Music
Juno Decades Series The Juno Decades series continues at the Horseshoe, this time focussing on the 80s. Acts from that era like Platinum Blonde, Maestro Fresh-Wes and the Spoons go up against more contemporary acts like Modern Superstitions and Steven Page. See listing.
Pezzner Seattle house and techno producer Dave Pezzner is hitting Footwork tonight, and word is that he’ll be performing live rather than DJing. See listing.
Stillepost Funeral Bid your farewells to the long-running music message board at the Garrison on Saturday. 10 pm.
Film
Chinatown Roman Polanski’s neo-noir masterpiece starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston screens Saturday afternoon at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See listing here.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Check out a Sunday matinee screening of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or winning film about a dying man’s final days at the Bloor, and then grab some Thai food in the neighbourhood. The film made NOW’s list of the Top 10 movies of 2010. See listing here.
Stage
The Next Stage Theatre Festival Be one of the first to see the breakout hits at the eight-play festival at the Factory Theatre. See reviews here.
The Bird Sonja Mills’s social satire, a follow-up to her hit The Danish Play, is in previews at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. See interview with Mills here.
Community
Demo for Public Inquiry into G20 Summit No, we’re not satisfied by the patchwork of probes into G20 cop action – what we is need a broad inquiry examining the role not only of all the police forces on the streets that fateful June weekend, but of the feds, the province as well. Come add your voice. 2 pm. Free. Queen’s Park. See listing.
Support Transit City A spontaneously-formed citizen group and several councillors host a meeting to push for the implementation of a light-rail network. Speakers include Adam Vaughan, Gord Perks, Mike Layton, Paula Fletcher and more. 2 pm. Free. Outside City Hall. breathetoronto.org
Art
Richard Johnson Meet architectural photographer Johnson this afternoon at his show documenting temporary villages of ice fishing huts in Canada’s Far North, which has been extended at Toronto Image Works. See listing.
Un-home-ly Oakville Galleries mounts a show at both locations exploring the uncanny in feminist art, with work by Suzy Lake, Liz Magor, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rossler and others. See listing.
