Music
Gilles Peterson Legendary UK jazz funk DJ Gilles Peterson makes an appearance at the Mod Club Saturday night as part of the Havana Cultura festival. See listing.
Blue Rodeo The Canadian roots rock heroes play the Molson Amphitheatre Saturday, with support from Steve Earle. See listing.
M.O.T.O. Pioneering garage rockers M.O.T.O. kick out the jams at Parts & Labour Sunday night. See listing.
Movies
Conan The Barbarian Jason Momoa’s too gym-body pretty as the title character in the trashy sword-and-sorcery flick. But look for good action, a terrific horse-and-carriage chase and a battle with sand demons that recalls the work of Ray Harryhausen. See review.
Senna This documentary about the charismatic Brazilian Formula 1 racer who died way too young has all the momentum and sweeping emotion of any big-budget feature. See review.
Stage
Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Look for dance by Swar Sadhana, Dandiya Rass, Sansrikiti Arts and others at the always-fun South Asian arts fest. Through Sunday at Harbourfront. See listing.
Theatresports The legendary improv company presents a series of matches in their new location, Saturday nights at the Comedy Bar. See listing.
Community
Green Urban Living Trade Show Eco stuff to buy and some to think about at this trade fair featuring green non-profits, charities and independent businesses aimed at helping you keep your own personal sustainability pledge. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Central YMCA Green Room. See listing.
Laneway Bike Tours It’s the quirky things that make a city great and often these are out of sight – join these two alleyway tours and check in with hidden Toronto. One covers Corktown, Cabbagetown and the Distillery District. 11 am. Free. Distillery Gates. The other explores Riverdale and Queen E. 1 pm. Both Sunday. Free. NE corner Withrow Park. See here for the first tour, and here for the second.
Art
Ruth Orkin To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orkin’s famous photograph American Girl In Italy, depicting a young woman on her own harassed by a bevy of men on a Florentine street, Stephen Bulger mounts a show of photos Orkin shot in 1951 in the Italian city. The girl, painter Ninalee Craig, aka Jinx Allen, now lives in Toronto and will be at today’s reception. The gallery also screens a documentary, Ruth Orkin: Frames Of Life, and the 1953 feature Little Fugitive, co-written by Orkin and directed by her husband, Morris Engel. Daughter Mary Engel introduces the films. At Stephen Bulger/Camera. See listing.
Last chance: Edward Burtynsky/Greg Girard Sunday is the final day for shows by two of Canada’s finest photographers: Girard’s Hanoi Calling: One Thousand Years Now, vibrant big colour prints that make you feel you are there from his project celebrating the millennial anniversary of the Vietnamese metropolis, at Monte Clark Gallery and Burtynsky’s Oil, large-format prints in three sections (Extraction And Refinement, Transportation And Motor Culture, and The End Of Oil) documenting our fossil fuel addiction, at the ROM.
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