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Weekend Tipsheet: Jan 15-16

Music

Promise DJ Skate Party The team behind the Promise Cherry Beach parties takes over Harbourfront Saturday night, with NOW Music Editor Benjamin Boles as one of the guest DJs. See listing, and here’s a picture of Benjamin spinning the skating party in 2008.

Tokyo Police Club The popular Newmarket band are joined by highly rated Irish rockers Two Door Cinema Club for a sweaty show at Kool Haus. See listing.

Muskox This local jazz act manages to blend the experimental and the traditional with exciting results. You can catch them Sunday night playing one of their regular gigs at the Tranzac. See listing.

Little Dragon The trippy Swedish pop band have had a pretty consistently strong shows every time they hit Toronto. Hopefully they’ll continue that winning streak Sunday night at Wrongbar. See listing.

Stage

Rising star Haley McGee makes great debut with her charming solo show about a teen searching for clues about her dead mother. The show’s on until Jan 29, with two performances on Saturday. at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Backspace. See review here.

Laugh Sabbath The weekly night of alternative comedy each Sunday at the Rivoli presents its “Talent Night,” with a solid bill that includes Sara Hennessey, Adam Christie, Poppa Proppa, host James Hartnett and others. See listing here.

Ruined No less than Oprah has her eye on a film version of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a brothel during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This co-production between Obsidian Theatre and Nightwood Theatre begins previews on Sunday at the Berkeley Street Theatre. See listing here.

Film

Breathless In homage to the Godard classic, Korea’s Yang Ik-joon has created a terrific crime film about a sociopathic gangster (played by the director himself) and a relatively innocent girl (Kim Kot-bi). Screens this week at the Carlton. See review here.

Mary Pickford And The Invention Of The Movie Star TIFF Bell Lightbox’s free exhibition about America’s sweetheart (and silent film icon) Pickford (who happened to be Canadian) gets paired with a series of films (at regular price) that she made, including this weekend’s screenings of Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm and Sparrows. See related story here.

Golden Globe Awards The controversial Hollywood Foreign Press Association hands out their awards honouring the best in TV and film. The free-flowing champagne always makes for great WTF moments at the podium. Check out NOW’s live tweeting of the event on Sunday night at 8 pm (@nowtoronto).

Community

Anarchist Studies Network Conference A weekend-long talkfest of academics, independent scholars and activists discuss a dizzying array of topics, from anarchist urban design, to the history of Jewish anarchism, food politics, the greening of anarchy and so much more. 9am-2pm. $10-$25 sliding scale (no one will be turned away). Steelworkers Hall. See listing.

Art

93 ‘Til Infinity and Bodies And Politics The Fuck Death Foundation donates a percentage of funds to the Will Munro Fund for Queer & Trans Youth Living with Cancer from sales of work in its 93 ‘Til Infinity group show, with memento mori by Munro, Tyler Clark Burke, Jay Isaac and others. In second show Bodies And Politics, Michael Caines, Oscar De Las Flores and Balint Zsako comment on contemporary issues in idiosyncratic figurative ink drawings and collages. Reception Saturday at Katharine Mulherin. See listing.

Lily Yung The Genius That Was Lily Yung, a retrospective of printmaking and jewellery by Yung, who died last year, includes her early prints and innovative jewellery that employs textile techniques with wire and beads and die- and laser-cutting with metal, plastic and felt. See listing.

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