Event Calendar
Events for the 2SLGBT2+ Community are brought to you by the Rainbow Club or community members. To have your event featured, contact us!
Queer Camp
Get ready to embrace your queerness at A Queer Camp!
Each person who is attending and camping at A Queer Camp requires their own General Admission Ticket. Your General Admission Ticket gets you access to a weekend full of nature, connection, a fabulous Drag picnic, and queer-led workshops such as:
yoga
hiking
indigenous beading
kissing workshop
campfire cooking workshop
and more!
Don't miss out - a ticket is mandatory for all campers. Queerly amazing experience guaranteed! 🌈
Shantay at the Gayety
Unleash your inner diva as the drag extravaganza Shantay returns to Collingwood for A SPRING FLING with wild performances by top female impersonators and special guests from the hit television series RuPaul's Drag Race!
Grab your best squirrel friends and get ready for the ultimate drag experience! YVIE ODDLY will be joined on stage with special performances by Sofonda Cox, Carlotta Carlisle, and Paris Matic!
One Show Only • Ages 19+ • Doors/Preshow 8:00PM • Show 9:00PM
VIP Guest Priority Entry Begins at 7:30PM
Amy Gabriel's Celebration of Life
Event date: April 6, 2024
1-4pm
Atoka Room at the Cranberry Golf Course
27 Harbour St W, Collingwood, ON
Join us to celebrate the life of Amy Gabriel lover of life, dogs, nature and her rainbow family founding member of the Rainbow Club of South Georgian Bay. In honour of Amy, please wear colourful clothes. There will be an open mic so her family and friends can share their treasured memories.
Feel free to bring a photo of Amy to add to the memory table.
RSVP to reneejustine.boyd@gmail.com by March 30, 2024
Bring Back My Girls! Presented by Low Down!
It's the return of the Original Low Down Drag Crew! Baby Bel Bel, Katinka Kature and Jada Hudson are here at The Simcoe Street Theatre for one night only!
This is a 18+ event. Doors open at 7pm, show begins at 8pm.
Seating is general admission. All ticket sales are final.
Mingle Jingle and Bingo!
It's time to deck the halls with more than boughs, and don that gay apparel as you join The Rainbow Club of South Georgian Bay the holiday Mingle Jingle and Bingo!
Mark your calendars, Friday November 24th from 7-11pm at the Collingwood Leisure Time Club
Devine Darlin and Helena Poison will put the ho ho hoe in bingo. You can expect surprise performances as well as a dance floor to show off your naughty and nice moves! Tickets are just $20. Be sure to get yours today (link in bio) as this will be a sell out event!
This is a 19+ event.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Let's do the Time Warp agaaaaaiiiinnnnn! Get ready for the live performance of Rocky Horror Picture Show! The Gayety Theatre has kindly extended a 15% off promo code for both the 8pm and 11pm show on Friday October 27th. Use code: Padam.
Be sure to get your tickets asap as they are selling quickly. If you're attending the 8pm show, arrive at 6:30pm to hang out with and meet other Rainbow Club members! If vou prefer the 11pm show, you can stay after the show to do the same. Call-backs and dressing up are encouraged! (IYKYK!) Prizes each show for best dressed!
Link to get your tickets: https://tickets.ticketwise.com/event/ the-rocky-horror-show-live-collingwood
Trivia Night!
Let’s get Quizzical! If you know what movie this is - , What age ABBA’s Dancing queen is, and what Sister Mary Clarence and Diana Ross have in common - then we want to see you and your team for @qetrivia on Thursday September 28th at 7pm at @sidelaunch.
Register as a team or an individual and we’ll pair you up with some new friends. Prizing AND bragging rights are on the line - this is one you won’t want to miss.
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter
Based on a bestselling memoir, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter tells the story of a young girl growing up with a gay father in the 1980s. Woven through music and imagery, the comic monologue moves from Alison's carefree childhood to the moment she learned, at age twelve, that her family was a bit more complex than she had thought.
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter has been performed more than 150 times and has won top awards in virtually every festival in which it has appeared, including four Fringe Festival Best of Fest awards, the CBC's Outstanding Solo Show award, and Best Dramatic Script at NYC's United Solo, the largest festival of solo theatre in the world.
Visit www.theatrecollingwood.ca for details and tickets!
Mad about the Boys!
New Classical FM host, Adi Braun, pays tribute to the genius of three iconic songwriters, Noel Coward, Cole Porter and Kurt Weill. Join Adi and her trio – Don Breithaupt (piano), Pat Collins (bass), and Daniel Barnes (drums) - in an evening of hits such as “Poor Little Rich Girl”, “Night and Day”, and “Mack the Knife”, as she salutes the witty lyrics and unforgettable melodies of three giants of song. You’ll have a gay old time!
Get your tickets to the Collingwood Music Festival, running July 8-15, 2023 at https://collingwoodfestival.com
Collingwood Pride Festival!
Collingwood Pride will be a festival and celebration for everyone, including our local and visiting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer or questioning individuals, and our collective friends, families and allies (2SLGBTQ+). It will be a weekend-long celebration of our community’s diversity, vibrancy and strength.
🏳️🌈 For a full list of events, entertainers, market vendors, sponsors, F.A.Q, and more, download the Pride Collingwood App on the Apple App Store or Google Play store!
Opera Under the Stars
Celebrated local operatic tenor Craig Ashton, brings together a talented group of artists from the opera and musical theatre stages. Come and join soprano Caitlin Wood, mezzo-soprano Katie Knapp, baritone Gene Wu and pianist Anne Barnshaw for a FREE performance and romantic night of music under the stars, starting at 8pm on the Subaru Stage.
How will your event positively impact the 2SLGBTQ+ Community?: As a gay performer, and pride sponsor through my two businesses Collingwood Flowers and Craigleith Manor Bed & Breakfast, this event represents the diversity of entertainment and allows the 2SLGBTQ+ Community access to a free concert and visibility through myself and the group of singers I am performing with who are allies of our community.
Collingwood Music Festival - Inaugural Performance
Inaugural Performance featuring the National Academy Orchestra of Canada (full 65-piece orchestra) led by Maestro Alain Trudel with special guest - the award-winning, TWO-SPIRIT musician Jeremy Dutcher who performs songs inspired by his Wolastoq First Nation roots.
Get your tickets to the Collingwood Music Festival, running July 8-15, 2023 at https://collingwoodfestival.com
Cascade Community Hike
🌈 Blue Mountain is unveiling their new and improved Rainbow Bridge on June 28th and you’re invited!
Join us as we hike from the bottom of South Base lodge and climb up Cascade Hiking Trail to the Rainbow Bridge where Blue Mountain will do their ribbon cutting. After the hike there will be a mini Apres party at Summitview Pavilion and a free ride down the gondola after the event.
🌈 The hike starts on June 28th at 5pm, meet at the south base lodge!
PRIDE YOGA at Cedar + Sage
Get your PRIDE ON at Cedar + Sage this Friday June 23rd! Join this gentle warm slow flow class that will free your mind, body and soul with freedom beats to inspire vibrations of inclusivity, community and LOVE. This Freedom Flow Karma Class is donation only with all proceeds collected to support the Rainbow Club. Cedar + Sage will match all donations!
PRIDE Yoga Jam with Penny Welton
Join us Friday June 9th @ 9:30am for an ALL LEVELS Hot Power Flow to a playlist of all things queer! Suggested donation is $5 All proceeds go to the Rainbow Club.
Penny Welton, owner of PYC is part of the Queer community and wanted to get involved in Pride Month. On Friday June 9th at 9:30am Penny is donating her time and studio to host an all-levels Hot Power Flow class and asking for a $5 donation which she will give back to the Rainbow Club.
Rainbow Club Proud 2SLGBTQI+ safe space training with UPlift Black
This presentation is one of UPlift Black’s most popular workshop as it integrates components
from all the workshops UPlift Black offers to provide an in-depth overview of Canada’s colonial
history, and the systemic and anti-Black racism that continues to persist in Canada’s modern
society. Over this 3-part (2 hours/session) workshop, participants will explore key themes
listed down below.
- The history of Black migration to Canada and the meaning of decolonization
- Key Themes
- Program Description
- Intersectionality, gender and racial diversity, & 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusivity
- Anti-Black racism, systemic racism and white supremacy & privilege
- The impact of microaggressions & allyship
Free haircuts to queer youth - Black Rose Beauty Lounge
This is an opportunity provided by Black Rose Beauty.
Their mission: Providing free/subsidized hair services to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and low-income individuals to aid in the curation of an outer appearance that reflects the most authentic inner self & instills confidence.
Pride Prom!
There's a party going on round here. A celebration to last throughout the year. So bring your good times and laughter too, we gonna celebrate this party with you!
The Rainbow Club is hosting an 80's Pride Prom on Friday June 2nd! Our 2023 Prom Queen, @imenyadreams and Prom King @thechritophercummings will make sure that you Wanna Dance With Somebody All Night Long. Let's Dance, and Bust a Move because DJ Ef Sharp of @evolvedentertainment will be laying the tracks to the biggest and best hits of the 80's!
@lowdown.bar will be serving refreshments at a CASH ONLY bar.
It's a throwback to the 80's baby!
Express Yourself and serve those fashion lewks!
Blue Mountain Film Fest - 2SLGBTQIA+ Double Feature
Elevate your date night with a double feature and dining at Blue Mountain Film Festival, this June 1-4th!
On Friday, June 2nd, experience the passion and raw emotion of cinema through tales of love and romance from around the world. In celebration of love in all its forms, Blue Mountain Film Festival is proud to present our 2SLGBTQIA+ Double Feature with screenings of BLUE JEAN and PASSAGES. By purchasing a 4-ticket pack, you and a friend can reserve seats at the 5:30PM screening of BLUE JEAN and 9:30PM screening of PASSAGES online. With time in between films, discover the tantalizing tastes and wide variety of cuisine available for dining in the Village.
Screening Times:
5:30PM | BLUE JEAN | Village Conference Centre, Petun Cinema Room
7:45PM | Choose from a variety of dining options in the Village
9:30PM | PASSAGES | Village Conference Centre, Petun Cinema Room
BLUE JEAN, directed by Georgia Oakley - In 1988, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a UK law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean (Rosy McEwen) a gym teacher, to live a double life. The arrival of a new student catalyzes a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.
PASSAGES, directed by Ira Sachs - In contemporary Paris, a gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a younger woman. This erotic drama features intimate, nuanced performances from Ben Whishaw, Frank Rogowski, and Adèle Exarchopoulos. PASSAGES is an intense exploration of jealousy, possessiveness, creativity, and the complexities of our lives and relationships.
Join us for our second annual International Film Festival, right here in your backyard, and get ready to See The World Through Blue - Visit bluemtnfilmfest.ca
#BlueMtnFilmFestival #BMFF #SeeTheWorldThroughBlue #BlueMtnVillage #PASSAGESFilm #BlueJeanFilm #GeorgiaOakley #IraSachs
The Rainbow Club Sensitivity Training with Myles Sexton
Location: FreeSchools World Literacy Room at the Collingwood Public Library, 55 Ste Marie St, Collingwood, ON L9Y 0W6
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Date: May 31st
Price: FREE
Pronouns, 2SLGBTQIA+, and Gender Identity VS Sexuality? If any of these topics might confuse you, don’t worry Myles Sexton is here to help explain everything in a safe and empowering space. All while learning best practices on how to make your business more inclusive. Sign up Today!
About Myles:
Myles Sexton is a Creative Director, Stylist, Makeup Artist, HIV/AIDS and Sobriety Activist, and Queer Fashion Nomad, based in Toronto. Myles’ received the Digital Fashion Creator Award from CAFA in 2022.
Myles’s editorial work has been featured in Vogue Italia, Elle, New York Times, and Fashion Magazine. Myles has worked with celebrity clients including Grace Jones, Maye Musk, Winnie Harlow, Nelly Furtado, Lights, and Emily Hanes of Metric.
Myles works as a TV personality and Style Expert on Cityline, The Social, Breakfast Television and Your Morning. Myles has worked for over 10 years acting as a spokesperson for brands including Jean Paul Gaultier, Canada Goose Fenty Beauty, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Kerastase, Sephora, Shoppers Drug Mart, Marc Jacob’s Beauty, Alterna Haircare, KMS Haircare, Centrum, Body Shop, Virgin Mobile, Mackage, Wuxly, Tip Top Tailor, Free People, BonLook, Amazon Prime.
Scott Thompson as Buddy Cole in KING
Scott Thompson as Buddy Cole in KING
May 17, 18, 19
The Simcoe Street Theatre
Showtime: 8pm
Opening Act: Local Comedian Daniel Shaw
Scott Thompson from the ‘Kids in the Hall’ brings his most famous character, lounge lizard ‘Buddy Cole’, to the Simcoe Street Theatre for a 3 night run of his new show ‘KING’.
An evening of hilarious and sometimes incendiary monologues never before seen on television to a series of brand new monologues written for the recent revival that were deemed ‘ TOO HOT FOR AMAZON’, this is a show you can’t miss.
Buddy is back, funnier, sillier and yet somehow more dangerous than ever. Join him in an intimate setting as he mixes up martini’s and dishes out the dirt on his fabulous globe trotting life all while reflecting on everything from the fractured state of the LGBTQT+ community to controversial ways to cure cancer to the proper way to woo a despot. Warning: If you like riotous boundary pushing comedy this is definitely the most fun you will have in the third week of May!
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Please be aware that there is a content warning - there is definitely language and themes that will potentially offend (trigger warning style), and the show is 18+.
Here are some resources:
A press simcoe.com interview:
A really great CBC interview from his last tour a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHeIi1rsRGQ&ab_channel=QwithTomPower
Buddy Cole Monologue - Canadian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQCyAQBgXY&ab_channel=GayComedySketches
Bowling Social Night at Georgian Bowl
It's time for another INCREDI-BOWL rainbow club event! We are hosting a Bowling Social Night at Georgian Bowl in Collingwood on Friday April 21st.
Sign up as a solo or duo, we will be mixing and matching the teams so you can truly get to know others in our community. If you sign up as a duo, you and your partner will be on the same team and we will mix you with other singles and duos.
This event costs $35 per person. You will get at least two head to head matches against different teams, as well as your rental shoes. Our friends at Evolved Entertainment will be pumping all the best music all night so you know the vibes will be at 100!
Out in the Valley - SATURDAY SKI PARADE
Beaver Valley Ski Club’s first event in support of diversity, equity and inclusion, for BVSC members, guests, & neighboring ski club members.
We invite all members to join us on Saturday, February 25th around the club for a few inclusive group events for all ages!
Charity Raffle - with all proceeds donated to The Rainbow Club of South Georgian Bay and Area
Rainbow Parade down the hill - meet at 11am at the top of Thruway
Fun Dual Slalom Race – all day on Eager Beaver, open to all members & guests
Drop in LGBTQ+ & Friends Ski Groups - meet at the Rainbow Flag at 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 3pm.
$135 Event Ticket & Saturday Lift Ticket - guest (February 24th Drag Show, DJ & Dancing + February 25th Full Day Adult Lift Ticket)
Guests who would like to learn more about the event ticket can contact the Events Team:
email - events@beavervalley.ca
phone - (519) 986 - 2520 ext. 226
Out in the Valley - FRIDAY NIGHT DRAG SHOW
Beaver Valley Ski Club’s first event in support of diversity, equity and inclusion, for BVSC members, guests, & neighboring ski club members.
Come OUT for a night of drag shows, DJ, and dancing featuring Katinka Kature, Enya Dreams and Jada Hudson with music provided by Evolved Entertainment featuring DJ Efsharp. It’s time to celebrate love, get down on the dance floor, sing your favorite songs, cheers to DEI, and enjoy some delicious appetizers from the Bruce Wine Bar. Welcome drinks provided by Muskoka Brewery! The Friday night Drag Show and Party is a 19+ event.
Friday, Feb 24th 8pm-12am , the Queens will come on at 8:30pm.
$70 Event Ticket - member or guest (February 24th Drag Show, DJ & Dancing) - 19+ Event
Drag Show Party & Dancing with Evolved Entertainment:
Sam Fleming aka Efsharp had his 1st DJ set on radio in Ottawa in 94, and came up in Toronto clubs and raves since 95. An open-format DJ full time since 2004, he created Evolved Entertainment in 2009 to offer a wider base of DJ & MC talent as well as AV production for events.
Guests who would like to learn more about the event ticket can contact the Events Team:
email - events@beavervalley.ca
phone - (519) 986 - 2520 ext. 226
