The "Minnie" SoSo Disney Ball @ SoSo Food Club, Toronto, ON - Tues Aug 14th!

Manifesto Festival of Community & Culture presented by Aurora and Vancity Community Investment Bank, brings you the first ever Manifesto Discovery Series, August 9-14.

Popping up in multiple Toronto venues and DIY spaces, the series showcases artists, collectives and local organizations that are building community and culture through music, visual arts, dance, comedy and more. All leading up to the FREE festival grounds at City Hall with headliner Chronixx on August 17.
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✦ The Event ✦
Support Your Local Collective & Legendary Mother Snoopy
present..
The "Minnie" SoSo Disney Ball !!!

✦ Info ✦
➞ Doors @ 7:30 PM
➞ $5 for walkers
➞ $10 advance | $15 door for watchers
➞ 19+

✦ DJs ✦
BlackCat
Iced Misto

✦ Commentator/MC ✦
Sevyn (commentator)
Realije (MC/Beatboxer)

✦ Performance ✦
Eyeda Sophia
https://soundcloud.com/maxandeyeda/sets/much-love 

Location:  SoSo Food Club, 1166 Dundas St. W, Toronto, ON

Time: 7:30p - 12a

✦ Categories ✦
➞ FACE // $150 prize //
Are you beauty or the beast? Prove it by bringing a rose and earn the judges love.

➞ RUNWAY // $150 prize //
What does Maleficent, Elsa, and Snow White all have in common?.. CAPES

➞ SEX SIREN // $150 prize //
Show us that you’ve been a bad bad witch with an all black effect and don’t forget to bring your red apple coated in poison!

➞ PERFORMANCE // $150 prize //
Fish out of the water, you just traded in your voice for human legs, Ariel. Show off those brand new legs and bring it in your best fishnets.

✦ Judges ✦
➞ AMAZON MIYOKO
➞ TAMAR MIYAKE-MUGLER
➞ SLIMTHICK MONROE
➞ ADONIS MONROE
➞ JAYDA OLD NAVY

Advance Tickets: $10.79

For tickets online click here

✦ Photographer✦
Brianna Roye

✦ Proceeds ✦
Will go to Legendary Mother Snoopy’s House of Disney ♥

The Black Liberation Ball @ Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON - Sat Feb 10th!

When we talk about liberation for Black people, we cannot do so without engaging our bodies and other forms of dialoguing with each other. This ballroom event will be a celebration of Blackness and also serve as a transnational stage, where performers from across North America will come together and have dialogue with each other.

With celebrity judges including Pony Zion and the legendary Leiomy Maldonado, The Icon Michael Roberson Maasai Milan and commentator The Rocksocking Twysted Miyake Mugler!

With DJs Black Cat and Karim Olen Ash

Location:  Harbourfront Centre, 245 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON

Time:  9:30pm–2:30am

Tickets: $10

For more info and to purchase tickets click here

For the list of Black History Month events at Harbourfront Centre click here

Blockorama featuring Evelyn Champagne King @ Wellesley Stage, Toronto, ON - Sun Jun 25th!

Now entering their 19th year of Blockorama, Blackness Yes! is at it again with another year, another amazing party to shut it down, and a wide range of DJs and live performers. A celebration of Black, Caribbean, and African communities, Blockorama has set the stage for one of Pride’s biggest, most well-attended, and most lively events.

Starting you off right and carrying you into the night are DJ Black Cat, Craig Dominic, Pleasure, Nik Red, Carma, and Vaughan. Hosting duties will belong in the artistic hands of Lali Mohamed and Zinduru (aka Kim Ninkuru). Lali is an African writer and public speaker, deeply connected to social justice advocacy. Zinduru is a performance artist from Bujumbura, Burundi, based in Toronto. Using spoken word, voguing, and visual art, she tells stories about being a black queer trans woman.
As always Blockorama brings you two big names making waves in the music industry. Cakes Da Killa will be hitting the stage mixing in his various musical influences and underground experience. The prolific Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King joins the stage as Blockorama’s headlining act.

This year Blockorama will feature a Black-owned community market with handmade and local goods from independent business owners and creators.

Blackness Yes! will be partnering with Black CAP, the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention. Black CAP has been working tirelessly since its inception in 1989 to respond to the threat of HIV and AIDS in Toronto’s African, Caribbean, and Black communities, guided by the motto, “Because all Black people’s lives are important.”

+ HOSTS
LALI MOHAMED & KIM NINKURU
+ DJs
DJ BLACKCAT
CRAIG DOMINIC
PLEASURE
NIK REID
CARMA
VAUGHAN
+ MORE
For the full lineup, visit: BlacknessYes Wbsite

ASL: SUN 10AM-11PM

Location:  Wellesley Stage, 15 Wellesley Street East, Toronto, ON

Free admission

For full Pride schedule click here

Final Eastside Bashment! Part 1 & 2 @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Sat Mar 11th & Sun Mar 12th!

It's been a decade since we opened our Doors at 67 Richmond St East.

Harlem the restaurant came to be, in one of the most optimistic times in the history of North America, it tapped the massive creative Talent of this city and defined a generation. Join us for an entire weekend of revelry as we say goodbye to this Titan on the lower east side.

Our west side location the Harlem Underground will continue to do what we do.

Join us as we say goodbye.

Saturday Night DJS

DJ Blackcat
DJ Adam Kahn
Dj Dave Campbell

Time:7:30 PM - 3 AM

Sunday Night DJS
DJ Blackcat
DJ Mensa
DJ Flex of All Trades
DJ Carl Allen

Time: 7 PM - 11:59 PM

Location:  Harlem, 67 Richmond St East, Toronto, ON

No Cover

Facebook event page here and here

Trap Queen @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Sat Dec 19th!

TRAP QUEEN
SATURDAY DECEMBER 19TH  | 11:00PM - ON
 #DJBLACKCAT WILL BE TURNING IT UP ON THE TURNTABLES ALONGSIDE DJ'S SCHOOLBOY & HOTKNIFE SO TELL A FRIEND AND MAKE IT A DATE AND DON'T BE TOO LATE
LOCATION:  Harlem Restaurant, 67 Richmond St East, Toronto, ON at Church Street
Cover:  $10 before 12a/$15 after
Website

Live Music Events @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Fri Mar 13th & Sat Mar 14th!

Live Music Events @ Harlem Restaurant, 67 Richmond St East, Toronto, ON

FRI MAR 13TH

DAVID HUTCHISON

DAVID HUTCHISON IS ONE OF CANADA'S MOST VERSATILE AND EXPERIENCED DRUMMER/PERCUSSIONISTS, WITH A MUSICAL BACKGROUND THAT SPANS VIRTUALLY EVERY CURRENT GENRE. JAZZ, POP, REGGAE, CALYPSO, COUNTRY, ROCK, LATIN, RHYTHM & BLUES, FUSION, BIG BAND, AND MORE.

WEBSITE:

7:30PM - 11:00PM

SAT MAR 14TH

MADETTE

MADETTE IS AN R&B ARTIST FROM TORONTO; BORN IN THE PHILIPPINES. HER SOUND IS BEST DESCRIBED AS "RUGGED, SMOOTH & ORGANIC" WITH THE INFLUENCES OF MICHAEL JACKSON, SADE AND LAURYN HILL.

"GET2MADETTE" ON FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE OR TWITTER TO STAY UP-TO-DATE WITH HER NEWS AND UPCOMING SHOWS.

7:30PM - 11:00PM

Website

GO HARD
DENIM PUMPS & BOOTS

CATCH THE FEVER AT GO HARD "DENIM PUMPS & BOOTS"
DJS BLACK CAT AND PLEASURE
$10 COVER

11:00p - 3:00a

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Locations:  HARLEM EAST,  67 Richmond St East.  Toronto, ON 416.368.1920

      Hours of Operation
      Mon -  4pm - 11pm
      Tues - Thur -  11am - 11pm
      Fri - Sat - 11am - 12am
      Sun - 11am - 11pm

HARLEM WEST, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON 416.366.4743

     Hours of Operation
     Mon - 4pm - 11pm
     Tues - Thurs - 11am - 11pm
     Fri - 11am - 12am
     Sat - 10am - 12am
     Sun - 10am - 11pm

Visit:  Harlem Restaurant Website or email info@harlemrestaurant.com