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A dog-friendly Toronto premiere of the film, followed by a Q&A with director Michael Patten. An au pair from Madrid searches for a missing family dog in New York's Prospect Park.
Guests order a cantarito, a citrus tequila drink served in a terracotta cup branded with Tequila Herradura, and they can keep the cup. The special is limited.
Up-and-coming stand-up comics each perform a 5-minute set from John Mostyn's Core Stand-Up class. The performance is filmed.
A modern country western band covers classic and recent hits, with George Damato on guitar and vocals, Anne Werbitsky on pedal steel and Francois on accordion.
A trio of baritone guitar, Electric Wind Instrument and drums plays harmonically complex, composition-driven jazz, with guests joining them. Doors at 5pm ahead of the 5:30 concert; reservations by email.
A quartet playing jazz standards with Allie Stewart tap dancing as a rhythmic voice alongside drums, bass and piano. Doors at 9:15, music runs two hours to 11:30, with reservations by email at [email protected].
Two full sets of original instrumental prog from a quartet formed at Humber College in 2024 — guitar, keys, bass and drums, with bluesy riffs and complex arrangements drawing on 60s–70s rock, fusion and funk. Doors at 6:30; reservations by email at [email protected].
Three improv sets: a longform narrative built from an audience suggestion, a set from a Comedy Bar pro troupe, and the Jim-Jam, a bucket jam anyone can play with no experience. Names in the bucket by 8:30pm.
A quintet led by harmonica player Cale Fladager, who grew up in Warsaw, performing music from across the history of Polish jazz — the songs of old Warsaw, pieces by Krzysztof Komeda, and originals — with saxophone, piano, bass and drums. Doors at 9:15, music at 9:30; reservations by email.
A French academic chases a history-capturing machine built by clandestine Benedictine monks. It is an academic-noir mystery in the vein of Borges and Eco, directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker.
Emerging stand-ups do short sets in the Studio Theatre with a host running the room. Anyone can put their name in the bucket to get on stage, provided they do it by 8:30pm.
A German-language film directed by Marie Kreutzer, starring Catherine Deneuve and Léa Seydoux. A pianist moves with her family to the countryside and uncovers a truth that forces her to confront love, trust and deception.
Kiku's listening session plays Radiohead's Kid A front to back, with the group gathering in a room to hear the record with attention and context.
Vocal jazz standards and popular songs from a five-piece of York grads and Humber students who met playing ska nights at Grossman's: Natalie Presty and Zacharie Weingarten on vocals, with guitar, keys and upright bass. Doors at 6:30, music to 8:45; reservations by email.
Screens *Far and Wild*, a 120-minute film about vet Dr. Cliff Redford and his daughter on a rescue trip to India during Diwali, then holds an author talk, audience Q&A and book signing.
Instrumental sax- and flute-driven 60s groove, Latin jazz and Brazilian-tinged material from Peter Smith with guitarist Mike Freedman, drummer Tim Shia and bassist Drew Birston. A monthly first-Wednesday residency in the back room, with a cover charge; reservations by email.
An evening of acoustic pop covers with indie and folk leanings, performed solo on guitar and vocals. Seating opens at 6:30pm ahead of the 7pm set; reservations by email.
Players sit across from a partner at mixed-skill and premier tables and play domino games in which each round is worth one point and the first team to six wins. Losing and winning players leave the table at the end of each game so others can take a turn.
A Día de los Muertos-themed night with DJ Reckless and DJ Sisco on the decks. Dinner and free dance classes run from 5 PM, and the party follows at 10 PM.
Club night: techno.
A German-language film directed by Marie Kreutzer, starring Catherine Deneuve and Léa Seydoux. A pianist moves with her family to the countryside and uncovers a truth that forces her to confront love, trust and deception.
A film told in vignettes follows two class and soul mates as they unravel across space, time and mediocre french fries. It has its Toronto premiere after a festival run, followed by drinks.
The Russell Molina Quartet plays Filipino jazz fusion, blending ECM-style jazz with Filipino folk melodies and material from Molina's debut EP Riptide. The group's lineup is Molina on guitar with Jordan Pelunsky on bass, Dylan Matsuda on drums and Micah Weekes on keys.
A hands-on, self-guided art session in a cafe setting, where attendees choose from colour pencil, markers, oil pastel and other media and work from optional prompts. The session opens with a group check-in and ends with an optional sharing of work and a group photo.
A six-piece band led by vocalist Minh Le plays jazz, R&B and funk, with drums, bass, guitar, piano and saxophone.
Brat Star performs her debut album Southern Ontario Gothic live from start to finish, a collection of self-written, largely self-produced songs that each take a first-person essay approach to everyday Toronto life. Her set draws on years of songwriting after a background in Berlin's experimental club scene.
A quartet led by drummer Ferenc Botos plays Great American Songbook standards, Brazilian jazz and contemporary songs, with vocalist Rosanna Nicole. The set is built around tunes the audience already knows.
Club night: techno, experimental.
Pianist Ruby Roussain plays with Wade Pollesel on upright bass and Graham Coster on drums, working through jazz standards and bebop by Bud Powell and his contemporaries. Doors at 6:30; reservations by email.
Club night: downtempo, trip-hop, IDM, r&b, leftfield, dub, shoegaze, acid jazz, wave.
soreloser, a Toronto alt-rock band making its Rivoli debut, plays with Johnson Street Band, an alternative rock act formed by university students in Kingston, and The Morays, a high-energy classic rock band from Southern Ontario led by vocalist Hayley Endrulat.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
A curated clothing swap where guests trade pre-loved pieces for new-to-you finds. Attendees sip hibiscus drinks and can book a mini styling consultation with Zainab of Zainik's Studios.
Toronto's Roast Chicken Ramblers play vintage blues, jazz and ragtime, mostly pre-war and swing-era tunes. Isaak Bonk sings and plays guitar alongside pianist Michael Spiroff, with rotating guests.
The Martinetez Quintet, led by guitarist Samuel Martinez, plays jazz arrangements by Oscar Peterson and Jim Hall, with trombone, piano, bass and drums. The night is meant as a fun outing with friends.
Moja Space's House Party Edition of Mzansi Groove brings South African house sounds, including Amapiano, Gqom and 3 Step, with DJs Zohla Siwe, ZaKnows and Uzi LLD. The night includes drinks, food and dancing, with donations going to Women of Change's work against gender-based violence in South Africa.
Attendees take turns presenting a personal hyper-fixation to a room of listeners, with topics ranging from Norse mythology and analytical psychology to Icelandic geology and the history of sewing. The evening is hosted by Kithship, and half of its profits go to the Toronto Public Library.
A queer-friendly dance party built around Afrobeats, hip-hop, pop and throwbacks, centred on music, community and self expression.
The Derrick Bartley Quintet plays jazz standards with vocals from Isabella Sofia, alongside Owen Carroll on piano, Anthony Manongsong on drums, Erin Ratcliffe on bass and Derrick Bartley on guitar.
A piano-bass-drums jazz trio — Jack Wyndham, Lucas Last and Liam Schatz — playing improvisation-focused sets drawn from across jazz history, from classic swing to reworked standards. Two and a half hours, $15 cover, with reservations by email.
Kevin Barrett on guitar and a guest vocalist perform a second-Tuesday duo set at the Emmet Ray Whisky Bar's back room. Rebecca Campbell, an interpreter, collaborator and creator, sings as the featured guest.
A weekly listening session where the room hears Radiohead's In Rainbows (2007) played front to back, with context on how the record was made and released. Attendees gather in a room to listen with attention, in two seatings.
Robert Chapman on guitar leads a quartet with Karl Silvera on trombone, Aiden Davies on bass and Graham Coster on drums, playing swinging jazz and bebop.
A screening of Darren Aronofsky's 2010 film about a dancer who struggles to keep her sanity after winning the lead in a production of Swan Lake. Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel star.
Dinner, Latin dance lessons, and a DJ set with Latin and reggaeton music make up this Wednesday night at Soluna. The dance floor opens into a party from 10 PM, with bottle service and VIP tables.
The film follows *To Catch a Predator* host Chris Hansen in 2006 as he chases television history. When a high-stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his dream of fame curdles into performative justice.
Club night: techno.
The city's best improvisers argue cases in a chaotic "Judge Judy" style courtroom, with each case built from audience suggestions. Judge Mintz and his sidekick Bailiff Hay preside over whatever evidence comes out.
Club night: house, disco, tech house.
The fifth edition of the What Flavor Is That? series, a DJ night of jazz house and disco with a slow, hypnotic groove that keeps the dancefloor moving in long, viscous waves.
A Spanish-language film about three men in three different eras, whose lives are intertwined through sexuality, desire, pain and legacy. Directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, it runs 155 minutes.
A pro stand-up lineup that rotates every month, with a game on the side: before the show you place low-stakes picks on your phone about what happens in the sets, and beat the house to win tickets. All ages. Doors 8:15pm.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
Fans gather on the dance floor for a night of Depeche Mode music and videos, with side projects and solo material by Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Alan Wilder. The early lounge set features covers of Depeche Mode, and the main room later runs under DJ Lazarus.
Edmonton tenor saxophonist Jacob Do celebrates his debut album First Chorus, rooted in swing and bebop, with Allison Au on alto saxophone, Evan Miles on piano, Sean Croal on bass and Petros Anagnostakos on drums.
Club night: house.
Club night: house.
A modern jazz quartet led by saxophonist Thomas Steele and guitarist Geraden Smith, with electric bass and drums, playing original music and reworked standards. Reservations by email; $15 cover.
Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 thriller follows Iris, a young woman who searches a delayed train for an elderly passenger, Miss Froy, after the other travellers deny that she ever existed.
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Folk-indie singer Meredith Raine makes her solo jazz debut with a quartet of piano, upright bass and drums. The set mixes standards by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Melody Gardot with modern jazz-pop.
A screening of the 1990 Tom Hanks comedy in the Hear Me Out! series, introduced by title designer Lola Landekić, who defends the film. The audience then decides whether it is an underrated masterpiece or a fiasco.
A Spanish-language film about three men in three different eras, whose lives are intertwined through sexuality, desire, pain and legacy. Directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, it runs 155 minutes.
Malcom Masu on electric guitar, with Woodley Watson on upright bass and Jack Ryckman on drums, plays straight-ahead jazz tunes the trio chose for their own enjoyment. The trio, who have come down from Hamilton, play in a relaxed, conversational style.
Brent Tanemura (bass), Kae Murphy (trumpet, clarinet) and Nick Fraser (drums) improvise polyrhythmic, pulse-driven freejazz and Moroccan trance. They meet for the first time, and the set is spontaneous.
A 1965 film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Laurence Olivier and Carol Lynley. A woman reports her young daughter missing, but there seems to be no evidence the child ever existed.
A weekly listening session where a room hears Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) played start to finish, front to back, with context on how it was made. The November 17 night has two seatings, at 6 PM and 8 PM.
A modern jazz set from guitarist Nick Scott with Julian Anderson-Bowes on bass and Eric West on drums.
Dinner, Latin dance lessons, and a DJ set with Latin and reggaeton music make up this Wednesday night at Soluna. The dance floor opens into a party from 10 PM, with bottle service and VIP tables.
Club night: progressive house, tech house, afro house.
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gambling addict, played by Jeanne Moreau, in this 1963 French romantic drama set largely in the casinos of Nice. The score is by Michel Legrand.
Club night: house.
A 2012 Japanese film in rough monochrome follows three boys about to finish high school in snowy Hokkaido, who take jobs at a local security company. A Q&A with director Sho Miyake follows the screening.
A composer, pianist and singer performs classic ragtime, showtunes and original pieces in a cabaret-style set, drawing on blues, classical, jazz and theatre traditions, with the storytelling of vintage theatrical performance.
A jazz quintet led by trombonist Jack Marshall plays hard-bop, post-bop and songbook material. Will Jackson is on tenor saxophone, Lyle Fleras on piano, Aidan Davies on bass and Elnoe Budimen on drums.
Club night: tech house.
A Spanish-language film about three men in three different eras, whose lives are intertwined through sexuality, desire, pain and legacy. Directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, it runs 155 minutes.
A screening of Peter Weir's 1975 film, in which schoolgirls on a Valentine's Day picnic in early 1900s Australia wander off and disappear. Starring Anne-Louise Lambert and Jacki Weaver.
Club night: techno, minimal, deep house.
Club night: funk, house, disco.
Club night: jersey club, booty bass, hard bounce, ghetto tech, ghetto house, juke, bass music.
Midnight screening of the 1975 musical, with Excited Mental State shadowcasting the film. The audience shouts and dances along with the performers.
A party of Afrobeats, dancehall and R&B, with Deeboy, Snoopy, Bxnny and Feel Fancy performing through the night. It is hosted by Afrodisiac Party.
Ceylon Soul blends Jamaican and Sri Lankan music, with a mix of dancehall, baila, soca and R&B alongside live cultural elements from both communities. The night is built around dancing and celebrating the two communities' roots.
An instrumental funk-rock trio — guitarist Neil Hendry, drummer Tim Shia and bassist Jordan Safer — plays tight grooves drawn from The Meters, Vulfpeck and Al Green, with BC-raised singer Mip of Mip Power Trio joining for the second set. Part of a monthly third-Saturday residency; doors at 8:30, reservations by email.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
A Spanish-language film about three men in three different eras, whose lives are intertwined through sexuality, desire, pain and legacy. Directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, it runs 155 minutes.
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A comedy night featuring a line-up of Canadian comedians, with music alongside the comedy.
A film following French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa. Director Patrick Wang takes part in post-screening Q&As on November 22 and 29.
A cabaret-style quartet of Toronto musicians reworking songs from the blues, jazz and americana ballad repertoire, with Chris Lowry on baritone vocals, Tom Melville on keyboards, Brendan Davis on bass and Jackie Kwan on sax and clarinet.
Screening of Lo Wei's 1971 kung fu film, in which Bruce Lee plays a man who breaks his vow never to fight. Followed by a discussion and book signing with author Jeff Chang, launching his book on Lee in Toronto.
George Sluizer's 1988 Dutch thriller follows Rex, whose partner Saskia is abducted in broad daylight at a busy service station. Three years on, he begins receiving letters from her abductor.
Presented by Queer Cinema Club, David Cronenberg's 1993 drama stars Jeremy Irons as a French diplomat in 1960s China who falls for an opera singer, Song Liling, who is not who he thinks.
Ric performs contemporary improvised music on guitar, synthesizer and live production, fusing live playing, samples and electronic textures. Jakob River Leeson joins on saxophone and EWI.
A screening of David Fincher's 2014 thriller, in which a man's wife vanishes and he becomes the focus of a media frenzy as suspicion turns to him. Starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, it runs 149 minutes.
A weekly listening session where a record is played front to back in a room with other listeners, with context offered on how it was made. This November 24 edition closes the Radiohead series with OK Computer (1997), presented in two seatings at 6 PM and 8 PM.
The film follows *To Catch a Predator* host Chris Hansen in 2006 as he chases television history. When a high-stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his dream of fame curdles into performative justice.
Filipino jazz fusion blends ECM-style jazz with Filipino folk melodies, led by guitarist Russell Molina. The quartet plays Philippine jazz repertoire and original music from the debut EP Riptide.
Dinner, Latin dance lessons, and a DJ set with Latin and reggaeton music make up this Wednesday night at Soluna. The dance floor opens into a party from 10 PM, with bottle service and VIP tables.
A jazz trio of drums, bass and guitar plays a set of jazz standards, old and new. The players are Tim Shia on drums, Gordie Mowat on bass and Neil Hendry on guitar.
A screening of Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary on The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, marks its 50th anniversary. The film mixes concert footage with backstage interviews and performances by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton.
Louise Weard's postmodern epic follows Izzy (Avalon Fast), who tries everything to stop her partner from transitioning. Preceded by the short EE, it ends with a virtual Q&A with Weard.
The Canadian premiere of a debut feature follows three friends on a 24-hour odyssey of drugs and alcohol. It is preceded by the short ENDS MEAT and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
A chordless jazz trio from Toronto plays popular standards and deeper cuts, with Jonas Leung on alto saxophone, Tomoki Belrose on double bass, and Joseph Sgrignuoli on drums. The set is performed without a chordal instrument, so the harmony is carried by the three players alone.
A double feature of two DIY films: the TV pilot FELLAS, where a housewarming is derailed by a missing DVD box set, and a documentary on the 2024 cult hit Pee Pee Poo Poo Man. A Q&A with its creatives follows.
A Canadian premiere of Morgan Krantz's comedy about a friendship that falls apart after one friend joins a controversial religion, told through a series of dinners spread over several years. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, and it is preceded by the short film Birdie.
Club night: house.
Rob Tregenza's FAST has its Canadian premiere, following a Southern woman who drives a graveyard Lotus between the worlds of the living and the dead. A Q&A with Tregenza follows the screening.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
Boogie-woogie and rock'n'roll piano from a London-trained player who mixes his own songs with reworked classics, takes requests and banters with the room, ranging from foot-stomping numbers to ballads. Reservations by email at [email protected].
A film following French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa. Director Patrick Wang takes part in post-screening Q&As on November 22 and 29.
Band name or leader: Geraden Smith Trio Music style of influence: Modern Jazz, contemporary rock styles and the blues Band members: Geraden Smith on Electric guitar, Jake Rowinski on electric bass, Ryan McNeill on drums
Jazz saxophonist Jelani Watson leads a quartet through jazz, R&B, neo-soul and gospel, with Caribbean touches, mostly original tunes and some reimagined jazz standards. The lineup on the poster is Watson on sax, John Axon on keys, Devon Goping on bass and Ethan Groves on drums.
Lukas Antoniou leads a group playing jazz standards and Latin jazz, with Quinn Ward, Nolan Harvey and Cameron Esquega in the band.
A Toronto quartet of trumpet, tenor sax, bass and drums plays free jazz drawing on bebop and European improvised music. Its playing favours sharp articulation over loud blowouts.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
Club 102 Live-To-Air DJs Dwight Hybrid and Paul Dhingra spin alternative hits from the 1990s and 2000s, with MC Martin Streek hosting. A retro video dance party runs in the Parlour with DJ Thomas Hall, and the night is livestreamed on Mixcloud.
A film following French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa. Director Patrick Wang takes part in post-screening Q&As on November 22 and 29.
The city's best improvisers argue cases in a chaotic "Judge Judy" style courtroom, with each case built from audience suggestions. Judge Mintz and his sidekick Bailiff Hay preside over whatever evidence comes out.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
Guitarmegeddon, Annual jazz guitar madness. Guitaring our way through a swinging repertoire of jazz, blues, and bebop! Andrew Scott guitar, Lee Wallace guitar, Jesse White guitar, Jack Johnston bass, Keith Barstow drums.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
A comedy night featuring a line-up of Canadian comedians, with music alongside the comedy.
A rotating cast of stand-up comics, who have appeared on Just For Laughs, CBC, Comedy Central UK and CTV, performs a late-night showcase.
A quintet led by harmonica player Cale Fladager, who grew up in Warsaw, performing music from across the history of Polish jazz — the songs of old Warsaw, pieces by Krzysztof Komeda, and originals — with saxophone, piano, bass and drums. Doors at 9:15, music at 9:30; reservations by email.