Weekend events in Toronto include a protest, a vintage market, a film festival and Men's Fashion Week. But it's the string of concerts happening that will really raise your eyebrows. Everyone from Ariana Grande to Sting will keep you happy until Monday rolls around.
Events you might want to check out:Curious Minds Weekend (March 3-5 @ Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema)
Inspired by the popular Curious Minds Morning Speaker Series, this weekend-long festival takes over Hot Docs with talks from Naomi Klein, Gigi Gorgeous and more.
Toronto Men's Fashion Week (March 3-8 @ Waterworks)
Toronto Men's Fashion Week takes over an abandoned water station to a showcase designers like Hendrixroe, Kollar Clothing, Xian, Hip and Bone and Zane Barlas.
Fight Islamophobia! Counter-Protest (March 4 @ City Hall)
This is a counter protest in support of Toronto's Muslim community against the Canadian Coalition of Concerned Citizens anti-Muslim rally.
New Ideas Festival (March 4 @ Queen Elizabeth Building at Exhibition Place)
This festival acts as a theatrical lab for writers, directors and actors to refine their art with the help of a live audience.
Toronto Antique & Vintage Market (March 4 @ Queen Elizabeth Building At Exhibition Place)
This is the perfect spot to find great retro, vintage and antique items for your apartment, house and closet.
Celebrate Toronto (March 5 @ Nathan Phillips Square)
Celebrate Toronto’s 183rd anniversary featuring live performances, vendors, shopping, food trucks, a DJ skating party and a photography competition.
Wedding Night March Dance Party! (March 3 @ The Piston)
Step into a party that shamelessly plays favourites across the pop music spectrum. It's a night that walks that fine line between guilty and guiltless pleasures.
Y2K The Millennial Dance Party (March 3 @ Drake Underground)
Strap on your sweatbands and head to this party dedicated to playing all early 2000s jams. DJs Mensa and Caff spin all the one-hit wonders.
SoulSkank! (March 3 @ Handlebar)
Parkdale Funk and DJ Gramera spin soul, reggae, funk, ska and Motown alongside a live sax player and a mic controlled by Dennis P.
Big Primpin Link Up (March 3 @ Miss Thing's)
Link up! Come together and forge new bonds with DJs Sikh Knowledge and Nino Brown spinning hip-hop and hot times for LGBTQ people and their guests.
Pussy Power (March 4 @ The Garrison)
Dance with Miss Margot 2.0, Odessa Paloma Parker and Samra Habib to support the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.
The Capulet Ball (March 4 @ Gladstone Hotel)
Come and meet your Juliet. Fall in love with Romeo. There are no rules at this queer dance party inspired by the soundtrack from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet.
Wyze Gyal Wylin' in the West (March 4 @ The Beaver )
The Wyze Gyals bring the best in hip hop, house, techno, Afrobeat, electro, ballroom, soca and dancehall for a one-night-only appearance at this tiny, but mighty dance floor.
Zeenok's (March 4 @ Geary Lane)
Zeenok’s is a giant sci-fi costume party with an immersive environment that you and your fellow guests create yourselves.
Sunday Afternoon Social with Kenny Glasgow (March 5 @ Loft404 Inspired Gatherings)
Box of Kittens, alienInFlux Sound System, Boreal Canoe Trip and the founder of Harvest Festival unite for a very special edition of the Sunday Afternoon Social.
Toronto Irish Film Festival (March 3-5 @ TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Check out this weekend-long fest of Irish cinematic gold. It's all happening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Supper Club Cinema (March 5 @ Drake Underground)
Each dinner is designed and cooked by a local chef and paired with a slate of short films from around the world.
Vanessa Carlton (March 3 @ The Great Hall Toronto)
You're reading this correctly, Vanessa Carlton is in Toronto and she's playing The Great Hall.
Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience (March 4 @ Air Canada Centre)
Enter the world of Westeros with this immersive music and visual experience that will bring the Seven Kingdoms to life on a scale never seen before.
Los Campesinos! at Velvet Underground (March 5 @ Velvet Underground)
Remember this Welsh band with a Spanish name who brought their over the top happy indie pop sounds to the world in the early 2000s? Well, they're back!
Agnes Obel (March 4 @ The Great Hall Toronto)
Agnes Obel has won many Danish Music Awards and has the power to put her audience under a spell with her beautiful vocals and piano tinkling.
New Creations Festival 2017 (March 4-11 @ TSO)
Canadian composer Owen Pallett joins Peter Oundjian and the TSO to curate this year's adventurous classical music fest which features Tanya Tagaq, James Ehnes and Kronos Quartet.
Ringside Blues (March 5 @ The Boxing Loft Social Club)
Local guitarist/singer-songwriter Colin James Gibson takes the stage the first Sunday of each month at the Boxing Loft Social Club in Parkdale.
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Tour (March 5 @ Air Canada Centre)
Our favourite pony-tailed pop princess with the voice that shatters hearts and glass finally comes to Toronto to rock us from side to side.
Sting 57th & 9th Tour (March 5 @ REBEL)
There's nothing much more to say here other than Sting is playing live at Rebel Nightclub and you have no excuse not to be there.
Noname (March 5 @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre)
This American poet and hip hop artist from the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago has been rapping and performing slam poetry in Chicago since 2010.
by Phil Villeneuve via blogTO
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