AGO: Andy Warhol/Supernova

Wednesday, September 20th
6:30 pm

Location: Art Gallery of Ontario - 317 Dundas St. W.

Tickets: $8 tickets on sale September 7th - 18th at Student Affairs (214 College St., Room 307, 978-5536). Cash only. Each graduate student may pick up a ticket for one non-grad student guest. Maximum 6 tickets per person.

Pre-event gathering: 6pm - meet the Graduate Students' Union (16 Bancroft Ave.) and we'll make our way to the gallery together.

Description: The Art Gallery of Ontario presents this fascinating exhibit focused on one of the most influential periods of Andy Warhol's life.

See also: www.ago.net

Nuit Blanche

Saturday, September 30th
7:30 pm

SOLD OUT!

Location: TBA

Tickets: Free tickets available September 18th - 28th at the Graduate Students' Union (16 Bancroft Ave., 978-2391). Each graduate student may pick up a ticket for one non-grad student guest. Maximum 6 tickets per person.

Pre-event Info: 7pm - meet on the front steps of the Koffler Centre (214 College St.) and we'll leave as a group.

Description: This cultural rendezvous opens the doors to hundreds of museums, galleries, institutions, and unusual spaces - each featuring art programs all night long.

See also: http://nuitblanche.livewithculture.ca

Ghosts of Garrison Tour

Friday, October 20th
7:30 pm

Location: Fort York, 100 Garrison Rd.

Tickets: $10 tickets available October 2nd - 13th at Student Affairs (214 College St., Room 307, 978-5536). Cash only. Each graduate student may pick up a ticket for one non-grad student guest. Maximum 6 tickets per person.

Pre-event Info: 6pm - meet at the Graduate Students' Union (16 Bancroft Ave.) for a pre-tour social. We'll leave for the tour together at 6:45pm.

Description: Tour the grounds of historic Fort York at night, and hear stories from some ghostly visitors.

See also: http://www.fortyork.ca/events.htm

Bowling

Tuesday, November 7th
7:00 pm

CANCELLED

Refunds available at Student Affairs. 214 College St., Rm 307. 978-5536

Opera Atelier: The Magic Flute

Tuesday, November 21st

6:30 pm (talk)
7:30 pm (opera)

SOLD OUT!

Location: Elgin Theatre - 189 Yonge St.

Tickets: $20 tickets available October 30th - November 10th at Student Affairs (214 College St., Room 307, 978-5536). Cash only. Each graduate student may pick up a ticket for one non-grad student guest. Maximum 6 tickets per person.

Pre-event Info: 6:30pm - meet at the theatre for a pre-opera talk. Opera begins at 7:30pm.

Description: Opera Atelier presents Mozart's best-loved opera played on period instruments.

See also: http://www.operaatelier.com/home_magicflute2.htm

TSO: Russian Masterworks

Wednesday, December 6th
8:00 pm

Location: Roy Thompson Hall - 60 Simcoe St.

Tickets: $12 tickets available November 13th - November 28th at Student Affairs (214 College St., Room 307, 978-5536). Cash only. Each graduate student may pick up a ticket for one non-grad student guest. Maximum 6 tickets per person.

Pre-event Info: Meet at Roy Thompson Hall

Description: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents three generations of quintessentially Russian music, including the demanding "Rach 3", featured in the Oscar-winning movie "Shine".

See also: http://www.tso.ca/season/ticket/calendar_perform.cfm?ID=377

Indoor Rock Climbing

SOLD OUT!

Whether you'e always wanted to try it, or you're a seasoned climber, experience the fun, fitness and excitement of indoor rock climbing in a safe and social environment. Lesson, shoes, and climb time included. All levels welcome!

Canoeing

Get outside with your fellow graduate students and enjoy a canoe lesson and 2.5 hour paddle along the Toronto waterfront! If you have quick-dry clothing, wear that - expect to get wet. Bring a change of clothes, sunscreen, and water (it might be very hot!).

Toronto Music Garden: A Garden of Flowers, East & West

A Garden of Flowers, East and West. Islamic and Christian cultures meet harmoniously as Alpharabius Ensemble presents songs inspired by love and filled with images of flowers, from Arabic lands and medieval Europe. Performed by Andrea Budgey, Suzanne Meyers-Sawa, Randall Rosenfeld, George Sawa and Bolbol Shehadeh.

Toronto Ghost Tour

Get your walking shoes on and come and explore the haunted streets of downtown Toronto! This two hour tour will reveal the history of some of Toronto's finest institutions and eerie landmarks.

Dream In High Park: Comedy of Errors

Experience Shakespeare outside, in beautiful High Park, and enjoy the last days of summer fun! Comedy of Errors is about two sets of twins who meet at the same time and the same place. A tale of mistaken identities, classic humour and all-out bedlam, it is a treat for the young and young at heart.

Stars and Stage Package:
Star-gazing @ Astronomy Dept.
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"Humble Boy" @Tarragon Theatre

“Theoretical physicists don’t get out much.” Astrophysicist Felix Humble’s father has just died, his mother wants to marry his ex-girlfriend’s father and his stutter has returned. If only he could understand the world like he understands string theory. But he can’t even decide what to do with his father’s ashes. In this Hamlet-esque comedy, love, death and family come together as Felix tries to uncover the theory of everything.

RED: A Night of Live Performance

In October of 2002, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura created RED: A Night of Live Performance.  This event was conceived in response to a need for a space where independent artists could come together and perform new and existing works.  The eclectic evening features actors, puppeteers, dancers, musicians, clowns, comedians, spoken word artists and performance artists from Toronto and beyond. Lisa Pijuan-Nomura's curation has been notably edgy, sassy and innovative.  She has been known to put together artists that would rarely be seen together in other venues.  To date, this bi-monthly event has presented over 300 established and emerging artists from Toronto and beyond.

Textile Museum of Canada

Enjoy a guided tour with the curator of the museum's permanent collection.

Bowling

Come out and knock down some pins with us!

Toronto Rock Lacrosse

Come out and watch the four-time World Champions play Minnesota in Canada's national sport!

TSO: Shostakovich Eight

Our Shostakovich celebration continues with Toronto favourite Alexander Toradze performing the two concertos for piano with debuting conductor Stefan Sanderling. In stark contrast to these ebullient and witty concertos, the Eighth Symphony depicts a war-torn Russia, her ruined lands and her anguished people.

SOLD OUT!

Opera Atelier: Orfeo

Monteverdi’s opera recounts the Greek myth of the poet and musician Orfeo, who creates such beautiful music, he is able to charm his way into Hades and win the release of Euridice who has tragically died on their wedding day.

Doc Soup: The Boys of Baraka

SOLD OUT!

On September 12, 2002 twenty 'at risk' twelve-year old boys from the tough streets of inner-city baltimore left home to attend the 7th and 8th grade at Baraka, an experimental boarding school located in Kenya, East Africa. Here, faced with a strict academic and disciplinary program, as well as with the freedom to be normal teenage boys, these brave kids began the daunting journey towards putting their lives on a fresh path. The Boys of Baraka focuses on four of these boys. Their humour and explicit truthfulness give intimate insight into their optimistic plans, despite the tremendous obstacles they face both at home and in school.

Tafelmusik Chamber Choir - All Roads Lead to Rome

Experience the music that influenced all of Europe in this tribute to Rome featuring the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Orchestra, with soprano Suzie Leblanc.

Toronto Argos vs. Hamilton Tigercats

Come out and watch Toronto take on Hamilton!

Doc Soup: Cowboy del Amor

COWBOY DEL AMOR (USA, 2005, 86 min) is a comedic look at the cross-cultural
road to true love, and a twist on the age old art of matchmaking. The film follows Ivan Thompson, a straight-shooting cowboy, who's life’s calling is to make the perfect match. A former horse breeder, Ivan travels south of the border to Mexico in pursuit of the perfect bride for three eligible men:
Rick, James, and Lee.

Opera Atelier: Lully's Armide

Opera Atelier presents this magic opera (created for Louis XIV, the Sun King) which has always been regarded as the supreme masterpiece in the history of French lyric theatre.

TSO: Sibelius & Bruckner

Maestro Dausgaard conducts Bruckner's seldom-performed Second Symphony, a radiant and triumphant work. Leonidas Kavakos performs Sibelius' only concerto, written for his favourite instrument, the violin.

Bastille Day @ Toronto Music Garden

SOLD OUT!

Tour the renowned Toronto Music Garden on the lakeshore then enjoy "Le temps des ce rises," a musical journey throug the streets of late 19th century Paris with Quebec accordionist Daniel Thonon and singer-actress Dominique Dupire. (Bring your own fromage!)

Canoeing

Get outside with your fellow graduate students and enjoy a canoe lesson and 2 hour paddle along the Toronto waterfront! Enjoy the scenery then relax with new friends at a nearby patio!

Fool For Love: Soulpepper Theatre

Soulpepper Theatre presents playwright Sam Shepard's visceral, sensuous play, both poetic and profane in its characters' yearning for that which can't be had. Featuring Megan Follows!

Dwelling: Dancemakers

An integrated arts project featuring character-based performance by Elana Freeman and sculptural/photographic installation by Melanie Gordon. The concept of "dwelling" will be explored as both a place to live and a dark emotional stasis.

Swimming in the Shallows: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

A good old-fashioned love story witha few surprising and outrageous twists: a married couple whose relationship is in jeopardy because of the wife's conversion to Buddhism; a lesbian couple whose obstacle to getting married is a smoking habit; and a commitment-phobic gay man who finally falls in love with his (questionably) ideal mate: A Shark!

RED: A Night of Live Performance has been going on for the past two years and is one of Toronto's finest evenings showcasing diverse artists from dance, theatre, puppetry, film, music, spoken word and comedy.

Toronto Rock Lacrosse

Come out and watch the four-time World Champions play Rochester in Canada's national sport!

Half Life: Tarragon Theatre

"We wouldn't survive if we remembered everything."Two nursing home residents rekindle what might have been a wartime romance. The award-winning team behind Possible Worlds brings us this poetic and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory. What shines through when memory fades away?

Modern Masterpieces: TSO

Recently premiered in Berlin under Sir Simon Rattle, Dutilleux's stunning Correspondances is the talk of the classical world; soprano Barbara Hannigan takes time out from her busy European opera schedule to join us for the Canadian première. Joshua Bell presents another internationally acclaimed work: a colourful flight of fancy from Bezhad Ranjbaran, a dazzling concerto that mixes the exotic with the familiar. Music by Canada's own Jacques Hétu and Kelly-Marie Murphy round out this spectacular programme.

Dido & Aeneas/Actéon: Opera Atelier

Henry Purcell took the tragic story of Dido, Queen of Carthage and her lover Aeneas and spun it into the greatest opera in the English language. After the fall of Troy, Aeneas with a small band of his followers set sail to found a new city. On his way, he meets and falls in love with Dido, the beautiful Queen of Carthage. Their love affair comes to a tragic end when Aeneas is told by the gods that he must leave in order to fulfill his destiny - the founding of Rome. The spurned Dido feels that she has no choice left to her but to die by her own hands.

Soulpepper:
Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot, a play by Samuel Beckett (Ireland, 1954).  Equal parts vaudeville and existential angst, profoundly poetic and deeply entertaining, this play is arguably the single greatest masterpiece of the last one hundred years.

Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks

Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks is about the future of Danish architecture and design.  The exhibition includes a “Hall of Fame” that pays homage to the inspiration, displaying Danish Modern’s best chairs, lamps, tableware, and architecture, and seven “Pragmatic Utopias”, large-scale installations by Danish architecture and design firms.  Each installation is a proposition that takes architecture beyond the realm of buildings and furniture and into other areas of life that we have the capacity to design, from clean water and agricultural reform to energy use and social engineering.

Don Giovanni: Opera Atelier

SOLD OUT!

Often regarded as the greatest opera of all time, Don Giovanni recounts the adventures of an incorrigible young seducer constantly in search of his next conquest. As the plot unfolds, Giovanni seems to be having a very bad day. First, he inadvertently murders the father of his latest conquest in a duel; next Donna Elvira appears and claims Giovanni is her husband; and finally, the peasant girl Zerlina inexplicably repels his advances!

Mahler's Tenth: TSO

Brilliant young English conductor Daniel Harding joins the TSO for a rare performance of the last great symphony by the last Romantic symphonist: Mahler's Tenth, which was left incomplete at the time of his death. Steven Isserlis performs the popular C-Major Cello Concerto by Franz Josef Haydn, the inventor and father of the symphony.

CBC's The Greatest Canadian

Join your fellow Grad Escapes fans for the grand finale of “The Greatest Canadian” – CBC’s quintessentially Canadian take on those “Idol” shows.

The top ten finalists as chosen by the audience are: Frederick Banting , Alexander Graham Bell, Don Cherry, Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox, Wayne Gretzky, Sir John A. Macdonald, Lester B. Pearson, David Suzuki, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. (Banting & Pearson are U of T Alumni). At the final taping, the “Greatest Canadian” (caveat: as selected by CBC audience) will be announced!