Music
Miike Snow The Swedish/NYC pop futurists hit Sound Academy tonight, and are bringing along some of Giorgio Morodor’s old samplers for the show. See listing.
Community
Occupy May Day Occupy Toronto re-surfaces for a show of force on the international workers’ holiday. The group, plus several supporting orgs call for folks to ditch school, work and housework and meet at 4 at Nathan Phillips Sq for a march through the downtown. At 7, protesters head to Alexander Park at Bathurst and Dundas, and at 9 pm take off again for an undisclosed location and a 24-hour re-occupation.
Art
Fillip launch Issue 16 of Vancouver-based art magazine Fillip includes contributions by Toronto artists Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky and Israeli curator/academic/activist Ariella Azoulay. Flanders and Sawatzky screen excerpts from Road Movie (NOW’s top-rated art show of 2011) and new project West Bank Atlas, and Azoulay shows excerpts from her film Civil Alliance, Palestine, 1947-1948. At Beit Zatoun. See listing.
Movies
Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation Of Cancer And The Environment The Womens Healthy Environments Network presents a pay-what-you-can screening of Chanda Chevannes’s powerful documentary about cancer and the environment. Screens May 2nd at the Centre for Social Innovation. See listing.
Stage
Crash Pamela Mala Sinha’s solo show about a woman who survives a sexual attack opens tonight at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace and runs to May 13. See related story.
