A!R Exhibition- scores for failed structures of the private by Eve Tagny
Eve Tagny is a Tiohti:àke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory inscribed with the dynamics of power, colonial histories, and their legacies.
scores for failed structures of the private, a new body of work created while in residence at Ace Hotel Toronto, explores how concepts of private ownership and privacy are foundational to Western racialized notions of the civilized, modern human being. Through gestures and embodied expressions, Eve calls this underpinning into question: how do these fraught foundations predetermine our relationships to nature, labor, sustenance and intimacy in urbanized spaces?
This exhibition is a part of our year-long partnership with Images Festival.
About our partner
Images Festival is a platform for the exhibition and discourse of independent film and media art. Created in 1987 as the only alternative film festival in Toronto at the time, Images has spent the last 36 years presenting media works that are challenging in their form and content. The festival showcases the intersection of emerging and established practices, and invites open critical dialogue in the film and media arts community around the political histories of moving image production, distribution, exhibition and representation.
Groove Night
Join us for Groove Fusion, a moment filled with Techno, House, old-school R&B, and disco curated by the award-winning producer and DJ Classic Roots. Prepare to dance and groove to your favorite beats throughout the night, featuring top DJs and a nostalgic atmosphere.
April 5: Classic Roots
April 19: Classic Roots
April 26: Kimiwan
May 3 :Kehiw
May 10: Kehiw
May 17: Kimiwan
May 31: Kehiw
June 7: Dj Ticky Ty
June 14: Classic Roots & Dj Ticky Ty
June 28: Classic Roots
Where People Stay At
Where People Stay At is a pop-up event series that celebrates the past, present & future sounds of the global Black diaspora featuring genres like afro-fusion, baile funk, dance, house subgenres, and edits galore!
MAY: New Cultura (Unruly R x Nessa)
AUGUST: Chanl Marshl x Tangerine
SEPTEMBER: Dom Supremacy x Jiynx.MP3
horas vagas: free time
Uma Nota Culture’s Horas Vagas : Free Time continues the month and invites an all-woman lineup of Toronto selectors to express a range of styles and emotions to move the heart, hips, and head.
Feb 17- 936 Traveler
Feb 24- Musa
March 2- Win + Sophia Alexandra
March 9- Mira Mela
March 16- Me Time
March 23- Kika
March 30- Kiki Le Freak
Do Right at Ace Hotel Toronto
Kick off your weekend with Do Right at Evangeline! Toronto’s eclectic label takes over Ace Hotel Toronto's rooftop every Friday from January to March. Enjoy cocktails and immerse yourself in the sounds of our weekly guest DJs, exploring soul, jazz-funk, disco, and house—all music done right!
Jan 5: John Kong
Jan 12: John Kong
Jan 19: Janina Marie
Jan 26: Invisible City
Feb 2: Odario
Feb 9: Gil Masuda
Feb 16: Big Jacks
Feb 23: Raf Reza
March 1: DJ Cher
March 8: Cindy AO
March 15: Alister Johnson
March 22: Sakiko Nagai
March 29: Milch
Feeld + Ace Hotel Toronto presents Come Closer
On February 14, join us for an evening with Feeld and Marlowe Granados at Come Closer, our special Feeld Social in Evangeline.
Explore the endless ways we can find intimacy with future friends, lovers, and all that exists in between. With a drink in hand, you'll get to connect in new ways with conversation cards, our specialty menu of libations, snacks and sounds by Chief Teef — all here to pique your curiosity.
Purchase of tickets includes one complimentary cocktail. Options for alcoholic or non-alcoholic are available. Get tickets here.
A!R Exhibition- Notes for a Guest Book by Nour Bishouty
Nour Bishouty is an artist working in a range of media including works on paper, digital images, sculpture, video, and writing. Her work engages with marginal narratives to pose questions around dissonance and opacity, especially in histories overwritten by dispossession and displacement. Notes for a Guest Book is an installation acting as foreword for an artist book by Nour Bishouty, the October Artist in Residence. Selected parts of the thinking, conversations, research, and process that took place in the weeks after, during, and coming up to her residency are revealed here through a gathering of images and texts which considers the figure of the hotel as an omnipresent spectre always appearing as a witness which exists on the inside of an imagined perimeter and on the outside of an established law.
This exhibition is a part of our year-long partnership with Images Festival.
About our partner
Images Festival is a platform for the exhibition and discourse of independent film and media art. Created in 1987 as the only alternative film festival in Toronto at the time, Images has spent the last 36 years presenting media works that are challenging in their form and content. The festival showcases the intersection of emerging and established practices, and invites open critical dialogue in the film and media arts community around the political histories of moving image production, distribution, exhibition and representation.
Aftertouch: NYE at Ace Hotel Toronto
Mix Chopin‘s Aftertouch, our Friday Funky Basslines and the hypnotic pulse of four-to-the-floor party returns to help dance in the New Year in Evangeline. Along with Toronto’s selector, Birthday Boy, we invite you to dress as your favourite international spy and enjoy the 14th floor’s dazzle.
Ticket holders will enjoy a selection of passed canapes throughout the evening along with an open bar including beer, wine, mixed drinks and of course a midnight toast. Get tickets here.
The Sun Can't Compare
The Sun Can't Compare, brings the amazing world of Toronto’s burgeoning underground club scene. Every Friday, expect selections that are uptempo and warm; music that is loungey and clubby in equal measure– inclusive of dancehall, hip hop, boogie, house and all their left-field mutations. As the day turns to night, step into the moon beams. Programmed lovingly by Akash Bansal.
October 6: Juicy
October 13: DJ Musa
October 20: Sarovar
October 27: DJ T
November 3: Khary
November 10: Bendy
November 17: DJ Trustfall
November 24: DJ Miss
December 1: Comer Techo
December 8: Tender Buttons
December 15: Max
December 22: Destiny
Dilly’s Dose
Influenced by the culturally rich and diverse sounds of Toronto’s music scene, Dilly’s Dose highlights the city’s best! Every Saturday immerse yourself in a dynamic blend of global club, dancehall, afro house and future beat sounds. Curated by Ace Dillinger.
October 7: Ace Dillinger
October 14: Pogi
October 28: Introspk & Abbzstract
November 4: Donny Vega
November 11: Tangerine
November 18: Fanndemm
November 25: Auxy Brown
December 2: MusicbyJayel
December 9: Ace Dillinger
December 16: rareform
December 23: Ace Dillinger
December 30: Oakeve
High Tropics
High Tropics is your daytime escape to experience a steamy summer in the heavens. With a tropical assortment of cocktails from our crafty team and a soundtrack that brings the warmth to you. Every Sunday from 3pm to 7pm.
- May sounds by Ludovic Bacs
- June sounds by Chanl Marshl
- July sounds by Sofia Fly
- August sounds by Bare Selection
- September sounds by Chief Teef
- October sounds by Nile Coffee Club
- November sounds by Chuba Obi
A!R- An Accumulation of Signs, by Alize Zorlutuna.
Alize Zorlutuna is a queer interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator whose work explores relationships to land, culture and the more-than-human, while thinking through history, ancestral wisdom and healing. Moving between Tkarón:to and Anatolia (present-day Turkey) has informed Alize’s practice, making them attentive to spaces of encounter. Alize enlists poetics and a sensitivity to materials in works that span video, installation, printed matter, performance and sculpture. The body and its sensorial capacities are central to their work.
During their Artist in Residence stay Alize Zorlutuna will develop photo-collage work that responds to the context of Ace Hotel Toronto and the artist’s experience as Artist in residence. This exhibition is a part of our year-long partnership with Images Festival.
About our partner
Images Festival is a platform for the exhibition and discourse of independent film and media art. Created in 1987 as the only alternative film festival in Toronto at the time, Images has spent the last 36 years presenting media works that are challenging in their form and content. The festival showcases the intersection of emerging and established practices, and invites open critical dialogue in the film and media arts community around the political histories of moving image production, distribution, exhibition and representation.
Aftertouch
Aftertouch, a weekly event hosted at the Ace Hotel Rooftop that's sure to ignite your senses. Curated by the illustrious Mix Chopin, a renowned visionary in the French House scene and featuring some of Toronto’s finest DJs and artists in the genre every Friday! At "Aftertouch," we celebrate the beauty of Funky Basslines and the hypnotic pulse of four-to-the-floor beats, drawing inspiration from the rich tapestry of musical traditions that have shaped the Dance genre.
July 21: Mix Chopin
July 28: Mix Chopin
Aug 4: Jim Junior
Aug 11: Hemmingway
Aug 18: Mix Chopin
Aug 25: Maddmon
Sept 1: Arkid
Sept 8: Bobby Love
Sept 15: Will
Sept 22: Will
Sept 22: Mix Chopin
Estrelar
Estrelar Presents: Sound Garden — A residency every Saturday, bringing together established and emerging DJs from our vibrant community. Expect a night filled with classic and modern house, disco, funk & more. Come open minded, the dance floor is calling.
Aug 5: Sahati
Aug 12: MONEYPHONE
Aug 26:
Sept 2: Ore (Samplechief)
Sept 9: Sanjeet
Sept 16: Taher
Sept 23: Teoni
Sept 30: Chinelo
New Hope
On the last Sunday of the month, an artist, DJ or collective makes Evangeline their playground for the night. New Hope is here to push possibility through sound, featuring a novel performance each night and an ever-evolving rotation of Toronto visionaries.
Nov 26
Discover one of Toronto’s musical gems through the passionate singer/songwriter Charmie. Born in Haiti, Charmie began exploring her musical talents at the young age of nine. Her contemporary style of music is a unique fusion of Rhythm & Blues and Pop Soul.
Oct 29
Join us for a night of elaborate costumes and decor, a live performance by TALVI, cocktails and surprise guests. Guests are required to dress up, the more bizarre and esoteric the better.
Sept 24
Inkloosiv Voices, Toronto’s Queer Gospel and R&B choir, will take the stage to perform a medley of new and old classics from the deep and vast world of rhythm and blues.
June 25
With electrifying DJ sets by Ace Dillinger and Syd to conclude one of the best weekends of 2023, Pride. NIGHTCAP is an evening dedicated to new friends, great vibes and a likkle bubble.
June 4
June's New Hope has Slash Need, the electro-punk, industrial and new wave duo making music that all converge on the dance floor as a confrontational, camp and seductive dramaturge.
April 30
Dedicated to the sounds of ex-Yugoslavia electro, synth, disco, new wave, dark wave and more by Adrijan i Miloš.
March 26
March features New Ho Queen (NHQ) is a Toronto-based creative collective that focuses on providing spaces of celebration made for queer and trans Asians to dance, be seen, and find love. Through the fusion of art, nightlife, fashion, and performance, NHQ continues to create opportunities to reconnect with one’s own communities while uplifting the queer Asian creatives of the city.
February 26
In February, we invite Canadian-American bassist and composer Leighton McKinley Harrell and his quartet to perform Jazz informed and inspired by other genres and sounds by Black artists across the African diaspora.
Better Roses: Gaze into Jamaican Popular Culture
Better Roses is a photo exhibition curated by Summer Ruddock-Ellis. Selected works explore the expressive qualities and cultural aesthetics of the Caribbean Islands as a byproduct of Toronto's Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
This collection brings together photographs by Summer, documenting the GTA's underground Dancehall scene as well as her creative work with Michelle Nunes for 4YE.
Exhibition is on from August 1 to August 13. Opening Reception is August 3, 8-12pm.
Telephone Explosion
Fun’s on the line for you. Telephone Explosion, the very best in non-genre sonic goods, have hand-selected 15 of their favourite Toronto-based DJs to bring the noise Friday nights April through June.
Curtis Talwst Santiago Exhibition Afterparty
An after party to celebrate the opening of Curtis Talwst Santiago’s first solo exhibition at COOPER COLE and his exhibition on the Evangeline gallery wall.
Sounds by Nino Brown.
Ace Afrique
Afrique Like Me is a curated music experience that celebrates art, electronic, dance, underground and alternative music from across Africa and the diaspora. It started as an intimate after hours party in Toronto’s west end, grew into an underground event held in unconventional spaces, and is now a mainstay on the city’s social calendar.
Ace Afrique at Evangeline is a meeting place for anyone and everyone looking to have a night of well rounded interactions with community, self expression to the sounds of an African Electronic Dance Music Experience.
The Afrique Like Me Collective was formed in 2019 and consists of DJs/ Creatives Razaq El Toro, Martinses, and Sonic Griot.
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Shades
SHADES will focus on various sounds that pay homage to and push forward the underground dance culture coming from the likes of Chicago, Detroit, New York and beyond.
Expect to hear classics and forward thinking House, Techno, Disco, and Club weaved together to keep your whole body grooving.
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Salon 51
Salon 51 invites you to converge, mingle, share wise words and maybe even gossip amongst friends, new and old. Inspired by the legacy of the French salon, socializing outside of your circle is encouraged, as is a touch of glamour. Author Marlowe Granados sets the pace of the cinq à sept gatherings in Evangeline.
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