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Things to do in the GTA this weekend

Aug 17 to Aug 24 · everything worth leaving the house for, across the GTA

Every event happening near you, gathered from venues' own listings and refreshed twice a day. Free to read, nothing to install.

474 events this week, updated twice a day
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474 events this weekend in the GTA, across 177 venues, 232 of them free. Showing the next 454. Pulled from venues' own listings and updated twice a day.

Coming up 30 events

Friday, Aug 21

More events this day 98
Kids & family 9
Teens & youth 13
Classes & workshops 6
Clubs & groups 5
Library & community programs 50

Saturday, Aug 22

More events this day 76
Kids & family 5
Teens & youth 1
Fitness & wellness 1
Classes & workshops 11
Markets & food 2
Clubs & groups 13
Library & community programs 34

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Sunday, Aug 23

More events this day 34
Kids & family 15
Fitness & wellness 1
Classes & workshops 2
Clubs & groups 4
Library & community programs 26

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Why happs exists

I'm Leo, and I live in Vaughan. A few months ago I tried to find what was actually happening near me that weekend, and I couldn't. Eventbrite showed me four things in Liberty Village. The library calendar was a PDF. My favourite bakery's events were buried six posts deep on Instagram. The small theatre down the street had a Facebook page nobody updates.

So much of what we actually do happens within a few kilometres of home. The free workshop at the library, the comedy show at the bar, the festival in the park. The stuff that makes a neighbourhood feel like a neighbourhood. But the internet keeps pushing us toward national feeds and global brands, and we miss what is happening right outside the front door.

So I built one place that pulls it together. happs gathers thousands of real events from hundreds of venues across the GTA, refreshed every day, each one credited to the venue that published it.

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