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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 22m

Toronto’s Rukaj Gallery presents Big Sky, a survey of Saskatchewan painter Dorothy Knowles spanning 1963 to 2021, alongside a new monograph. On view through November 5. #CanadianArt www.scene49.ca/entertainment/dorothy-knowles-big-sky-rukaj-gallery

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 1h

Jared Keeso’s new Crave comedy I Kill the Bear premieres Nov. 6, with Georges St-Pierre, Sarah-Maude Beauchesne and Jonathan Torrens among the cast. #CanadianTV www.scene49.ca/entertainment/jared-keeso-i-kill-the-bear-crave-premiere

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 2h

Toronto saxophonist Shirantha Beddage recorded his new album Departures live in one day with a newly assembled quintet. It arrives October 16, following a Jazz Bistro concert on October 15. #CanadianJazz www.scene49.ca/entertainment/shirantha-beddage-departures-album

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 6h

Ottawa's new OFF//SHOOTS theatre festival continues through Oct. 11 at Arts Court, with two mainstage productions, free playwright readings and a 24-hour theatre challenge. #Ottawa #CanadianTheatre www.scene49.ca/entertainment/offshoots-ottawa-theatre-festival-2026

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 23h

Royal Winnipeg Ballet opens its season Oct. 8 with Stravinsky Stories, including the world premiere of Houston Thomas’s new Firebird. #RoyalWinnipegBallet #Winnipeg www.scene49.ca/entertainment/royal-winnipeg-ballet-stravinsky-stories-firebird

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Loreena McKennitt’s The Mask and Mirror Definitive Edition arrives Oct. 9 with unreleased archival material, new surround mixes and a 19-show eastern Canadian tour. #LoreenaMcKennitt www.scene49.ca/entertainment/loreena-mckennitt-mask-and-mirror-definitive-edition

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hometown Giants follows the Vancouver Giants through the 2025–26 WHL season, with all six episodes arriving on Prime Video in Canada Oct. 16. #HometownGiants #VancouverGiants www.scene49.ca/entertainment/hometown-giants-vancouver-giants-prime-video

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sault Ste. Marie creator Adam Francis Proulx brings How to Hug a Porcupine home for an Oct. 16 Algoma Fall Festival workshop. #CanadianTheatre #SaultSteMarie www.scene49.ca/entertainment/adam-francis-proulx-how-to-hug-a-porcupine

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dundurn’s new anthology Monsters: Unsettling Short Stories brings together 14 writers, including Andrew Pyper, Pasha Malla and Naben Ruthnum. #CanLit www.scene49.ca/entertainment/monsters-russell-smith-dundurn-anthology

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Rubaboo Indigenous Arts Festival heads into its final four days in Edmonton with visual art, Cabaret Hokay Hey, Josh Languedoc’s Elon Muskrat and Sunday’s Deadly fashion event. #YEG #Rubaboo www.scene49.ca/entertainment/rubaboo-indigenous-arts-festival-final-days

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

W&M Physical Theatre brings Melissa Monteros’ La Luna to Calgary’s DJD Dance Centre Oct. 9–10, with Calgary children performing alongside adult artists. #Calgary #Dance www.scene49.ca/entertainment/la-luna-wm-physical-theatre-calgary

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Canadian horror film This Is Not a Test, Adam MacDonald’s adaptation of Courtney Summers’ novel, arrives on Crave Oct. 16. #CanadianFilm #Horror www.scene49.ca/entertainment/this-is-not-a-test-crave-oct-16

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tenfold brings 16 Akin Dupont artists to Toronto’s Remote Gallery Oct. 8–10 as the studio marks its 10th anniversary. #TorontoArt #CanadianArt www.scene49.ca/entertainment/tenfold-akin-dupont-10th-anniversary

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Clara Hughes’ new memoir, Learning to Breathe, arrives Oct. 13, with launch-week events in Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa. #ClaraHughes #CanadianBooks www.scene49.ca/entertainment/clara-hughes-learning-to-breathe

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bad Dog Theatre’s Roses & Thorns returns for four Friday improv shows at Comedy Bar Bloor this October. #TorontoComedy #Improv www.scene49.ca/entertainment/roses-thorns-bad-dog-october-2026

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SOCAN has named its 2026 Special Achievement Award honourees, including Jessie Reyez, Peter Peter, Andrew Lockington, Jenna Andrews and Nathan Micay ahead of the Oct. 26 Toronto ceremony. #SOCANAwards www.scene49.ca/entertainment/2026-socan-awards-special-achievement-honourees

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre brings Santee Tekaronhiáhkhwa Smith’s Blood Water Earth to Peterborough Oct. 14 to open Public Energy’s 2026–27 season. #CanadianDance #IndigenousArts www.scene49.ca/entertainment/blood-water-earth-kahawi-dance-theatre-peterborough

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Saint-Joachim’s Festival de l’Oie des Neiges returns Oct. 9–12 with free site access, music, artisans, family programming and a Sunday Cap-Tourmente shuttle. #Québec #CôtedeBeaupré www.scene49.ca/entertainment/festival-oie-des-neiges-2026-saint-joachim

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Four Caribbean Canadian artists bring ceramics, scent, installation and more to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum in After the Island, opening Oct. 9. #CanadianArt #Ceramics www.scene49.ca/entertainment/after-the-island-gardiner-museum

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kitchener poet Chris Banks’s eighth collection, Bureau of Useless Splendour, arrives Oct. 13 through ECW Press. #CanLit #CanadianPoetry www.scene49.ca/entertainment/chris-banks-bureau-useless-splendour

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ottawa’s Capital Music Awards head to Southam Hall Oct. 9, with Orchidae, J3M, Opartheeb and more on the bill. #OttawaMusic #CapitalMusicAwards www.scene49.ca/entertainment/capital-music-awards-ottawa-nac

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Daniel Gawthrop’s Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture gets an audiobook release Oct. 13, alongside a Toronto launch event. #CanadianBooks #LGBTQBooks #Hockey www.scene49.ca/entertainment/daniel-gawthrop-cutting-edge-audiobook

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ron Planche’s 60 Years in a Large Landscape surveys more than six decades of photography at Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre through Oct. 29. #CanadianArt #Photography www.scene49.ca/entertainment/ron-planche-60-years-large-landscape

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A Tribe Called Love, Mohamed Ahmed’s Toronto-set Canadian feature, arrives on Crave Oct. 8 after its festival and theatrical runs. #CanadianFilm www.scene49.ca/entertainment/a-tribe-called-love-crave

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mohawk singer-songwriter Logan Staats has released Peacemaker, a 10-track album recorded and mixed in Ohsweken, Ont., and mastered in Toronto. #CanadianMusic #IndigenousMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/logan-staats-peacemaker

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Adrick Brock’s debut novel Islanders arrives Oct. 6, beginning on Toronto Island before its story moves to Whitehorse. #CanLit www.scene49.ca/entertainment/adrick-brock-islanders-debut-novel

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Toronto-shot debut feature Her Last Supper from Becca-Willow Moss heads to London’s Forest City Film Festival on Oct. 21. #CanadianFilm #FCFF www.scene49.ca/entertainment/becca-willow-moss-her-last-supper

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Newfoundland author Trudy J. Morgan-Cole returns to the seventeenth century in Beyond the Brightening Sea, out Oct. 6 from Breakwater Books. #CanLit www.scene49.ca/entertainment/trudy-morgan-cole-beyond-brightening-sea

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cape Breton comedy duo Tracy & Martina are continuing their first cross-Canada tour with six dates still ahead through Nov. 26. #CanadianComedy #CapeBreton www.scene49.ca/entertainment/tracy-martina-cross-canada-tour-2026

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Canadian rock singer Sass Jordan, a Juno winner and longtime Canadian Idol judge, has died at 65. #SassJordan #CanadianMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/sass-jordan-dies-65

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Bala Cranberry Festival returns Oct. 16–18, with current ticket prices, parking and shuttle details plus the 2026 markets, music and family programming. #BalaCranberryFestival #Muskoka www.scene49.ca/entertainment/bala-cranberry-festival-2026

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Atom Egoyan’s Così fan tutte revival continues at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto through Oct. 18. #Opera #Toronto www.scene49.ca/entertainment/atom-egoyan-cosi-fan-tutte-coc

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s MAGNIFICAT plays Fredericton Oct. 5 and Québec City Oct. 14, where it shares a double bill with Henri Michaux : Mouvements. #CanadianDance www.scene49.ca/entertainment/marie-chouinard-magnificat-canada

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is Snooks Arm in Netflix’s BELOW real? The town is fictional, but a real Newfoundland community with the same name went through a modern relocation process. #BELOW #NetflixCanada www.scene49.ca/entertainment/below-snooks-arm-real-newfoundland

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Five Canadian novels are on the 2026 Giller Prize shortlist, with the $100,000 winner to be announced Nov. 16. #GillerPrize #CanLit www.scene49.ca/entertainment/2026-giller-prize-shortlist

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Charlottetown band Gizmo has released debut album All Your Worships, recorded largely in Nova Scotia, with Atlantic Canadian dates running through Oct. 25. #CanadianMusic #PEIMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/gizmo-all-your-worships-debut-album

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hudson & Rex Season 9 premieres Oct. 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Citytv, with John Reardon returning as Charlie Hudson. #HudsonAndRex #CanadianTV www.scene49.ca/entertainment/hudson-rex-season-9-premiere

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Farheen Haq and Russna Kaur’s In the Folds of Memory is on view at Surrey Art Gallery through Dec. 6, with free public programs continuing into December. #CanadianArt #SurreyBC www.scene49.ca/entertainment/in-the-folds-of-memory-surrey-art-gallery

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who are Khn and Klek? The public story of Angine de Poitrine goes back nearly two decades before the masks, microtonal guitars and viral KEXP set. #AngineDePoitrine #CanadianMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/who-are-angine-de-poitrine-khn-klek

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

MOCA Toronto has reopened with fall presentations by Bharti Kher, Delcy Morelos and Beverly Glenn-Copeland, all running through Feb. 14. #MOCAToronto #TorontoArts www.scene49.ca/entertainment/moca-toronto-fall-2026

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What is Natasha Henstridge doing now? The Canadian actor has Below, Fallout Season 2, Tears to a Glass Eye and Christmas at Moose Lake in her current slate. #NatashaHenstridge #BelowNetflix www.scene49.ca/entertainment/natasha-henstridge-now

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who plays Calvin, Wade, Mary, Jay and Fonda in Netflix’s Below? Here’s the confirmed cast and what we know about the Penney family before the series arrives. #Below #Netflix www.scene49.ca/entertainment/below-netflix-cast-characters

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

R.F. Kuang has made three Ottawa International Writers Festival appearances since 2022, tied to Babel, Yellowface and Taipei Story. #RFKuang #Ottawa www.scene49.ca/entertainment/rf-kuang-ottawa-writers-festival

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Toronto designer George Sully’s memoir Designing in the Dark arrives Oct. 6 from ECW Press, tracing a career spanning footwear, fashion and Black Designers of Canada. #CanadianBooks #CanadianDesign www.scene49.ca/entertainment/george-sully-designing-in-the-dark

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Vancouver playwright Jordyn Wood’s Vascular Necrosis begins its world-premiere run Oct. 7 after two years in Touchstone Theatre’s Flying Start program. #CanadianTheatre #Vancouver www.scene49.ca/entertainment/vascular-necrosis-jordyn-wood

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Five Western Canadian artists to follow after BreakOut West 2026: Hope Slide, Tomi Lumiere, Beau Nectar, INGIA and OSANI. #BreakOutWest #CanadianMusic www.scene49.ca/entertainment/breakout-west-2026-artists-to-follow

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sunday Best: The Power & The Glory of Black Style makes its world debut at the AGO, bringing Canadian curators, designers and artists into a major exhibition on Black style. #CanadianArt #Toronto www.scene49.ca/entertainment/sunday-best-ago-toronto-black-style

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scene49canada.bsky.social @scene49canada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Toronto band Zeus digs back into the recordings around Say Us for Lost & Found (The Say Us Archives), arriving Oct. 9 through Arts & Crafts. #CanadianMusic #Zeus www.scene49.ca/entertainment/zeus-lost-found-say-us-archives

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