Movies
X-Men: First Class Director Matthew Vaughn gets the action franchise about warring mutants back on track with this well-made origins story starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence. See review.
Le Quattro Volte If you’re in a philosophical mood, Michelangelo Frammartino’s beautiful film about a goat herder who’s reincarnated several times should do the trick. See review.
Stage
Tim Minchin The wild-haired Australian singing comic performs with a 55-piece orchestra at a sold-out show at the Winter Garden tonight. See interview with Minchin.
Chocolate Woman Dreams The Milky Way Monique Mojica performs in her show about her ancestral roots in Panama’s Kuna culture. On at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. See interview with Mojica.
Music
Jonny The side project of Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci’s Euros Childs kicks off a two night stand tonight at the Drake. See listing.
Community
Commemorating Victims of Gold Community members there weren’t even allowed to publicly mourn the seven killed by police earlier this month at African Barrick’s North Mara gold mine in Tanzania. Come join a vigil and memorial for the fallen, starting fittingly at U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs, the centre financed by and named after Barrick chair Peter Munk. 6 pm. Free. See listing.
Art
Washi Summit The celebration of Japanese paper holds a kickoff event tonight, Washi Off The Wall, with a launch of Linda Lundström’s Floating Washi Walls and Lei Li’s Wearable Washi collection, plus sushi, live music and prize draws. At the Japanese Paper Place. (The Summit also features exhibits at the Japanese Paper Place, the Department, Upstairs @111 Bathurst, David Kaye Gallery, Bookhou, Open Studio Gallery, Naco Gallery, Freedom Clothing Collective and Meredith Keith Gallery.) See listing.
