Engaging with Arts: November
Along with your warm layers, mittens and scarves, don’t forget to grab your tickets to the incredible variety of arts events, performances and workshops Toronto has to offer this November:
Weesageechak Begins to Dance 35
Nov 10 – 20, 8PM EDT
Aki Studio
Native Earth announces the 35th edition of Weesageechak Begins to Dance! This year’s festival gathers over 15 artists from across Turtle Island to develop and showcase contemporary Indigenous performances both in-person at Aki Studio and online. Join the festival for conversations about artistic process, excerpts from new work in development, musical performances by Lacey Hill and Rebecca Hope, a mini pop-up market, and more!
Nov 19, 8PM EDT
Winchester Street Theatre
Toronto Dance Community Love-In in partnership with Toronto Dance Theatre presents: You Can't Take It With You, a performance by Liz Kinoshita. Liz Kinoshita is inspired by her relationship to necessity vs. waste and the weight it bears upon us, physically, mentally and emotionally. In You Can’t Take It With You she investigates within dance and musicality, what we need to survive, and what we need to discard in order to sustain ourselves and our environments. The weight and momentum of the piece are driven by dancing, singing performers: by pushing the tempos, tensions and expectations in the room, they provoke possible new angles and energy to explored problems.
Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker
Pataka! POP! Badaboom! 3rd Nautanki Festival
Nov 26
Online
Check out the 3rd Nautanki festival: "Pataka! POP! Badaboom!" ~ featuring 10 brilliant artists from Canada and India! This year, the festival includes 5 new creations by our “Artist Date Series” participants. The artists include dancers, visual artists, writers and theatre artists - and all the pairings are interdisciplinary. The festival begins with a sharing of the works, followed by a live Q & A with all the artist involved. Come see the beauty of what can be created, and how sparks fly when 2 artists from 2 different parts of the world come together to collaborate!
Dec 15, 7PM EDT
The Citadel
Organized by Abigail Thomas, a talented young Bharatanatyam dance artist, Koode or “Together” is an art initiative to raise funds for the I Can Network. The I Can Network is an autistic-led organization providing mentoring programs, training and consultancy. Book your calendars for an intimate evening to come together and enjoy art whilst supporting the I Can Network!
Nov 30 – Dec 3, 8PM EDT
The Citadel
Citadel Dance Mix is an annually recurring program, first initiated in 2018. This year, we are excited to present a brand-new work from acclaimed choreographer Jera Wolfe. We are also thrilled to announce the return of NIGHT/SHIFT performers River Waterhen and Winter Hawk, who will expand on their work that was first created for the festival in 2021.