Movies
Inside Out Film Festival The 21st annual LGBT Film and Video Festival kicks off tonight with a gala screening of Ferzan Ozpetek’s Loose Cannons at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See review.
The National Parks Project Soundtrack Party The Royal holds a party for the kickass soundtrack to the anthology film about Canadian parks, with live music by Andre Ethier, Sarah Harmer and others. See listing and review of the film, which begins screening tomorrow.
Stage
The Paris/Toronto Project Parisian choreographers Alban Richard and Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh choreograph new works on the Toronto Dance Theatre troupe. Opens tonight at the Winchester Street Theatre and runs to May 28. See interview with the choreographers.
The Post Office Rabindranath Tagore’s play about an Indian boy who affects his whole town gets a terrific production by Pleiades Theatre. At the Berkeley Street Theatre until June 4. See review.
Community
Powering the Future Lovably nerdy CBC host Bob McDonald joins a panel of energy experts to discuss how to keep the lights on once the oil runs out. See listing.
Fifth Annual June Callwood Lecture Cathy Crowe, renowned Street Nurse and co-founder of the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, makes the case for why the city needs social housing programs now more than ever. Hosted by Councillor Adam Vaughan. See listing.
Music
Jennifer Castle Her tripped-out folk tunes are finally starting to get some attention, and she celebrates the release of her new disc Castlemusic tonight at the Horseshoe. See listing.
Austra This week’s cover stars are making a major impact with their debut full length Feel It Break. They play Lee’s Palace tonight. See listing.
Art
Suzy Lake In a discussion called Art With Insight Conversation: Self Image Performance, artists Lake, Johanna Householder and Chris Ironside talk about the implications of artistic practices based on their own bodies. Moderators Carla Garnet and Matthew Brower are the curators of Lake’s retrospective, Political Poetics, part of Contact at U of T Art Centre. See listing.
