Music
Bruce Peninsula and Jennifer Castle The SummerWorks Festival music series continues tonight at the Lower Ossington Theatre with two great Canadian acts: Bruce Peninsula and Jennifer Castle. See listing.
Addison Groove Usually we’d recommend the authentic version of any regional dance music subgenre, but Addison Groove’s British reworking of Chicago juke has a lot going for it. He hits the always awesome Galapagos party at the Drake tonight (the last of which was the infamous SBTRKT show at Wrongbar where Drake showed up to spit a verse). See listing.
Movies
Moonstruck The romantic comedy that won Cher an Oscar kicks off TIFF Cinematheque’s Norman Jewison retrospective, with Jewison, star Olympia Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley in attendance. 7 pm. See listing.
Open Roof Festival The fest features a screening of Rodman Flender’s terrific doc Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, as well as a performance by Band Locomotive. Amsterdam Brewery. Seeinterview with director Flender and our original review. See listing.
Stage
Little One NOW’s cover girl Hannah Moscovitch returns to SummerWorks with Little One, about a secret between two adopted Ottawa siblings. Tonight at 10:30 pm at Theatre Passe Muraille. See review.
Dance: Made In Canada/fait au canada – Baker series The dance festival kicks off tonight with a series curated by Peggy Baker, with Heidi Strauss and Darryl Tracy, Marie-Josée Chartier, Jung-Ah Chung and Keiko Ninomiya. At the Betty Oliphant Theatre. See listing.
Books
A Queer Story Farzana Doctor, Vivek Shraya and Zoe Whittall read from their works and hold a workshop at Another Story Bookshop. See reviews of Doctor’s and Whittall’s latest novels. See listing.
Art
Art Fag City: The Sound Of Art In a live performance, sound artists Paul Slocum from Brooklyn and Lewis Kaye from Toronto remix Art Fag City’s LP The Sound Of Art, which includes, among other things, ambient sound from New York galleries, stampeding animals, Hebrew prayer, guitar by John Fahey and archival sound pieces by conceptualist Lawrence Weiner. This is the first stop on Art Fag City founder Paddy Johnson’s tour, in which artists in cities all over North America are invited to remix the album. At Mercer Union. See listing.
Book: Burning Questions Designer Gilbert Li, Harlequin creative director Margie Miller, Random House VP Scott Richardson, Bruce Mau creative director Laura Stein and Globe arts writer/novelist Kate Taylor discuss the future of the book and the publishing industry in conjunction with the exhibit Out Of Sorts: Print Culture & Book Design, at the Design Exchange. See listing.
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