Film
In A Better World Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies lost the best foreign language film Oscar to this deserving film by Susanne Bier, the director of After The Wedding. See interview with Bier and review of the film.
Daydream Nation Nick And Norah’s Kat Dennings demonstrates real star power as a high school student who falls for her teacher (Josh Lucas). See our TIFF cover story with Dennings and review of the film.
Stage
Our Class Don’t miss Studio 180’s fine production of the acclaimed 2009 drama about how an atrocity affects a Polish town’s children decades later. At the Berkeley Street Theatre. See review.
Still Here Heidi Strauss, a frequent artist on NOW’s annual list of the year’s best dance, presents a new work as part of the Factory Theatre’s Spring Performance Festival. See listing.
Music
Raekwon The Wu-Tang Clan veteran goes solo tonight at the Opera House. See listing.
Art
Joe Fleming For his Extra Parts show, Toronto abstract painter Fleming makes big, muscular gestures on textured canvas and other found surfaces. At General Hardware Contemporary. See listing.
Sanaugaq: Things Made By Hand U of T museum studies MA candidates have put together this exhibit exploring the relationship between commercialism and the origins of the Inuit art industry. Closes tomorrow at U of T Art Centre. See listing.
Community
Green Living Show Sure its consumerism, but at least this three day extravaganza of displays and gear is passionately earth-friendly. Friday’s panels include Emily Hunter, daughter of the late Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter, Faisal Moola, of the David Suzuki Foundation, songwriter Alyssa Reid and more. Apr 15 to 16, 10 am-9 pm Apr 17, 10 am-6 pm. $12, stu/srs $9, children free. Direct Energy Centre. See listing.
Toronto Anarchist Book Fair Your chance to experience the hardcore of the anti-capitalist movement the event includes book and zine displays as well as a full schedule of workshops on topics like alternative media, organizing strategies, anarcho-nutritionism, civil war history, indigenous resistance and more. Runs to Apr 17, 6 pm. 7 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall and the Bahen Centre. See listing.
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