Free events in Toronto: September 22-28, 2014

Free events in Toronto this week include 3D printing, so plot the means for your escape from wage slavery now. Maybe an unlimited credit card for Cosco? Dream big, but not too big. Celebrate your new found counterfeit riches with the launch of the Smart World Music Festival featuring Os Tropies, and Culture Days, the most unfortunately named event of the year, which will host various free cultural events across Canada all weekend. Get cultured, you dirty masses. And use that credit card on laundry soap (the good, liquid stuff).

Here's how to work off that tiny body / mighty hand burn in Toronto this week.

MONDAY

• Carbon Paper Issue #3 Launch (944 Queen Street West)


• Blue Coffee Reading Series #9: Featuring Lindsay Cahill, Cynthia Gould and Sandra Katsuri (Magpie)


• Ghost of the Tree [PWYC] (The Amsterdam Bicycle Club)

TUESDAY

• FREE SHOW INDIE 88 NU MUSIC NIGHT w/COSTUME PARTY/THE COOL HANDS/COYOTE/THE MEDS/GOLD LAKE (The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern)


• BOOK LAUNCH & LECTURE: Art & Energy, by Barry Lord (Gardiner Museum)


• Fight Club (Belljar Cafe)


• Maurice Mierau in conversation with Shawn Syms (Ben McNally Books)


• Toronto Book Launch for "Socialist Cowboy: The Politics of Peter Kormos" by Larry Savage (Another Story)


• Night of Comedy with Aamer Rahman & Ryan McMahon [PWYC] (The Sandra Faire And Ivan Fecan Theatre)

WEDNESDAY

• Doug Ford is my Co-Pilot [RSVP] (Pilot PMR)


• All Lit Up Launch [RSVP gets free drink] (Gladstone Hotel)


• Biblioasis Turns 10: The Toronto Edition with IFOA (Harbourfront Centre)


• NIKKI CLARKE SHOW TAPING (White Elephant Restaurant & Bar)


• Truth or Consequences: An Insite Exhibition Tour with Paulette Phillips (OCAD)


• AKIN CRIT 26: DUFFERIN STUDIO (444 Dufferin Street, Unit E.)


• Northwords: Film screening and Discussion (North York Central Library)


• The High Park Club Presents a Curling Open House (High Park Club)

THURSDAY

• Smart World Music Festival Launch Party, featuring Os Tropies (Small World Music Centre)


• 3D Design and 3D Printing Workshop (Proto3000 Inc Head Office)


• Polaris Short List Salon: Toronto (Soho House)


• LIFT Fall 2014 Panel Discussion: Funding Factual Content (LIFT)


• Dionne Brand Book Launch "Love, Enough" (District Oven)


• Vivienne Wilder Sideshow Joe [PWYC] (Holy Oak)


• CORRAL'S CORRAL: New VARIETY SHOW [PWYC] (Social Capital Studios)

FRIDAY

• Field Trip Discover Series V Ft. Lobby, Beliefs, Etiquette & RLMDL (The Garrison)


• Rock-A-Billy Shake-up! #18 (3030)


• EDL - European Day of Langauges (Goethe-Institut Toronto)


• Culture Days

SATURDAY

• Yes In My Back Yard Festival 2014 (University of Toronto Schools)


• Singsation Saturday (CSI Annex)


• CULTURE DAYS AT THE BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA (Bloor Hot Docs Cinema)


• North York Visual Artists Art Tour and Sale (Toronto Botanical Gardens (Edwards Gardens))


• McCormick Park Festival (McCormick Park)


• FAT AS FUCK / BARE CLAWS / FREEPOP /// SKATE PARTY / PWYC BEER [PWYC] (Soybomb Hq)

SUNDAY

• 4th Saudi Festival Day (Dundas Square)


• Free Swing Dance Class with Bees' Knees Dance (Dovercourt House)


• URBAN HARVEST FESTIVAL (Allan Gardens)


• Reverie - A Dowtempo Drawing Night [PWYC] (ROUND venue)


• Ozere [PWYC] (Holy Oak)


• Gathering Sparks Singalong Soiree [PWYC] (Tranzac)

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 of Os Tropies via Facebook

by Aubrey Jax via blogTO