Community
Occupy, Protest, Resist The Law Union of Ontario’s annual conference never disappoints. This year’s topical agenda features a keynote by Mike Layton entitled Loving, Hopeful and Optimistic and panels on indigenous struggles for the land, the Occupy encampment, back to work legislation, the Tory crime agenda and more. Participants include lawyers Paul Copeland, Clayton Ruby, Paul Cavalluzo, Julian Falconer and others. 8:30 am-5:30 pm. Professionals $60, stu & community pwyc. U of T Victoria College. See listing.
The Geopolitics of War and Sanctions Against Iran Tension between Iran and the West is mounting dangerously with covert killings of Iranian nuke scientists and a widening war of words. Science for Peace hosts this day-long teach-in featuring Sara Flounders of the International Action Centre, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targh, prof of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations at U of T, Yves Engel, author of the Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy and others. 10:45am to 5 pm. $10 or pwyc. 100 St. George. See listing.
Rob Ford radio We won’t encourage you to listen to the mayor’s right wing talk radio stint on Sunday, but we will encourage you to tune into our live tweeting of the first NewsTalk 1010 show. Follow along here.
Music
Out Of This Spark Fifth Anniversary The local indie label celebrates five years in the business Saturday at the Tranzac with a stacked line-up of talent. See listing.
Crosswires A new PWYC weekly showcase called Crosswires launches Sunday night at the Garrison, with performances by Julie Doiron, the Pinecones and more. See listing.
Movies
The Oscars Of course Sunday is the big night for the movie industry. Follow our live tweeting of the affair here. Or go watch the night on the big screen here.
How To Die In Oregon Not interested in the films the Academy deems worthy? Check out this powerful HBO doc only playing a handful of shows at the Projection Booth. Read about it here.
Stage
Nubian Disciples All Black Comedy Revue Host Kenny Robinson returns with his comedy night, featuring headliner Arthur Simeon. More laughs from Nicholas Reynolds, Jon Caesar, Zabrina Chevannes, Azfar Ali, Trevor Annon, Brian Francis and others. See listing.
Divisadero: A Performance If you haven’t seen it yet, catch one of the last few performances of Necessary Angel’s staging of the first part of Michael Ondaatje’s novel. Daniel Brooks directs a first-rate cast that includes Maggie Huculak and Tom McCamus. Poetic, suggestive and generally mesmerizing. Through Sunday. See mini review and listing.
Art
An Audience Of Enablers Cannot Fail This Saturday is the final screening of films from UK feminist archive Cinenova, running every Saturday in February at Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue’s Feminist Art Gallery. The program happens in conjunction with the AGYU’s Will Munro retrospective and the Power Plant’s queer group show Coming After. Today’s films are selected by Michèle Pearson Clarke, Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed. See listing.
Contemporary Art bus tour The tour starts at noon on Sunday at Flavio Trevisan’s installation Museum Of The Represented City at Koffler’s offsite 80 Spadina location, then drives to shows at three suburban university galleries: Seripop’s (Chloe Lum and Yannick Desraunleau) Landscapes Events Reproducted installation at UTM’s Blackwood Gallery AGYU’s Will Munro retrospective, History, Glamour, Magic and The C Word: A Look At The Role Of Craft In Contemporary Art, at UTS’s Doris McCarthy Gallery. Reserve through Blackwood. See listing.
