Music
Crystal Castles Toronto synth punk brats Crystal Castles rock Sound Academy Saturday night. See listing.
Raveonettes Danish noise pop duo the Raveonettes are playing both a free in-store gig at Sonic Boom and a club gig at the Phoenix Saturday night.
Derrick Carter Chicago house music icon Derrick Carter has had a long relationship with Toronto, and hits Footwork Saturday night. See listing.
The Mountain Goats The former solo project is now a trio with a great new album, and they’re hitting the Opera House Sunday night. See listing.
Community
Off the Rails Again? Keeping up with changing transit plans in the city is quite a feat these days — here’s a chance to clue in. A panel from Transport Action Ontario features transportation consultant, Ed Levy, Transport Action’s Bruce Budd and transit researcher, Karl Junkin. 1:15 p.m. Free. Metro Hall. See listing.
Slutwalk Toronto That police officer at York who told women they would be safer if they were careful not to dress like sluts sure blew it. But he was just one of many in the judicial system in the business of blaming the victim for sexual assault. Come join a march to demand some respect — organizers are inviting everyone to walk, roll, strut, holler or stomp with them. 2 pm. Free. Queen’s Park. See listing.
Stage
The War Of The Worlds Martians invaded earth way before Tom Cruise fought them in a 2005 Spielberg film. One of the creepiest versions of H.G. Wells’s story is a 1938 radio play by Orson Welles that scared the shit out of a lot of Americans. The Art of Time Ensemble stages it, complete with foley effects and music by composer Bernard Herrmann. See preview here and listing here.
Zero Hour Do you only know actor Zero Mostel as the conniving Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s hysterical film The Producers? Or as Broadway’s original Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof? There’s a lot more to the man — pain along with the laughs — as writer/performer Jim Brochu reveal in this one-man show. See review here and listing here.
Film
Images Festival of Experimental Film And Video See And Again at the always edgy fest. See listings. For a survey of the festival, see here.
Happythankyoumoreplease Josh Radnor’s sweet directorial debut makes for a great date movie. For a review, go here. And read a Q&A with Radnor.
Source Code Catch the first weekend of this kick-ass sci-fi thriller starring Jake Gyllenhall and Michelle Monaghan. For a review go here. For an interview with Monaghan go here.
Art
Images Festival Off Screen Projects Tour Curators Christopher Régimbal and cheyanne turions lead tours of the experimental moving-image festival’s Off Screen projects at 401 Richmond, at galleries including YYZ, Vtape, Trinity Square Video, Prefix, A Space and WARC. Many Images Festival shows, at 401 and elsewhere, have openings today. See listing.
Toronto Hearts Japan Narwhal Art Project/Magic Pony, the Queen Street gallery/shop specializing in local and Japanese artist-designed toys, offers art by Shary Boyle, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Balint Zsako, Alex McLeod and others to benefit the Red Cross and the Birdo Flugas Arts Centre in Shiogama. Silent auction winners will be announced at the closing reception Apr 5. At the Gladstone. See listing.
Ellie Ga The Fortunetellers is a performance/lecture that includes video and slide projections Ga began when she was an artist in residence on a scientific expedition to the North Pole in 08. Put on by the Power Plant at Harbourfront Centre’s Brigantine Room. See listing.
Last day for Maharaja Sunday is the closing day for the AGO’s blockbuster Maharaja: The Splendour Of India’s Royal Courts, a show from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum of opulent art and artifacts once or currently owned by Indian aristocrats, Also, last chance for those under 25 to get free admission to the museum. (Everyone still gets in free on Wednesday after 6 pm, though.) See listing.
Imagined Spaces/Lost Objects FADO and the Goethe Institut present four performances by women: Amalie Atkins’s Three Minute Miracle, involving a bicycle-powered film projector Juliana Barabas’s Antidote, about gestures Janine Eisenächer’s Eat Your Enemy #3, on Marina Abramovic and Coca-Cola and Laura Margita’s Madame Blanche Hears Your Confessions, about loss of control during a performance. All except Berlin-based Eisenächer are from the Prairies. At CineCycle. See listing.
