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Weekend Tipsheet: March 12-13

Music

The Indies CMW’s Indie Awards hit the Royal York Hotel Saturday night, featuring Janelle Monáe, Shad, Hollerado and many more. See listing.

CMW at the Baitshop Gallery A very eclectic lineup of rock bands play a Saturday afternoon all-ages show, featuring Diemonds, the Russian Futurists, Zoobombs, and Dinosaur Bones. See listing.

Will Currie If you’re not completely sick of Canadian Music Week by Sunday, get a last hit of live music at the Gladstone Ballroom with piano pop whiz Will Currie. See listing.

Film

Sandrine Bonnaire Retrospective TIFF Cinematheque gives a mid-career retrospective to remarkable French actor, including screenings of Vagabond, her international breakthrough A Nos Amours and her directing debut, Her Name Is Sabine. See story.

Mars Needs Moms Celebrate March break early with a screening of this entertaining and moving 3-D animated pic based on the Berkeley Breathed book. See review.

Stage

Laughing Out Loud… And Proud! The Will & Grace actor and out-before-anyone-else star Leslie Jordan performs with Miss Conception in a comedy benefit for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Saturday at Hart House. See listing.

Don Quixote The National Ballet of Canada performs the full-length ballet based on the Cervantes novel, with two shows on Saturday and one on Sunday. At the Four Seasons Centre. See listing.

Readings

TINARS for Tots Artist Fiona Smyth launches her graphic novel for young people and talks with RM Vaughan, Sunday at the Gladstone. See listing.

Community

International Women’s Day March Fight for our city, our services and our future is the theme of the 100 anniversary of IWD as the annual action zeroes in on threats to local services under the Ford regime. The rally starts at 11 am at OISE and marches to Ryerson by 1 pm for a community fair. Free. OISE Auditorium. See listing.

Queer Muslims in T.O. The Humanist Association hosts a talk by El-Farouk Khaki, immigration lawyer, 2009 Pride parade grand and founder of Salaam, an org dedicated to LGBT Muslims. 1:30 pm. Free. OISE. See listing.

The Great Indian Bus Tour Explore the city’s rich indigenous history – the medicines, forms of government and culture of the pre-conquest period – in this three hour tour hosted by the Native Canadian Center of Toronto in collaboration with Israeli Apartheid Week. 12:00 pm. $10/sliding scale. Native Canadian Center. Confirm your seat, as tickets are limited. See listing.

Art

Spiked Tea An afternoon tea fundraiser for Mercer Union features tables hosted by artists including Bill Burns, CN Tower Liquidation, Emily Vey Duke, Paulette Phillips and Evan Tyler. Guests are served a selection of fine teas, cocktails and sweets. $60, tea for two $110. 2 pm. See listing.

Gordon Lebredt A book launch for Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975-2008, a collection of the Canadian conceptual artist’s unrealized projects, with essays by Ian Carr-Harris and others, happens today at Art Metropole. See listing.

Fiona Smyth Toronto artist/comic creator Smyth launches The Never Weres (Annick Press), her first graphic novel for young readers, with a interview by RM Vaughan, a participatory doodle panel and live comedy performances. At the Gladstone. See listing.

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