Movies
Prom Night The Revue Cinema screens the original 1980 slasher film about a prom gone wrong starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen (!). See listing.
Stage
Iphigenia In Tauris Robert Carsen’s world-renowned production of the Gluck opera opens the Canadian Opera Company season tonight, starring Russell Braun and the world’s foremost interpreter of the title role, Susan Graham. See Q&A with Graham.
His Greatness Daniel MacIvor’s play inspired by Tennessee Williams’s visit to Vancouver in 1980 opens at the Factory Studio with a cast that includes Richard Donat, Greg Gale and MacIvor himself. See interview with Gale.
Music
Manifesto: Culture Clash The annual hip-hop festival is still going on, and tonight they team up with Red Bull to throw a four-soundsystem sound clash at the Molson Amphitheatre, featuring acts like Afrika Bambaataa, Boi-1da, Hudson Mohawke, Dillon Francis and many others competing against each other for the audience’s affections. See listing.
Art
Raqs Media Collective The Delhi-based collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddharbrata Sengupta), veterans of international events like Documenta, the Venice Biennale and Manifesta who work in filmmaking, research on urbanism and installation art addressing urban life in South Asia, open Surjection, a show of entirely new work at the Art Gallery of York University. York’s free Performance Bus takes you to the reception from OCADU, with onboard fun courtesy of local video/installation artist Oliver Husain’s Bingo Dilemma. See listing.
Community
Election Dialogue on Health and Social Issues It’s called a dialogue, but you better believe it’s a showdown, as reps from the parties battling in the Ontario election face-off over vital community issues. Hosted by The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the meeting’s bound to ask key questions. 6:30 pm. Free. St Michael Hospital. See listing.
Toronto Centre Candidates Debate Here’s a chance to see street nurse and homeless advocate Cathy Crowe, running for the NDP, go head to head on local issues with voluble Lib Glen Murray at a meeting hosted by The 519 and Xtra! 7 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. See listing.
