Movies
i am a good person, i am a bad person Low-budget local filmmaker Ingrid Veninger’s third feature – about a filmmaker who brings her daughter to various film festivals – opens today at the Royal, followed by a Q&A with Veninger. See review.
Stage
The Edward Bond Festival The fest celebrating the British playwright’s 50-year-career continues at various locations with readings, workshops, a political cabaret and appearances by Bond himself. See story.
Funny Girls And Dynamic Divas The annual comedy and music fundraiser for Sistering features storyteller Sandra Shamas, host Elvira Kurt and others. Tonight at the Bluma Appel. See listing.
Art
Power Ball: Quater-Life Crisis The Power Plant celebrates 25 years at its annual fundraising party, with artists Phillippe Blanchard , Sarah Febbraro, Jesse Harris, Marisa Hoicka and Jesi the Elder. See listing.
Community
Children of Gaza: An Eyewitness Account How do children process war? We get a hint from A Child’s View of Gaza, an exhibit of drawings created in art therapy class by kids after Israel’s assault in 2008. The exhibit is accompanied by a talk by Eva Bartlett, a Canadian with the International Solidarity Movement who lived with Gaza families during the invasion. 7 pm. $5 min donation. Beit Zatoun. See listing.
Take a Hike: An Evening with David Suzuki and Richard Louv Broadcaster/ecologist Suzuki and Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, talk about the amazing health benefits that being in nature provides, and why kids and others need to get into the wilds. 7 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Art Gallery of Ontario. See listing.
NXNE
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