May Blooms Sip & Paint Night
2025-05-22 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Come hang with us at our May Blooms Sip & Paint Night!
We’re throwing a super chill Sip & Paint Night this May and would love for you to join us! Let your creativity flow in our laid-back setting. Don’t worry about being “good” at art – this is all about having fun and unwinding with some paint and good company.
No painting experience required. Bring your friends, your partner, or just come solo and make some new buddies! We’re all about good vibes, zero pressure, and creating something cool while we chat and laugh together. Everyone’s welcome, from first-timers to hobby painters – we’re just here to have a great time and maybe discover a new creative outlet along the way!
Each person will be painting on a 12”x 16″ stretched canvas with acrylic paint which you get to bring home after the event.
Limited seats, book yours now!

Figurative Expressions
2025-05-23 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-30 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-06-06 09:30 - 12:30 | Ontario
Hello fellow artists!
Our group Figurative Expressions is a life drawing group that meets up weekly to draw and paint the model.
We run a class (no instruction) at Visual Arts Mississauga (VAM) Friday mornings from 9:30am to 12:30 with a professional model.
It’s a diverse, relaxed, friendly group from beginner to professional artists. We provide easels, tables and drawing horses, you bring whatever medium you’d like to work with.
Cost is $25 plus you need to have an active VAM membership. Just drop in and pay. We’re just about to start our spring semester beginning this Friday, March 21st and we’ll be running 10 sessions until mid June then we’re off for the summer months and begin again in the fall.
Hope you’ll join us.
Here is a list of our upcoming dates, models and poses:

March 21 -short pose: Andrei
March 28 -medium pose: Nora
April 25 -long pose: Gary
May 2 -short pose: Anna
May 9 -medium pose: Steve D. & Carmen (two models)
May 16 -long pose: Steve P. (Costume)
May 23 -short pose: Abra
May 30 -medium pose: Steve P.
June 6 -long pose: Shell
June 13 -short pose: Etienne

Coffee and Canvas Paint Night: Asian Heritage Month
2025-05-23 18:30 - 19:30 | Studio.89, 2520 Eglinton Ave W, unit 1, Mississauga, Ontario, L5M 0Y4, Canada
Join us for a cozy and creative evening at Studio.89’s Coffee & Canvas Paint Night: Asian Heritage Month! ☕️
This month, let’s honor the strength, resilience, and the beauty of Asian cultures while embracing the power of sustainability. Enjoy a cup of coffee and explore vibrant watercolor paints made from upcycled coffee grounds from our cafe. These eco-friendly paints will let you create art that reflects both asian heritage and our commitment to the planet. See you there!
️ Friday, May 23rd

6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Studio.89 (2520 Eglinton Ave W, Unit 1)
️ RSVP using the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coffee-and-canvas-paint-night-asian-heritage-month-tickets-1339869629129?aff=oddtdtcreator

Familiar Dwellings - VAM Creative Residency
2025-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Ontario
You’re invited to the opening reception of “Familiar Dwellings,” featuring the artists of VCR Cohort 7, on Friday Evening, May 23 from 7:00–9:00 PM.
Celebrate the creativity of VAM’s Residents with an evening of art, music, and light refreshments. This 8-month production reflects on the idea of home. Each artist explores the personal and layered meanings of their own familiar dwellings.
Don’t miss this thought-provoking exhibition, on view from May 20 to June 8th, 2025.
This final exhibition and residency is generously sponsored by Mississauga Foundation.

Carassauga 2025
2025-05-24 - 2025-05-26 | Various
It’s Carassauga’s 40th Anniversary celebration!

Travel the world in one weekend without having to leave Mississauga! The vibrant cultures of over 25 different countries will be on display at 5 locations across the city.

Join them on May 24th & 25th to experience the food, music, and traditions that make each country unique. It’s a global celebration you won’t want to miss!

Pavilion Locations:
Canadian Coptic Centre – 1245 Eglinton Ave W
Frank McKechnie Community Centre – 310 Bristol Rd E
Paramount Fine Foods Centre – 5600 Rose Cherry Place
Portuguese Cultural Centre of Mississauga – 53 Queen St N
St. Sava Serbian Centre – 2520 Dixie Rd

Learn more: https://www.carassauga.com/

Youth Council Showcase: Roots & Wings: A Creative Exploration of Growth
2025-05-24 12:00 - 16:30 | Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St. East, Brampton, Ontario, L6W 1Y1, Canada
This event invites youth emerging artists and creative minds to showcase their work, reflecting on what “growth” means to them. Join us at PAMA for a day of artistic expression, connection, and discovery in a historic and captivating setting.

Admission
Free

Learn more: https://pama.imiscloud.com/PAMA/Events/Event_display.aspx?EventKey=052425YC&WebsiteKey=7be0480f-bf16-4e3a-b6bf-e01b84b6b1bf

Vesak Festival 2025: A Multicultural Celebration of Buddha’s Birthday
2025-05-24 14:00 - 18:00 | Celebration Square, 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, L5B 3C1, Canada
Come join us at Mississauga Celebration Square for a vibrant celebration of Buddha’s birthday at the Vesak Festival 2025! Immerse yourself in a multicultural experience filled with uplifting cultural music and spiritual dance performances, sacred chanting ceremonies and traditional rituals including the symbolic Bathing the Buddha ceremony. Witness a colourful parade of unity and devotion uniting more than 100 monastics, 25 Buddhist temples and centres. Discover temple exhibits featuring spiritual practices, join in short meditations, and speak with monastics and lay teachers. This outdoor free event promises to be a memorable gathering of diverse communities coming together to honor a significant day in Buddhist culture. Whether you’re Buddhist or simply curious, we invite you to come experience this one-of-a-kind celebration bringing together temples, traditions, and communities for a day of inspiration and unity.

Symphonic Grandeur - SEASON FINALE
2025-05-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Dr, Mississauga, Ontario, Mississauga, Canada
The Mississauga Symphony‘s 2024–25 concert season reaches its finale with an evening of Symphonic Grandeur.

Experience Mozart’s sublime Fifth Violin Concerto performed by MSO Concertmaster Corey Gemmell, followed by the intensity of Shostakovich’s fifth symphony — a cornerstone of 20th-century symphonic music.

Saturday, May 24 – 8PM
Living Arts Centre
$55+

Special pricing is available for seniors, families, youth (15-26), and groups of 10 or more.

FREE underground parking is included with every ticket purchase.

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

Community Collective: Sunday Edition – Styleworthy
2025-05-25 11:00 - 13:00 | StyleWorthy, 8 Maiden Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, L5M 1W8, Canada
Join us for the Community Collective Speaker Series, a transformative event series designed to inspire, empower, and connect. Each session features dynamic speakers sharing their journeys, insights, and strategies for cultivating self-love, confidence, and well-being.
Hosted at the Styleworthy Studio, all proceeds are donated to Our Future Foundation.
https://www.ourfuturefoundation.ca/
This series is a unique opportunity to gather with like-minded individuals in a welcoming space, fostering growth and meaningful connections.
From practical tools for self-care to uplifting stories of resilience, each event will leave you feeling empowered and ready to embrace your best self.
What to Expect:

Engaging talks from inspiring speakers
Practical tips for self-care, confidence, and growth
Opportunities to connect with a supportive community
A safe and uplifting environment to recharge and reflect

Whether you’re seeking inspiration, tools for personal growth, or a sense of belonging, the Community Collective Speaker Series is for you. Let’s come together to learn, share, and grow.
Reserve your spot today and take the next step in your journey of self-discovery and empowerment!

Turkish Paper Marbling Workshop
2025-05-25 13:30 - 15:00 | Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St. East, Brampton, Ontario, L6W 1Y1, Canada
Discover the traditional Turkish art of marbling. In this workshop led by Semra Ünsal, you will learn about its history and be introduced to techniques to create iconic patterns. By the end of the workshop, you will take home your own unique artworks.
Registration required. Learn more here: https://pama.imiscloud.com/PAMA/Events/Event_display.aspx?EventKey=052525EBRU&WebsiteKey=7be0480f-bf16-4e3a-b6bf-e01b84b6b1bf

Jazz at the Legion
2025-05-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Port Credit Royal Canadian Legion, 35 Front Street North, Mississauga, Ontario, L5H 2E1, Canada
The band is back at the Port Credit Legion for our monthly gig. This month, we have a very special guest vocalist.
Laura Maria Fernandez is a Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, music producer, artist, radio host, and real estate agent. Fernandez was born in Madrid, Spain. In 2003, she was named Best Soft Rock musician at the New York International Independent Music Festival. She hosts Café Latino on JazzFM91.
Come out and support LIVE music with Laura and the band on May 25 from 2-4 PM.

Oakville Film Festival 2025
2025-05-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Various
The Oakville Film Festival (OFFA) is thrilled to celebrate their 12th festival year, returning to Oakville’s premiere film venue for their three red-carpet Gala nights at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts.
For the first time ever, the Oakville Film Festival (OFFA) is bringing a full day of screenings to Mississauga, including many films from Mississauga filmmakers. Join OFFA at Cineplex Mississauga at Cinema 12 for an incredible lineup of films, including Q&As and an Industry networking event, running from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM.
With an outstanding roster of local, national and international movies, docs, shorts and animation, film buffs will be able to access some of the most buzzed about releases both in person and through select virtual screenings from June 18th through June 25th, 2025. Tickets are now available at https://offa2025.eventive.org/.
OFFA hosts an annual juried award competition to recognize exceptional filmmakers, as well as an Audience Choice Award. OFFA 2025 is doing a live awards event during the festival, at an industry breakfast on Saturday, June 21st. All prizes with the exception of the Audience Choice Awards will be awarded at this event. This year’s Gala Screening selections boasts an outstanding line-up and red carpet events open to all, including:
● Thursday, June 19th’s EY CANADIAN GALA, presented by EY Canada, celebrates the Eastern Canadian Premiere of the female-directed comedy STEALING THE SKY, showing at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. The screening will include a performance of music from the film by Composer Brent Bodrug and indie artist Siobhan Bodrug.
● Friday, June 20th’s INTERNATIONAL GALA, presented by Caju Multimedia and Capstick McCollum and Associates, will screen JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. Prior to the screening, there will be a gathering in the lobby for live music, book sales, and door prizes on display in support of local women writers, Wine and Line. Guests are welcome to come dressed in Regency attire.
● Saturday, June 21st’s NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY GALA, presented by Debwewin Oakville, the Truth Project, will feature the Eastern Canadian Premiere of SWEET SUMMER POW WOW at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. This special Gala event includes Indigenous dancers/drumming outside theatre, and a Mocktail After Party for VIP Guests.
● OFFA 2025 will feature our record-breaking lineup number of 105 features, documentaries, and short films, all carefully-selected by OFFA’s curation team. Special events will include a family-friendly event and a Local Shorts Showcase.

Verse To Voice (V2V) Auditions Open!
2025-05-28 - 2025-06-28 | Ontario
2025 Auditions Begin for Verse To Voice!
CALLING ALL SINGER SONGWRITERS!!!
DEADLINE for SUBMISSIONS – June 27th, 2025
Check out our Blog post here for more details
Follow US on Instagram @verse2voice to stay in the know and watch this Electrifying Event as it evolves throughout Season!
More details available on www.versetovoice.com

Building Your Creative Practice or Business with Intention
2025-05-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Ontario
✨ Calling all artists & creatives! ✨
Feeling scattered? Pulled in too many directions?
It’s time to take control of your creative practice or business and be more intentional. Learn how in this 5-Week Group Coaching Intensive facilitated by professional coach for artists and creatives – Chris Mitchell.
This small-group coaching experience (only 6 spots available!) is designed to help you:
✅ Get clear on your priorities as a creative professional
✅ Build strategies to work more intentionally, day-to-day
✅ Make decisions that feel grounded, purposeful, and aligned with your vision
✅ Connect with a supportive group of like-minded creatives
Plus, all participants receive a complimentary copy of Chris’ 56-page workbook (valued at $40)!
Spots are limited—secure yours today!
Click here to register.

Open House at CollabHive Mississauga
2025-05-29 17:00 - 20:00 | Ontario
You are personally invited to CollabHive’s upcoming Open House at CollabHive Mississauga—a space where creativity, community, and collaboration come together.

Location: 350 Burnhamthorpe Rd W #200, Mississauga
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Free Parking Available
This is your chance to experience the CollabHive vibe in person—tour our space, meet other creators and professionals, enjoy some light refreshments, and explore exclusive offers.
Seats are limited, so we kindly ask that you RSVP using the link below:

https://calendly.com/350burnhamthorpecm-collabhive/mississauga-open-house?month=2025-05

Improv Workshop with Julian Frid - SAWITRI Theatre Group
2025-05-29 19:00 - 21:30 | AN1 Studios, 2465 Cawthra Road, Unit 132, Mississauga, Ontario, L5A 3P2, Canada
SAWITRI Theatre Group is excited to welcome Spring with an improv workshop with Julian Frid. If you have done improv before and want to be a part of a workshop with a performance, then sign up for Julian’s workshop today!
Date and time: April 3 – May 29 (excluding May 15), 7-9:30 PM
Fee: $80 for members, $100 for non-members
Performance: June 5 at AN1 Studios
Prior improv experience is required!
Register: https://forms.gle/Yym5PAMZXxW4wKR88

Camo Kimono, Try This At Home, and Nora [LIVE AT THE SUPERMARKET]
2025-05-31 19:00 - 22:30 | Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2L9, Canada
2025-5-31
The Supermarket
268 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L9

TICKETS:
https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/try-this-at-home-w-supermarket-tickets/14454433
Promoter: A-Minor
Try This At Home:

Camo Kimono:
https://camokimono.bandcamp.com/
Nora
N/A

Lumen Toronto
2025-05-31 19:00 - 23:30 | Parkdale Hall, 1605 Queen Street W, Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1A9, Canada
Exciting news! ✨ Join Sakina Ali for an unforgettable evening of cutting-edge art, live music, and showstopping fashion at LUMEN! This is your all-access pass to some of the city’s most thrilling creative talents, all under one roof.
Sakina is honored to be one of the featured artists at PDA’s inaugural Toronto event! ️
️ Date: Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Location: The Parkdale Hall
About Public Display Agency (PDA) – PDA curates dynamic art events in nine Canadian cities, blending the energy of gallery openings, live performances, and community gatherings.
Toronto Events | Public Display Agency – Empowering Creativity
Artist Profile | Public Display Agency – Display Your Work

Rediscover Shoulder Mobility Through Embodied Movement
2025-06-03 10:00 - 11:30 | https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_144766925_134499998301_1_original
The shoulder girdle is a marvel of mobility – a floating framework of bones, muscles, breath and intention.
It was designed to reach, to gesture, to express your yes, your no, your maybe. To carry, to release. To open, to hold.
But so often it becomes a shelf for the weight we bear – the ‘shoulds’, the tension, the quiet ways we brace against the world.

This part of you is not just structural. It’s emotional. It’s deeply relational.

When we move with awareness, when we breathe into the space between collarbones and shoulder-blades, when we soften the grip around our hearts – the shoulders become wings again.

Let’s begin there. With breath. With presence. With permission to release.

In this 4-week series, we’ll lighten the load by integrating the breath and embodied mindful movement to reconnect with the bones and soft tissues of the shoulder girdle. Together, we’ll explore how these movements not only restore shoulder mobility but also influence our expression and the health of the spine.

Tuesdays June 3rd to 24th10am to 11:30am2 Willingdon Blvd, Etobicoke Ont

Register Herehttps://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/catalog-view.html…

To Learn more about Julia at Live With Ease visit
www.livewithease.ca
IG: @_livewithease_ and @juliajuhas

Journey Into the Hips: Mobility through Embodied Movement
2025-06-05 10:00 - 11:30 | https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_144766925_134499998301_1_original
Your hips are not just joints – they are the deep bowl of your becoming.
The place where breath meets ground, where stillness meets stride and where the stories of holding and release live quietly in the tissues.

This is not about stretching more. It’s about ‘feeling’ more. Remembering the hips as portals of presence, as anchors of creativity, as guides into movement that is yours. When we move from here – gently, curiously – we don’t just unlock tension, we awaken possibility. We remember how to come home to ourselves.

Rock gently. Feel the echo. This is pelvic poetry.

In this 4-week Journey into the Hips series, we’ll dive deep into exploring and releasing tension in the hips and lower back – the foundation of our body that stabilizes us and gives us the freedom to run, walk, jump and play. Each week, we’ll focus on a unique area, integrating breath, mindful movement, and visualization to unlock greater mobility and ease in the hips, legs, and low back.

Warning: You may experience increased mobility, release and newfound ease in your lower body!

Thursdays June 5th to 26th10am to 11:30am2 Willingdon Blvd, Etobicoke Ont.

Register Herehttps://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/catalog-view.html…

To Learn more about Julia at Live With Ease visit
www.livewithease.ca
IG: @_livewithease_ and @juliajuhas

Barlow Band featuring Matt Hinojosa
2025-06-05 19:00 - 23:00 | Shore Grill & Grotto, 71 Lakeshore Rd E, Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 1C9, Canada
Shore Grill and Grotto and the Mississauga Arts Council present a summer concert series every Thursday, featuring Tom Barlow and a featured emerging local singer-songwriter.
On Thursday, June 5, catch Barlow Band from 7-11 PM, with special guest Matt Hinojosa from 8-8:30 PM.

Emerging Arts Showcase at The Shore
2025-06-05 19:00 - 23:00 | Shore Grill & Grotto, 71 Lakeshore Rd E, Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 1C9, Canada
MAC has teamed up with the one and only Tom Barlow to bring you the Emerging Arts Showcase — a new summer concert series spotlighting fresh local talent every Thursday at Shore Grill & Grotto in the heart of Port Credit!

Catch Barlow Band’s 7-11 PM, featuring a rising singer-songwriter from 8–8:30 PM.

Portuguese Fado Music Performance
2025-06-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St. East, Brampton, Ontario, L6W 1Y1, Canada
Portuguese Fado Music Performance
https://pama.imiscloud.com/PAMA/Events/Event_display.aspx?EventKey=060525FADO&WebsiteKey=7be0480f-bf16-4e3a-b6bf-e01b84b6b1bf
June 5, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Enjoy an evening of traditional Portuguese Fado – a traditional form of music characterized by melancholic and nostalgic themes. Fado developed in the early 1800s and is influenced by Brazilian modinhas and African rhythms.
General: $14.50, Member: $12.33. Registration required.

Strings Attached
2025-06-07 10:00 - 15:00 | Ontario
*Rain or Shine*
A unique multi-disciplinary event that brings together local writers, artists and musicians in creative harmony.
This free and accessible event is open to the community, has something for everyone and will take place at The Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga on Saturday, June 7th, 10am – 3pm.
Artists will hold a painting contest outdoors in the gardens to the strains of live music by local musicians, while inside the Great Hall, writers will share their works with book lovers. Connect with talented members of our community – enjoy and celebrate the creative spirit that is common to all these artistic expressions!
You don’t want to miss this special collaboration between Words of Writers (WOW!), Sauga Plein Air Group (SPAG), and The Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga (UCM)!
Free parking.

Mississauga Writers Group at Streetsville Bread & Honey Festival
2025-06-07 10:00 - 18:00 | Vic Johnston Community Centre, 335 Church St, Mississauga, Ontario, L5M 1N1, Canada
Mississauga Writers Group – come join us at the Bread & Honey Festival on June 7th and 8th from 10 am to 6 pm at the Vic Johnston Community Centre Arena. We will be there asking people to write “what does it mean to be Canadian to you”. Join us and write what it means to you and it will be posted along with everyone else’s Canadian celebration.

Beggars Blues Banquet - Tim Hortons Southside Shuffle
2025-06-07 20:00 - 23:00 | Port Credit Royal Canadian Legion, 35 Front Street North, Mississauga, Ontario, L5H 2E1, Canada
Join the Tim Hortons Southside Shuffle for a fantastic night of blues, dancing, and live music at our 2025 Beggars Blues Banquet held at the Port Credit Legion in Mississauga, featuring the David Rotundo Band with special guest Chuck Jackson, plus an opening set by The Swingin’ Blackjacks!
Doors 7 PM | Showtime 8 PM
35 Front St. N., Port Credit.
Tickets are $45 (plus HST and fees) online or purchase at Impressionable Gifts (cash only $35 includes HST and fees)
Link to tickets: https://beggarsblues.southsideshuffle.com/trk/6yg8b
Food will be available to purchase at the event.

Camo Kimono, 5 Bownleas, Ever Dream, Lox Rutz, Les Ismore [LIVE AT LEE'S PALACE]
2025-06-07 20:00 - 2025-06-08 02:00 | Ontario
2025-6-07
Lee’s Palace (Dance Cave)
529 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
M5S 1Y5
+19 Plus
Doors at 8PM
Tickets: https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/pre-summer-bash-at-lees-the-dance-cave-tickets/14419183
Camo Kimono:
https://camokimono.bandcamp.com/
The 5 Brownleas:
https://the5brownleas.com/music
Lox Rutz:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3DKXQViAnPW1MPr0k3vq9i
Les Ismore:
https://lesismore.bandcamp.com/album/neon-rainbows
Ever Dream:
https://www.everdreamband.ca/
