Community
Economics, Equality and Democracy Find out how the growing gap between the super-rich and everyone else affects politics and democracy — hear Armine Yainizyan, of the progressive Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives decode the recession and its consequences. 7 pm. Free. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Pk. See listing.
Music
Jessica Lea Mayfield The talented young singer has been able to turn her dating disasters into songwriting gold, and plays the Drake Hotel tonight. See listing.
Art
Peggy Ahwesh Ahwesh’s The Ape Of Nature includes handblown glass sculptures, industrial objects and videos of characters in an opulent mansion and glass-blowers at Pittsburgh’s Kopp Glass factory, through which she looks at the vanishing industrialism of the American Rust Belt. Part of the Off-Screen program of the Images Festival at the Gladstone. See listing.
Movies
The King’s Speech Haven’t yet caught this year’s big Oscar winner? Check it out at the Revue. Find it in the listings and read a review.
Stage
paper SERIES Six short plays look, with humour and heartbreak, at the pressures that seem to be inherent in loving someone or something fervently, especially when that love comes to an end. And don’t worry about the seeming waste of paper this is in fact an ecologically wise production (see comments following review here). See listings here.
Our Class Catch the first preview of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s powerful play about 10 Catholic and Jewish friends in a Polish village, from their childhood in the 1920s through the Second World War and up to 2000. Expect to be moved and made to think. See listing here.