Movies
Hot Docs Film Festival Look for screenings today of NOW critic’s picks like Better This World (4:15 pm), Family Portrait In Black And White (4:30 pm), Beauty Day (7:30 pm) and a new review of Memoirs Of A Plague (9:45 pm) at our festival minisite.
Stage
The Railway Children This stage adaptation of the Edith Nesbit novel about enterprising children in Edwardian England continues in previews at the new Roundhouse Theatre. See listing.
The Carnegie Hall Show The very funny National Theatre of the World presents their weekly night of improvised scenes and an old-fashioned radio show, along with variety acts. At Bread & Circus. See listing.
Art
Carlos Cazalis/Larry Fink and Alain LeFort Two of many Contact shows with receptions tonight: in Urban Shadows at Pikto, photojournalist Cazalis examines the impact of cities on inhabitants and the environment in Japan, Iran, Mexico, Brazil and Bangladesh Neubacher Shor’s show Paradise has both figure (Fink’s iconic depictions of beatniks in 50s New York) and ground (LeFort’s recent digital series charting the circumference of a Quebec island). Fink gives a talk tomorrow. See listing for Cazalis. And see listing for Fink and LeFort.
Books
Alissa York/Paul Vermeesch/Farzana Doctor/Amy Lavender Harris NOW’s Susan G. Cole hosts a series of readings and a Q&A with foyr notable Toronto authors. See listing. For a review of York’s novel Fauna, see here. For a review of Doctor’s Six Metres Of Pavement, see here.
Don Pyle The musician and T.O.-lover launches Trouble In The Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative Of Toronto’s Punk History with a narrative slide show, an on-stage interview and a performance by Ugly, at the Garrison. See listing, and read a story about it here.
Music
Trouble In The Camera Club Former Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet drummer Don Pyle celebrates the release of his new book Trouble In The Camera Club tonight at the Garrison, which chronicles the early days of punk rock in Toronto. And seeing as it’s a music book, there will be performances by members of the Sadies, Fucked Up, Fifth Column, Teenage Head and many more. See listing.
