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Co-chairs, Vanessa Yeung & Claire MacNamara © 2020 Torontoartsandevents The Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) held its big sexy POGO PJ Party in Toronto on February 6, 2020 at Ricarda’s to raise money to continue to make a difference in the lives of children and their families.  POGO provides ongoing advanced care for children…

© 2020 Torontoartsandevents. The Ball The Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation held its 31st annual Dragon Ball on Saturday January 25, 2020 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to raise money to build new residential hospices in the GTA .   Cynthia Mulligan and Adrian Ghobrial from City News hosted the gala.   According to organizers, approximately…

From Artist Project 2019 © 2019 TorontoArtsandEvents Artist Project welcomes its 13th year with the most exciting show yet with over 300 top contemporary artists from Canada and abroad. Starting February 20th, 2020, guests have the unique opportunity to meet and buy one of a kind pieces directly from artists at the Better Living Centre….

Recently, Torontoartsandevents was on assignment in Portugal.  We found Portugal to be a very warm, safe and friendly country with a lot to offer.  The Portuguese have decriminalized the use of all illegal drugs – ended the “war on drugs” – which has resulted in a very safe country.  We centered out stay in Lisbon…

© 2019 TorontoArtsandEvents Photo from IDS 2019 January 16-19, 2020 www.toronto.interiordesignshow.com For four days each January, the Interior Design Show (IDS20) shapes the industry for the year to come – in North America and beyond. IDS Toronto celebrates and promotes design in Canada and across the world. Experiential and transformative, we bring together compelling concepts,…

Preview Reception Casey House held Art with Heart, a stunning party and auction at the beautiful Art Gallery of Ontario to raise funds in support of innovative HIV/AIDS care at Casey House on October 8, 2019.  Torontoartsandevents was there to capture this exciting event and the great art. It was chaired by Stephan Jost, Art…

The annual Toronto International Film Festival was held September 5 to 15, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. According to TIFF, it is the “leading public film festival in the world, screening more than 300 films from 60+ countries every September. Our programmers have earned a reputation for excellence, and a diverse array of films is shown:…

Broken Branches is a powerful new play about what happens when sibling conflict crosses the line.  It weaves together stories of  Jade, Rachel and Josh  who finally confront the truth about their childhood of sibling abuse and the impact it’s made on their lives.  Using honesty and humour, the play tackles this very difficult subject with…

Martin Luther King had a dream!  In 1967, so did the creators of Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival – to showcase Caribbean Canadian culture in Canada! The result was called Caribana which they based on the huge and exciting Trinidad & Tobago Carnival.  The founders of Caribana envisioned it as a gift of culture to Canada.  This…

The Honda Indy Toronto, an annual IndyCar Series race, hit Toronto from July 12 to 14, 2019.    Indy Toronto includes the free by donation family Friday, two days of racing, the Honda World, Thunder Ally, Beer Gardens, qualifying races, the NASCAR Series Grand Prix of Toronto Race and the Verizon Indy Car Series Race. Honda…