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Francesca Bouaoun
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Toronto/Scotland.
Art, nature, city walks, probably birds.
Museums + archives. Travelling Fifer.
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📍 Hot Docs cinema

Director Michael Kainer and Director of Toronto History Museums Karen Carter speaking about the first screening of “A THING OF BEAUTY: The Early Years Of Toronto’s Old City Hall”, inviting public input for the building’s next chapter.
#Toronto

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Director Michael Kainer and Director of Toronto History Museums Karen Carter sitting on stage in front of the screen at hot docs cinema. Archway on the ground floor of Toronto’s old city hall, looking up towards a grand staircase and a large stained glass window.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The Gardiner Museum is located in downtown Toronto and after 16 months of renovations the museum is reopening its doors with a fresh new space to house Indigenous ceramic artworks.

APTN’s Annette Francis has more and takes us through the opening.
Toronto museum reopens with Indigenous artworks after 16 months of renovations | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Chances are if you're following Lebanon, you've heard the name Riad Salameh, the country's infamous former Central Bank Governor who is complicit in numerous financial crimes.

Don't miss this new @timep.bsky.social resource tracking the top cases being brought against Salameh abroad.
timep.bsky.social The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 5d
Since the collapse of Lebanon's economy in 2019, numerous legal proceedings are ongoing against Lebanon’s former central bank governor Riad Salameh over suspected financial crimes. TIMEP breaks down the international cases against him and his inner circle: timep.org/2025/11/20/b...
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Find holiday markets for every weekend left in 2025.
Find Holiday Markets for Every Weekend Left in 2025
From Exhibition Place to church basements, now is the time of holiday markets. Here are a few to check out for deals and unique gift ideas.
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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📍 Trillium Park, Ontario Place #Toronto
Vibrant yellow branches of a larch tree. Sunrise over Lake Ontario in a Toronto waterfront park. Rocky tree-lined shoreline and the Toronto islands visible in the distance. Clear blue sky overhead. Vibrant red and orange autumn leaves on trees in a Toronto waterfront park. The sun is rising on the horizon, casting a warm glow over the park. Morning sun shining through trees on the shoreline of Toronto waterfront park. A person is walking their dog along a paved path.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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📍 The Fleck, Harbourfront Centre

“Older & Reckless” by Moonhorse Dance Theatre. Redefining destructive assumptions of age in dance - tonight celebrating 25 years of recklessness!

A beautiful set of performances.
moonhorsedance.com/performances

#Toronto
Programme for “Older & Reckless” by Moonhorse Dance Theatre, performed at Fleck Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Eight people on stage taking a bow after a performance of “Older & Reckless” by Moonhorse Dance Theatre.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Kayak is now packed away. Will miss the early mornings on the water and the shoreline sunrise company - until next season.
#Toronto
View from a kayak on Lake Ontario at sunrise, looking towards the Toronto skyline. Wildlife around the rocky shoreline of trillium park in Toronto. A spotted sandpiper, two great egrets, a beaver, and a mink.
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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A richly illustrated, highly accessible survey of relations between Indigenous peoples and settles in the Toronto region - essential reading for all those who wish to learn how our past informs our present and the future.

Now available Open Access! https://ow.ly/TS6y50XkBQY
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Brilliant tonight, what a lush show 🌊

Rheostatics - The Great Lakes Suite
#Toronto
The Rheostatics performing in Toronto, with a large projection of gulls flying over the lake behind them. The Rheostatics performing in Toronto, with a large projection of ice floe behind them.
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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📍 Dupont and Christie #Toronto
Mural on a garage door in a Toronto laneway. Illustration of pink lines depicting a residential street of townhouses and a train. Artist is Erin McCluskey. Mural on a garage door in a Toronto laneway. Painting of colourful flowers and tall grasses surrounded by trees. Artist’s website is colinmakesart.com. Mural on a garage door in a Toronto laneway. Illustration reimagines the poster of the anime film My Neighbor Totoro, with the characters standing in the rain at a Toronto bus top. Artist is @boowhitewalls. Mural on a garage door in a Toronto laneway. Painting depicts a car driving down a desert road, being observed by a hawk perched on a bare branch.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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“Resilient archives, resilient communities” | Protecting Heritage, Memory & Land in Palestine & Lebanon

Online conference, 2pm - 7pm (Jerusalem)
Fri-Sun, December 5-7, 2025
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

With archives & digital media lab archiveslab.org
archiveslab.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Today! 🩵
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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📍 401 Richmond St. W, Unit 128

Sky & Bone: Realities Unbound | Over thirty fine art pieces from the City of Toronto collection alongside works from contemporary Canadian artists.

Loved seeing the collection on display like this! #Toronto

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A crowd at an exhibit opening at 401 Richmond. Oval concrete art piece on a plinth, titled When I Think of You. More concrete pieces hang behind it on walls painted ocre. Artist is Julia Asimakopulos. Graphic art piece hanging on a gallery wall painted ocre. Titled Moon Woman with Familiars. Artist is Abraham Anghik Ruben. Framed long exposure photograph in black and white showing dancers, hanging on a wall with dynamic black and white shapes. Artist is Zahra Saleki.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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📍 Native Canadian Centre of Toronto

Indigenous Artisan Marketplace 2025 | Handmade goods, one-of-a-kind
gifts, supporting Indigenous entrepreneurs

Nov 20-23, 10AM-6PM
16 Spadina Rd #Toronto
Poster for Indigenous Artisan Marketplace 2025 at Native Canadian Centre of Toronto. November 20-23, 10AM-6PM at 16 Spadina Road in Toronto.
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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📍 Liberty Village #Toronto
A brick chimney stack illuminated by morning light, framed by a red brick industrial building covered in vines and a tree with autumnal foliage.
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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📍 Christie Pits Park #Toronto
Path through an open grassy area dotted with trees in a Toronto park. Autumn leaves on a branch frame the view above, and the sunset is a dramatic orange and pink tones across the sky.
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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📍 Walmer Road between Bernard and Dupont #Toronto
Small red wooden box with lettering which reads “community cabinet”. Open door of a small red wooden box with lettering which reads “leave a treasure, find treasure! The city needs more whimsy”.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Support Your Local Public Library: A Zine.
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Public Library Zine
♡ Want free access to a nearly endless supply of books/music/movies? Want to learn how to sew? Or try a new instrument? Go to a plant swap? Get harm reduction supplies? Do you crave an accessible thir...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The #DesignTO festival line up is out. Lots of free events and exhibits (incl trivia 👀)

January 23 – February 1, 2026 #Toronto

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2026 Festival Schedule - DesignTO
Explore the DesignTO Festival 2026 schedule, showcasing 100 free events downtown Toronto today, including exhibitions, talks, and installations happening citywide from Jan 23–Feb 01, 2024.
designto.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Listening tonight to Ramon Kataquapit, founder, and other organizers of the Indigenous youth movement Okiniwak was completely inspiring.

Joined by Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence for a screening of the short film “Here We Stand”, filmed on the Attawapiskat River: youtu.be/QPmwBveOAn8
#Ontario
Three members of Indigenous-youth movement, Okiniwak, and environmental lawyer Kerrie Blaise, standing in front of a crowd. Ramon Kataquapit holds the mic.
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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PSA: Skipping Stone does terrific work with trans teens in Alberta. Please consider making a donation to support them this week and show your love for trans youth. bsky.app/profile/skip...
skippingstone.ca Skipping Stone Foundation @skippingstone.ca · 8d
This week:
Monday
❤️ SKIPPING STONE ON THE GO: CANMORE

Tuesday
🧡 TENDER HEARTS

Wednesday
💛 POP UP CLINIC: UTERINE HEALTH
💛 AFFIRMING YOGA
💛 HARMONY HEARTS
💛 HEARTS & CRAFTS - Teens

Thursday
💚 TDoR WRITE-A-THON
💚 STRONG HEARTS
💚 TRANS NEURODIVERSITY GROUP

www.skippingstone.ca/calendar
Weekly Highlights. Monday November 17 Skipping Stone on the Go Canmore. Tuesday November 18 Tender Hearts. Wednesday November 19 Pop Up Clinic Uterine Health, Affirming Yoga Class, Harmony Hearts, Hearts and Crafts Teens. Thursday November 20 Office Closed, TDoR Write-a-Thon, Strong Hearts, Trans Neurodiversity Group. Tonight Monday November 17th, Skipping Stone on the Go Canmore. Coming to a town near you! We're headed to Bow Valley to help make it easier for folks to connect with us. Join us! All are welcome! Time 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Location Elevation Place Canmore AB. Banff Pride, fcss Town of Canmore Family and Community Support Services, Bow Valley Pride Network, Canmore Pride. Tuesday, November 18. Tender Hearts. A space for trans masculine folks and trans men. 6:15pm to 8:15pm in person at Skipping Stone. Wednesday, November 19th. Hearts and Crafts Teens. Connect with community through creativity. Open to all queer, trans, and ally youth. Time 6:15pm to 8:15pm in person at Skipping Stone.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM