The best things to do in Toronto this weekend: April 8-11
The best things to do in Toronto this weekend: April 8-11
Including Toronto Caribbean Carnival s First Lap, Women From Space, Alice In Wonderland and more By Kevin Ritchie
Courtesy of Toronto Caribbean Carnival
Toronto Caribbean Carnival will reveal this year s costumes at the virtual event First Lap on April 11.
Our picks for the top things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 8-11 include
Toronto Caribbean Carnival’s virtual costume reveal, Brockhampton live from Los Angeles, Toronto Dance Theatre’s graduating class and a series of audio dramas inspired by Toronto neighbourhoods.
15 virtual events in Toronto this spring
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Virtual events in Toronto this spring give us something to put on the calendar. Art festivals, tech conferences and riveting musical performances continue across the city, only this year to be live-streamed from your computer or television screen.
Pending possible cancellations due to new lockdown restrictions, here are virtual events coming up in Toronto this spring.
Started during the pandemic in order to support the local music industry, these livestreams feature different Toronto musicians performing at shuttered music venues. Upcoming performances include Tallies at Adelaide Hall and Joanna Majoko at Hirut Cafe.
Tania Gill and more.
They’ll all be streamed to you virtually into a 3D device called the Holobox Theatre, which they’ll ship to your house in advance.
“Everyone had mixed feelings about online shows, so wanted to bring the performers a little closer and off the flat screen,” says festival co-creator
Bea Labikova, who will do a duo saxophone with her other co-creator
Kayla Milmane. “And we’re Women From Space, so it fits us well.”
It sounds futuristic, but the Holobox Theatre is actually quite low-tech, like an old-school parlour trick that would have blown minds a century ago at world’s fiars. It comes in the mail in an envelope and you assemble the pieces of chipboard and plexiglass into a 3D creation.