New painting from artist Richard Gilliland. Explore and enjoy this experienced artist. Free event!

Thursday, March 19, 6pm to 10pm

Friday, March 20, 6pm to 10pm

Schedule: 
7-8pm tune workshop with Cassie - all instruments, voices, levels welcome
8-10pm Balfolk dance with live music

March 16 Super Wonder Gallery, 1162 Bloor Street West | Music from Elena & David

Monday dances are a suggested $10-20 per person donation for dancers, jammers, and listeners.

Tune learning workshops led by Cassie Norton with guests run from 7-8pm before the Monday dances, are PWYC, and are open to all instruments including voice. Music is taught by ear, with lots of repetition, and there are opportunities to try out playing for dance :)

There are just a few more dance music slots available this spring - add your name to the list here if you'd like to play for dancing on a Monday night! 

Burlesque Saturday, March 14th Door8pm SHOW 9pm

Life Drawing starts 8:30pm Wednesday, March 11

$20.

Super Naughty Film Fest. Adults Only! Doors 8pm Show 9pm

March 6th.

10! Five Minute films made by local talent. Q&A in between in Film. Learn & share

Monday, Feb. 16, 2025

• 7:00 PM 11:00 PM

• Super Wonder Gallery (map)

• Google Calendar ICS

The floor is open for dance musicians this fall! Want to play for Balfolk? Find an open slot, add your name, and get info on how it all works on this form. 

Location: 

Super Wonder Gallery, 1162 Bloor Street West, Toronto (near Dufferin)
Every Monday night! 

Schedule: 

7pm Tune Learning Session

8pm Dancing 

Both are pay-what-you-can

 CALL FOR BOARD MEMBERS 

Balfolk Toronto is still seeking more board members, and an accountant! Want to give back to this community, and have a voice in how it develops? We are currently seeking people with ANY of the following:

Enthusiasm to help support and grow this beautiful community

See you on the dance floor!

Friday January 30th
FASHION WARS is BACK! HEAVY METAL Edition!!
Get out your leather, spikes & hairspray, this will be a Runway Spectacle inspired by Heavy Metal of eras past!

6 designers will battle it out on the catwalk!

No street wear here, this is a competition of edgy creativity, the wilder the designs the better!

The audience and a panel of judges will decide who will be crowned The Super Wonder FASHION WARS Champion*

Doors 8:00pm *Runway Show 9:00pm

Afterparty with DJ TBA.

Super Wonder Gallery - 1162 Bloor Street West

Tickets $25

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The Super "5" Film Festival Presents:
Best of the Year!
Ten 5 minute movies made by Toronto filmmakers!
*Doors 8pm *Showtime 9pm *$15

Q&A between each film. Vote for your favourite and the winner takes home an original SWG TROPHY!

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TEN MINUTE THEATRE is BACK!!
This Time with Ten Minute Rock-N-Roll Musicals!!!!
Original Theatrical Musical Numbers Preformed By:
AUBREY FRIESNER * TRACEY GALLANT * MATTHEW KRIST
CHRISTIAN ALDO & COLIN EDGLEY
*DOORS 8:pm *SHOWTIME 9:pm *$15

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What is Balfolk Toronto?
Balfolk dancing is popular social dancing from Western Europe, a recent revival of traditional, mostly French, folk dances.
 Bourrées, jigues, gavotte, mazurkas, waltzes, scottishes: some partner dances, some group dances, some snakey chain dances.
They are all fun and easy to learn, you don’t need any partners or prior experience. We’ll show you how!

 
We always dance to live music: fiddles, accordions, clarinets and more…

Balfolk is a term used in the last 50 years to describe popular social folk dancing in Western Europe. It includes old traditional dances from a variety of French and western European regions, as well as modern tunes influenced by many styles composed for people to dance to. Balfolk is not definable as ONE style, but rather an umbrella term for many ways of dancing and playing for a huge repertoire of dances.

Balfolk Toronto was started by Tangi Ropars and Emilyn Stam in the spring of 2013, with our first big bal in March of 2014 and weekly dances on Mondays almost every Monday since 2013. Since then many people have contributed to the development of our community!

7pm: Tune Learning Session 
8pm: Dance! With music by Elise Boeur &  Emilyn Stam
The Tune Learning Session AKA Slow Jam is a pay what you can weekly workshop open to all people who are interested in playing balfolk music, but are either completely new to it, or find our dance jams a little too fast to pick up the tunes. We will learn a couple of tunes per week (maximum 2) and review tunes from previous weeks at each session. We will learn all tunes by ear, very slowly, first singing and then playing. ALL instruments are welcome, including the voice! Hope to see you at the session soon.

Fiddler Elise Boeur draws from the wells of Norwegian and Swedish fiddle music, melds in fistfuls of arcane influences, and emerges with a multi-faceted sound grounded in Nordic traditions. Adam Iredale-Gray is a versatile guitarist with deep roots in Irish traditional music and a commitment to innovation. They each spent years touring as collaborators with diverse projects, and as members of their JUNO-nominated prog-trad quintet Aerialists, and all along they were playing fiddle tunes at sessions, folk dances, and afterparties. With this duo project, you’re invited into these social music afterhours; a celebration of the experience of sharing fiddle traditions the way they’ve been shared for centuries, the tune recreating itself anew with each repetition as folks sit knee to knee and play.

What is Balfolk Toronto?
Balfolk dancing is popular social dancing from Western Europe, a recent revival of traditional, mostly French, folk dances.
 Bourrées, jigues, gavotte, mazurkas, waltzes, scottishes: some partner dances, some group dances, some snakey chain dances.
They are all fun and easy to learn, you don’t need any partners or prior experience. We’ll show you how!

 
We always dance to live music: fiddles, accordions, clarinets and more…

Balfolk is a term used in the last 50 years to describe popular social folk dancing in Western Europe. It includes old traditional dances from a variety of French and western European regions, as well as modern tunes influenced by many styles composed for people to dance to. Balfolk is not definable as ONE style, but rather an umbrella term for many ways of dancing and playing for a huge repertoire of dances.

Balfolk Toronto was started by Tangi Ropars and Emilyn Stam in the spring of 2013, with our first big bal in March of 2014 and weekly dances on Mondays almost every Monday since 2013. Since then many people have contributed to the development of our community!

7pm: Tune Learning Session 
8pm: Dance! With music by Elise Boeur &  Emilyn Stam
The Tune Learning Session AKA Slow Jam is a pay what you can weekly workshop open to all people who are interested in playing balfolk music, but are either completely new to it, or find our dance jams a little too fast to pick up the tunes. We will learn a couple of tunes per week (maximum 2) and review tunes from previous weeks at each session. We will learn all tunes by ear, very slowly, first singing and then playing. ALL instruments are welcome, including the voice! Hope to see you at the session soon.

Fiddler Elise Boeur draws from the wells of Norwegian and Swedish fiddle music, melds in fistfuls of arcane influences, and emerges with a multi-faceted sound grounded in Nordic traditions. Adam Iredale-Gray is a versatile guitarist with deep roots in Irish traditional music and a commitment to innovation. They each spent years touring as collaborators with diverse projects, and as members of their JUNO-nominated prog-trad quintet Aerialists, and all along they were playing fiddle tunes at sessions, folk dances, and afterparties. With this duo project, you’re invited into these social music afterhours; a celebration of the experience of sharing fiddle traditions the way they’ve been shared for centuries, the tune recreating itself anew with each repetition as folks sit knee to knee and play.

You are cordially invited to have a Holiday Tea & Paint session with us at the Super Wonder Gallery on Sunday December 7th. The gallery will be transformed into a beautiful and whimsical Candy Wonderland! Enjoy a cup of tea and delicious pastries while following along a guided paint session.. This is also an opportunity to enjoy a private viewing of the ‘The Candy Factory: An Immersive Art Experience’ show. Limitation to 25 spots per session

Two session times available 

Afternoon Session #1 (1:00pm - 3:30pm)

Evening Session #2 (6:00pm - 8:30pm)

$60 + HST = $67.80

How it Works

No experience is necessary, just a willingness to explore your creative self expression while having fun. Our experienced creative facilitators will walk you through each step of creating the featured painting in your own unique way. Everyone goes home with a finished piece of artwork.

All supplies are included. 

Beverages & Snacks:

We will be serving Tea and light pastries to accompany your paint session

Ticket Link

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Balfolk dancing is popular social dancing from Western Europe, a recent revival of traditional, mostly French, folk dances.
 Bourrées, jigues, gavotte, mazurkas, waltzes, scottishes: some partner dances, some group dances, some snakey chain dances.
They are all fun and easy to learn, you don’t need any partners or prior experience. We’ll show you how!
 
We always dance to live music: fiddles, accordions, clarinets and more…

Balfolk is a term used in the last 50 years to describe popular social folk dancing in Western Europe. It includes old traditional dances from a variety of French and western European regions, as well as modern tunes influenced by many styles composed for people to dance to. Balfolk is not definable as ONE style, but rather an umbrella term for many ways of dancing and playing for a huge repertoire of dances.

Balfolk Toronto was started by Tangi Ropars and Emilyn Stam in the spring of 2013, with our first big bal in March of 2014 and weekly dances on Mondays almost every Monday since 2013. Since then many people have contributed to the development of our community!

7pm: Tune Learning Session 
8pm: Dance! With music by Elise Boeur &  Emilyn Stam
The Tune Learning Session AKA Slow Jam is a pay what you can weekly workshop open to all people who are interested in playing balfolk music, but are either completely new to it, or find our dance jams a little too fast to pick up the tunes. We will learn a couple of tunes per week (maximum 2) and review tunes from previous weeks at each session. We will learn all tunes by ear, very slowly, first singing and then playing. ALL instruments are welcome, including the voice! Hope to see you at the session soon.

Fiddler Elise Boeur draws from the wells of Norwegian and Swedish fiddle music, melds in fistfuls of arcane influences, and emerges with a multi-faceted sound grounded in Nordic traditions. Adam Iredale-Gray is a versatile guitarist with deep roots in Irish traditional music and a commitment to innovation. They each spent years touring as collaborators with diverse projects, and as members of their prog-trad quintet Aerialists, and all along they were playing fiddle tunes at sessions, folk dances, and afterparties. With this duo project, you’re invited into these social music afterhours; a celebration of the experience of sharing fiddle traditions the way they’ve been shared for centuries, the tune recreating itself anew with each repetition as folks sit knee to knee and play.

The Super "5" Film Festival Presents:
Action & Adventure Movies
Ten 5 minute movies made by Toronto filmmakers!
*Doors 8pm *Showtime 9pm *$15

Q&A between each film. Vote for your favourite and the winner takes home an original SWG TROPHY!

What is Balfolk Toronto?
Balfolk dancing is popular social dancing from Western Europe, a recent revival of traditional, mostly French, folk dances.
 Bourrées, jigues, gavotte, mazurkas, waltzes, scottishes: some partner dances, some group dances, some snakey chain dances.
They are all fun and easy to learn, you don’t need any partners or prior experience. We’ll show you how!
 
We always dance to live music: fiddles, accordions, clarinets and more…

Balfolk is a term used in the last 50 years to describe popular social folk dancing in Western Europe. It includes old traditional dances from a variety of French and western European regions, as well as modern tunes influenced by many styles composed for people to dance to. Balfolk is not definable as ONE style, but rather an umbrella term for many ways of dancing and playing for a huge repertoire of dances.

Balfolk Toronto was started by Tangi Ropars and Emilyn Stam in the spring of 2013, with our first big bal in March of 2014 and weekly dances on Mondays almost every Monday since 2013. Since then many people have contributed to the development of our community!

7pm: Tune Learning Session 
8pm: Dance! With music by Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray
The Tune Learning Session AKA Slow Jam is a pay what you can weekly workshop open to all people who are interested in playing balfolk music,

Adrien Cross Exhibit.

a non-binary multidisciplinary artist currently residing in Toronto, Canada. He grew up in a small town surrounded by forests and the Atlantic ocean. Left to his own devices took comfort and found a deep sense of familiarity in animals and nature which is heavily reflected in his body of work.

Predominant skills are in character creation, digital illustration, photography, and costume design.

This monday will be Callahan and Cassie.

Callahan Connor is a fiddler, spoken word artist, and certified music therapist. He loves to explore the beautiful mysteries of human music-making and to bring good vibes to a dance party. Lately he has been composing fiddle tunes for Balfolk dances and playing fiddle with the band Kryva Kosa.

Cassie Norton is a Toronto based singer-songwriter, violinist/multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, educator, facilitator and activist. The thread that ties all of these endeavors together is a strong desire to foster connection and community through music. 

Join us for the next Rouge Studio of Dance Toronto Student Showcase! Featuring the most recent graduating Level 3 Burlesque class, witness the exciting debuts of new burlesque acts!

Doors at 8pm and show starts at 9pm. Seating is first come first serve.

Drinks will be available for purchase! Tipping is welcomed during their set. We will also have studio merch for sale.

Please let the organizer know if you require accessibility seating

Tickets are final sale and non-refundable. 19+ event

Get your tickets today, this event is not to be missed! https://www.rougestudioofdance.com/rouge-showcases

A film by write director Josh Evoy.

Monday, October 27, 2025

• 7:00 PM 11:00 PM

• Super Wonder Gallery (map)

• Google Calendar ICS

7:00 PM 10:45 PM

• Super Wonder Gallery (map)

• Google Calendar ICS

The floor is open for dance musicians this fall! Want to play for Balfolk? Find an open slot, add your name, and get info on how it all works on this form. If you have questions about what to play, or anything else Monday music related, feel free to email Daev at daev3000@gmail.com

Location: 

Super Wonder Gallery, 1162 Bloor Street West, Toronto (near Dufferin)
Every Monday night! 

Schedule: 

7pm Tune Learning Session

8pm Dancing 

Both are pay-what-you-can
Upcoming dance music hosts:

Nov 3 Daev & Callahan 

Nov 10 it could be you!

 CALL FOR BOARD MEMBERS 

Balfolk Toronto is still seeking more board members, and an accountant! Want to give back to this community, and have a voice in how it develops? We are currently seeking people with ANY of the following:

Enthusiasm to help support and grow this beautiful community

• Experience working with not-for-profits

• Interest in Balfolk dances

• Organizational skills (spreadsheets, Excel skills a plus)

If you feel something stirring in your heart about this, write to balfolktoronto@gmail.com! Or speak to Jeff, Daev, Cassie, or Callahan at a Balfolk event. 

See you on the dance floor!