BOARD GAMES: Think you have what it takes to create the next Monopoly or RISK? Bring all your best ideas to Board Game Jam, which challenges participants to create a board game in 48 hours. At the end of it, you’ll get to test them all out while drinking. Win-win! George Brown College (333 King [...]

Wavelength 12th Anniversary Festival Various locations February 16–19 $10–20 per event, $36 all-access festival pass There is a misconception about Wavelength, according to the concert promotion-cum-arts organization’s founding director, Jonny Dovercourt. Contrary to popular belief, the group did not cease operations when they ended their weekly concert series—which acted as a launching pad for scores [...]

THEATRE: Y’all know how actors usually land jobs, right? They queue with a bunch of other people to get up in front of a panel and do a couple of minutes of material they think best showcases their chops. Some people actually enjoy the often humiliating audition process—and they’re the ones taking part in tonight’s [...]

BOOK FAIR: Here ye, here ye: no longer must booklovers journey to dusty shops in Europe to unearth the ancient piece of literature their hearts desire. The Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair is back in town, bringing with it an incredible collection of books, letters, and manuscripts holding values from under $100 to well beyond [...]

Everyone has a reference point for what a music festival should be like. In the minds of certain generations, SARSStock was a pitch to Woodstock; for others, NXNE is, due mostly to its name, expected to be like SXSW, which many will assure you is simply not a fair comparison. A concert is noticed for [...]

The Wavelength 250 poster, for its fifth-anniversary show in 2005, is one of many that will be on display in the “Wavelength For Posterity” exhibit, which opens Thursday at the Music Gallery. Image by The Complaint Department. When we meet with the programmers of the Wavelength ELEVEN Festival, they’re putting the final touches on the [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo from a previous Santarchy event by John Curley. Courtesy of Newmindspace. PARTY: [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo by Whitney Kemble, courtesy of Poor Pilgrim. MUSIC: Bruce Peninsula’s Matt Cully created Poor Pilgrim a few years ago [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo courtesy of Harlettes Burlesque Entertainment. DANCE: Burlesque troupe The Harlettes Burlesque Entertainment take it all off for Canada with [...]