Music
The Decemberists The prog folk band have gone Americana on their latest album, which they’ll be showcasing tonight at Sound Academy. See listing.
Movies
The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Phil Spector Vikram Jayanti’s documentary about the murder trial that ended the follically-challenged producer and songwriter’s career continues its run at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See interview with Jayanti here and review of the film here.
Attenberg The Royal Cinema’s mini festival of contemporary Greek films continues with Athina Rachel Tsangari’s comedy drama about a young woman’s life in a crumbling industrial town. See review here.
Stage
Eternal Hydra Critic Jon Kaplan calls Anton Piatigorsky’s multilayered script about authorship, artistic genius and appropriation of voice one of the best plays of the past decade. Don’t miss this remount at the Factory, superbly directed again by Chris Abraham. See review here.
Standing On The Danforth: Jo-Anna’s Birthday Show The weekly comedy night’s host, Jo-Anna Downey, celebrates her birthday with a special show featuring Tony Krolo, Chuck Byrn, Kate Davis and other terrific comedy acts. At the Eton House. See listing here.
Community
Hajo Meyer The Auschwitz survivor, member of the Dutch GreenLeft and mideast peace activist discusses his book Never Again For Anyone with writer Lee Maracle. 7 pm. $10 or pwyc. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke, neveragainforanyone.com. See listing.
Knowing Bodies: A visual and poetic inquiry into gender, dress and the professoriate Tweak your feminist consciousness – attend a lecture by Fiona Blaikie, a prof of Curriculum Studies and Visual Art Education. Get ready to ponder the relationship between clothes, identity and social understandings of the body. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Centre for Women’s Studies in Education. See listing.
Art
Position As Desired Subtitled Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, this exhibit of contemporary and historical prints by and of African Canadians – photographers include Christina Leslie, Dawit L. Petros and Stacey Tyrell – from local curator Kenneth Montague’s collection also serves as an intervention into the first-floor Canadiana galleries at the ROM. See listing.
Books
Alison Pick Pick reads from her novel Far To Go – on NOW’s Top10 list for 2010 – at the Locke Library. See listing. For a review of Far To Go, go here.
