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SUMMARY:Fall Improv Workshop Series
DESCRIPTION:Fall Improv Workshop Series by the Friendly Heretic Theatre Company\n\nIn the theme of shedding leaves and autumn transformation\, we’re offering an exciting workshop series! What does it feel like to loosen up rigid patterns and beliefs about theatre\, about improv\, and our selves? What are the unique rewards of trying on new characters and strategies? What are the unique rewards of honest improv\, whether it comes out as comedic or not? What discoveries can we make when we let go of what we think we know?\n\nFor 6 weeks we’ll combine improv theory\, games and scene work to bring out fresh perspectives. This series is just as much meant for those brand new to improv as it is for those with plenty of improv experience. We all have some firm-ish beliefs about this artform\, which means that we all have exciting new discoveries to make within it. In the spirit of improvisation\, the unique gifts of everyone who joins the series will help to shape it. The only prerequisites are: an interest to learn and explore\, an enthusiasm for camaraderie\, and the willingness to try something new (regardless of your current experience level).\n\nClasses will be taught by Kevin Nunn.\n\nKevin is a professional and brilliant improv performer and teacher on a decades long journey. He aspires to ignite the flame of improv passion in as many hearts as he can. He is all around good human with an autistic slant and an absolutely undying passion for improv theory and the art of discovery. Kevin now makes his living in a non-theatrical profession\, and in the spirit of separating art and commerce as much as possible he refuses to profit financially from teaching improv. Part lecture and part workshop\, his classes are participatory and inspiring as students join in an exploration of the expanding possibilities of improvisation.\n\nDates & Times: Mondays 7pm-9pm\, Oct 20th – Nov 24th\n\nLocation: 10Carden Shared Space\, in the Activity Room\n\nCost: Pay what you can\, even if that’s $0. We aspire to make participation in improv accessible to everyone. Similar classes in the area cost $10-$20 per. All of our proceeds go directly toward theatre company overhead and to fueling our local theatre community. All teaching and executive board efforts are volunteered.\n\nSign Up: Send us a message on our social media channels\, or an email to friendlyheretictheatrecompany@gmail.com.\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/friendlyheretictheatrecompany?igsh=MWN6b3E0NDhicDk1\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19TvaHtgeV/
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/fall-improv-workshop-series/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Courses,Interactive,Performance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Tango to Death
DESCRIPTION:A Latin-American Celebration featuring “Misatango” by Argentinian composer Martin Palmeri.\nAna Isabella Castro\, soprano\nMatti Pulkki\, accordion\nRoyce Rich\, violin\nSarah de Niverville\, viola \nJoin us for an evening of Latin-American choral music that features Argentinian composer Martin Palmeri’s genre-bending “Misatango”\, a celebration of Mexico’s “Dia de los Muertos” and even a salsa dance to close the night. \nTickets are $35/$30/$10/$5 \nSave with a Season Ticket available until November 1
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/tango-to-death/
LOCATION:Harcourt United Church\, 87 Dean Ave.\, Guelph\, N1G 1L3
CATEGORIES:Families,Interactive,Music,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251101T200000
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SUMMARY:Jack-O’-Lantern Display
DESCRIPTION:Line up your carved creations on The Art Gallery of Guelph’s front lawn between 12 – 7 pm to contribute. Battery-operated tealights will be provided and placed by AGG staff. At 8 pm\, gather your family\, friends\, and neighbours to view the community’s carved creations outside the gallery. \nAfter the event\, all jack-o’-lanterns will be donated to The Donkey Sanctuary. \nMore info here.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/jack-o-lantern-display/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Families,Interactive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251106T210000
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SUMMARY:Opportunity Knocks: Re-Imagining your Arts Career
DESCRIPTION:November 6th 6:30-9:00  \nArt Gallery of Guelph\, 358 Gordon St\, Guelph\, ON N1G 1Y1 \nFree \nClick here to RSVP for this free event! \nGuelph Arts Council is pleased to collaborate with the University of Guelph’s School of Fine Art and Music and the Art Gallery of Guelph in presenting Opportunity Knocks: Re-imagining your Arts Career. How can arts students and emerging artists reimagine the careers they could pursue? What are the emergent\, entrepreneurial\, or unexpected career paths that arts grads have taken? A group of diverse arts trail blazers will share stories and lessons learned. Students\, artists and creatives of all disciplines\, ages and experience levels are welcome.  The Panel Discussion will run from 6:30pm-8:00pm followed by time to connect and enjoy refreshments. \n​ \nMeet the panelists: \nPaige Bromby is a painter and cultural administrator based in Fergus\, Ontario\, She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Guelph (2020). \nWorking primarily in painting\, Paige explores her relationship to natural spaces in a digital age. She is interested in how familial spaces appear through her own interactions within them\, through a digital archive and as recorded and memorialized in paint. The many lives of a landscape – how those lives and interactions change through the seasons of nature and life.  \n​ \nShe maintains her painting practice while continuing her work in community arts\, facilitating a local critique night\, working for various arts/culture organizations and co-founding an artist mentorship program for artists with developmental disabilities. \n​ \nPatrick Cruz is an artist\, educator\, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality\, improvisation\, intuition\, and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs meditation\, divination\, and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy\, magic\, and the occult\, and its syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently\, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity. \nIn 2021\, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus and the Daniels Faculty. He is the founder and co-director of the Kamias Triennial\, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan\, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox\, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb. \n​ \n​Daphne Zoe Dahlia / DAPH (She/Her) has been performing\, composing\, recording\, producing\, and mentoring artists for 20+ years. In 2017\, she founded Copper Sound\, a boutique recording studio in Guelph\, ON\, Canada. It serves as home base for her collaborations with artists locally and around the world. Daph’s work also includes musical directing for improv comedy\, audio mixing for commercials\, composing for film\, voice over work\, album art\, photography\, and website design. Daphne has been making new queer centred electronic music under the artist name DAPH. Her new direction combines deep vocals on top of hardware synths and samplers\, bringing together elements of synth pop\, house\, hip hop\, and darkwave.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/opportunity-knocks-re-imagining-your-arts-career-3/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Featured,Interactive,Music,Visual Art,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251108T130000
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SUMMARY:Guelph Chamber Choir Trivia Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a GCC FUNdraiser – an afternoon of trivia!\nSaturday\, Nov 8 from 1:30 – 4pm\nDoors open at 1pm \n  \n$30.00 per person* or $100.00 for a team of 4 \n*We’ll put you on a team! \n  \nHere’s what happens:\n\n\n\n\n\n2 rounds of trivia – compete against other tables. Winning table wins bragging rights. (OK\, and a prize…)\n\n\nFree light refreshments before and during the event. Feel like a glass of wine? There’s a cash bar\, too!\n\n\nA Silent Auction for “People Who Do NOT Want More Stuff!” – bid on experiences\, classes\, food\, memberships etc.\nMystery Envelopes – Everyone’s a winner! For $20.00 you can pick an envelope with a surprise inside!\n\nThis is a fun event. You don’t have to be a great trivia player – just a great person to play trivia with!\nAnd because we’ve had this question quite a bit:  No\, it’s not all music trivia\, but do expect us to throw in a few questions. \n\n 
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/guelph-chamber-choir-trivia-party/
LOCATION:Victoria Park East Golf Club\, 1096 Victoria Rd S\, Puslinch\, Ontario\, N0B 2J0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Featured,Interactive,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251122T190000
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SUMMARY:Guelph Arts Council Golden Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:RSVP at guelpharts.ca/gacgac \nWhat: The “GACGAC”. Guelph Arts Council Golden Anniversary Celebration. We turned 50. We want to celebrate with you! \nWhen: Saturday\, November 22\, 2025\, 7pm (programming to begin at 7:30pm) \nWhere: GAC’s new home in Old Quebec Street Shoppes. \nWhy should you come: GAC wouldn’t exist without an arts community to serve\, so we’d like to celebrate with the people who have inspired us for 50 years. There’s also a chance that GAC has supported you in your Guelph arts life\, whether that’s as an organization that got its start with support from GAC many years ago\, or as an individual who has shown in our gallery space\, received an award\, participated in our mentorship program or Art on the Street\, or any other things over the past 50 years. \nWe’re also unveiling the new “Sally Wismer Gallery” that night\, named after GAC’s longtime Executive Director\, volunteer and friend\, so maybe you’d like to come and celebrate that too. \nBasically\, if you love the arts\, you love our community\, and you love a chance to gather with friends in the sector\, this is the place for you. \nWe’re calling the event “folk formal”\, meaning all are welcome to come as formally (or informally) dressed as they’d like\, and the night’s program will feature dance\, spoken word/performance arts\, and musical performances\, video screenings\, as well as a chance for attendees to participate in a community craft project (beading) and a community literature project\, where they will be encouraged to write down their favourite Guelph arts memories from the past 50 years with the intention of publishing a keepsake book. \nAttendees may enjoy beverages from a cash bar and mocktail bar\, and snacks will be served. \nThere will be an in-person 50/50 raffle at the event\, and people may also make an optional donation when they RSVP to attend (guelpharts.ca/gacgac)\, or contribute to GAC’s ongoing donation appeal online by visiting guelpharts.ca/about/donate. \nWe’re so grateful to all of you who have shaped GAC over the past 50 years\, and who will continue to shape us through the next 50. Let’s celebrate together!
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/guelph-arts-council-golden-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions,Art Sales,Children,Families,Heritage,Interactive,Literary,Music,Performance,Theatre,Visual Art,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251127T190000
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SUMMARY:The Image Makers
DESCRIPTION:The Image Makers is a free monthly gathering of video and cinema makers who are dedicated to the craft of moving imagery\, with a particular focus on lighting design. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this month’s session we will be using our wireless and wired tech to set up an affordable ‘Video Village’— a designated area where a production crew can watch live video feeds from a distance. \nCome join a meeting of video and cinema makers who are dedicated to the craft of moving imagery. While no formal instruction is provided\, this session is a great chance to meet new collaborators\, try new techniques\, push one another to new levels\, and keep skills fresh.
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/the-image-makers-14/
LOCATION:Silence.\, 46 Essex Street\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H 3K8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interactive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251128T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251128T170000
DTSTAMP:20251107T162412Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Youth Art Club
DESCRIPTION:Queer and trans youth (13-18) across the region are invited to KWAG for a free\, casual drop-in creative space on the Fourth Friday of each month. This new initiative is led by queer and trans facilitators\, aiming to offer a brave container for teens to connect with their queer peers over creative interests and free refreshments. Attendees are welcome to bring their own project or use our art supplies. \nTakes place the 4th Friday of every month\, November’s date is Friday the 28th from 3-5pm \nMore info here: https://kwag.ca/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1014
URL:https://guelpharts.ca/event/queer-youth-art-club/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Interactive,Visual Art
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