Community
Earth Hour No, it’s not the eco revolution, but from 8:30 to 9:30 Saturday night, flick off your lights – and electronic gear – and join the world in practicing some environmental restraint. Celebrate with candlelight and friends or head out into a (hopefully) darkened city for community events. To get perspective, check our Ecoholic column and to find local happenings, see our listings.
Decolonizing the Spirit Conference Land, Citizenship, belonging, and the Place of the Spirit is the subject matter at day two of this meet hosted by U of T’s Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies. A wide range of speakers participate, including Ontario Black History Society’s Rosemary Sadlier, educator Ella Karier, indigenous studies prof Paula Sherman. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. See here.
Seedy Sunday Go agri-local, check out this planting fair featuring seed vendors and a seed exchange. Participating groups include Young Urban Farmers, North American Plant Society, Seeds of Diversity and more. Workshops examine multicultural crops, composting and balcony planting. 1-5 pm. Free. Lawrence Heights Community Centre. See here.
Film
Night Moves: The Films of Arthur Penn The influential director of films like Bonnie And Clyde (screening Saturday and April 6), Alice’s Restaurant and The Miracle Worker (screening Sunday and April 2) gets a retrospective at TIFF Cinematheque. See related story.
Carmen In 3D Don’t miss this remarkable 3-D filming of the Royal Opera House’s production of the Bizet opera, starring a definitive Christine Rice in the title role. It really will feel like you have the best seat in the house. Screens Saturday at various theatres and gets a first-run at the Empire Theatre. See review.
Stage
Nohayquiensepa (No One Knows): A Requiem For The Forcibly Displaced This vivid ensemble piece inspired by deaths in a Colombian town completes its run this weekend, with performances on Saturday and Sunday. See review.
SPIN Singer/songwriter/performer Evalyn Parry’s intelligent and beautifully realized show about the history of women and cycling comes to a stop sign this weekend, with shows on Saturday and Sunday. See review.
Art
Luis Jacob Jacob gives a talk on the artist’s perspective on museum display and the role of the spectator, entitled Groundless In The Museum: Anarchism And The Living Work Of Art, on the closing weekend of his shows Pictures At An Exhibition and Cabinet. At MOCCA. See listing.
Wanda Nanibush and Ariel Smith Using videos, a tub of milk, dripping red paint, sand from Christian Island, garbage bags and a little girl’s bedroom furnishings, Nanibush and Smith grapple with issues of aboriginal identity and growing up female in their In An Expression Of Inexpressible. Opens today, reception April 2. Part of the Off-Screen program of the Images Festival at WARC. See listing.
Marla Hlady Saturday is the last day for Hlady’s Set To Set, kinetic sculpture, sound works, drawings and video that make visible the emotional, physical and metaphorical properties of sound. Watch for Hlady’s solo exhibition scheduled for later this year at Oakville Galleries. See listing.
Position As Desired Sunday is the last day for this excellent show of photographic portraits by and of African Canadians that includes work by early pioneers and emerging contemporary photographers from curator Kenneth Montague’s Wedge Collection, installed as a black culture intervention into the first-floor Canadian galleries at the ROM. See listing.
Ariel Schrag As part of Graphic Details: Confessional Comics By Jewish Women, artist Schrag, who also wrote for The L Word, gives a free multimedia performance called Animated, based on her comics about being young, queer and Jewish, at 2 pm. At 4:30 pm she leads a workshop on creating comics. Gladstone. See listing.
SNAP! 2011 The annual photo auction to benefit the AIDS Committee of Toronto includes prints by Toni Hafkenscheid, Diane Bos, Steven Nederveen, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, David Leventi, Greg Girard and many others, including winners of the SNAP!Stars student photography contest. At the National Ballet School. See listing.
Music
Classified East Coast rapper Classified plays a JunoFest gig Saturday night at Sound Academy. See listing.
One Hundred Dollars Socially conscious country band One Hundred Dollars plays the Dakota Saturday night as part of JunoFest. See listing.
Juno Awards 2011 The 40th annual Juno Awards hit the Air Canada Centre Sunday night, with performances by Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Chromeo and many more. See listing.
