Come for dinner and stay to belt out your favourite jams! Crooners, rockers, and wanna be disco divas from far and wide come to Queen West’s favourite karaoke in the Melody Bar hosted by the indomitable Peter Styles. Voted Best Karaoke Bar by NOW Magazine for eight years.

Join us for a night of material composed and performed by Soozi Schlanger lead vocalist and fiddler for Swamperella, with Victor Bateman on bass, Rich Greenspoon on drums and Tony Quarrington on guitar.

Come see new and upcoming acts from the TO area. Every TWO months we get some of the coolest new acts out for a night of reaching new ears. Whether it’s younger acts, new projects or side projects from established TO stars… the ILR NEW BAND SHOWCASE always brings you the best.

Come out for dinner and cocktails and enjoy our new monthly swing night with ska/bluegrass/old jazz band Combo Royale!

Weekly life drawing hosted by Walter Ruston. Weekly since the 1960′s this is longest running life drawing class in the city.

TOK 7 is set to release on May 9, 2012 with a new collection of stories and poetry.

Author Andrew Hood and Quill & Quire Review Editor Steven Beattie discuss juvenilia, correct editing attire, and the appropriate word-count-to-beer-ounce-consumption ratio required for the reading and writing of short stories at the
launch of Hood’s new short story collection, The Cloaca.

Join us as we end homelessness one youth at a time. Celebrate the 3rd Annual Youth Without Shelter Fundraiser.

We’re pleased to host a screening of rare films by UK filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn. His work looks at the relationship between the camera and the elements being filmed-object, reflection, colour, light, shadow-resulting in a rigorous reflection on the act of filming itself.

Artists and photographers participating in the two day event are given the opportunity to share their work in an open forum with reviewers and invited local professionals. This exclusive, informal gathering concludes with the announcement of the Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award winners.