Get ready to be transported to the Golden Age of Piracy with Our Flag Means [Blank] - an unscripted Pirate Adventure, brought to you by the award-winning Bad Dog Theatre Company.

Fans of Our Flag Means Death and the uninitiated alike will love Our Flag Means [Blank], a hilarious and unscripted interpretation of the hit HBO Max show. Directed by acclaimed performer and director Ashley Comeau, this immersive and unscripted pirate show features a tour de force cast of Canada’s most brilliant comedic performers. With no script to follow, every show is as unique as it is hilarious.

Every show will take place on the high "seas" (Lake Ontario) as you sail the Toronto Harbour while the cast and crew of the ship To-Be-Named take you on an unforgettable adventure where your suggestions make each show a completely original adventure.

Starring Kyah Green, Brandon Hackett, Paloma Nuñez and Callum Wratten and featuring Ghazal Ghiami, Tim Mikula and Margaret Thompson.

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The show takes place on a moving ship "A Pirate Life" that sets sail from 585 Queens Quay West, Toronto, M5V 3G3. Show start times are strict as the vessel will depart at show time. Please ensure you arrive no later than 15 minutes before show time to ensure you are aboard when we set sail.

Shows are rain or shine and take place outdoors - please dress accordingly.

The ship is accessible for most wheelchairs. The ship's door is 36' wide, which is wide enough for most manual and electric wheelchairs. The incline of the ramp depends on the depth of the water, which changes during the season, so the ramp incline does not always align with accessibility codes.

Located on the east side of the Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre, we are close to Little Norway Park, Toronto Music Gardens and the Waterfront Promenade. Parking is available at 545 Lakeshore Blvd West using Parkopedia - We are also accessible by street car and bicycle path!

The show is recommended for audience members over 18, however content-wise is rated PG-13 as it may contain mature themes. The ship is licensed and you can buy beverages on board, as well as before the show.

Produced by: Bad Dog Theatre Company

Director: Ashley Comeau

Producers: Stephanie Malek & Alia Rasul

Technical Director: Seann Murray

Staged at Fort York National Historic Site, Spaciousness is a compelling new theatrical experience that offers a tour like no other. Be transported to the past to encounter a multitude of characters who bring to life expansive stories of love, life, and loss during the War of 1812. Then be brought back to present day with a story of surviving conflict that encourages us towards peace.

Traverse the grounds of Fort York and meet a cast of characters while travelling from one historic building to another, becoming immersed in stories of life during wartime.

Written by Ahmed Moneka and Nicky Lawrence and directed by Ahmed Moneka, Spaciousness poses vital questions about conflict and peace while focusing on lives lived through war and histories traditionally obscured from this time and place. This new theatrical work evolved from Toronto History Museums' Artist Mentorship program and is produced in association with Incongruent Media.

Grappling with climate change and collective cooperation, a collaboration emerges as the XR art exhibition: Seed Systems. Six international artists who specialize in virtual world-building and plant knowledge, explore speculative approaches to future human-nature relationships, using new digital media art to cultivate an immersive garden of growth and foliage. Surpassing borders and moving between realities, Seed Systems brings perspectives from other places to Tkaronto/Toronto as an exchange between the exhibition visitors and artists responding to our current climate crisis and envisioning potential futures together.

Matthew D. Gantt * Lauren Moffatt * Alison Bennett * Nicholas Delap * Mohsen Hazrati * Nadine Kolodziey * Peggy Schoenegge * Miriam Arbus *

At: Goethe Toronto, and online via STYLY

Duration: September 21 – October 26 2023

Opening: September 21, 2023, 6:30-8:30pm

Exhibition hours: Thursdays from 4pm – 7pm, or by appointment (info@skyfinefoods.com)

I Heart Toronto is a hilarious comedy revue all about... you guessed it, Toronto. This show is stacked with fresh new sketches and songs, a few classics from our comedy vaults, as well as a healthy dose of the hilarious improv The Second City is famous for. From Hanlan's Point to Mel Lastman Square and all subway stops in between The Second City Touring Company will be runnin’ through the 6ix with their jokes!

Dust off your lederhosen and dirndls! Toronto’s favourite fall festival is back!

Join us on October 6th and 7th under a massive Bavarian-style Festhalle tent as we celebrate German culture.
NEW LOCATION: Garrison Common at Fort York.

Authentic food, drink, entertainment, and an atmosphere modelled after the original Munich event.

2023 highlights:
- Bavarian communal tables and benches direct from Germany
- FREE German glass beer steins for the first 500 attendees per session
- Fill your stein with the very best German and European beers including Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, Erdinger, Stiegl, Schöfferhofer, Veltins and more
- The Oktoberfest King is back with the George Kash Oktoberfest Experience, plus the legendary HEiNo!... und der PÖLKAdotDoors, an Oktoberfest cabaret show with Fräulein E, contests and games
- Bavarian Food Truck Village serving up the best, most authentic Oktoberfest eats and treats (think mouth-watering Bratwurst, fresh pretzels, beer nuts, and more!)

Tickets starting at $35.00.

Learn more and get your tickets today at www.torontooktoberfest.ca
Please note, all sessions are 19+.

Join us as we explore the supernatural side of Toronto’s Haunted Harbour! This 90-minute immersive storytelling boat cruise & walking experience takes you through the lagoons of Toronto Islands, stopping to visit the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, the oldest and most haunted buildings of them all, with another stop on Center Island, walking to the harrowsome pier staring into the empty abyss of lake Ontario.

Hear some of the most spine-tingling stories of phantom ghost ships and their crew, haunted shipwrecks, lost lighthouse keepers, and more!

This experience is outdoors, rain or shine departing from 1 Queen’s Quay East at the TDOT Water Taxi Dock.

The Second City’s greatest comedic performers assemble onstage to do what The Second City does best... IMPROVISE. No pre-written scripts. No safety net. No subject off limits. Yes, and... hilarity will ensue! Best of all? The entire show will be created on the spot based on audience suggestions, making every night a one-of-a-kind experience where anything could happen!

Each exhibition provides a different generational perspective while engaging with intellectual discourses about time, history, and architecture in their respective work, seeking to decipher new meanings. Join the opening to explore the thought-provoking installations, paintings, drawings, and a film that all ask fundamental questions of humanity and reflect on topics such as our interconnectedness with our world, revolutionary upheavals, and the role of industrial architecture in our lives.

Discover three exciting solo shows by international artists Abdelkader Benchamma, Anna Boghiguian, and Aria Dean. Each exhibition provides a different generational perspective while engaging with intellectual discourses about time, history, and architecture in their respective work, seeking to decipher new meanings.

Abdelkader Benchamma- Solastalgia: Archaeologies of Loss

Anna Boghiguian- "Time of Change"

Aria Dean- "Abattoir U.S.A.!"

This evocative work is a nine-screen, twenty-speaker voyage that spans Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Through sound, moving image and architecture, it invites visitors to journey through the profound interplay between water and grief.

The multi-disciplinary installation is divided into three parts. It starts with MRI, where the viewer is witness to a woman’s experience inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine for breast cancer screening. It continues with POOL, where they sit inside a community pool change room as women undress. The third, SAIL, acts as the connective tissue in the exhibit, a moment of reprieve — the viewer is bathed in calm waters.

The installation also has an interactive component where viewers can create an origami boat with a message inside about their experiences with grief.

While admission is free, donations in support of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre for Breast Cancer Research will be collected on site.

Harbourfront Centre transports audiences to the streets of Morocco with the Canadian premiere of Näss (‘people’ in Arabic) from choreographer Fouad Boussouf, on stage October 26 to 28, 2023, at 7:30pm at Fleck Dance Theatre, as part of the international contemporary dance series Torque. Näss explores and interprets the cross-cultural influences of contemporary and traditional North African dance, urban hip hop and breakdance. The work is also shaped by Boussouf’s upbringing in Morocco - its music and dance traditions - including Gnawa and Reggada. A mystical and universal piece, performed by a cast of seven male dancers, Näss transfixes with its hypnotic and ritualistic rhythms, intense athleticism and acrobatic feats danced to a powerful score by Roman Bestion, Marion Castor and Boussouf. For tickets and further information, visit: harbourfrontcentre.com

Harbourfront Centre transports audiences to the streets of Morocco with the Canadian premiere of Näss (‘people’ in Arabic) from choreographer Fouad Boussouf, on stage October 26 to 28, 2023, at 7:30pm at Fleck Dance Theatre, as part of the international contemporary dance series Torque. Näss explores and interprets the cross-cultural influences of contemporary and traditional North African dance, urban hip hop and breakdance. The work is also shaped by Boussouf’s upbringing in Morocco - its music and dance traditions - including Gnawa and Reggada. A mystical and universal piece, performed by a cast of seven male dancers, Näss transfixes with its hypnotic and ritualistic rhythms, intense athleticism and acrobatic feats danced to a powerful score by Roman Bestion, Marion Castor and Boussouf. For tickets and further information, visit: harbourfrontcentre.com

Harbourfront Centre announces the 2023/24 international contemporary dance series Torque on stage from October 2023 to April 2024. France’s Fouad Boussouf (October 26–28) presents the Canadian premiere of Näss, a hypnotic exploration of the cross-cultural influences of contemporary and traditional North African dance, hip hop and breakdance; Quebec’s Fou Glorieux, from the legendary Louise Lecavalier (November 23–25) presents the Toronto premiere of Stations, an intoxicating solo that brings together Lecavalier’s singular dynamism and fearless physicality; Toronto’s own co-performers and choreographers Naishi Wang and Jean Abreu (February 8–10) present the world premiere of Deciphers, an arresting work that centres on the immigrant experience and the body as a tool of linguistic expression; Norway’s Sámi choreographer Elle Sofe Sara (March 6–7) presents the Toronto premiere of Vástádus eana – The Answer is Land, a potent mix of music, song, traditional yoik and dance to amplify the relationship between the Sámi people and their homeland and Germany’s Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart (April 18-20) presents the Toronto premiere of Swan Lakes, a striking showcase of four distinctly daring interpretations of the seminal masterpiece from four of the world’s dance superstars: Cayetano Soto, Marie Chouinard, Marco Goecke and Hofesh Shechter. For Torque tickets and to explore Harbourfront Centre’s full season lineup, visit: HarbourfrontCentre.com