918 Bathurst

Your Dance Class Presents: Star Signs
2025-03-29 16:00 - 23:00 UTC | 918 Bathurst: Culture, Arts, Media & Education, 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5R 3G5, Canada
Dancing Through the Cosmos
Prepare for liftoff as Your Dance Class invites you aboard the SS Zodiaque, the ultimate intergalactic dance voyage! Get ready to cruise through the zodiac as we bring the constellations to life with electrifying choreography, celestial storytelling, and cosmic energy in our all-new original production: Star Signs

LOCATION: 918 Bathurst (918 Bathurst St, Toronto)
DATE: Saturday, March 29 2025
DOORS: 4:00 pm
SHOW STARTS: 4:30 pm
RUN TIME: Approx 90 Minutes
INTERMISSION: 15 Min

Drinks and light snacks will be available for purchase at the bar, so you can sip and snack while enjoying the show. Plus, don’t miss your chance to grab limited-edition Star Signs merch—only available at the event! 🚀🌌

General Admission $30
Includes general admission seating.

Upgraded General Admission $55 ($75 VALUE)
Includes priority seating access and x2 drink tickets.
Please be advised that General Admission seating is arranged on a first-come, first-served basis. Refunds are not available once tickets have been purchased. Thank you for your cooperation.

Silt: Freshwater Edition
2025-04-03 20:00 - 22:00
Silt is an evening of performance. Through a public open call, five artists are each provided with 15 minutes to present an action, event, performance. Silt was originally started for dance, movement, and performance artists; however, it is open to everyone regardless of artistic or personal identifications. The aim of Silt is to provide participants with an accessible low stakes stage for experimentation and expression.
​​​Featuring:
Enzo Sun
Alison Viegas & Maya Gale-Buncel
seeley quest​​
Racquel Rowe & Katie Huckson​​
Daniela Jezerinac
Performers are currently selected by members of the Tuya Vale Artist Collective (https://www.tuyavale.com/artists) with the aim to encourage multiplicity and contrast. We do our best to provide opportunities to everyone who expresses interest.
Silt is free to attend

James White: The Art of Mindreading
2025-04-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-05 19:00 - 22:00
Jaymes brings his mind-blowing brand of entertainment up close and personal. Jaymes and the audience explore ancient mind reading customs and traditions in ‘The Art of Mindreading.’
This experience is based on the Oracle act. Using the ancient study of mindreading, Jaymes with the help of the audience, is able to accomplish astonishing feats of memory, hypnotism and mindreading. Jaymes uses a thorough understanding of statistics, his own intuition, logic and the hidden talents of the human mind. Audiences of all ages leave Jaymes’ shows feeling amazed, uplifted, and with a much greater appreciation for the untapped potential within their own mind.
“The Art of Mindreading” moves fluidly from drama to suspense to hilarity. Experience first-hand the world of extrasensory perception!
Designed for intimate groups, this show is a walk-around performance and takes Jaymes directly into the audience. The experience is performed only inches away from guests and sometimes inside of their own minds. It will give everyone something to talk about, not only during the event, but for days after!

Ambient Soundscapes for Babies and Kids
2025-04-06 15:00 - 17:00
Come join in for a soothing experience in our Sun Room! Immerse yourself in a world of calming sounds, with synth, violin, voice, and sounds from nature. This event offers a unique auditory journey for all ages. There will be chairs as well as blankets and mats for little ones. Feel free to bring toys, colouring books, and snacks for you and your kids, and experience a different sensory experience from the usual overstimulating fare.
For more information, click here

Pete Johnston Album Release: Stranger Still
2025-04-13 15:00 - 17:00
Come experience some wonderful Canadian poetry and music in our Sun Room! Performances by Randi Helmers, Mim Adams, Rob Clutton, and Pete Johnston.
For more information, click here

JJJJJerome Ellis (Nights 1+2)
2025-04-15 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-17 20:00 - 22:00
Over two nights, artists JJJJJerome Ellis, Christof Migone + Marla Hlady, and Alex Raja Ven explore sound’s liberatory potential—moving through, across, and against time. This two-part performance program explores embodied sound—its resonance, pronunciation, utterance, and silence.
Night 1:
Night one begins with Alex Raja Ven’s embodied approach to ambient music and sound as a liberatory portal. The evening continues with JJJJJerome Ellis performing The Clearing (2021). The Clearing challenges us to reimagine dysfluency in speech and its impact on how we exist in the social realm. Ellis, who speaks with a block stutter—manifesting as intervals of silence—calls these pauses “clearings.” They argue that stuttering, like music, opens time and suggests that disabled speakers, particularly Black individuals, face temporal regulation and oppression that seek to pathologize and criminalize. Of the project, they share: “I hope this album offers the listener some of what my stutter offers me: an opportunity to imagine new ways of being in time.”
Night 2:
Night two continues with two interventions on time. Christof Migone + Marla Hlady present Temper (Span Time) (2025), a performance imagining a time-travelling, resonant chorus of metronomes. Then, JJJJJerome Ellis performs Aster of Ceremonies (2023), summoning a “chorus of voices past and present.”
Temper (Span Time) features twelve vintage electronic metronomes, all set to the slowest speed.
Some don’t keep time steadily, while others emit a noticeably loud electrical hum. None can be depended on for accuracy; each functions idiosyncratically. Manipulated and mixed, they no longer demarcate time but instead jumble, disorder, and confuse it. Each metronome spans time in its own singular way, yet together, they produce a chaotic chorale.
Expanding on The Clearing, Aster of Ceremonies weaves together spoken word, live music, and projected text. Combining piano, saxophone, dulcimer, and voice, Ellis explores connections between blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Through a devotional song cycle, Ellis honours 18th- and 19th-century Black runaway slaves who stuttered, offering a profound counter-narrative to the “masters of all vessels” by invoking the imagery of a family of flowers. This lecture-performance is an ongoing attempt to, in the words of critic Hortense Spillers, “hear [slavery’s] stutter more clearly.”
JJJJJerome Ellis’ performances of The Clearing and Aster of Ceremonies will have ASL and CART (Communication Access Real-time Translation) interpretation. Alex Raja Ven’s performance will have subwoofer-adjacent seating options.
Co-curated by Sara Constant and Karie Liao, this program is co-presented with the Blackwood Gallery as part of In a Manner of Speaking, in collaboration with the Music Gallery’s 2024-2025 season.
All prices inclusive of HST.

A Little Night Of Music
2025-04-20 18:00 - 20:00
Project Apollo’s SECOND National Fundraiser!!
Experience classical tunes performed by talented musicians from across the GTA, in support of a charitable cause.
All proceeds will go towards Project Apollo Association, a registered Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to increasing music accessibility through hosting quality concerts like this one and donating educational resources & instruments to those in need.
A Little Night Music will feature some of GTA’s MOST SKILLED preeminent youth musicians, with a evening filled with classical, romantic, and impressionist genres.
Bring your friends and family, for an unforgettable evening. More info coming soon
Link to tickets here.

Music Gallery Presents: Songwriting as a Group Workshop
2025-04-24 18:00 - 20:00
Tallawah Music Scapes presents a fun rudimental exploration of music through dynamic playful collaboration.
Learn how to write lyrics and music by tapping into your individual and group intuition. Through sharing space and observant listening, hear how a piece can sonically develop by finding the hidden connections in collaborative play.
This hands-on interactive workshop is for all, no musical or songwriting experience needed.
Feel free to bring lyrical and musical snippets, though no advance prep is required.
Limited spots, don’t wait.
All prices inclusive of HST
PWYC $5 to $15, or get a membership to attend all workshops for free.

RISE Presents: 416 R.I.S.E 2025
2025-04-25 08:00 - 18:30
Join us for the RISE + Flow Finale & Vendor Market! What does 13 mean to RISE? In many cultures, 13 is a number of transformation, of pushing past limitations, and of finding strength in adversity. For RISE, it represents 13 years of empowering artists to rewrite their narratives, to turn challenges into triumphs, and to defy the odds stacked against them. It’s a symbol of the community’s resilience, unwavering spirit, and commitment to creating space for voices that deserve to be heard!
Celebrate 13 years of defying expectations!
For more information and tickets, click here

Fresh Drops: Dance Workshop
2025-04-26 18:30 - 21:00, 2025-04-27 18:30 - 21:00
Fresh Drops will be hosting a two day dance hall dance workshop in our main Sanctuary space. Registration is currently open.
For more information, click here

Woosah: Celebrating 20 Years of UHHU
2025-05-02 18:30 - 23:00
To commemorate UHHU’s 20th anniversary, this event celebrates and serves as a tribute to our history, capturing the journey from our origins to the present and looking ahead to the future. We aim to celebrate the artistry and individuality of each dancer and the strength of our team, reminding our community that dance is more than a lifestyle—it’s a culture. This show honors all who have supported and contributed to UHHU’s legacy, inviting friends, family, and supporters to come together in unity. Above all, it’s a heartfelt reunion, embracing the core of UHHU and the reasons it began.
DETAILS

Date: May 2nd, 2025
Doors: 6:30pm
Show: 7:00-9:00pm
Afterparty: 9:00-11:00pm
Location: 918 Bathurst St.
Event Type: Dance Showcase
19+ cash bar

We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on and to have you a part of our celebration!

RUN IT BACK: Honouring Toronto Dancehall and Hip Hop Dance in the 2000s
2025-05-03 18:00 - 22:00
Join us for an evening of conversation, performance and celebration as we revisit some of the most iconic moments of the Toronto Dance in the 2000s! Hear from stars from your favorite music videos like Gimme the Light by Sean Paul & Pon De Replay by Rihanna, and see new dance sets from the brightest in Toronto Dancehall & Hip Hop dance!
Some questions we’ll be discussing with our panelists include: Who are the architects of Toronto dance? How was the world famous Toronto movement developed? What can we learn about community centres and Black migration that helps us understand Black Canadian Identity today?
Let’s reminisce over an iconic era together with some great music and performances!

Brendan Philip Album Release With Special Guest: The OBGMS
2025-05-10 19:00 - 23:00
A night of ecstatic reckoning.
Toronto-based artist Brendan Philip unveils his debut album What You Fear Already Happened in a singular performance of sound, sight, and invocation.
Joined by The OBGMs as his backing band, with an opening set by the apocalyptic punk outfit Ants are Plants.
This is not just a concert—it’s a sermon for the sleepless. A vision for the witnesses. The stage becomes pulpit, body becomes signal, every song a cipher.
Vinyl and limited-edition merch available.
For more information and tickets, click here

Innergenerational Presents: "Motherland"
2025-05-11 18:00 - 23:00
Join us for a heart-opening evening of poetry, storytelling, music, comedy and healing as InnerGenerational returns to 918 Bathurst for our 2025 edition: The Motherland!
This special Mother’s Day event is a celebration of roots, resilience, and the powerful relationships we hold with our mothers, mother tongues, and ancestral lands.
The evening will feature an open mic where the community voices take the stage, as well as intimate showcase performances.
For more information and tickets, click here

The Music Gallery Presents: What Is: Heartbreak
2025-05-13 20:00 - 22:00
This is the first night of What Is: heart(break) presented by The Music Gallery. 1:11 moonwatching dives deep into luminescent moonlit midnight pools exploring the full scope of the human voice accompanied by electronics, foley, and found sounds diffusing the night’s air in 6.2 surround sound.
Ethereal, avant-garde sonic textures transport us into the realm of the moon, ruler of dreams and all wandering lovers. In the thick of pale light and dark shadows, 1:11 moonwatching’s experimental improvisation and classical vocalism melded with visuals by Gary Kirkham remind us of moons replete with wishes and yet-to-be’s and of fateful encounters under night’s embrace.
For more information and tickets, click here

Spectra Presents: Gallery 44 Members Exhibition
2025-05-14 12:00 - 2025-05-25 17:00
Spectra brings together new work by innovative members of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in an exhibition that represents a variety of different photographic concepts. As the name suggests the work demonstrates the many possibilities that are open to contemporary photographers and celebrates the diversity of artistic practice revealing the ways seemingly disparate work can intersect. Spectra, a changing collective of members, has been an active participant in CONTACT Photography Festival since its inception.
(See full schedule for open dates)
For more information and tickets, click here

The Music Gallery Presents: What Is: Heartbreak
2025-05-17 19:00 - 22:00
This is the last night of What Is: heart(break). The show proposes the dignity of endings, clearings, and cathartic release. Secondsight offers a live, sonic meditation, gently guiding us to let go and empty it out, with the awareness that these are aspects of an intricate and never-ending cycle. Attendees can lie down and get comfy through a meditation that hovers between experimental ambient, esoteric sound healing practices, and spacious atmospheric textures inspired by afrosurrealism and dreamwork.
And when an ending still feels unbearable, Empty-It-Out Ensemble forms a drone orchestra punctuated by offerings by poets Jade Blair and Khashayar Mohammadi. Together, they create moments of trance, stillness, and sudden breaks that transport the body to a state of levity liberated from its weights and wounds.
Both acts serve as a beautiful cap-off to What Is: heart(break) and remind us that even when endings suck, they’re sometimes just what we need.
For more information, click here

100th Birthday Celebration of Malcolm X
2025-05-18 16:00 - 20:00
Welcome to the 100th birthday celebration of Malcolm X!
Come join us at 918 Bathurst St as we honor the legacy of this influential civil rights leader. This in-person event will feature guest speakers, musical performances, and a special exhibition highlighting Malcolm X’s life and work.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to commemorate a pivotal figure in history. Whether you’re a long-time admirer or just curious to learn more, this event is sure to be both educational and inspiring. See you there!

IAN MAKSIN in TORONTO: "BEYOND NEOCLASSICAL"
2025-05-22 19:00 - 20:30
Immerse yourself in the deep, soothing and healing vibrations of the cello with world acclaimed cellist, composer, and multilingual vocalist Ian Maksin! In this concert, he will perform brand new original instrumental music inspired by his recent travels to India and Nepal, as well as music written throughout the years and recorded on several releases: Zaria, Sempre, Alchemist, Amor Renatus. He will also share several songs from his collection of songs from over 50 countries in 38 languages. Maksin’s original music transcends well beyond New Age and Neo-Classical, as it encompasses elements of many genres from jazz to world music, drawing inspiration from traditional African, Mongolian and Middle Eastern Music, from Mozart and Bach, as well as from contemporary composers as Astor Piazzolla and Ludovico Einaudi. Expanded by use of the loop pedal and other electronics to sound like a real orchestra, his music will take you on a mystical spiritual journey through Tribal Africa, Mongolia, lands of North American natives, and beyond.

Dixon's Violin live in Toronto
2025-05-25 15:50 - 17:15
You’ve never heard violin like this! Inspiring audiences across North America, from Burning Man and Electric Forest to TED talks.
“The violinist that is changing the world” – Preserve the Future
“Standing ovation…It’s no surprise that Dixon was voted the best of the evening” – Examiner
“Not your ordinary violinist” – Fox 2 News
“It’s quite an accomplishment for a man who possibly invented a new genre on his violin” – City Pulse
“One in particular, Dixon’s Violin, blew minds with a folksy, heartfelt set, performed entirely by one man and one electric violin.” – Examiner
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Sunday, May 25
3:30pm – Doors Open
4:00pm – Concert begins (duration roughly 75 minutes)
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Tickets only $40 available here
Tickets $45 at the door if still available
All ages welcome! Tickets for children 12 and under are only $7
This is an indoor, seated show.
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About Dixon’s Violin:
You’ve never heard violin like this! The world’s premier visionary violinist, Dixon’s life mission is to inspire people – and he has done so at over 1,000 concerts across North America, including giving five TED talks/performances, over ten years at Burning Man and Electric Forest, plus radio, TV, and film appearances. A former technology leader and symphony violinist, Dixon walked away from a distinguished career to follow his dream full-time, and invented a whole new music genre. Dixon now improvises on a 5-string electric violin with a looping system he developed to create an all-live one-man symphony, guided by his remarkable personal story of life transformation.
https://dixonsviolin.com

Playlist Storytellers
2025-05-28 19:00 - 22:00
Playlist Storytellers is a Toronto-based live show that combines true stories and the songs that inspired them. Throughout the night, Four curated storytellers share a true story from their life that involves a song. To help the audience relive that experience, the song is played after the story. Think of it as a mix between a storytelling show and a music listening session.

Live Podcast Event!
2025-05-29 18:00 - 21:00
Welcome to our Live Podcast Event! If political anxiety has felt like too much lately, you’re not alone. Let’s talk about it. Join us for a live recording of ‘Life Outside the Box’ on May 29th with a diverse panel of people with lived experience in politics, activism and organizing. On November 5th, the 47th president of the U.S. won his second term. On January 20th, there was a series of concerning events at the inauguration. On January 31st, The U.S. announced 25% tariffs on Canada. On February 27th, Ontarian’s went to the polls to vote for a new Premier. On April 28th, Canadian’s went to the polls to vote for a new Prime Minister. It has been a rocky start to 2025.
Our discussion will be focused on navigating the current political climate, non-stop barrage of news, and how people can take action and build emotional resilience in uncertain times.​

Prepare the Ground Festival
2025-05-30 19:00 - 2025-06-01 22:00
PREPARE THE GROUND is a community-led arts & heavy music festival taking place across multiple venues in Toronto, Ontario – the first of its kind in the city. The festival was founded by two lifelong friends, Toronto-based concert promoter Denholm Whale and KW Campol of music management company Mythos & the Perpetual Flame Ministries record label & art house.
Drawing inspiration from European festival stalwarts like Roadburn, Sonicboom, and Amplifest, Prepare the Ground is focused on heavy music as an ethos of collective catharsis more than a dedication to one specific metal subgenre. From burgeoning artists, to favorites you never thought would reunite, to one-off full album sets, a heavily curated and meticulously planned lineup is the festival’s key component.
For more information and tickets, click here

The Colors and Soul of Korea: Dancheong
2025-06-02 12:00 - 2025-06-11 17:00
To commemorate the 2024–2025 Korea–Canada Years of Cultural Exchange, OIS ART OF CANADA, in collaboration with MOOWOOSOO Gallery of Korea, is pleased to present “ The Colors and Soul of Korea- Dancheong”, an exhibition that explores the beauty and depth of traditional Korean art.
This exhibition highlights the artistic value and philosophy of Dancheong, the traditional decorative painting found on Korean architecture, showcasing a wide range of works from ancient craftsmanship to contemporary interpretations.
A total of 11 artists, including master Dancheong artisans and contemporary artists, will participate—offering a unique opportunity to experience the harmony between tradition and modernity.
🔸 Exhibition Dates: June 2 (Mon) – June 15 (Sun), 2025
🔸 Venue: 918 Bathurst Gallery (918 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario)
🔸 Admission: Free
🎉 Opening Reception:
• Date & Time: Friday, June 6, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
• Program Includes:
– Lecture by a Dancheong expert
– Traditional Korean music performance
– Korean traditional refreshments
The Opening Reception will offer a meaningful cultural experience through a talk that explores the history, symbolism, and contemporary relevance of Dancheong—along with performances and refreshments to engage all five senses.
We warmly invite your interest and participation.

The Music Gallery Presents: NO HAY BANDA | HxH
2025-06-05 20:00 - 22:30
A double-bill dedicated to the subtle frictions of layered, long-form music. Duo HxH brings their ambient-dub-cutup improvising practice to Toronto—while NO HAY BANDA performs a new work by Sarah Davachi that draws on the expansive nature of durational sound.
Our last show of the season is a night dedicated to the subtle frictions of layered, long-form music—featuring a double-bill of artists known for harnessing the expansive nature of detailed, durational sound.
Fresh off debut album STARK PHENOMENA, New York City-based duo HxH (Chris Ryan Williams and Lester St. Louis) bring their signature ambient-dub-cutup sound to Toronto, using gossamer layers of trumpet, cello, and grainy electronics to build what they call “an architecture of the expanse.” In the second half, Montreal’s NO HAY BANDA performs Sarah Davachi’s work Three Unisons for Four Voices: a 70-minute sextet that plays with the lush, delicate textures of an ensemble playing in fragile unison with itself—and the acoustic spaces of ‘in-betweenness’ that slowly begin to emerge.
PWYC (Suggested $20)
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Kara-Lis Coverdale Record Release
2025-06-13 21:00 - 23:00
Kara-Lis Coverdale composes and performs musical works across acoustic and electronic mediums to create works that transcend reality. Driven by a devotion to sonic afterlife, memory, and material curiosity, Coverdale’s work occupies new planes built upon a borderless understanding of electronic music rooted in the interlocking pathways ofmusical systems and languages. Steadfastly committed to developing and expanding her vivid understanding of music as an immersive, tunable, and listening world rich in emotion and sensitivity, she is heralded as “one of the most exciting composers in North America” (The Guardian), and named unique navigator of the digital frontier with an ease and emotive sensitivity “we cannot yet comprehend” (FADER), Coverdale’s work has been met with consistent critical acclaim.
For more tickets and more information, click here

Anatolian Folk Dancers of Toronto Present: Timeless Rhythms of Anatolia
2025-06-14 20:00 - 23:00
Join us for a magical evening filled with the timeless beauty of Anatolian culture. The choir and folk dance troupe are ready to transform the Sanctuary stage with soulful solo acts, powerful choral harmonies, and mesmerizing rhythms you won’t forget.
We will also pay a heartfelt tribute to Volkan Konak with one of his beloved works.
For more information and tickets, click here
