Movies
Contagion Besides a little event called the Toronto International Film Festival, you can catch the new Steven Soderbergh film, about the global spread of a deadly virus. The starry international cast includes four Oscar winners: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Gwyneth Paltrow. See review.
Stage
We Ain’t Terrorists Stand-ups Dave Merheje and host Ali Hassan take a comic look at Islamophobic at the Ryerson Student Campus Centre. See listing.
Music
Jason Collett and Zeus If you like back-to-basics guitar pop, you’ll want to hit Yonge-Dundas Square tonight for a free show by Zeus and Jason Collett. See listing.
Kreayshawn People either love or hate this young Oakland rapper, but regardless, everyone is talking about her. She makes her Toronto debut tonight at the Roosevelt Room. See listing.
Art
TIFF Future Projections This Film Fest program presents visual arts exhibits around town, including James Franco’s collaboration with Gus Van Sant, Memories Of Idaho, in the Lightbox atrium Peter Lynch’s Buffalo Days installation, examining the decimation of native culture, at the ROM Gregory Crewdson’s photos of Rome’s Cinecittà at Contact Gallery Nicholas and Sheila Pye’s poetic evocation of relationship in Light As A Feather, Stiff As A Board at Birch Libralato Ben Rivers’s utopian fanatsy Slow Action at Gallery TPW Argentina’s David Lamelas’s portrait of Buenos Aires at Prefix and Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky’s Road Movie (reviewed in this issue), at O’Born’s offsite space.
Community
Welfare Rates Are Making Us Sick A conference hosted by an interesting coalition of groups from CUPE Ontario, to the Ontario Nurses Association to OCAP, makes the links between health and inequality and develops a strategy for fighting austerity and poverty. 9 am. Free. Steelworkers Hall. See listing.
Freddie For A Day Grab your Freddie Mercury get-up (moustaches available at the door) and join a funder to raise money for the AIDS Committee of Toronto and the international Mercury Phoenix Trust. The evening features performances of classic Queen and a costume competition. 9 pm. $5 min.Woody’s/Sailor. See listing.
