Check out the highlights from Rookie of the New Year! These unique opportunities for to discover something new in 2013 can be found on Uniiverse!
Video includes: Suspension yoga, 3D Printing Workshop, Silkscreening Workshop, and a Demo of Molecular Gastronomy! What a hoot!
What’s Brewing: CaffeineTO Week!
CaffeineTO Week starts tonight and offers a fresh brew of unique caffeine infused events with some of Toronto’s finest baristas, chocolatiers, and tea experts. Check out the events listed below and buy your tickets here!
Happy 2013!!! A new year is the perfect time to tackle new challenges and think about new ambitions: practice a new style of yoga, try 3D printing, master your new DSLR, learn to silkscreen, or become a scientist in the kitchen. You’re never too old to learn a new skill!
Rookie of the New Year is a series of five unique intro workshops to discover and learn something new this January. From Monday, January 14 to Friday, January 18, various Toronto-based experts will be teaching their skills to those willing to learn!
Not only are the workshops interesting, but also relevant to the time we are living in.
Movember Toronto Food Week: 5 nights, 5 food events, one cause
The first ever Movember Toronto Food Week (MOTOFO) will cook up 5 unique food events in the final week of November, guaranteeing fun, food, and full moustaches for everyone in attendance!
Organized by our team at Uniiverse and Joel Solish of Death Row Meals, MOTOFO will include one food event each evening, from Monday, November 26 to Friday, November 30, hosted by some of Toronto’s top food talent. A great cause, with great food. Who could ask for more?? Event proceeds will be donated to Movember.
MOTOFO Events:
Monday, November 26: Amanda Ford’s Fall Cooking Demo. City Girl Chef wants to teach us all a little bit about cooking for fall. Venison, cocktails, snacks, and a gorgeous woman - we can’t think of a better way to spend a chilly evening in Movember! There will also be an appearance from bee keeper Fred Davis of Fred D’s Bees. 7pm – 8:30 pm Cost: $40
Tuesday, November 27: Burgers n’ Beer at Burger Bar with Brock Shepherd. Taste a flight of all local craft beers, paired along side some great and inventive sliders from the crew at Burger Bar. 6pm – 8pm Cost: $25
Friday, November 30: Uncorked Wine Tasting:Come and discover the world of local VQA wines with Allison Slute, the official sommelier at Death Row Meals and Pillitteri Estates Winery. Allison will present some great fall choices for buying local, and talk about these wines informally, but in depth. 7pm – 8:30pm Cost: $25
To attend any of the events and donate to the cause, book your tickets here: www.uniiverse.com/motofo
Are you a foodie? Post your own food events on Uniiverse! Learn more here: www.uniiverse.com/foodie
Show Your Passion
The Uniiverse team is full of passionate people with amazing hobbies. From spearfishing, to rock climbing, to producing music, there is a unique thirst for life in all of us. So if there’s one thing we care about at Uniiverse, it’s encouraging people to do what they love, and to share their happiness and experiences with others. That’s why we’re here.
To celebrate the passionate people of the world, we are holding a photo contest on our Facebook page.
How it works:
Upload a picture of yourself doing something you’re passionate about to our Facebook Page contest tab. The photo with the most votes by December 31st wins $50!
A special prize will also be rewarded to the most unique photo, as chosen by the Uniiverse team.
We look forward to viewing your entries! Enter today by clicking here.
The Uniiverse logo is growing some serious stache. Happy Movember!
Halloween Costume Photo Contest
October is one of our favorite months of the year – why? Because Halloween is simply awesome. We wanted to celebrate the holiday in full force so we’re holding a Halloween costume photo contest on our Facebook page!
How it works:
Upload your most memorable Halloween photos to our Facebook pagehere for a chance to win $50. Creative, humorous, and embarrassing costume photos are key. The picture with the most likes by November 5th wins!
Examples:
Childhood photo of you in the most adorable or ridiculous Halloween costume ever. Thanks a lot Mom and Dad.
Your homemade costume creation – DIY for the win?
Your pets all dressed up for the occasion – cats and dogs wearing costumes? Yes please. Even a witch would melt at the sight. (terrible joke)
Your funniest Halloween party pic
3 Runners-up will also be hand picked by the Uniiverse team. You can share, tweet and send your photo to your friends to have them vote and support you.
We look forward to reviewing the entries! It’s going to be a hoot. Enter today by clicking here!
Don’t forget to celebrate Halloween with Uniiverse! Create and find parties, costume swaps (we’re planning 2!), pumpkin carving contests…and more!
This Saturday, Uniiverse teamed up with some awesome Toronto fitness instructors from a variety of genres, and hosted a Free Fitness Frenzy in beautiful Trinity Bellwoods Park.
From 10am-12pm, the local instructors hosted a number of classes around the park at the same time, including Zumba, two styles of Yoga, Muscle Conditioning, and Caribbean Dance.
Everyone loved jumping around from class-to-class and experimenting with the various fitness styles. It was an amazing way to spend a sunny Saturday morning outdoors, meeting friendly new faces, and getting sweaty! Being fit has never been so fun. Who else was sore on Sunday?
Uniiverse aims to reconnect people in the real-world to share passions and discover new ones. At the Free Fitness Frenzy, we accomplished exactly that!
The turnout and feedback for this event was so amazing that we’ve decided to do it all over again! We’re excited to announce that the next Free Fitness Frenzy will take place on:
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Trinity Bellwoods Park
10 AM - 12 PM
Uniiverse aims to bring the best instructors in the city together and help people discover new ways to stay active. Toronto fitness instructors who are interested in participating in this event can contact: jaclyn.klein@uniiverse.com.
A huge thank you to the instructors who taught at our first Fitness Frenzy:
Share your interests, skills and passions on Uniiverse and with your Twitter followers to win the #UContest draw!
Entering this Twitter contest is easy! Just create a listing on Uniiverse, then tweet the link using the hashtag #UContest.
Once you tweet about your listing with the hashtag, we put your name in a draw for one lucky person to win a $50 American Express gift card and a $50 Uniiverse credit! For each listing you create and tweet about with the #UContest hashtag during the contest period of 12:01 a.m. on August 13th and 11:59 p.m. on August 24th, you’ll get an additional entry to the contest.
There is no maximum number of entries so create as many listings as you can to increase your odds of winning the prize!
The winner will be announced on Monday, August 27th, and will be featured on Uniiverse’s Facebook page and Twitter account.
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