The English Students' Union at the University of Toronto

ESU Events Commitee

- We are currently accepting applications for the 2008/09 ESU Events Commitee, if you are interested in getting involved with the ESU this is a great opportunity to do so. We are accepting applications until Wednesday, November 12th.

Click HERE to download the Events Committee application form.

Upcoming Events

Poetry Massacre Returns

Date: March 20th, 2009
Time: 8pm
Location: 171 COllege St; O'Grady's
$3 Cover
$3 Shots
**Bring your poetry for free entry + RSVP @ Z.SHARE@UTORONTO.CA.**



Past Events

2008 - 2009:

The ESU and HSA Present: The Masquerade


Date: Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Time:Doors Open at 6:30pm, Dinner Served at 7:30pm
Location: The Great Hall - Hart House at U of T, 7 Hart House Circle
Ticket Price: $40 per ticket or $70 for a pair
**Please Note: Dress Code Required - Victorian Costume or Formal Attire**
**Please Note: To purchase alcoholic beverages, you must provide government ID (drivers licence or passport) when you enter the room.**

Ticket Sale Info:
Date: Wednesday Janurary 7th - Friday January 16th
Location: ASSU Office, Sidney Smith, University of Toronto
Time: 10:00am-4:00pm
**Please Note: Vegan/Vegetarian Meals can be made available (please make your request when purchasing your ticket).**
**Please Note: Tickets are UNAVAILABLE for purchase at Door. Please buy in advance.

- The History Students' Association and the English Students' Union @ the University of Toronto are excited to invite you to The Masquerade! Come join us for a night of frolic with fellow English students and faculty, themed entertainment, Keynote speakers, and meeting with ESU and HSA executive members in the ESU's major event of the year!

-This is a catered event, a three course meal will be served throughout the evening and a student priced cash bar will be available. A live band and pianist will be performing classical music throughout the night, as well as an incredible DJ spinning contemporary music for the dance floor.

ESU and EASSU Movie Night

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Time: 7 pm
Location: Sidney Smith 2129
- Peer Mentorship Program + Pizza (bring $1 for food)

Time: 8 pm
Location: Sidney Smith 2135
- Movie Time + Location

- Come join us for a spooky Halloween screening of Ran! Ran is a 1985 film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama)! The story is based on legends of the daimyo Mori Motonari, as well as on the Shakespearean tragedy, King Lear. There is a meeting for the Peer Mentorship Program which starts at 7 pm, which will be followed by the movie at 8 pm.

- If you are interested in becoming a mentor or mentee, please email us! It's not too late!
Send a message to esu.mentorship@gmail.com for more details!

English Students' Union General Meeting 2008

Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
Time: 4 - 6 pm
Location: SS 1078

Join the executive team and find out ways to become involved with the ESU! Open positions for the 2008-2009 ESU executive team:

  • Junior Executive Officer
  • Events Coordinator
  • Communications Coordinator

The general meeting is open to all ENG/JEF students interested in learning more about the ESU, future events and ways to get involved.

2007 - 2008:

  • (9/20/07) General Meeting
  • (10/5/07) Movie Night: Ian McKellen in Richard Loncraine's 1995 adaptation of Shakespeare's "Richard III"
  • (10/19/07) Junior Officer Executive Election
  • (10/30/07) "A Night of the Gothic"- An evening of readings delving into the Gothic aesthetic tradition in Western literature; featuring professors Dennis Duffy, Michael Johnstone, Deidre Lynch, Jay Macpherson, & John Baird.
  • (12/7/07) Theatre Outing: An end-of-term theatre outing designed to allow students to experience Toronto's rich theatre scene with Factory Theatre's "Age of Arousal". This was also a Peer Mentorship event. For more about the play, check out http://www.factorytheatre.ca/arousal.htm

  • (1/16/08) The Poetry Massacre: An ESU fundraising event where the audience brings and performs their own interpretation of "bad" poetry in the hopes that a five-hour onslaught will result in a collapse of text.
  • (2/8/08) Movie Night: Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth"
  • (2/13/08) Theatre Outing: Canadian Opera Company production of Leos Janacek's opera based on Dostoevsky's novel of suffering and redemption in a Siberian prison.
  • (3/3/08) Academic Seminar: An interdisciplinary seminar, co-hosted with the Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Student Union, conceived to explore the intersections between medical practice and literary texts. Featuring professors Alan Bewell and Andrew Baines.
  • (3/28/08) English Students' Union Executive Elections
  • (4/18/08) The Great Gatsby Affair/IDIOM Launch Party - a night of mingling with the writers and editorial board members of the 2008 IDIOM acamedic journal; debating modern fiction with fellow students and English faculty members, and networking with professionals from BMO Group, in the style of the Roaring Twenties.

2006 - 2007:

  • Week of 09/04/06) We held Frosh Week information booths at the club fairs of Trinity College, Victoria College, Innis College, New College and SAC. Thank you to everyone that signed up!   See pics!
  • (10/02/06) General Meeting
  • (10/12/06) Reading Tolkien with Professor John Browne - raised money for World Literacy of Canada   See pics and the event poster!
  • (10/25/06) Junior Officer Election
  • (11/09/06) Seminar on Academic Jobs with Professor Paul Stevens   See the event poster!
    Notes on this presentation can be found here and here.
  • (11/24/06) 'Hamlet' outing @ Hart House Theatre, directed by Andrea Wasserman
  • (12/08/06) Movie and Pub night: We co-hosted a screening of "Blood Throne" with the East Asian Studies Student Union, followed by an outing to O'Grady's   See pics and the event poster!
  • (01/26/07) Hart House Theatre Outing: Lysistrata
  • (02/05/07) "The Return of Beauty: This Time It's Public" - an Academic Lecture with Professor Nick Mount, co-hosted with CAFEX
  • (03/07/07) Career Seminar for English Students
  • (03/09/07) We held a booth at the literature and literacy themed Five-Buck Lunch held at Hart House
  • (03/09/07) "Hearing Silence, Finding Words" - a Poetry Reading featuring Professor Nyquist, followed by open mic
  • (03/30/07) ESU Spring Elections
  • (04/13/07) Synaesthesia: the Annual ESU Coffeehouse at the Hart House Music Room - an evening of talented performances held as a fundraiser for World Literacy of Canada. In association with the Classics, Fine Arts, South Asian, and East Asian Students' Union

2005 - 2006:

2004 - 2005:

  • Graduate School Information Session presented by the University of Toronto Career Centre
  • General Meetings
  • Academic Seminar featuring a poetry reading of W.B. Yeats by Professor John Baird
  • Year-End Wine and Cheese Event