS FESTIVAL A city-wide expression of Toronto past, present, and future Under themes of gathering place, global village and city soul the Humanitas Festival will animate the ways in which the creative energy of Canada’s international city is deeply rooted in its history and diversity. The Humanitas Festival invites residents and visitors alike to explore our past - and anticipate our future. The Festival will launch with a waterfront-themed Doors Open Toronto (see above) and continue with a Humanitas urban affairs symposium, the Stages of Creativity along Toronto’s central waterfront and a citizen curated exhibition called My TO. The festival is also an occasion to highlight and celebrate the arts, culture and heritage in Toronto that animate the spirit of Humanitas every day The Humanitas Festival will provide a forum to explore issues around sustainable urban development, cultural identity in the 21st century and pride of place in anticipation of its evolution to an iconic facility on Toronto’s waterfront by the year 2015. Envision thousands of canvasses and easels dotting Nathan Phillips Square as Torontonians congregate en masse to paint or sketch. One day to come together and celebrate the creativity we all possess and contribute. Now imagine a whole summer of Everyone Create! events. These single day splash events will encourage active artistic participation. Various venues across the city will host these outbursts of creativity whether people are painting, dancing, singing or reading.
PUBLIC ART/PUBLIC PLACES Designating a group of 10 public art pieces spread out in the City of Toronto as “Stations”, the public will be invited for one day in the Fall of 2006 to come down to any, or all of the “Stations” and take a picture of the piece of art with a digital camera. The only stipulation is that they must have a living thing in the picture with the art (a family member, friend, household pet, even a houseplant). At each station the photos taken will be immediately down-loaded onto a lap top computer and sent as a digital file to a large public venue (like the Moss Park Armory, or FortYork, etc.). The large public venue will be the Gallery, where every photo will be immediately printed up and put up on a wall in the order that they arrive. By the end of the day there will be hundreds (possibly thousands) of photos of Torontonians and participating visitors to the city engaged with Toronto-based public art. The final product will be a massive public art show open to all.
A book will be produced of the final show, and there may be celebrity judges awarding prizes for best photographs.
SUMMER PERFORMING ARTS SERIES This four week series in the summer of 2006 will feature four commissioned concerts in four areas of the city. These exciting new works will fuse classical and contemporary art forms with broad ethnic influences, bringing together diverse artistic genres and audiences of multiple generations in a unique cultural and creative exchange.
IRREVERSIBLE BEING: EXPLODING FROM WONDER Irreversible Being: Exploding From Wonder will be a visual art exhibition exploring uncommon curiosities within the u | |||
PRIDE PARADE!
In its first six years, Doors Open Toronto has attracted nearly one million visitors and inspired Doors Open Ontario events province-wide. In 2006, the 7th annual Doors Open Toronto will be a highlight of Live with Culture 05/06 and will kick-off the