Hello World #1: A night of music, essays, poetry, and art about what it means to be a human in an artificial age

​TAISCH (Toronto AI Safety Coffeehouse) and Kill the Internet presents: Hello, world #1: “Initializing”

​Hello, world is a recurring showcase of local Toronto art that grapples with being human in an age of rapid technological progress. Our debut show is on December 3, 2026, at Danu Social House. This show’s theme is “initializing”: a warm-up, open to any and all intersections of art and technology, a first pass at interpreting what AI and frontier technology means for us today, tomorrow, and beyond.

​Each evening follows a structure of performance blocks punctuated with free-flowing (but prompted) discussion among the audience. You can expect to ask your fellow audience members questions like, “In what ways has technology intruded on your everyday experience?”, or “If it were totally up to you, what role would AI have in your ideal vision of the future?”.

​This is our debut show, so we are very much treating this as an experiment. We want to see what happens when you take a bunch of people who appreciate and/or make art and/or harbour an interest (either positive, negative, or somewhere in between) in AI and technology more broadly, and put them in a room together to experience art and share their thoughts/hopes/worries around being human in the age of AI. There will also be some surprise elements, but that’s all we will reveal for now. Hope to see you there!

​Some logistics:

​This event is free/PWYC, and all donations will be evenly shared among performing artists.

​Doors at 6, show starts at 6:30

​We are accepting submissions for work until November 25; you can submit here.

​***Please note that we require for those submitting work to be able to attend the event in-person to present/perform their work, if selected.