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Daily Tipsheet: Tuesday, March 15

Music

Heartstrings Live Tonight at Supermarket, local music film collective HeartstringsTV launch their new HeartstringsLIVE series, which features performances by Broken Bricks, People You Know, Brooklyn Pryce and DJs Bangs & Blush. They’ll also be screening some of their short films, and all proceeds go to MusiCounts. See listing.

Movies

The Big Heat Fritz Lang’s 1953 noir classic – famous for its controversial scene of a woman (Gloria Grahame) being maimed by scalding coffee – screens at TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the Hollywood Classics series. See listing.

Stage

Tom Green The Ottawa-born shock comic (and former Mr. Drew Barrymore) plays the first of two nights of headlining sets at Yuk Yuk’s Downtown. See listing.

Morro And Jasp Gone Wild The Fringe veteran clown siblings head out to Spring break and have a coming-of-age trip in this show for adults. At Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace. See listing.

Community

Demo Against Police Brutality Many activists say the G20 happens everyday in black, First Nations and immigrant communities – join OCAP and other groups as they honor the International Day by focusing on intimidation and harassment by law enforcement officers. 5 pm. Free. Front and Parliament. ocap.ca

The Dangers of Climate Change and the Legacy of Hope Oxford prof Henry Shue, author of Basic Rights, a book on international justice, and expert on the conduct of war, lends his expertise to the repercussions of global warming. 3 pm. Free. The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place. Register online.

Art

Mona Hatoum UK-based Palestinian artist Hatoum, whose sculptures (like the AGO’s hairy black cube), installations, photography and videos evoke conflicting emotion of revulsion and fascination, speaks at the Power Plant tonight. Hatoum was recently named winner of the 2011 Joan Miró Prize. See listing.

Seen But Not Heard Celebrate the upcoming carnivalesque Jewish holiday of Purim with a talk by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, a comics workshop with Sarah Lazarovic and traditional treats, in conjunction with the Koffler’s Graphic Details: Confessional Comics By Jewish Women show at the Gladstone. $15. See listing.

Books

Charles Foran The author of Mordecai: The Life & Times, his Charles Taylor prizewinning biography of Mordecai Richler, appears at Ryerson’s Oakham House. See listing.

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