Music
Jack Marks The local folky has a new disc out, and he’s playing the charming Dakota Tavern tonight. See listing.
Kyle Hall The up-and-coming young Detroit techno and house producer DJs the Drake Hotel tonight. See listing.
Stage
Fool For Love Sam Shepard’s tragicomedy about two lovers in a run-down motel continues its run at the Meta Gallery on Ossington. See review here.
Assassins It’s the final week for this remount of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s savage satire about presidential assassins and the American dream. At the Theatre Centre. See review here.
Film
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance The sequel to the successful anime feature screens tonight at select theatres, then gets a regular run beginning Friday at Canada Square. See listings.
Incendies Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar short-listed film screens as part of Canada’s Top 10 tonight at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and then opens commercially tomorrow. See interview with Villeneuve here and review of the film here.
Art
Alfredo Jaar Prefix’s Urban Field Speakers Series and LACAP (Latin American Canadian Art Projects) bring in New York-based Chilean installation artist, architect and filmmaker Jaar (alfredojaar.net) to give a talk called It Is Difficult, about his latest commissions to design memorials for the victims of state terrorism, including one in his homeland and another in Rwanda. 7 pm at Prefix. See listing.
Community
Report back from Cancun What really happened at those climate talks back in December? Hear from those who witnessed the deliberations – Council of Canadians’ Andrea Harden, Kairos’ John Dillion and the Toronto Climate Campaign’s Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu. 7 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall. See listing.
City budget hearings This is your chance to hear activists and community leaders weigh in on the weirdness of the Rob Ford budget. Come and show moral support. 6 pm. Free. York Civic Centre. See listing.
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