OUTLAST: An afternoon of art, storytelling, embodied healing & conversation

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-04:00

90 Stadium Rd | Toronto

Voices Canada
Publisher/HostVoices Canada
OUTLAST: An afternoon of art, storytelling, embodied healing & conversation
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OUTLAST is a community gathering rooted in connection and community. Come if you long to be surrounded by beauty and truth.
About this Event

What does it mean to outlast? To carry hope through the heaviness. To create in defiance of despair. To believe that love, light, and liberation are not just poetic ideals but powerful truths we get to live, embody, and build together.OUTLAST is a community gathering rooted in resistance, remembrance, and radical love. Through art, storytelling, resourcing, and conversation, we’ll tend to what’s sacred:

💛 the light we carry,

💛 the love we choose,

💛 the hope we hold on to, especially when it’s hard.

This is more than an event. It’s a heartbeat. A reminder that what truly lasts is not power or perfection, but care and community.

✨ Come if you long to be surrounded by beauty and truth.

✨ Come if you’re tired but hopeful.

✨ Come if you’re healing.

✨ Come to be reminded: you are not alone.

We can't wait to connect with you!
Each in-person ticket includes:

*Session Handout

*Free glass of wine or non-alcoholic drink

*Interactive workshop with content experts


Agenda

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Registration, Drinks & Settle into the Space

Info: Included in the fee are session handouts, a free glass of wine or non-alcoholic drink and an Interactive workshop with content experts.


🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Welcome, Introduce Theme & Opening Spoken Word
Host: Heather
🕑: 01:15 PM - 01:30 PM
The Joy of Co-creation
Host: Billy & Heather
🕑: 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Empowerment Session with Somatic Movement
Host: Billy

Info: “Pathways for an Embodied Spirituality of Resistance”
Billy will be offering a reflection on how to ‘Outlast’ in this tumultuous season and the need for us to cultivate individually & collectivity to be able to sow healing & regenerative seeds for our present lives and the lives of future generations, in subversion of the powers that oppress, marginalize, and attempt to erase & eradicate us.
This reflection will involve:
- how to understand and cultivate healthy and justice-oriented empathy
- the 3-fold nature of the human and understanding how to navigate our relational dynamics
And Billy will offer accessible somatic practices you can immediately integrate in your life to support your wellbeing and development, even in the most challenging of times.
There will be space given after Billy’s sharing for guest questions and reflections on what has been experienced, so we are all learning and experiencing collaboratively as well.


🕑: 01:50 PM - 02:00 PM
Community Q&R
Host: Billy & Heather
Intermission: Washroom, Drinks & Shopping
🕑: 02:30 PM
Interview & Q&R with Community Organizer Carol Douse
Host: Carol Douse

Info: As part of Outlast, we’re thrilled to welcome Carol Douse—award-winning designer, strategist, and founder of Oldowan Co.—for a conversation on what it means to sustain the grind with vision, purpose, and heart. Together, we’ll explore the practices that root her creative and professional work, her dreams for our community, and her vision of liberation and elevation in everyday life. Anchored in her commitment to equity and empowerment, Carol’s journey invites us to imagine how creativity and community can fuel lasting change.


🕑: 03:00 PM
Connecting & Networking
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

90 Stadium Rd, 90 Stadium Road, Toronto, Canada

Tickets

CAD 0.00 to CAD 20.00

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