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✩ TIME NOT WASTED ✩ Bonus episode: The Gift That Keeps Giving
TIME NOT WASTED – Bonus episode: The Gift That Keeps Giving ft. memories & recommendations from… Duncan McHugh – ♫Gal Gracen, ♫Slam Dunk, ♫Necking Sarah…
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What is (a) Punk? New Acquisitions Screening
Leading up to the screening, I found myself mulling over this very question: what is punk? To me, punk was discovering The Ramones or The…
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Support Vancouver’s not-for-profit arts spaces!
In the past week Red Gate Arts Society, The Toast Collective, Black Lab, and CBDB’s—four of Vancouver’s most established and active not-for-profit cultural organizations—have launched…
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Records and Readings IV
For close to a year, the Toast Collective has been home to Vancouver’s worst-kept secret in musically-related spoken word and performance art — Records and…
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Poetry Is Bad For You 8
For me, poetry has always been something to study, to sit with alone and pore over the carefully constructed language. I’ve always been of the…
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Echuta Debut New Video, Take to the Airwaves
Vancouver faves Echuta share new music, their silly-serious new video, and chat live on CiTR!
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Nice Apple
Arriving sleep deprived and hungover to the Toast Collective, I plopped into one of the venue’s armchairs, closed my eyes, and listened to the chatting…
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Be Afraid Tape Release
I arrived at Toast Collective as Little Sprout were just wrapping up their soundcheck, forty-five minutes after the show’s designated start time. The cheery and…
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Season’s Greetings Toast Fundraiser
Last December, some local bands came together to fundraise for The Toast Collective, a venue that has become one of Vancouver’s most cherished gems. There were performances by Future Star, Little Sprout, Birdo and Tim the Mute.
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POETRY IS BAD FOR YOU
“If someone’s laughing during your poems, it’s cause you tickled them.”