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City Architecture: The Annex, Casa Loma and Spadina House!
Sat, Nov 21, 5:30 PM**The Toronto History Walks Yearly Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email** [torontohistorywalks@gmail.com](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/) **for more information or for signing up!\*\*** \*\* **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** [torontohistorywalks@gmail.com](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/) Georgian, Gothic Revival, Bay and Gable, the list goes on and on. Toronto has many styles, and one can explore the history of Toronto simply by learning the different time periods involved. This tour explores the **architecture** of the Annex District, **Casa Loma** and its grand competitor Spadina House. These legendary landmarks on the hill overlooking the city have been focal points of Toronto history for well over a century in an area that has a vast story to tell. Just a reminder that we will be walking up to the Case Loma site and exploring the grounds and the history, we are not going inside any of the buildings. We begin this walk in front of the main doors to the Toronto Public Library Spadina Branch at 10 Spadina Road. We end at St. Clair Avenue West at the Loblaws Superstore at the St. Clair West Subway Station. Hope to see you soon. This walk is for most walking levels; however, there are steps and stairs near Casa Loma, north of Davenport. Please dress for the weather and see you there. The price of this tour is $15.00 per person! **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** [torontohistorywalks@gmail.com](http://torontohistorywalks@gmail.com%2A%2A/)
Lost Libraries of the Ancient World (LECTURES - 5TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL)
Sat, Oct 24, 4:00 PM**The Toronto History Walks Explorer Pass is available. Get it now for $125.00 for 1 year of unlimited tours, email** **torontohistorywalks@gmail.com** **for more information or for signing up!** **The location of this Lecture might change in the next few months so stay tuned for more information regarding the venue! As of now the location will still be Old City Hall at the northeast corner of Queen Street West and Bay Street until further notice.** We have an amazing "Lecture on the Go" series for 2026/2027. New topics and fascinating stories abound! Join me, and uncover the world and keep active, warm and cool during the winter and summer months! I started this walking classroom when we were under that horrible cloud called Covid. This series was popular and helped people get back into society and life. The first Lecture on the Go was **Walking North America** and that was in October of 2021. Hard to believe it's been 5 years of lectures. So I wanted to do something special to celebrate 5 years of exploration. The "Lecture on the Go" Series is open to members who have purchased the YEARLY MEMBERSHIP PASS, it's free for those members. If you wish to attend a lecture and you are not a yearly pass member then the price **per** lecture is $20.00. Let's get started. What if some of humanity's greatest discoveries were made thousands of years ago, and then lost forever? What if entire histories, scientific breakthroughs, literary masterpieces, and eyewitness accounts of the ancient world once existed, only to disappear into the flames of war, and the collapse of civilizations? Join me for a fascinating journey into the world's lost libraries, from the legendary Library of Alexandria to the vanished collections of ancient empires whose treasures may be lost forever. At the heart, stands the Library of Alexandria, the most famous library in history. Founded over two thousand years ago, it sought to gather all the knowledge of the known world. Scholars from across the Mediterranean came to study astronomy, mathematics, geography, medicine, philosophy, and literature. Yet one of history's greatest mysteries remains: what happened to this remarkable institution, and what priceless knowledge disappeared with it? Was it destroyed in a single catastrophe, or did it slowly fade away over centuries from neglect? Beyond Alexandria, we will explore a forgotten world of lost libraries and vanished collections stretching from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to medieval Europe, Baghdad, and China. Discover the remarkable stories of librarians, scholars, explorers, and rulers who dedicated their lives to preserving knowledge. We will encounter lost books, missing histories, ancient scientific works, and literary treasures that survive today only as fragments. This lecture is an exploration of one of history's most compelling questions: What have we forgotten? And how libraries shaped civilization and why their loss continues to fascinate us centuries later. Whether you are a lover of history, literature, archaeology, or simply enjoy a good mystery, this special Lecture on the Go will leave you wondering. What secrets of the past may still lie hidden, just waiting to be rediscovered? Fascinating indeed! Upcoming topics in the 2026 series: \*Philosophy 1: Great Minds of the Western World: Goethe to Kant! - (2027) \*Philosophy 2: Great Minds of the Eastern World: Chuang Tzu to Dalai Lama - (2027) Legacy of Triangle: How a New York Factory Scandal changed North America - (September 2027) So book your plans now! This event is for all levels and walkers, there are a few steps here and there to navigate, but mostly on one level. This event in a non-walking event. The lecture begins on the steps of Old City Hall at the northeast corner of Bay Street and Queen Street West, and has a ticket price of $20.00 per person, but **free with the yearly membership pass**. **Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:** **torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**
AWS 101 Workshop
Wed, Oct 28, 7:00 PMWelcome to the event where you stop watching and start building. AWS 101 is our first hands-on workshop, you're setting up your AWS account, getting into the console, and deploying an actual website to a live server before you leave the room. Not a simulation. Not a tutorial you follow at home. Something real, running on AWS infrastructure, with a URL you can send to people. We'll walk through the core services that show up in almost every real architecture, (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS) breaking down not just what they are but why they exist and when you'd actually reach for one over another. That thinking is what separates someone who watched a YouTube video from someone who can answer an interview question. Then we put it all together. Teams of 2-3, a base project already set up, and a challenge to extend it with add-ons wire the database, upgrade the design, add a second page, set up a custom domain. First team to complete all four wins. **What to expect:** A Kahoot to kick off the hands-on section, a live guided build where everyone follows along, a team challenge with actual stakes, and a room full of people figuring things out together. **And yes — merch is dropping.** AWS SBG gear will be at this event for the first time. Winners of the challenge get first pick. Food's covered. Bring your laptop. Set up your AWS Free tier account now. **Helix Room, K Building, Newnham Campus**
An SD walk in the park
Sat, Oct 24, 4:00 PM**An autumn service safari through Toronto's Vale of Avoca and Moore Park Ravine** We’ll meet at David A. Balfour Park and head through the Vale of Avoca and Moore Park Ravine. Along the way, we’ll introduce and try out a classic service design tool — the **[service safari](https://servicedesigntools.org/tools/service-safari)**[ ](https://servicedesigntools.org/tools/service-safari)— using the ravine as our real-world playground. We’ll walk, observe, and capture what we notice about how we find, navigate, and experience the place. Our timing is interesting too: The City of Toronto is [currently exploring improvements to the Vale of Avoca](https://haveyoursay.toronto.ca/vale-avoca-ravine-improvements). We’ll compare what we notice, spot patterns and see what questions and opportunities emerge. We’ll also borrow lightly from Design Council’s [Skills for Planet](https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/skills-for-planet/), widening our lens beyond our own experience to notice the environment around us. **No slides. No presentations. Just curious people, a beautiful fall walk, some service design in the wild and hopefully some good fall colours. 🍁** Bring: comfortable shoes, weather-appropriate layers + a charged phone. No service design experience required - curiosity is plenty. -- Bonus: After the walk, we’ll bring what we learn together into a short set of SDD field notes that we could share with the Vale of Avoca project team.
The Christian Imagination and the Question of Autonomous Art
Sat, Oct 24, 6:00 PM[Theopolis](https://www.theopolis.ca/) is excited to present the inaugural Gaudí Lecture, featuring renowned liturgical artist, writer, and speaker Jonathan Pageau. The notion of “art for art’s sake” continues to pervade contemporary thinking and practice in the arts. Art is understood as autonomous, liberated from its connection to worship, culture, morality, truth, or beauty, or reduced to a commodity valued primarily for its price and prestige. In either case, art risks becoming detached from the larger human story. In this lecture, Pageau will argue that the response of the Christian imagination is not simply to reunite art with religious content by depicting biblical scenes or communicating moral messages. Rather, liturgy and sacramentality must be recovered as the internal and coherent driving force of the arts themselves, shaping their forms and their application within the Body of Christ. **Please note this is a ticketed event. YOU NEED TO PURCHASE A TICKET IN ADVANCE through this link [HERE](https://www.theopolis.ca/gaudi-lecture/) to be admitted. Theopolis has generously offered a package of 10 discounted (25% off) tickets for members of the Toronto Philosophy Meetup — RSVP here to receive the discount code.** ***______________________________________________*** ABOUT JONATHAN PAGEAU Jonathan Pageau is a renowned liturgical artist, writer, and public speaker whose work explores symbolism, religion, art, literature, and culture. Through his carvings, writing, lectures, and *The Symbolic World*, Pageau has helped a wide audience recover a symbolic vision of the world, one in which spiritual meaning is revealed through images, stories, rituals, and the patterns of everyday life. Drawing deeply from the Christian tradition, his work offers a compelling way of engaging many of the central questions facing contemporary culture. Theopolis is honoured to welcome Jonathan Pageau to Toronto to deliver the inaugural Gaudí Lecture. ***______________________________________________*** ABOUT THEOPOLIS Catholic art has the power to renew culture and share the faith through beauty, but in Ontario, it’s too often absent from public life. Theopolis exists to change that. We’re empowering a rising generation of Catholic artists and creating a space for encounter between the secular and sacred. We believe that art plays a vital role in shaping how we understand the world, and that beauty can serve as an avenue for the Holy Spirit — sparking an encounter with the sacred. By bringing works of Catholic art into dialogue with contemporary Canadian culture, Theopolis ensures that the Catholic imagination remains part of the public conversation, creating spaces where culture and faith meet. More info about Theopolis here: https://www.theopolis.ca/about/ ***______________________________________________*** ABOUT THE GAUDÍ LECTURE The Gaudí Lecture is an annual public lecture exploring the importance, influence, and enduring relevance of the Christian imagination. Each year, Theopolis will invite a distinguished creative figure to reflect on the role of the Christian imagination in shaping culture, artistic practice, and daily life. The lecture is named for Venerable Antoni Gaudí, whose architecture reflects an imagination formed by faith, nature, craftsmanship, and a profound sense of the sacred. His work reveals how artistic practice can become a form of contemplation and how beauty can prepare the soul for faith. Through this series, Theopolis hopes to create a lasting forum for serious and accessible public conversation, bringing artists, students, professionals, clergy, patrons, academics, and members of the wider community into a shared exploration of art, faith, and culture.
TOPHATs Immortal Images, Immersive Music, and Microbrews
Wed, Nov 4, 11:00 PMJoin Lawrence, your top hatted host, for an evening of nearly 100 iconic portraits by the legendary photographer, Richard Avedon. Followed by a visit to Friar's Music Immersive Experience of Toronto’s vibrant music scene. The we will hop over to 3 Brasseurs for our social and perhaps a giant pretzel. At 6 pm SHARP, we will meet at The Image Centre where we have a guided tour by one of the gallery's curators. 33 Gould St, Toronto, ON M5B 1W1 Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004. For nearly half a century, celebrated American photographer Richard Avedon confronted one of portraiture’s enduring taboos: aging. https://theimagecentre.ca/exhibition/richard-avedon-immortal/ After the tour, we will take in some of the works in the smaller galleries. Molly Steels: I Am/Was/Always https://theimagecentre.ca/exhibition/molly-steels-iamwasalways/ Tanya Marcuse: Portent https://theimagecentre.ca/exhibition/tanya-marcuse-portent/ Then we will walk over to Friars Music Museum of their Immersive exhibit of Downtown Toronto's Music scene. Located on the second floor of the Shoppers Drug Mart. 279 Yonge St Floor2, Toronto, ON M5B 1N8 https://downtownyonge.com/arts-culture/friars-music-museum/ Our last stop and social is at 3 Brasseurs on Yonge Street. I am looking forward to enjoying your company as we share one of their giant pretzels and a micro brew. https://www.3brasseurs.ca/en/menus 275 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M5B 1N8
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