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Gamercamp
Gamercamp celebrates the artistry, history, and creativity behind the games that kept you up all night and well into the next day. Get inspired by fresh ideas from passionate, knowledgable speakers, an open demo stage for Toronto's best and up-and-coming, and an exhibition from Canada's first arcade museum.
We started Gamercamp out of an obsession for video games and a belief that the the journey to how games are made is as fun as the games themselves. For example, we dig retro games not only in a nostalgic sense but also how they are applicable to game development today. New classics like Shadow Complex and platforms like the iPhone are taking things back to priority one: smart, stream-lined design to produce addictive, can't-get-enough fun games.
So if you begged with tears to get an NES, thought quarters were the only coin worth keeping, or spent entire weekends sketching out side-scroller levels, join us for a day for the love of game.
Get your tickets online now, only $15. Or $20 at the door.
If you have any questions or inquiries, drop an email to mark@gamercamp.ca.
1 pm - 9:30 pm
The Rural Alberta Advantage at Lee's Palace
The Rural Alberta Advantage w/
Bahamas
Fox Jaws
$15
529 Bloor St. W.
9 pm
$20 -- 52 McCaul's Opening Show
â$20â is our inaugural show/grand opening featuring the work of over 40 artists, who have generously donated pieces for the exhibit. All work will be sold for $20, making it a great place to pick up affordable gifts for the holiday. Featuring a large variety of mediums and sizes, â$20â is a fundraiser for 52, with all proceeds supporting our upcoming programming.
Jonathan+Olivia Weekend Special
Jonathan+Olivia weekend special:
20% off all fall 2009 winter coats+jackets
friday 20, saturday 21 and sunday 22 november 2009
GIrl & Boy 90s Dance Party
All 90s music all night!
Rock, pop, dance, hiphop and more!
Handbag Warehouse Sale
Just in time for Christmas!!!!! Fashion Accessories Wholesale Company Opens to Public!!! Stocks include ladies handbags; special occasion/bridal bags; fashionable ladies leather briefcases; jewelleries and more..........
Address: 2 Select Avenue (Steeles/Middlefield), Unit 14,
Scarborough, Ontario M1V 5J4
Phone: (416) 293-2488
Open: November 27 - 28, 2009
FRI 10AM TO 8PM
SAT 10AM TO 5PM
SUN 10AM TO 4PM
Payment: Cash; Visa; Master Card
The World Laughter Games
TORONTO COULD GET THE WORLD LAUGHTER GAMES
GAME DEMO TAKE PLACE SATURDAY NOV 21 AT THE BLOOR CINEMA
BEFORE THE HILARIOUS FILM LAUGHOLOGY
For more game information, please email: Hey@laughology.info
Interviews and information requests contact Sonja Andic 416-316-7109
Toronto could be the home of an international laughing skills competition - potentially the Olympics of Laughter.
The Just for Laughs Festival is looking at a World Laughter Games event in Toronto, depending on the upcoming demonstration of the games this Saturday November 21.
Competitive laughter games will be demoed at this Saturdayâs screening of Laughology - a documentary about the contagiousness of laughter, featuring the man with the most contagious laugh on earth. Before the screening there will be demonstrations of the games. Champion laughers will compete and some audience members will be invited to compete on the spot.
Director of Laughology, Albert Nerenberg, got the game idea while traveling the world working on the documentary. The sudden rise in laughter exercise techniques have created new laughter games, which when exercised, improve health, fitness and mood.
âIt could be significant,â says Nerenberg. âNot only do laughter games promote health, immunity and good humor, theyâre funny, because laughter is contagious.â
Nerenberg demoed one of the games, the âLaugh Offâ at this yearâs Idea City and it brought down the house.
The âLaugh Offâ is a game where two contestants go head-to-head laughing at each other. The person who makes the other person seem funnier wins. âThis game can be quite extreme. People turn red, split their pants, and fall off the stage.â says current Canadian Champion Victoria Danyluk.
There are also individual competitions, like the âMost Contagious Laughâ â the person who gets the most laughs out of an audience simply by laughing. And the âEvil Villain Laughâ made famous by Hollywood star Mike Myers.
Laughter competitions are new and different from comedy competitions. There have been small laughter competitions in India and Thailand, but no one has tried to create an international competition, although one is certainly coming.
âThe Just for Laughs festival is interested in the event,â says Nerenberg. âBecause the idea is so new, they want to see how it will work.â
Trailer for Laughology is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ScWC0N6e8
THE WORLD LAUGHTER GAMES
Canadian Champions will be crowned at the event.
Want to compete? hey@laughology.info
Saturday November 21, 7:00 pm at the Bloor Cinema
$8 includes admission to the Toronto Laughology Premiere
7:00 â 7:30 Game â 7:30 to 8:45 Laughology documentary
The half-hour demonstration will take place before the screening of Laughology.
MEDIA CONTACT: Sonja Andic 416-316-7109
EMAIL: hey@laughology.info / laughologyinfo@gmail.com
WEBSITE: http://www.laughology.info
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Apostle of Hustle at Lee's Palace
Thursday Nov 19: TORONTO Arts & Crafts Indie Rock
âAPOSTLE OF HUSTLEâ @ 10:45, âSnowblinkâ @ 9:30 $15.00 adv, $18 at the door
Newworldson w/ the Toronto Mass Choir
Come, see and hear TMC and NewWorldSon together âliveâ for the first time ever at 7:00 pm on Saturday November 21, 2009 at the Willowdale Pentecostal Church, 288 Cummer Ave, Toronto, ON (W. of Bayview & N. of Finch). Advanced ticket price â $15, At the door â $20.
TORONTO MASS CHOIRâs mission is âTo create and perform Gospel music that will draw people into the awesome presence of God.â The choir is committed to taking the Gospel message through music across Canada and the nations of the world.
Armed with inspirational lyrics and world class musicianship, NEWWORLDSON rescues soul music from being a mere genre and returns the art form to its sacred roots.
Together on stage, the atmosphere will become electrified. This is a must-see event.
Mike Holmes Magazine Signing
Mike Holmes will be at Union Station in Toronto signing copies of his brand new magazine on Monday November 23rd from 11am - 2PM.
Don't miss your chance to Canada's most trusted contractor!
JACKSON FAMILY VALUES video dance party
DJ doctor BAGGIE (Purplelectricity Prince Party, Can't Stop Esther Madonna Marathon) presents a new video dance party, heavy on Micheal R.I.P. and Janet with a sprinkling of the Jackson 5, The Jacksons, La Toya, Jermaine, Rebbie, and 3T.
JACKSON FAMILY VALUES
Friday, December 4
REVIVAL
783 College St (at Shaw), Toronto
10 pm until 2:30 am
$7 cover
19+ ID required
Please spread the word about this party to any of your friends who love the Jacksons --> Michael, Janet, Jermaine, La Toya, Rebbie, Tito, Marlon, Jackie, Randy, 3T.
If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry - Cosmetic Enhancement Humor Launch Party
In the pre-holiday, pre-seasonal rampage to purchase gifts, mingle and rejoice and basically invest a few thousand brain cells toward âthe perfect giftââ¦why not take a break and spend a few wine infused hours (or minutes) at what may be one of the funniest book launches of the yearâ¦at worst you will get a kick out of the hors d'oeuvres and theme (in)appropriately slanted toward the humor of the book â at best you will help celebrate the launch of a hard covered bound copy of a take on human nature that, for lack of anything else, will put a smile on a few peoples faces.
'Build Social Capital with Smojoe'
Bring your laptop so you can blog with Smojoe! Learn by doing as Rob Campbell demonstrates exactly how to build 'Story Funnels to Buckstops' and works through the little known principles of article replication, blogvertising and discussion forum marketing.
Story Funnels to Buckstops is the methodology Rob uses to put clients on the first page of Google search, diminish negative press, and generally increase his clients 'findability'.
Online Marketing 101 - The Business of Blogging
Learn from local bloggers how theyâve used their blogs to create a community and hype.
Transit coin drive for street kids
When: Wed., Nov. 25 at Union GO Station, 7-9 a.m.
Wed., Dec. 2 and Thurs., Dec. 3 at various TTC subway stations (Yonge/Bloor, Queenâs Park, St. Patrick, St. George, College and King), 7-9 a.m.
Morning commuters will get a chance to help homeless kids this holiday season when Covenant House volunteers take to the GO and TTC for their annual coin drive.
The volunteers will be asking for spare change throughout the morning rush at the Union GO Station on Wed., Nov. 25 and various subway stations in the downtown area on Wed., Dec. 2 and Thurs., Dec. 3.
As Canadaâs largest youth shelter, Covenant House opens doors of opportunity and hope to 4,000 homeless youth annually. More than just a place to stay, we provide 24/7 crisis care and have the widest range of services under one roof, including education, counselling, health care and employment assistance.
The Torture Memos CD Release + The Cephalopodae Dance Suite + Ronley Teper
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 11 8:00pm
@ THE TRANZAC (292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto)
$10 / $15 with CD (with a percentage of the sale of every CD going to support the American Civil Liberties Union)
THE PARKDALE REVOLUTIONARY ORCHESTRA'S
'THE TORTURE MEMOS' CD Release Concert
ON THE BILL:
The Torture Memos + Cephalopodae Dance Suite + a special guest performance by Ronley Teper and Her Lipliners.
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THE TORTURE MEMOS
The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra's musical treatment of the Torture Memos (the documents produced justify barbaric torture techniques that shocked the world when the US government made them public earlier this year) takes the most revealing elements of the text and lets them speak for themselves - from the finer points of waterboarding to why it's reasonable to commit torture in self defense.
By setting these documents to music the voice of their principal author, John Yoo, is transformed from a bureaucratic abstraction to a real presence. And what he has to say takes on new and unexpected meanings: from beneath the coldness of the original text layers of fear, anger, and deeply-buried remorse emerge. The banality of evil sings its heart out.
The "lyrics" and some audio from the recording are here: http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/tm/torturememos.html
THE CEPHALOPODAE DANCE SUITE
a ballet about the spiritual development of squids
This deeply moving story follows the life of a squid: from its birth and infancy in the gentle currents of the deep, to its innocent joy in exploring the beauty of its environment, to the tragic moment when its squid sister is lured into the cruel tentacles of a cult and converted into a box of Captain Highliner battered calamari as a ritual sacrifice to Cthulhu - a heart-rending event that confronts the squid with the senseless injustice of existence and the necessity of finding meaning in its own squidividuality.
some videos from Cephalopodae:
http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/cephalopodae.html
RONLEY TEPER AND HER LIPLINERS
Ronley Teper, a performance artist turned musician, has collaborated with the who's who of the Canadian independent music scene to produce a body of music that listeners constantly compare to Tom Waits and Mary Margaret O'Hara. Her new EP Ronley Teper's Lipliners grew out of twenty short musical monologues that were publicly workshopped during twenty improvised shows featuring a revolving door of some of Canada's finest musicians.
"If Joanna Newsom gave birth to Tom Waits' illegitimate daughter and then refused to breastfeed her, the girl might grow up sounding a lot like Toronto's Ronley Teper" - BlogTO
http://www.myspace.com/ronleyteper
A Doll's House
A workshop reading with a modern race angle.
CiRCA SATURDAYS!!! | NOVEMBER 21ST
CiRCA SATURDAYS!!!
NOVEMBER 21ST
MAIN ROOM: DJ JEDI --
DJJEDI.COM|MYSPACE.COM/FUZETHIS
BALLROOM: R&B | HIP HOP | TOP 40 | REGGAE
CiRCA NIGHTCLUB
126 JOHN STREET
TORONTO
416.979.0044
BOTTLE SERVICE: bottleservice@circanightclub.ca
info@circanightclub.ca
http://www.circanightclub.ca
TWITTER: CiRCAToronto
SMCSU and PFAC present GRAFFITI PARTY!
The St. Michael's College Student Union and Party For a Cause collaborate once again to bring you the always popular Graffiti Party!
How it works: Receive a plain white tee and marker at the door and write/draw on your friends' shirts. All proceeds go to Youth Without Shelter: http://www.yws.on.ca/.
Tickets are $5 in advance, $10 at the door. Tickets are available at the SMCSU office located in Brennan Lounge.
All Ages with wristband policy.
FREEDOM 2009 @ MANSION | LOFT | SUIT 106
STELLAR MEDIA Presents ...
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FREEDOM â
@ MANSION | LOFT | SUIT 106
FRIDAY DECEMBER 18, 2009
EVERY UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE IS INVITED | 5 DJ's | 2000 People | ONE END OF EXAM PARTY!
The Biggest University and College END OF EXAM PARTY
19+ With Wristband Policy (University/College ID Required)
| VIP bottle service tables available |
MUSIC STYLE
4 ROOMS 4 SOUNDS
Top40 | Hip Hop | House | RnB | Dance | Reggae | Mash Ups
DJ JOE GHOST
DJ LRS
DJ TILT
DJ MIKEY DATO
DJ SKETCH
Early Bird Tickets starting at $10 (very limited)
For Tickets Contact your school rep
York 416-731-2443 (tickets now also available at Falafel Hut-york lanes)
UofT St. George 416-939-4055
UTSG 647-294-2405
Ryerson 647-832-4863
OCAD 416-795-5847
UofT(Mississauga) 416-294-1102
UOIT 647 - 832 - 4863
Humber 647-832-4863
Humber North 647 287 0071
89 Chestnut/UTSG 416-357-6929
Sheridan College Davis Campus 416-996-1061
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UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES â
UTSG | UTSC | UTM
RYERSON | YORK | MAC
GUELPH | WATERLOO | UOIT
LAURIER | WESTERN | SENECA
HUMBER | GEORGE BROWN |OCAD
SHERIDAN | CENTENNIAL |
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GROUPS INVOLVED â
Habitat for Humanity at University of Toronto
Malabar Food Festival 2009
Malabari Food Festival 2009
With the inaugural food festival in 2008 becoming a huge success ,we have planned for the 2nd Malabar Food Festival for the year 2009 Hosted by Maroli Restaurant . The Malabar region of India lies along the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula and forms the northern part of the present-day Indian state of Kerala. Maroli holds the distinction of being the only Malabari (Kerala)restaurant in Toronto.
On November 28th & 29 th, Maroli will showcase savoury items from Malabar and allow visitors to taste unique Malabar cuisine, which has been influenced by Dutch, British, French, Portuguese and Arab culinary arts from various regimes in the 17th through 20th century.
Malabar is noted for its variety of pancakes and steamed rice cakes, biryani made of mutton, chicken, egg and fish. Arikadaka, a concoction of rice , fennel and coconut filled in mussels and steamed are a Malabari gem . Meen moilee (a Greenish yellow fish curry ), meen mulligattathu (a fiery Sardine Curry ), and peera pattichathu (a dry fish dish of grated coconut),Oyster stewed in Coconut sauce or a Pan Fried Sardine are also staples of a Malabari diet. olath erachi (fried mutton or beef are amongst the more popular meat items in the region. Another interesting feature is the abundant use of coconut, coconut oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, and coconut milk.
Exotic dishes at the event include Pepper fried Bulls testicles , Oyster stew , Pan Fried Sardines, Malabar Fish Biriyani ,Fish Moilee , Appam, Shrimp Malabari ,Squid Thoran, Kallumakai Fry(Mussels) ,Kappa(Cassava) ,Nei Choru, , Chemeen curry(Shrimps) and Crab Curry .
A $25 .00 entry fee allows foodies access to this unique Indian culinary experience which includes viewing of live food preparation,, as well relishing in intricately carved fruits and vegetables.This intimate experience is open to the public from Noon to 10pm on Saturday, November 28th and Sunday until 8 pm , November 29th at Maroli, Toronto's only Malabari & Indian restaurant. No Reservations ,But first come first serve basis.
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