Free events in Toronto this week include Halloween, the first day many of us grasped the delicious concept of free. If you're too old for free candy (paying for that first root canal will fix that), No Pants Society is throwing a Dia De Muertos party, OCAD and Bloor/Gladstone Library will both screen Rocky Horror, and you can sing karaoke at the Gladstone. There's also free surgery, but I don't recommend that. I mean legally, I can't.

Voting in the municipal elections is also free - remember to get to the polls on Monday.

Here's how save up for necessary dental surgery (no benefits, so spooky) in Toronto this week.

MONDAY

• Toronto mayoral election
• Newmindspace - Business as Usual, Folks - a post-election street party (City Hall)
• BLOOR BROADCAST: TORONTO VOTES 2014 (Bloor Hot Docs)
• Rebels With A Cause Film Festival - Red Riot (York Woods Library)
• Gladstone Presents - Eyes On the Election Viewing Party (Gladstone)

TUESDAY

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Night at OCAD. With A Bar (OCAD)
• GHOST Stories Told Live (The Garrison)
• Luau Or Die (Horseshoe)
• Author event "Troubling Pain and Prejudice (Supermarket Restaurant and Bar)
• Rebels With a Cause Film Festival - Witness Within (York Woods Library)

WEDNESDAY

• OPENING NIGHT of the 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art [PWYC at night] (Artscape Youngplace)
• Spooky Tiki Speakeasy - Dia De Muertos Dance Party (Bovine Sex Club)
• Punk Rock Bingo - Hell-O-Ween Edition [PWYC] (Beaver)
• Pivot: R. Kolewe, Michael Lista, Mike Spry, & Jess Taylor [PWYC] (Press Club)
• Double Bill: Lina Allemano New York Trio TITANIUM RIOT [PYWC] (Tranzac Club)

THURSDAY

• Screening of HORROR Feature Film (Carlton Cinemas)
• Stuart Riz Poetry Workshop and Launch (Saving Grace)
• The Danny Show (120 Diner)
• WEIRD TALES: A Selection of New Animated Horror Shorts [PWYC] (TAIS Studio)
• The Crush Project Chubb Rubb Halloween Bash [PWYC] (Gladstone)

FRIDAY

• Church Street Halloween Parade
• Movie Night at the Library: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Bloor/Gladstone Library)
• Free Surgery Offered On All Hollow's Eve (Mighty Brave Productions/ Dufferson Herman Arts/ Haus of Dada)
• The Smiths Tribute - Slapback [PWYC] (Holy Oak)
• 2nd Annual TCL Halloween Party: We Are French, Subject To Change, Mip Power Trio, Rotary Dial and Giraffe [PWYC] (The Sister)

SATURDAY

• Pumpkin Parade (Sorauren Park)
• Shameless Karaoke (Gladstone Hotel)
• 2nd ever costume skate party (Soybomb)
• ANONYMOUSHALLOWEEN AFTERPARTY (Coalition: T.O)
• Nobel Prize Fighter CD Release w/ Meeko Cheech, Rhinosaur, The Liquor Pigs, The Flu, Red Lines [Free with costume] (Silver Dollar)
• HALLOWE'EN SPOOKTACULAR: DRUNK LIPS/TUNGDA BROWNE/THE KISSY KISSY CARNIVORES [PWYC] (Handlebar)
• BYOB Zine Launch Party w/ Riot Porn, Pantychrist, The Lipstick Junkies, FUSS, Terrorista & PONY [PWYC] (Nowhere Gallery)

SUNDAY

• Burlesque at Cherry Cola's: Sinful Sundays One Year Anniversary (Cherry Cola's)
• Brains, Words & Voices - Toronto's only monthly poetry recitation contest [PWYC] (101 Niagara St)
• Hack The Planet - A cyberpunk rave [PWYC] (Smiling Buddha)

Also check out these regular free events

• Elvis Mondays at the Drake
• Foosball Battle Royale, Monday, Disgraceland
• Art Gallery of Ontario free evening, Wednesday, 6-8:30pm.
• IFOA Weekly, free for supporters, students, & youth under 26, Wednesday, Harbourfront Centre
• Skin of My Nuts Comedy Show, Thursday, Sonic Espresso Bar
• Canadian Opera Company's Free Concerts series
• While nearly all art galleries in the city are free to enter, it's worth noting The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) is always PWYC.
• The ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) offers discounted tickets on Fridays ($10).

Do you want everyone to know about your kinda random free or pay-what-you-can event? Submit it to our event section. (You can also submit your for-money events here, greedy-pants.)

Photo by Jess Milns