Movies
Rio If you missed North America’s #1 box office draw, check out the animated pic about two macaws today – the theatres should be a lot less crowded. See review.
Gasland The Annette Public Library presents a free screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary. See our original review and the listing for the 6:30 pm screening.
Stage
The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union That title is a mouthful, but advance buzz is positive for David Greig’s look at various types of communication, now in previews at the Bluma Appel. See interview with actor Fiona Byrne.
Alt.COMedy Lounge The Rivoli’s weekly night of alternative comedy features the Doo Wops, Pat Thornton, Sara Hennessey, Kevin Herod and MC Ryan Belleville, who alone is worth the pwyc admission. See listing.
Community
Bearing Witness, Creating Hope Help celebrate Rabble.ca‘s ten years of reporting on and chewing over issues dear to progressive hearts with this mixture of party and panel discussion featuring Judy Rebick and others. 7 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel. See listing.
Save the High Park Mounds Stimulate your historical imagination – come to a meeting aimed at saving 57 ancient aboriginal burial mounds in the park hosted by Friends of Snake Mound and the Taiaiaiko’n Historical Preservation Society. (Taiaiaiko’n was an ancient Seneca-Mohawk village located in the current Baby Point.) Providing a media presentation and speaking to the issue will be Rastia’ts’non:ha and Laurie Waters. 7-9 pm. Free. Tinto Coffee House. See listing.
Music
The Pixies The alt-rock legends continue their seemingly endless reunion tour with a two-night stand at Massey Hall. See listing.
Art
The In/Visibility Of Political Art A forum at Lakeside Terrace in connection with the Power Plant’s current exhibits by Thomas Hirschhorn and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle discusses political artists who choose to work covertly, with artist/writer Marisa Jahn and art history prof Claire Bishop, who’s written on Hirschhorn. It’s followed by a book launch for Byproduct: On The Excess Of Embedded Art Practices, edited by Jahn, at the Power Plant. See listing.
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