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The Music Gallery is a centre for promoting and presenting innovation and experimentation in music.

musicgallery.org | The Music Gallery is a centre for promoting and presenting innovation and experimentation in all forms of music, and for encouraging cross-pollination between genres, disciplines and audience.

05/20/2025

Thanks for helping us make this year’s What Is: heart(break) really sweet and special ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

See you at our last show this season on June 5th, and then again next year, which will be our 50th!

01/30/2025

Announcing our Winter and Spring Workshops! 📣

From the fundamentals of sound and lighting tech to the fundamentals of vinyl DJing, join us for our newest batch of hands-on PWYC workshops, facilitated by community members who share their skills and insights in dedicated sessions.

Remember that **members access all workshops for free**! Since a membership pays off after attending even just 2 workshops—or alternatively, 3 discounted shows—if you’re eyeing several workshops or shows, you could benefit from joining us!

Our memberships were redesigned back in the Summer as we reflected on how to create systems that give back to our community *and* sustain our work to foster experimental sound and music in the city. We hope that you’ll join us in learning through these sessions.

Visit our website to learn about each workshop and membership perks when you join us (starting at $30).

Most workshops are limited capacity, so get your spots early!

01/13/2025

The Music Gallery joins the growing list of Canadian cultural organizations standing in solidarity with Palestine. This by virtue includes all marginalized and oppressed communities being harmed at the hands of the Israeli government, and governments across the world.

The Music Gallery is proud to sign on to support and endorse the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). We amplify the call for this endorsement in solidarity with the people of Palestine, and their fight for liberation from Israeli occupation and genocide.

The Music Gallery via our staff, board, and larger community of artists are committed to the necessary fight for the freedom of all people from the stranglehold of global capitalism and the inherent racism, colonialism, imperialism, misogyny, q***rphobia and environmental destruction that comes with a world built on war and oppression.

As a music organization dedicated to experimentation, rooted in the fight and dreams of Black jazz musicians, we must stand up and speak up. Music is nothing without stories, and stories are inherently political.

We invite all arts and music organizations, regardless of size, to support and endorse PACBI.

To learn more about PACBI, endorse the call with your organization, or join us in advocating for PACBI in Canada, check out visit writersagainstthewarongaza.com/pacbi or email [email protected]

Read more about our endorsement at the link in our bio 🔗

12/18/2024

Meme-ember might be coming to an end, but this isn’t goodbye~

For the new year, you can expect cool shows (with some special guests and partners) and workshops for anyone wanting to learn new skills, meet friends and collaborators, and explore music, tech, and art.

So set yourself up right and get it or give it! For $30, you can gift yourself or a friend free access to all our workshops (!) and discounted tickets to all our shows for the whole year.

You’ll make your money back in two visits, so getting a membership is the best way to explore all our 2025 happenings while supporting our work and helping to carry music and experimentation forward!

Visit the link in bio to learn more about our 2025 workshops and to join as a member. See you at the MG in 2025!

12/13/2024

Calling all would-be members: this be the season to GET IT or GIVE IT!

For $30, you can gift yourself or a friend a membership pass for free workshops and discounted tickets all year. Want to sweeten the deal? A $50 membership gets you drink discounts as well. It’s a sweet gesture to whoever you are gifting to (yourself, your friend, your aunt, your catsitter) to support their love for music and their art practice.

And it’s a sweet gesture to us because every membership helps sustain the Music Gallery and carry our work forward, from 1976 until…whatever happens next! Into the future we make together with each other…And that’s on the new year!! 🎉

2024 OUT 2025 IN
GET IT OR GIVE IT
TO ANOTHER YEAR OF MUSIC

Hope you enjoy our lil dumpster truck, and hope to see you at our workshops and shows! See our link in bio for more info on how to join and on all the workshops ahead.

12/12/2024

GET IT OR GIVE IT

A Music Gallery membership, that is! With memberships starting at just $30 (a super fair price, if you ask us), you get access to all our workshops for free, plus discounted tickets to all our shows—you can make your money back in just two visits! Higher membership levels also get MG merch and drink discounts, cheers 🍻

They’re cute, they’re meaningful, and they’re the ultimate gift to say…. stay weird homie (to your friend or the mirror).

Some of the workshops you can look forward to are*:

💡 Feb 6: Sound Tech 101
🎭 Feb 13: Lighting Tech for Music
🤟 Feb 27: Basic ASL for Artists
🎥 Mar 9: Dub Culture Q&A & Screenings
🎚️ Mar 20: Vinyl 101
🎹 Apr 24: Group Songwriting
*dates are subject to change, continue to follow our posts for full event info!

In the meantime, we cooked up something (^^) to keep you warm until then!

Visit the link in bio to learn more about our workshops and to become a member.

11/28/2024

The Music Gallery is pleased to announce a call for audio and lighting technicians, ongoing until the end of the day on December 17th.

For years, we have cultivated a tight-knit team of in-house audio and lighting technicians working behind the scenes to keep our shows looking and sounding amazing. Not only do we depend on our technicians, but we recognize the artistry behind sound and lighting. Our technicians’ work truly impacts and defines the artist and audience experience, supporting those lasting memories at our shows. We are excited to open our doors to a new cohort of lighting and sound techs.

Skilled technicians are encouraged to apply. For individuals with little to no experience seeking mentorship, we’ll have public workshops on lighting and sound 101 so stay tuned.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website at musicgallery.org/call-for-audio-and-lighting-technicians. Applications are via form and the deadline to apply is Dec 17th. We look forward to hearing from you!

11/06/2024

Join us tonight at 8 pm on .live for a new mix by A L M A.

From A L M A “An eclectic sonic exploration through a vast array of geographical landscapes and their associated time periods.”

Allie is a q***r, non-binary dancer, musician and Death Doula currently living on the traditional land of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Mississaguas, and Haudenosaunne people. Colonially known as Hamilton, ON. Allie graduated from Concordia University in 2013 with a BFA in Contemporary Dance, as well as a Minor in Religious Studies. Their current artistic practice involves researching ways that we can learn to embody the feelings and sensations of landscapes and use that to help us identify our experiences of grief and death within our proprioceptive body. Their explorations in presences, and their work as a death doula, challenges the way dance and movement are commonly expressed and experienced. Allie is a founding member of Tkaronto (Toronto) based dance collective Open Fortress who explore collaboration through the use of different types of technology, sound and movement to create non-traditional and subversive atmospheres. They are also a founding member of the musical group DOOMSQUAD (2011-2020), and new musical project A L M A.

10/24/2024

Join us Saturday, November 9th for a night of improvisation between the palms.

Legendary French double-bassist arrives in Toronto for the first time in over a decade. In a long-envisioned duo performance, with cellist Rémy Bélanger de Beauport, this acoustic performance will fill the beautiful Allan Gardens.

Paired with beloved local artist Masahiro Takahashi for his first official Music Gallery performance, he will perform in a trio alongside Joseph Shabason and Bram Gielen.

A perfect fall evening, get your tickets at the link in bio!

10/18/2024

⚔️ Low Ticket Warning ⚔️ We’re 80% sold out of tickets for tomorrow’s X Avant XIX closing night. If you want to come see MG OG’s The Glass Orchestra, as well as hear future proof make the loudest sounds and experience Michael Fawcett’s installation, get your tickets now to avoid disappointment!

Ticket link in bio

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918 Bathurst Street
Toronto, ON
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http://www.musicgallery.org/

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