Toronto Event Generator Newsletter July 17, 2025

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HAND PICKED BY YOUR TRUSTED PAL
MISHA GLOUBERMAN
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July 17: Little Deaths Salon [link]

Sex, death, cabaret. Sold out.

July 17: Book Club: Atmosphere [link]

Book club session dedicated to Taylor Jenkins Reid's newest release, Atmosphere

July 17: Family Busker Days: LEGO [link]

This is, as far as I can tell, a weekly performance series, that takes place on Thursdays from 10:00 to 3:00, which is a pretty bold move.

July 17: Side Project Social [link]

Talk about your side projects at 1RG

July 17: 1RG Board Game night [link]

What it says on the tin.

July 19: Hentai Education and Nonsense - at Birdhaus [link]

Hentai, discussion, and drinks, at Birdhaus, coolest place in the city.

July 19: Billy's Popsicle Stand [link]
*** WHOO HOOO DO NOT MISS THIS

An annual tradition. My 10-year-old, Billy, runs a popsicle stand.

Flavors this year:

🍉Watermelon 💦Water 🍋Lemonade
☕Coffee 🍅Ketchup 🌭Hotdog
🥑Guac&Chips 🥜PB&J

If you RSVP on the partiful, we will say a cheerful hello to you when you arrive!

July 19: Seagull Counting Club [link]

Did you know that Toronto Event Generator provides grants for events we like? We do! And we don't document it anywhere, for some reason. But we can tell you: we gave a grant to these guys, because they really deserve it.

July 19: Toronto Photo Walk [link]

Walk around w. ppl and take pictures

July 19: The Nature of Transit: The Story of the Spadina Expressway [link]

Walking tour from noted Torontologist and Taylor Swift scholar Matthew Jordan.

July 19: July Riverdale Stumble [link]

Walk around and take pictures

Apparently we got the date wrong on this. But check the web site for dates etc…

July 19: The Death and Life of the Don [link]

Walking tour from Matthew “King of Toronto Walking Tours” Jordan.

July 19: Weave Toronto Launch (A Fractal Campus project) [link] *** 

Fractal is a community in New York that does a mix of co-living and nearby-living and projects and classes. I was there on Sunday, giving a talk - It’s a cool and interesting place! The folks at Fractal have a project to get people in other cities to learn from their experiences to start similarly-structured communities. I have all sorts of complicated feelings about this! 

Weave Toronto is a fractal-inspired community being started in Toronto, that comes out of the Fractal Campus program. They’ve been making lots of cool progress in the past weeks! This is their launch event.

(My own dream is to start a “Fractal Misha”, which is just stuff near my house that I like, and get people to move nearby- a short walk from Danu Social House and Birdhaus, which would be hubs)

July 19-20: BIG on Bloor 2025: Pedestrian Takeover [link]

Street festival!

July 20: 1920s Garden Party at Spadina Museum [link]

Toronto is probably better now than it was 100 years ago. Also - did you know the 1920s were a hundred years ago? It’s math!

July 20: Salem Burns' Kinky Night Market & Munch [link]

Meet kinky people, buy kinky stuff. At Birdhaus.

July 22: Curiosity Café: Anger [link]

Bi-weekly philosophy discussion event. Usually sells out. This one is about Anger. 

July 22 & 29: Authentic Relating - The Power of Connection [link]

I love this stuff. It's a series of weirdo games/exercises to get people connecting in ways that mess with some of the boundaries that usually exist. Not a cult. Really fun!! Toronto really really needs more of this.

July 23: Hitchdeck: Pitch your single friend [link]

“Pitch your single friend to a room full of strangers.” They claim this is "less weird than speed dating", which is a low bar, and also arguably false.

July 25: Other People's Treasure Bingo [link]

What could be more human than putting yourself inside a slow random number generator, lured by the promise of getting stuff that someone else wanted to throw away.

July 25: GenJam: Make an AI Film in 3 Hrs! [link]

Hands-on workshop on AI filmmaking tools.

July 25: Radical Aliveness Community Nights [link]

I don’t know what this is but it seems like totally the sort of thing you are in into.

July 25: Creative Mornings: Paul Twa [link]

Part of a series of breakfast talks. 

July 26: Disassemble a Desktop Computer for TEENS [link]

Are you a teenager? Do you want to take apart a computer? Do you want to do that in a library? With expert supervision? Boy, are you lucky to be reading this newsletter!!!! I mean what are the odds, seriously?

July 27: The Body of Loneliness: Part 1 [link]

Abi and Joyce explore your loneliness with you.

July 27: Menagerie Market: Pop-Up at Kensington Market [link]

Maybe you can do your own pop-up market inside Menagerie market!

July 28: Reading Rhythms Toronto Chapter - Pages in the Park [link]

Read a book in a park.

Aug 10: Tamagotchi Wedding [link]

“Join us as we attempt a WORLD RECORD for the Largest Tamagotchi Wedding!” Without looking - what do you think the current world record is? 

Aug 11: Trampoline Hall [link]

Toronto barrom lecture series started a very very long time ago, hosted, still, by me. Sells out fast because it is great.

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About Misha

Hi, I’m Misha! Nice to meet you. I make this newsletter. We started this in September. Around the same time, I also started my own substack. So far the most popular post is one called Stop Pretending Toronto is More Than It Is, which you might like. Or read more about Toronto Event Generator.

I run and host the Trampoline Hall Lecture Series. I co-host All About Intimacy, a conversation event about love, sex, and friendship, and sometimes host a live-band karaoke night at Jean Darlene Piano Room.

In my working life, I help companies foster better human connection - I help teams get better at talking about tough issues, and help organizations run better conferences, workshops, and offsites.

You can find me on twitter, instagram, substack… See you at the next event!