Music
Jackson Browne The iconic politically-conscious singer-songwriter plays Massey Hall tonight. See listing.
Art
Rabih Mroué The charismatic Lebanese theatre, video and performance artist, who won New York Performance Space 122’s Spadling Gray Award last year, gives a performance/talk called The Inhabitants Of Images, also the title of his powerful, profound and sometimes humorous show. Perhaps Mroué will update his video I, The Undersigned (he’s changed its title to The People Are Demanding for an exhibit in London) with material on the current uprisings in the Middle East. A highlight of the Urban Field Speakers Series at Prefix. See listing.
C Magazine auction A sale of work by Sara Angelucci, Celia Berkovic, BGL, Bruno BIllio, Ulysses Castellanos, Dave Dyment, Fastwürms, Eliza Griffiths, Kristan Horton, Luis Jacob, Micah Lexier, Ed Pien, Melanie Rocan, Monica Tap, Kara Uzelman and just about everybody who’s had a show in a major T.O. gallery benefits the Toronto-based art magazine. $75 admission includes food, drinks and a one-year subscription. At MOCCA. See listing.
Books
Howard Jacobson The author of the Booker winning novel The Finkler Question – what we think is the best fiction ever written about Jews in the western diaspora – appears at the Reference Library. And it’s free. See listing.
Movies
Dogtooth Totally weird pic – nominated for an Oscar in this year’s foreign language category – about three kids who grow up in isolation and ignorant of the outside world screens at the Bloor. See Listings at See listings, and read a review of the film.
Stage
Suddenly Mommy! Anne Marie Scheffler knows how to bring real heart to her laughs. Her latest show about modern motherhood, a Fringe hit, is full of insights as well as knowing chuckles. See listing.
After Akhmatova A Russian poet’s defiant verse written while Stalin was in power has a various meanings to the son she neglected and, years later, to the academic who idolizes the woman. Kate Cayley’s subtle play captures a regime ruled by fear. See review and check the listing.
