1. HELP MUSIC HEAL
Music brings light to just about everyone, but it has a special place in the lives of the elderly and people in hospital. Music Can Heal brings the power of music to these and other populations in need by engaging artists to perform for them. Support this org at the Music Can Heal Jazz Soiree on Thursday (March 31), 8 pm, at Array Space, 155 Walnut, with musicians Rita di Ghent, Ori Dagan and others. $20-$25. musiccanheal.org.
2. BUILDING UP MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Blogger Robert Moffatt (Toronto Modern) delivers a talk titled Building A Better Tomorrow, about the schools of the Toronto Board of Education, 1950-1965, on Monday (April 4) at 7 pm. It’s the first of three lectures sponsored by the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario this month on the importance of preserving Toronto’s modernist legacy in the face of development. Free. Health Sciences Building, U of T (room 610), 155 College. acotoronto.ca.
3. CLUING INTO SPORTS, SEX AND IDENTITY
Toronto helped make last summer’s Pan Am Games the most inclusive ever with a host of events aimed at encouraging diversity in sport. The conversation continues at a symposium on inclusion in sport and physical activity hosted by former Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury at Isabel Bader Theatre on Wednesday (April 6), 7 pm, with speakers Bruce Kidd, Margaret MacNeill, Michael Atkinson and Caroline Fusco. 93 Charles West. Free, pre-register 416-978-4112. eventbrite.ca.
