Maybe I’ve been too deep in the spring festival cycle to notice, but the Earth Day festivities seem a little quiet this year. I mean, sure, Disney releases its annual nature documentary today, but that’s about the only thing going on, megaplex-wise.
One venue isn’t letting Earth Day slip past unrecognized: the Projection Booth out in Leslieville is celebrating the greenest of holidays with a gala fundraiser tonight (Friday) at 8 pm. The movie being screened? Why, the mother of all eco-kaiju movies, Yoshimitsu Banno’s 1971 non-classic Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster. That’s the one where the King of the Monsters battles a sentient sludge beast called Hedorah. No, it’s not important how the sludge became a beast. It’s a Japanese monster movie.
Tickets – available here – are $12 one dollar from each admission goes to the David Suzuki Foundation, and another to the Toronto Environmental Alliance. There will be drinks and door prizes, and if Gaia allows it, the evening will end in a drunken singalong to the movie’s spectacularly awful theme song.
And remember, if you don’t recycle, Godzilla will rise from the deep and eat your house. Honestly, why would you want to risk pissing off a 300-foot-tall lizard who breathes radioactive fire? Just separate your paper and plastics. Jeez!
(Happy Earth Day, everyone. Don’t drink and drive.)
