Andrew Gillespie
@adgillespie.bsky.social
🌈 🇨🇦 Toronto | Happiest with a good book or at the theatre.
Happy to report that it was worth braving the cold (-12 C) to see Coal Mine Theatre’s new production of Eureka Day. Smart and funny with a hilarious sequence that takes place during an online community forum with all the behavior and characters you would expect. 👍🏻
February 8, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Happy to report that it was worth braving the cold (-12 C) to see Coal Mine Theatre’s new production of Eureka Day. Smart and funny with a hilarious sequence that takes place during an online community forum with all the behavior and characters you would expect. 👍🏻
This is 5️⃣1️⃣! Feeling ready for another trip around the sun. 🥳
February 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM
This is 5️⃣1️⃣! Feeling ready for another trip around the sun. 🥳
It’s cold in Quebec City (currently -17 C), but the old part of the city is so pretty. Everything looks like something out of a holiday movie.
January 30, 2026 at 11:43 AM
It’s cold in Quebec City (currently -17 C), but the old part of the city is so pretty. Everything looks like something out of a holiday movie.
Watching the ice slowly float along the St. Lawrence River is hypnotic. You could watch it for hours except that it’s -20 degrees Celsius out.
January 29, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Watching the ice slowly float along the St. Lawrence River is hypnotic. You could watch it for hours except that it’s -20 degrees Celsius out.
Breaking with tradition we have purposely travelled to somewhere colder than Toronto to celebrate our anniversary. Here’s to *another* twenty five years @imjdid.bsky.social! 🥰
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Breaking with tradition we have purposely travelled to somewhere colder than Toronto to celebrate our anniversary. Here’s to *another* twenty five years @imjdid.bsky.social! 🥰
It’s really beginning to seem like it might never stop.
January 25, 2026 at 8:05 PM
It’s really beginning to seem like it might never stop.
Really? Why, why do we live here? 🥶
January 24, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Really? Why, why do we live here? 🥶
It’s a bitterly cold start to 2026, but at least the sun is shining!
January 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
It’s a bitterly cold start to 2026, but at least the sun is shining!
It’s always a nice surprise to be walking through U of T when the bells are playing. Sound on! 🔔
December 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It’s always a nice surprise to be walking through U of T when the bells are playing. Sound on! 🔔
What a difference a day makes! White Xmas arrived one day late in Toronto. ☃️
December 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
What a difference a day makes! White Xmas arrived one day late in Toronto. ☃️
Not a White Christmas, but an awfully nice day in Toronto.
December 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Not a White Christmas, but an awfully nice day in Toronto.
When you’ve been together as long as we have, you often think of the same perfect gift as the other person. So now @imjdid.bsky.social and I have two sets of matching Kylie Minogue Tension Tour t-shirts! A merry XMAS indeed! 😆
December 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When you’ve been together as long as we have, you often think of the same perfect gift as the other person. So now @imjdid.bsky.social and I have two sets of matching Kylie Minogue Tension Tour t-shirts! A merry XMAS indeed! 😆
Nothing has generated more family chatter this year than the photo I shared yesterday of a rather festive holiday display in our neighbourhood. My mother does not agree with all the kids that this would be a lovely addition to her place and is certain it would get her kicked out of her building.
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nothing has generated more family chatter this year than the photo I shared yesterday of a rather festive holiday display in our neighbourhood. My mother does not agree with all the kids that this would be a lovely addition to her place and is certain it would get her kicked out of her building.
I have happily lost hours of sleep this week reading @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social’s This Brutal Moon which concludes her brilliant Kindom Trilogy. 🥱1/3
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I have happily lost hours of sleep this week reading @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social’s This Brutal Moon which concludes her brilliant Kindom Trilogy. 🥱1/3
It’s an icy morning in Toronto.
December 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It’s an icy morning in Toronto.
Snow has returned to Toronto.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Snow has returned to Toronto.
I knew The Christmas Market would be good when @glennsumi.bsky.social’s newsletter said it was a must-see. A beautiful piece where everything from the script, to the actors, to the set and sound, and the direction all work together perfectly. A new holiday classic for Toronto theatre? Yes please!
November 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I knew The Christmas Market would be good when @glennsumi.bsky.social’s newsletter said it was a must-see. A beautiful piece where everything from the script, to the actors, to the set and sound, and the direction all work together perfectly. A new holiday classic for Toronto theatre? Yes please!
Wrapped up our trip to Montreal with a concert by the always incredible countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski (and pianist Michal Biel. What a talent! And so charming! He had the audience in the palm of his hand all night. A perfect reason to come to Montreal.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Wrapped up our trip to Montreal with a concert by the always incredible countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski (and pianist Michal Biel. What a talent! And so charming! He had the audience in the palm of his hand all night. A perfect reason to come to Montreal.
I can’t remember the last time we were in a church, let alone on a Sunday, but a wonderful concert by Thomas Dunford was worth it. Dowland, Satie, Bach, and even some Beatles music on the lute!
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I can’t remember the last time we were in a church, let alone on a Sunday, but a wonderful concert by Thomas Dunford was worth it. Dowland, Satie, Bach, and even some Beatles music on the lute!
You know you’re at a fancy restaurant in Montreal when Leonard Cohen shows up in cocoa powder on the *second* dessert course.
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
You know you’re at a fancy restaurant in Montreal when Leonard Cohen shows up in cocoa powder on the *second* dessert course.
You know Montreal is doing something right when a new 3.5 hour play about the AIDS crisis in the city in the 1980s sells out a 700+ seat theatre on a Saturday afternoon. Congratulations to the whole team behind Corps Fantômes!
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
You know Montreal is doing something right when a new 3.5 hour play about the AIDS crisis in the city in the 1980s sells out a 700+ seat theatre on a Saturday afternoon. Congratulations to the whole team behind Corps Fantômes!
How often do you get to see the same production of a play twenty five years later? I didn’t remember a lot about Robert Lepage’s The Far Side of the Moon. I remembered the breath-taking final scene of the main character drifting in zero gravity, achieved with beautiful simplicity and stage magic.
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
How often do you get to see the same production of a play twenty five years later? I didn’t remember a lot about Robert Lepage’s The Far Side of the Moon. I remembered the breath-taking final scene of the main character drifting in zero gravity, achieved with beautiful simplicity and stage magic.
I will grudgingly admit that the first snowfall can be very pretty.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I will grudgingly admit that the first snowfall can be very pretty.
It’s official, it’s snowing in Toronto. The first of many months of this to come!
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It’s official, it’s snowing in Toronto. The first of many months of this to come!
Choosing to focus on how nice it is to have sunlight in the morning instead of dreading sunset in the middle of the afternoon. 🥲
November 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Choosing to focus on how nice it is to have sunlight in the morning instead of dreading sunset in the middle of the afternoon. 🥲