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Gamercamp

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 21, 2009
Location: Lower Ossington Theatre
Gamercamp celebrates the artistry, history, and creativity behind the games that kept you up all night and well into the next day. Get inspired by fresh ideas from passionate, knowledgable speakers, an open demo stage for Toronto's best and up-and-coming, and an exhibition from Canada's first arcade museum. We started Gamercamp out of an obsession for video games and a belief that the the journey to how games are made is as fun as the games themselves. For example, we dig retro games not only in a nostalgic sense but also how they are applicable to game development today. New classics like Shadow Complex and platforms like the iPhone are taking things back to priority one: smart, stream-lined design to produce addictive, can't-get-enough fun games. So if you begged with tears to get an NES, thought quarters were the only coin worth keeping, or spent entire weekends sketching out side-scroller levels, join us for a day for the love of game. Get your tickets online now, only $15. Or $20 at the door. If you have any questions or inquiries, drop an email to mark@gamercamp.ca. 1 pm - 9:30 pm

The Rural Alberta Advantage at Lee's Palace

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 20, 2009
Location: Lee's Palace
The Rural Alberta Advantage w/ Bahamas Fox Jaws $15 529 Bloor St. W. 9 pm

$20 -- 52 McCaul's Opening Show

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 20, 2009
Location: 52 McCaul
$20 is our inaugural show/grand opening featuring the work of over 40 artists, who have generously donated pieces for the exhibit. All work will be sold for $20, making it a great place to pick up affordable gifts for the holiday. Featuring a large variety of mediums and sizes, $20 is a fundraiser for 52, with all proceeds supporting our upcoming programming.

Jonathan+Olivia Weekend Special

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 20, 2009
Location: Jonathan+Olivia Boutique
Jonathan+Olivia weekend special: 20% off all fall 2009 winter coats+jackets friday 20, saturday 21 and sunday 22 november 2009

GIrl & Boy 90s Dance Party

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 20, 2009
Location: Clinton's
All 90s music all night! Rock, pop, dance, hiphop and more!

Handbag Warehouse Sale

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 27, 2009
Location: Goldco Warehouse
Just in time for Christmas!!!!! Fashion Accessories Wholesale Company Opens to Public!!! Stocks include ladies handbags; special occasion/bridal bags; fashionable ladies leather briefcases; jewelleries and more.......... Address: 2 Select Avenue (Steeles/Middlefield), Unit 14, Scarborough, Ontario M1V 5J4 Phone: (416) 293-2488 Open: November 27 - 28, 2009 FRI 10AM TO 8PM SAT 10AM TO 5PM SUN 10AM TO 4PM Payment: Cash; Visa; Master Card

The World Laughter Games

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 21, 2009
Location: Bloor Cinema
TORONTO COULD GET THE WORLD LAUGHTER GAMES GAME DEMO TAKE PLACE SATURDAY NOV 21 AT THE BLOOR CINEMA BEFORE THE HILARIOUS FILM LAUGHOLOGY For more game information, please email: Hey@laughology.info Interviews and information requests contact Sonja Andic 416-316-7109 Toronto could be the home of an international laughing skills competition - potentially the Olympics of Laughter. The Just for Laughs Festival is looking at a World Laughter Games event in Toronto, depending on the upcoming demonstration of the games this Saturday November 21. Competitive laughter games will be demoed at this Saturdays screening of Laughology - a documentary about the contagiousness of laughter, featuring the man with the most contagious laugh on earth. Before the screening there will be demonstrations of the games. Champion laughers will compete and some audience members will be invited to compete on the spot. Director of Laughology, Albert Nerenberg, got the game idea while traveling the world working on the documentary. The sudden rise in laughter exercise techniques have created new laughter games, which when exercised, improve health, fitness and mood. It could be significant, says Nerenberg. Not only do laughter games promote health, immunity and good humor, theyre funny, because laughter is contagious. Nerenberg demoed one of the games, the Laugh Off at this years Idea City and it brought down the house. The Laugh Off is a game where two contestants go head-to-head laughing at each other. The person who makes the other person seem funnier wins. This game can be quite extreme. People turn red, split their pants, and fall off the stage. says current Canadian Champion Victoria Danyluk. There are also individual competitions, like the Most Contagious Laugh the person who gets the most laughs out of an audience simply by laughing. And the Evil Villain Laugh made famous by Hollywood star Mike Myers. Laughter competitions are new and different from comedy competitions. There have been small laughter competitions in India and Thailand, but no one has tried to create an international competition, although one is certainly coming. The Just for Laughs festival is interested in the event, says Nerenberg. Because the idea is so new, they want to see how it will work. Trailer for Laughology is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ScWC0N6e8 THE WORLD LAUGHTER GAMES Canadian Champions will be crowned at the event. Want to compete? hey@laughology.info Saturday November 21, 7:00 pm at the Bloor Cinema $8 includes admission to the Toronto Laughology Premiere 7:00 7:30 Game 7:30 to 8:45 Laughology documentary The half-hour demonstration will take place before the screening of Laughology. MEDIA CONTACT: Sonja Andic 416-316-7109 EMAIL: hey@laughology.info / laughologyinfo@gmail.com WEBSITE: http://www.laughology.info - 30 -

Apostle of Hustle at Lee's Palace

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 19, 2009
Location: Lee's Palace
Thursday Nov 19: TORONTO Arts & Crafts Indie Rock APOSTLE OF HUSTLE @ 10:45, Snowblink @ 9:30 $15.00 adv, $18 at the door

Newworldson w/ the Toronto Mass Choir

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 21, 2009
Location: Willowdale Pentecostal Church
Come, see and hear TMC and NewWorldSon together live for the first time ever at 7:00 pm on Saturday November 21, 2009 at the Willowdale Pentecostal Church, 288 Cummer Ave, Toronto, ON (W. of Bayview & N. of Finch). Advanced ticket price $15, At the door $20. TORONTO MASS CHOIRs mission is To create and perform Gospel music that will draw people into the awesome presence of God. The choir is committed to taking the Gospel message through music across Canada and the nations of the world. Armed with inspirational lyrics and world class musicianship, NEWWORLDSON rescues soul music from being a mere genre and returns the art form to its sacred roots. Together on stage, the atmosphere will become electrified. This is a must-see event.

Mike Holmes Magazine Signing

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 23, 2009
Location: Union Station - Outside Gateway Store
Mike Holmes will be at Union Station in Toronto signing copies of his brand new magazine on Monday November 23rd from 11am - 2PM. Don't miss your chance to Canada's most trusted contractor!

JACKSON FAMILY VALUES video dance party

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: December 4, 2009
Location: Revival Bar
DJ doctor BAGGIE (Purplelectricity Prince Party, Can't Stop Esther Madonna Marathon) presents a new video dance party, heavy on Micheal R.I.P. and Janet with a sprinkling of the Jackson 5, The Jacksons, La Toya, Jermaine, Rebbie, and 3T. JACKSON FAMILY VALUES Friday, December 4 REVIVAL 783 College St (at Shaw), Toronto 10 pm until 2:30 am $7 cover 19+ ID required Please spread the word about this party to any of your friends who love the Jacksons --> Michael, Janet, Jermaine, La Toya, Rebbie, Tito, Marlon, Jackie, Randy, 3T.

If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry - Cosmetic Enhancement Humor Launch Party

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: December 1, 2009
Location: Ben McNally Books
In the pre-holiday, pre-seasonal rampage to purchase gifts, mingle and rejoice and basically invest a few thousand brain cells toward the perfect giftwhy not take a break and spend a few wine infused hours (or minutes) at what may be one of the funniest book launches of the yearat worst you will get a kick out of the hors d'oeuvres and theme (in)appropriately slanted toward the humor of the book at best you will help celebrate the launch of a hard covered bound copy of a take on human nature that, for lack of anything else, will put a smile on a few peoples faces.

'Build Social Capital with Smojoe'

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: January 20, 2010
Location: Centre for Social Innovation
Bring your laptop so you can blog with Smojoe! Learn by doing as Rob Campbell demonstrates exactly how to build 'Story Funnels to Buckstops' and works through the little known principles of article replication, blogvertising and discussion forum marketing. Story Funnels to Buckstops is the methodology Rob uses to put clients on the first page of Google search, diminish negative press, and generally increase his clients 'findability'. Online Marketing 101 - The Business of Blogging Learn from local bloggers how theyve used their blogs to create a community and hype.

Transit coin drive for street kids

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 25, 2009
Location: Union GO Station and various downtown TTC stations
When: Wed., Nov. 25 at Union GO Station, 7-9 a.m. Wed., Dec. 2 and Thurs., Dec. 3 at various TTC subway stations (Yonge/Bloor, Queens Park, St. Patrick, St. George, College and King), 7-9 a.m. Morning commuters will get a chance to help homeless kids this holiday season when Covenant House volunteers take to the GO and TTC for their annual coin drive. The volunteers will be asking for spare change throughout the morning rush at the Union GO Station on Wed., Nov. 25 and various subway stations in the downtown area on Wed., Dec. 2 and Thurs., Dec. 3. As Canadas largest youth shelter, Covenant House opens doors of opportunity and hope to 4,000 homeless youth annually. More than just a place to stay, we provide 24/7 crisis care and have the widest range of services under one roof, including education, counselling, health care and employment assistance.

The Torture Memos CD Release + The Cephalopodae Dance Suite + Ronley Teper

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: December 11, 2009
Location: the Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto, Ontario)
-------------- FRIDAY DECEMBER 11 8:00pm @ THE TRANZAC (292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto) $10 / $15 with CD (with a percentage of the sale of every CD going to support the American Civil Liberties Union) THE PARKDALE REVOLUTIONARY ORCHESTRA'S 'THE TORTURE MEMOS' CD Release Concert ON THE BILL: The Torture Memos + Cephalopodae Dance Suite + a special guest performance by Ronley Teper and Her Lipliners. -------------- THE TORTURE MEMOS The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra's musical treatment of the Torture Memos (the documents produced justify barbaric torture techniques that shocked the world when the US government made them public earlier this year) takes the most revealing elements of the text and lets them speak for themselves - from the finer points of waterboarding to why it's reasonable to commit torture in self defense. By setting these documents to music the voice of their principal author, John Yoo, is transformed from a bureaucratic abstraction to a real presence. And what he has to say takes on new and unexpected meanings: from beneath the coldness of the original text layers of fear, anger, and deeply-buried remorse emerge. The banality of evil sings its heart out. The "lyrics" and some audio from the recording are here: http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/tm/torturememos.html THE CEPHALOPODAE DANCE SUITE a ballet about the spiritual development of squids This deeply moving story follows the life of a squid: from its birth and infancy in the gentle currents of the deep, to its innocent joy in exploring the beauty of its environment, to the tragic moment when its squid sister is lured into the cruel tentacles of a cult and converted into a box of Captain Highliner battered calamari as a ritual sacrifice to Cthulhu - a heart-rending event that confronts the squid with the senseless injustice of existence and the necessity of finding meaning in its own squidividuality. some videos from Cephalopodae: http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/cephalopodae.html RONLEY TEPER AND HER LIPLINERS Ronley Teper, a performance artist turned musician, has collaborated with the who's who of the Canadian independent music scene to produce a body of music that listeners constantly compare to Tom Waits and Mary Margaret O'Hara. Her new EP Ronley Teper's Lipliners grew out of twenty short musical monologues that were publicly workshopped during twenty improvised shows featuring a revolving door of some of Canada's finest musicians. "If Joanna Newsom gave birth to Tom Waits' illegitimate daughter and then refused to breastfeed her, the girl might grow up sounding a lot like Toronto's Ronley Teper" - BlogTO http://www.myspace.com/ronleyteper

A Doll's House

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: December 4, 2009
Location: Bread and Circus
A workshop reading with a modern race angle.

CiRCA SATURDAYS!!! | NOVEMBER 21ST

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 21, 2009
Location: CiRCA NIGHTCLUB
CiRCA SATURDAYS!!! NOVEMBER 21ST MAIN ROOM: DJ JEDI -- DJJEDI.COM|MYSPACE.COM/FUZETHIS BALLROOM: R&B | HIP HOP | TOP 40 | REGGAE CiRCA NIGHTCLUB 126 JOHN STREET TORONTO 416.979.0044 BOTTLE SERVICE: bottleservice@circanightclub.ca info@circanightclub.ca http://www.circanightclub.ca TWITTER: CiRCAToronto

SMCSU and PFAC present GRAFFITI PARTY!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Dates: November 19, 2009 to November 20, 2009
Location: Frequency Nightclub (296 Richmond Street, Toronto, Ontario)
The St. Michael's College Student Union and Party For a Cause collaborate once again to bring you the always popular Graffiti Party! How it works: Receive a plain white tee and marker at the door and write/draw on your friends' shirts. All proceeds go to Youth Without Shelter: http://www.yws.on.ca/. Tickets are $5 in advance, $10 at the door. Tickets are available at the SMCSU office located in Brennan Lounge. All Ages with wristband policy.

FREEDOM 2009 @ MANSION | LOFT | SUIT 106

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Dates: December 18, 2009 to December 19, 2009
Location: MANSION | LOFT | SUIT 106 (106 Peter Street, Toronto, Ontario)
STELLAR MEDIA Presents ... FREEDOM @ MANSION | LOFT | SUIT 106 FRIDAY DECEMBER 18, 2009 EVERY UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE IS INVITED | 5 DJ's | 2000 People | ONE END OF EXAM PARTY! The Biggest University and College END OF EXAM PARTY 19+ With Wristband Policy (University/College ID Required) | VIP bottle service tables available | MUSIC STYLE 4 ROOMS 4 SOUNDS Top40 | Hip Hop | House | RnB | Dance | Reggae | Mash Ups DJ JOE GHOST DJ LRS DJ TILT DJ MIKEY DATO DJ SKETCH Early Bird Tickets starting at $10 (very limited) For Tickets Contact your school rep York 416-731-2443 (tickets now also available at Falafel Hut-york lanes) UofT St. George 416-939-4055 UTSG 647-294-2405 Ryerson 647-832-4863 OCAD 416-795-5847 UofT(Mississauga) 416-294-1102 UOIT 647 - 832 - 4863 Humber 647-832-4863 Humber North 647 287 0071 89 Chestnut/UTSG 416-357-6929 Sheridan College Davis Campus 416-996-1061 UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES UTSG | UTSC | UTM RYERSON | YORK | MAC GUELPH | WATERLOO | UOIT LAURIER | WESTERN | SENECA HUMBER | GEORGE BROWN |OCAD SHERIDAN | CENTENNIAL | GROUPS INVOLVED Habitat for Humanity at University of Toronto

Malabar Food Festival 2009

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Date: November 28, 2009
Location: Maroli Restaurant
Malabari Food Festival 2009 With the inaugural food festival in 2008 becoming a huge success ,we have planned for the 2nd Malabar Food Festival for the year 2009 Hosted by Maroli Restaurant . The Malabar region of India lies along the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula and forms the northern part of the present-day Indian state of Kerala. Maroli holds the distinction of being the only Malabari (Kerala)restaurant in Toronto. On November 28th & 29 th, Maroli will showcase savoury items from Malabar and allow visitors to taste unique Malabar cuisine, which has been influenced by Dutch, British, French, Portuguese and Arab culinary arts from various regimes in the 17th through 20th century. Malabar is noted for its variety of pancakes and steamed rice cakes, biryani made of mutton, chicken, egg and fish. Arikadaka, a concoction of rice , fennel and coconut filled in mussels and steamed are a Malabari gem . Meen moilee (a Greenish yellow fish curry ), meen mulligattathu (a fiery Sardine Curry ), and peera pattichathu (a dry fish dish of grated coconut),Oyster stewed in Coconut sauce or a Pan Fried Sardine are also staples of a Malabari diet. olath erachi (fried mutton or beef are amongst the more popular meat items in the region. Another interesting feature is the abundant use of coconut, coconut oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, and coconut milk. Exotic dishes at the event include Pepper fried Bulls testicles , Oyster stew , Pan Fried Sardines, Malabar Fish Biriyani ,Fish Moilee , Appam, Shrimp Malabari ,Squid Thoran, Kallumakai Fry(Mussels) ,Kappa(Cassava) ,Nei Choru, , Chemeen curry(Shrimps) and Crab Curry . A $25 .00 entry fee allows foodies access to this unique Indian culinary experience which includes viewing of live food preparation,, as well relishing in intricately carved fruits and vegetables.This intimate experience is open to the public from Noon to 10pm on Saturday, November 28th and Sunday until 8 pm , November 29th at Maroli, Toronto's only Malabari & Indian restaurant. No Reservations ,But first come first serve basis.