Results tagged “thegladstone”

A group of schoolchildren sit down at a table, armed with notebooks and pencils in hand. It's dinnertime, and they're ready to be served. But tonight's specialty won't be Macaroni à la KD, nor a plate of crustless PB & J. These kids are dining inside of Queen Street's finest eateries, and to them, it's not quite kid stuff. Once the dishes are cleared, the kids get down to business―laying on the table their uncensored, audacious opinions.

Hey there, arty partygoers. Where will you be this Thursday, May 22? At the Powerplant's annual fundraiser, Powerball 10: Decadence (231 Queens Quay West), or Gallery TPW's D-List Ball at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West)?

This weekend, resist the urge to do the same old bar hop and try a more sophisticated means of indulging your party ADD: the art show hop. Okay, so we just invented that term, but the city does have three rad art happenings going on almost simultaneously this Friday, November 30. And we say, why choose? To start your adventure, knock back a whiskey for warmth and head down to the Harbourfront, where the...

Ok, so we're starting to get the message that we need to act on this whole "we're killing the planet" thing, and fast. But amongst all the noise about how much trouble we've gotten ourselves into, it's sometimes hard to hear the solutions and see the positive ideas. Enter GreenTOpia, the third installment in Coach House Books' uTOpia series, which is being released at a party this weekend into our eagerly outstretched arms. As we...

Anyone who grew up in Toronto has been on at least one school field trip to historic Fort York. You've smelled the horseshit, eaten the biscuits, and probably watched some corny performance by someone in a costume telling you how things used to be in the olden days. So it might be tempting to dismiss Crate Productions' new play The Fort at York as an educational play, or worse, historical reenactment. This would be a mistake. The site-specific play, directed by Tara Beagan and Chris Reynolds (pictured), is set the night before the War of 1812's Battle of York, which decimated the original fort, but the focus is on personal relations rather than military ones.

As the humidity has dropped off considerably, those craving the oh-so-far-away sweltering days of summer may want to head out to The Gladstone this evening for another Turning Point session. This time, chief conductor A Man Called Warwick will be spinning tunes all by his lonesome on a solo five hour set of MADNESS. Doors open at 10 and the entry is $10. And as usual, get there early to avoid the lineup.

A funny thing happened near the end of the short play "The Card Trick" last afternoon in the second variation of The Gladstone Variations. The action moved outside to the alley behind the hotel and the audience was told to stand in a driveway next to the hotel's back entrance to watch the action unfold. Unfortunately, there was an humongous Jeep parked in the driveway; the kind where the alarm goes off not because you have touched it, but because you were standing rather too close to its personal space.

The Gladstone Variations is taking the Fringe by storm. And with good reason. The 90-minute piece is by Convergence Theatre, who were the team behind last year's fantastic Autoshow, which was actually a collection of 7 ten-minute plays by different playwrights performed in and around the parking lot at Royal St. George's. The Gladstone Variations is actually more ambitious and, amazingly, even more successful. The piece is made up of four short plays by different writers and, as the title would suggest, takes place entirely in and around the historic Gladstone Hotel. The 60 audience members are broken into groups of 15 and each is made to follow the actors of one of the plays around the hotel while they perform their show. Each group sees two of the four plays in one performance, constituting one "variation." And that's the brilliant marketing strategy of the show: to be able to see the entire thing, you have to go to it twice.

Tonight, The Fifteenth Annual Scream Literary Festival launches its six-day festival with readings by Dennis Lee and Souvankham Thammavongsa at The Gladstone Ballroom. Performances by George Elliot Clarke, and robots belonging to Shapour Shahidi are also promised, and it sounds like audience members are invited to make art with weird, old science textbooks. This year's festival “considers the strange alchemy of poetry and science, through readings, panels, and performances.”

If last week’s key word on the literary scene was “big,” as in prizes, galas, festivals, sold-out readings, visiting writers, and BookExpo, we get back to normal-ish this week. In fact, we’ve not had such a low-key stretch since March.

Spring launch season slows this week, but finishes strongly with new poetry collections by national treasures bill bissett and David McFadden. Tomorrow night, help David celebrate his Selected Poems: Why Are You So Sad?, edited and introduced by Stuart Ross. Here’s Stuart, from the intro:

series from The Movement Movement. The main movers of The Movement Movement, dancer/choreographer Jenn Goodwin and artist/curator Jessica Rose, are inviting the public to run laps of the museum for public art’s sake. You could be running through Ancient Peru or perhaps Heaven or Hell. Sounds exotic! The upcoming run will be extra special as filmmaker Nick de Pencier will work with Lewis Kaye (soundster) and Dean Baldwin (photographer) to capture the run on film. The art of running through art will create art.

As I waited in line for Last Call At The Gladstone Hotel Saturday afternoon, bartenders from the Gladstone Hotel were behind me. "It makes us look bad, I hear," they were saying. "Like, not us personally, but the hotel. Real bad."

The good news: tonight, there are three great literary events happening in our fair city. The bad news: you’re going to have to choose.

If you're the creative type who's looking for a night out on the town, head over to the Gladstone tomorrow for the SpeakEasy Comic Book Show.

Perhaps you can best describe it as a scavenger hunt with a lot of creative freedom.

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

Toronto is one of the most important centres of African music outside of Africa itself, according to cultural heritage organization Music Africa. Besides pointing out that Toronto has more African music on the radio than any other North American city and hosts the largest annual music festival of its kind (Afrofest), the site also has these flattering words to say:

Probably the most remarkable development over these last few years is how groups have combined musicians and styles from across Africa in a way that would not even be possible in Africa itself. Toronto has developed a sound of its own, one that includes and combines all the unique talents available. This represents what is the City's greatest strength - the ability to see our differences, not as barriers, but as great opportunities to share and grow in a way that enriches everyone.

Ahh yes. One last Turning Point session for 2006. Join A Man Called Warwick and scores of attractive, energetic and soulful peoples for a night of fun and adventure, or maybe just dancing. It's at The Gladstone this Saturday Dec 9th (tomorrow night) and you know it's going to be busy so show up before 11 to make sure you get in.

Here are our five "must see" events from Nuit Blanche's Zone C. This area runs in a line along Queen West West, between Trinity-Bellwoods Park and the Gladstone. Unless specified, the events we've picked run for the full 12 hours, so you can visit them at any point in the night.

Is it any wonder that The Gladstone Hotel has become the "it spot" du jour? With all the events they seem to pack into their space one wonders if the guests become part of the installations at some point. Going on this weekend on the 2nd floor is OBEJCToronto "an artist presented annual exposition of contemporary objects from the fields of craft, art and design". This won't be your typical art fair macaroni art, as the event brings in a vast array of artists and designers showcasing their wares, interesting pieces including textiles, jewellery, furniture, ceramics and more. OBJECToronto runs this weekend starting today at 4pm and runs until Sunday the 30th and it'll only cost you $5 to get in the door. But, with so much great design for sale, who knows how much it'll cost you on your way out...

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