Movies
TIFF Next Wave The festival of “young movie lovers” takes over the TIFF Bell Lightbox this weekend and includes the terrific film Fat Kid Rules The World. See reviews.
A Place Called Los Pereyra Director Andrés Livov-Macklin’s vérité film about a tiny village in northern Argentina gets a week of screenings at the Projection Booth. See listing.
Hitler: The Comedy Years Jacques Peretti’s fascinating doc about the figure of Hitler being used in British and American TV comedy gets a screening Sunday as part of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, at the Al Green. See review.
Stage
The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs (And The Repudiation And Redemption Of Mike Daisey)
Mike Daisey’s exposé of inhumane working practices in an Apple plant in China gets a production that includes material about how Daisey stretched the truth. At a site-specific locale twice this closing weekend. See review and interview with director Mitchell Cushman.
From The House Of Mirth James Kudelka’s adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel includes opera, ballet and text. At the Citadel until Sunday. See listing.
Community
Peoples’ Assembly on Climate Justice This is the fourth assembly hosted by a roster of groups including Greenpeace Canada, Council of Canadians, Kairos Toronto, Mining Watch Canada, OCAP, and several more. Expect workshops, plenaries and breakout groups and lots of strategy talk. Saturday, May 12, 10 am-4 pm. PWYC. Walter Stewart Library. See listing.
The Art, Science and Spirit of Decolonization It’s a fancy title, but this workshop, hosted by Mayworks, aims to explore how supporting indigenous culture and ancient wisdom traditions promote decolonization and community building. It features Zainab Amadahy, an activist of African-American and Cherokee heritage, and author of the novel, Moons of Palmares. Saturday, May 12, 1 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall. See listing.
Remembering our Public Services Mayworks and the Department of Public Memory host a creative workshop aimed at keeping the memory of lost public services alive. The Department compiles data from Torontonians about the rich history of the public realm now diminishing daily. Help further their work at this participatory event. Sunday, May 13, 1-3 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall. See listing.
Music
Soul Clap The Boston dance music duo go deep Saturday night at Footwork. See listing.
Ty Segall The psychedelic garage rocker plays the Horseshoe Saturday night. See listing.
Art
Louise Liliefeldt Part of the Mayworks festival of working people and the arts, Liliefeldt’s painting/installation show If I Were A Monument explores the issue of loneliness and isolation experienced by caregivers and the people they care for. She does a performance at tonight’s reception. At Toronto Free Gallery. See listing.
Jack Chambers Final day for the Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place And Life, a retrospective of the late London, Ontario-based artist’s remarkably diverse oeuvre, from surrealist dream paintings made in Spain to photo-based realist landscapes and interiors and experimental films. At the AGO. See listing.
