Movies
The Future Is Now! Directors Jim Brown and Gary Burns, who made the terrific Radiant City, fuse elements of fiction and documentary to look at social change and philosophy. See interview with the filmmakers and review.
Defending The Indefensible Film Series Adam Nayman defends the merits of the 2004 Ashton Kutcher film The Butterfly Effect, while NOW’s Norman Wilner tries to prove he’s wrong before and after a screening of the movie. At the Toronto Underground Cinema. See listing.
Stage
Svadba – Wedding This Serbian a cappella opera looks at a bride and her female friends before the big nuptials. At the Berkeley Street Theatre. See interview with singer Carla Huhtanen.
Kristeen von Hagen The Canadian-born but now New York City-based stand-up comic performs through Saturday at Yuk Yuk’s Downtown. See listing.
Community
Critical Mass Ride Your chance to pedal through the busy downtown with hundreds of other cyclists and demonstrate that T.O.’s roads need urgent sharing. It’s fun and makes good political hay. Meet up at Bloor and Spadina. 6 pm. Free. See listing.
Music
Lynn Miles Award-winning Ottawa singer/songwriter Lynn Miles plays Hugh’s Room tonight. See listing.
NOFX Punk pop pioneers NOFX kick off two nights at Kool Haus tonight. See listing.
Art
That’s So Gay dance The Gay Straight Alliance holds a party in conjunction with the Gladstone’s Pride show of art that is “queer” by artists not necessarily of LGBT sexual orientation, including Fastwürms, Shary Boyle, Cecilia Berkovic, Team Macho, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby and Alison SM Kobayashi. Music by Brendan Canning, Cozmic Cat and others. At the Gladstone. See listing.
SUM° Toronto Free Gallery’s The Bridge vegan dinner/discussion series features a performance involving dough that will reappear in the meal and a talk entitled …Ba? La. Ha? Yes. Ra? Evet. Ya? Da: Searching For Points Of Conjunction Between Languages. Art historian Jessica Wyman moderates with SUM° members Alize Zorlutuna, Bojana Vidkanic, Nahed Mansour and Reena Katz. Their show, A Space Without Coordinates, runs at Toronto Free. See listing.
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