Community
Water Exports – Threat or Distraction? While we are already selling our precious resource in the form of bottled water- should we really contemplate sending large quantities of fresh water from the Great Lakes basin to market? Hear a discussion on the ramifications with economist Marcel Boyer, law professor Owen Saunders and Ralph Pentland of the Canadian Water Issues Council. 7 pm. $18. Royal Ontario Museum. See listing.
Street writers meet-up Bloggers, poets, street commentators – this writing workshop led by local authors, comic artists and filmmakers is your chance for a creative leap. Co-ordinated by author Emily Pohl-Weary, the class is aimed at youth 16-29 in the Parkdale area and beyond. Every Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Parkdale Library. Please register. See listing.
Stage
Divisadero: A Performance This adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s layered novel gets an incredibly atmospheric production at Theatre Passe Muraille featuring musician Justin Rutledge and Maggie Huculak. See review here.
Saint Carmen Of The Main Peter Hinton directs a superb production of the Michel Tremblay play, at the Bluma Appel Theatre. See interview with Hinton here.
Film
Roads To Perdition: The Dark Allure Of Film Noir Kevin Courrier’s monthly lecture series on film noir continues at the Revue Cinema, with a talk about good men wrongly accused of bad deeds in films like The Big Clock, Strangers Of A Train and The Wrong Man. See related story here and listing here.
Anatomy Of A Murder Otto Preminger’s courtroom classic gets a screening at TIFF Bell Lightbox. See listing here.
Music
Interpol If you’re hitting up Sound Academy tonight for gloomy post-punk revivalists Interpol, make sure you head there early enough to catch the dreamy pop of School of Seven Bells. See listing.
Art
New shows at AGO Upstairs The Art Gallery of Ontario brings out some of its Canadian holdings: Black Ice, David Blackwood’s etchings depicting the hard life in old-time Newfoundland (dramatic images of whales and icebergs, dying sealers but no baby seals), and Paterson Ewen: Inspiration And Influence, including early work and some of his best-known paintings on plywood, plus small collections of artists Ewen admired, like Paul Emile Borduas and Philip Guston.
In the free Young Gallery next to Frank restaurant, Canada’s Sameer Farooq and Paris-based Mirjam Linschooten respond to the Maharaja show with an installation – co-presented by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) – of objects collected in South Asian neighbourhoods in Toronto and the GTA. And remember, the whole place is still free to those under 25. See listing.
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