Community
West End Casserole Another grand beating of pots and pans in solidarity with the Quebec uprising and against austerity. 8 pm. Free. Dufferin Grove Park. See listing.
Stand Against the Federal Budget Bill Join rallies to oppose the Conservative’s omnibus bill. 5:30 pm. Free. MP Joe Oliver’s office (Lawrence and Bathurst) and MP Roxanne James’s office. See listing.
Movies
Tectonic Plates In honour of the Luminato production of Robert Lepage’s Playing Cards 1 (see below), TIFF Bell Lightbox presents a screening of Peter Mettler’s 1992 adaptation of the Quebec genius’s theatre piece. See listing.
Stage
Playing Cards 1: Spades The first part of Robert Lepage’s projected tetralogy of multimedia works opens tonight at the Tanenbaum Opera Centre and runs to Sunday. See listing.
Chroma/Song Of A Wayfarer/Elite Syncopations The National Ballet presents a program of short ballets by Wayne McGregor, Maurice Béjart and Kenneth McMillan. From tonight to Sunday at the Four Seasons Centre. See listing.
Art
Michael Caines and Balint Zsako In Bad Manners, Caines’s paintings and drawings, mostly of dogs, make ironic po-mo comments and social and media critiques but are still good fun, while Zsako explores the terrain of bodily functions and human interaction in Appetite, graceful, imaginative coloured ink and wash figure drawings.
See listing.
Music
NXNE has begun. See a full page of tips for Wednesday here.