An industrial block west of Weston Road hides one of Toronto's busiest warehouse stages. 131 McCormack Street, in the Junction-area industrial strip south of St. Clair Avenue West, operates as the Black Creek Assembly - a venue run by Lands Black Creek Arts and Culture and dedicated, in its own words, to the creation and presentation of artistic works by a diverse range of artists. Film screenings, runway and fashion shows, and live music and dance performances share the big assembly room. The .....

A floating room under a restaurant keeps Edmonton's underground dancing. 99ten - the name is the address, 9910 109 Street NW - is a nightclub and live music venue in downtown Edmonton, built directly below The Common restaurant and opened, in the owners' words, to fill the void left behind by the city's closing venues. The construction is the calling card: a fully floating sound room in which no wall or pillar touches the building's foundation, so the audio behaves like a recording studio - noth.....

Toronto's Entertainment District hides one of its hardest-working rooms underground. Adelaide Hall occupies the lower level of 250 Adelaide Street West, its entrance tucked down the alley beside 26 Duncan Street - a 475-capacity basement venue where the MRG Group runs live music, DJ nights, club residencies and private events in whatever configuration the night demands. The programming leans emerging: touring indie rock, folk, hip-hop and electronic acts on their first Canadian headline runs sh.....

Dedicated to the arts of Muslim civilisations, the Aga Khan Museum opened in Toronto in September 2014 as the first museum in North America devoted to Islamic art and the artistic heritage of the Muslim world, presenting a collection that spans more than a thousand years and a vast geographical sweep from the Iberian Peninsula to China. Founded under the patronage of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, the museum was conceived to foster understanding and dialogue between .....

Exhibition Place added a music hall to its midway. Annabel's Music Hall at 200 Princes' Boulevard, on the grounds of Toronto's Exhibition Place next to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, is a 750-capacity music and entertainment venue operated by the MRG Group - one of Canada's largest independent live-entertainment and hospitality companies - built to give the lakeside grounds a genuine club-scale room alongside their theatres, arenas and festival lawns. The programming promise is deliberately broad.....

Arcadia Earth is an immersive art experience in downtown Toronto that leads visitors through a series of themed rooms designed to dazzle the senses while delivering a message about the environment and the impact of human activity on the planet. Originating in New York and brought to Toronto, the attraction combines large-scale installation art, projection, light and sound to create a sequence of richly imagined spaces, many of them built from recycled and repurposed materials, through which gues.....

Every New Brunswick Day long weekend since 2016, the AREA 506 Festival has transformed the Saint John waterfront into the province's biggest outdoor music event. Named for the telephone area code that covers southern New Brunswick, the festival takes place at 85 Water Street beside the Waterfront Container Village at Pugsley Terminal and features a main stage, food vendors, artisan markets, and cultural programming that together celebrate the region's creative community. For its eleventh editio.....

Founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest and most distinguished art museums in North America, holding a collection of some ninety thousand works that ranges from the first century to the present day and spans European, Canadian, Indigenous, African, Oceanic and contemporary art. The gallery grew up around the Grange, a historic Georgian house acquired in 1911 that remains part of the complex, and over more than .....

For more than a century, Assiniboine Park has served Winnipeg as a year-round gathering place, nature preserve, and cultural destination. The park stretches across roughly 1,100 acres along the Assiniboine River in the south-central part of the city, making it one of the largest urban green spaces on the Canadian prairies. The Assiniboine Park Conservancy, a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2008, operates the grounds under a fifty-year lease with the City of Winnipeg, which owns the proper.....

Behind a Plaza Saint-Hubert storefront, Montreal's next headliners learn to fill a room. Ausgang Plaza at 6524 rue Saint-Hubert is a 4,500-square-foot multifunctional venue holding up to 450 people, carved out of the storied shopping street best known for its bridal boutiques - and for a decade it has run one of the city's most influential experiments: find the DJ collectives and emerging acts capable of packing a small bar, and hand them a 450-person floor to grow into. The formula built a leg.....