10 things to do in Toronto this week
Events in Toronto this week will get you in the holiday spirit, especially at the Kensington Winter Solstice and Tim McCready's giant holiday house party, so get all that drinking and merry-making out of your system before you head home to your family this coming weekend.
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New Year's Parties
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December 19Hot Docs is screening Christmas movie classics for free for the rest of the month. Just show up before the movie starts at 8:45 p.m., sit back and get into the holiday spirit inside the cozy theatre. They will be accepting non-perishable food donations at the door.Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
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December 20Do all your Christmas shopping without dropping a dime! This market will feature more vendors than the first Bunz Flea and while you can bring cash, you can trade in your old stuff at the same time.
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December 20Woody's annual People with AIDS Foundation fundraiser is a drag extravaganza and makes for an amazing Monday night out for a great cause. Shows start at 10 p.m. and include queens like Ivory Towers, Carlotta Carlisle, Jezebel Bardot, Scarlett Bobo, Jada Hudson, Juice Boxx and many more.Woody's/Sailor Toronto
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December 21This is the only way to properly usher in winter, with a big light parade and an outdoor party. Red Pepper Spectacle Arts celebrates the 27th annual Kensington Market Winter Solstice on the longest, darkest night of the year with a lantern-lit procession through the market and shows from Samba Squad, Shadowland Youth Theatre, Richard Underhill & the Kensington and so much more.Kensington Market
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December 21Seeing Toronto singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle live is always a very good idea. Seeing her at The Horseshoe is basically mandatory if you like good, local music. She was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize for her last record, but check out what she has up her sleeve now.
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December 22This big one-off dance party at the Dance Cave is billed as a "dance party that empowers everyone to come out and be fearlessly, unapologetically themselves. This is to celebrate our community and our diversity in the face of all the xenophobia, homophobia, sexism and racism experienced in 2016 and to remind ourselves of the love we all have."The Dance Cave
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December 23This is Toronto's biggest holiday house party and you're invited! Tim McCready, of 159 Manning fame, will take over the entire Gladstone Hotel and will fill it with dance parties, concerts, art and live karaoke.
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December 23This Queen West bar celebrates Festivus For the Rest of Us with cheap drink specials, ugly Christmas sweaters and a no-over evening of pre-holiday cheer.The Grand Trunk
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December 23House of Filth take over the new Glad Day space on Church Street for their annual Christmas party. It's a night of wild drag with Igby Lizzard, Allysin Chaynes, Nancy Bocock, Champagna Enemea and Dottie Dangerfield. DJ John Caffery will provide the music for this disgusting night of performance and partying.
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December 23Instead of going to Church this holiday season, just go to the Piston for a special edition of gospel disco hotness from A Digital Needles and Cyclist. It's like the Beam Me Up Party, with songs that have been sent directly to the dance floor from God.
Lead photo byChristian Bobak
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