Community
World Naked Bike Nothing like this cycle to protest oil dependency and car obscenity and promote healthy body-positive values. Ride bare as you dare (actually creative costumes are just as welcome)/ Noon. Free. Coronation Park. See listing.
Core Service Review Downtown Meeting Fordists want to cut services but residents are talking back. Councillors Adam Vaughan, Krystan Wong-Tam, Pam McConnell and Paula Fletcher invite all to a downtown meeting on preserving a caring city. 2pm. Committee Room 1, City Hall. 416-392-4044
Andrea Horwath Hear the Ontario NDP leader as she addresses a nomination meeting in Davenport riding where four contenders are duking it out. And be prepared for a sighting of Andrew Cash, the new Davenport federal MP. Hungarian House. 3pm on Sunday. Free. 840 St. Clair Avenue West. 416-832-9073
Yarn Bombing Day Join this Worldwide Knit in Public Day and make scarves to keep street folks warm when the frost bites later in the year. Knitting lessons will be on offer and there’s music by the Girls are Back in Town. 1 pm on Sunday. Free. Wise Daughters. See listing.
Music
Caribou The celebrated Canadian electronic musician plays a DJ set at the Drake Saturday night. See listing.
Architecture In Helsinki The Australian dance rock band play Mod Club Saturday night. See listing.
David S Ware The free jazz bigwig plays St Andrews by-the-Lake Church Sunday night, alongside a duo version of the Shuffle Demons. See listing.
Movies
Beauty Day Don’t miss Jay Cheel’s smart and moving documentary about Ralph Zavadil, a St. Catharines-born cable video star who once broke his neck doing a stunt in his backyard pool. See interview with Zavadil and mini review.
Lawrence Of Arabia Luminato’s collaboration with the TIFF Cinematheque kicks off this weekend with a look at iconic Arabic films, including Sunday’s screening of the David Lean classic about T.E. Lawrence. See related story.
Stage
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Christopher Wheeldon’s new take on the Lewis Carroll story – a co-production with the Royal Ballet (UK) – gets a sumptuous production, with the sets, costumes and video elements upstaging the movement. But it’s a lot of fun, suitable for the entire family. Saturday and Sunday at the Four Seasons Centre. Until June 25. See review.
The Green Door Fantastic artists like Michael Burgess, Judy Marshak, Bruce Dow and the recently Dora Award-nominated Gabi Epstein perform in this cabaret show at the Lower Ossington Theatre, Saturday at 8 and 10:30 pm. Until June 26. See listing.
Laugh Sabbath Alternative comics Chris Locke, Bob Kerr, host James Hartnett and others present their Talent Show at the Rivoli. See listing.
Art
Aleksandra Mir Polish-born, New York-based artist Mir’s performance today at suburban go-kart track Goodwood Kartways, which involves stacking car tires into towers until they topple over, will be videotaped for her upcoming show, The Seduction Of Galileo Galilei, at Mercer Union. To attend the performance, RSVP to Mercer Union. See listing.
Libby Hague The latest show in the AGO’s free Toronto Now series (at the Young Gallery next to Frank restaurant), opens with a reception today. Inventive printmaker Hague’s Sympathetic Connections is an installation of printed paper elements that construct a narrative about our troubled relationship to the natural world. See listing.
Philip Beesley The Toronto artist/architect and U of Waterloo prof, who has a poetic way with words when describing the spiritual and technical underpinnings of his work, gives a talk at Chapters Festival Hall as part of Luminato. The fest brings his interactive reef-like installation, Sargasso, to the Allen Lambert Galleria. See listing.
David Blackwood Sunday’s the last day to see Blackwood’s dramatic, mournful etchings depicting ships, whales and the hard life of fishermen and sealers in old-time Newfoundland. See listing.
