Music
Motörhead Lemmy and the boys rock out at Kool Haus Saturday night. See listing.
Asobi Seksu and Brahms Two buzz-worthy electro-influenced bands hit the Horseshoe Sunday. See listing.
Books
Bonnie Bowman If her book Spaz is any indication, Bowman’s appearance at the Holy Oak Cafe should be very entertaining. See listing here. For a review of Spaz go to see here.
Chris Jericho Admit it. Some of you out there are wrestling fans. So check out Jericho when he signs his book Undisputed: How To Become The World Champion In 1,372 steps, even if you have to haul your ass to Mississauga on a Sunday. See listing.
Stage
CanAsian International Dance Festival Don’t miss the wrap-up of the 10th anniversary of the exciting pan-Asian fest of dance. See interview with choreographer/dancer Peter Chin, who performs on Saturday, here.
Hasta La Vista Danforth The Bad Dog Theatre goes out with a big woof this Saturday, with a whole slate of shows. See related news story here, and Q&A with three of Saturday’s performers here.
Film
Of Gods And Men Xavier Beauvois’s Cannes winner about a group of Trappist monks was unfairly shut out of the best foreign-language Oscar race. See it at the TIFF Bell Lightbox this weekend and then casually mention its exclusion from the awards while you’re watching them with friends on Sunday. See review here.
The Oscars Speaking of the film industry’s big night, make sure you read Norman Wilner’s piece on who should (and will) win the hardware. And make sure you follow @nowtoronto for his live tweets on the big night.
Community
Let the Right not Prevail Lucky we’ve got the Law Union of Ontario and its annual conference to sound the alarm on all matters of legal injustice. This year’s panels discuss Charter rights to housing, the anti-immigrant agenda, cruelty in the prison system and a host of other matters. Speakers include Peter Rosenthal, Paula Rochman, Kara Gillies, Julian Falconer and lots more. Plus there’s a don’t-miss session on G20 policing featuring Andre Marin and Ian Scott. 8:30 am-5:15 pm. Pwyc (sugg $20), professionals $60. Hart House. See listing.
Support the People of Libya In the midst of the horrendous attacks on democracy fighters by Gaddafi forces, come and join the global cry to stop the violence. Noon. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. See listing.
Circle of Life: Plant Kingdom High Park’s Volunteer Stewardship Program, the group working to restore the park’s ancient Savannah, hosts a talk by Cree elder Andrew Wesley on traditional First Nation medicine, spirituality and the use of Ontario plants in healing. On Sunday. See listing.
Art
Luis Jacob Local-boy-made-good Jacob gives a tour of Pictures At An Exhibition, his art show about art shows that plays with the idea of the eye looking at an arrangement of rectangles, and Cabinet, his selection of works from the National Gallery in Ottawa that kinda do the same. (Further reading: James Putnam’s excellent book Art And Artifact: The Museum As Medium surveys other artists who comment on museum and gallery conventions.) 1 pm at MOCCA. See listing.
Here And Now The Gibraltar Point Artscape Lodge on Toronto Islands holds a night of performance by Yuula Benivolski, Lisa Cristinzo and others, video by Jamie Callum Ross, Anna-May Henry, Geoffrey Pugen, Laura McCoy and others from Canada, the UK and the U.S., plus an open studio for Kat Burns’s An Hour Of My Time project. A shuttle bus takes people there from the Ward’s Island ferry docks at 5:30 pm. See listing.
El Anatsui Last day for the Ghanaian-born, Nigeria-based artist’s retrospective of installations, sculptures, ceramics and the glittering bottle-cap “tapestries” for which he became internationally renowned. Our number-one show of 2010 now heads to New York’s new Museum for African Art on 5th Avenue. Art critic Sarah Milroy leads a tour at 2 pm. At the ROM. See listing.
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