Music
Karkwa Polaris Music Prize winners (and Juno Nominees) Karkwa play Lee’s Palace Saturday night with Plants & Animals. See listing.
Telekinesis Portland pop band Telekinesis play the Horseshoe Sunday night. See listing.
Film
Love And Other Drugs It’s supposed to be really rainy this weekend, so stay home and watch this smart, sexy and funny film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. Apparently there’s lots of nudity, so Hathaway will likely not be wearing nearly the same number of outfits she did at the Oscars. See review here.
Curling Quebec’s emerging auteur gets a retrospective at TIFF Cinematheque, but you can also see his latest film, a moody piece about a father and daughter, in first-run. See review here.
Stage
This Party’s A Riot! Second City tries to top their amazing last revue, Something Wicked Awesome This Way Comes, with a new show. See interview with comic Kris Siddiqi here.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Rick Roberts directs Shakespeare’s much-produced play for Soulpepper, resulting in some genuine magic. See review here.
Community
12 Palestines: Lebanon’s Forgotten Palestinians A film by Anastasia Trofimova, currently based in Toronto, uses rare historical footage and interviews to explore the historical tragedy that has left refugees stranded in permanent refugee camps for over 60 years. A discussion follows the screening. 7-9 pm. Pwyc. Beit Zatoun. See listing.
Art
Position As Desired Subtitled A Symposium On Artistic Practice And African Diasporic Communities In Canada, this one-day free event features opening remarks by Wedge Curatorial Projects’ Kenneth Montague (who put on the excellent photo show at the ROM with the same title) and panels on history, memory, identity and community with African-Canadian artists including Deanna Bowen, Sandra Brewster, Dawit L. Petros and Stacey Tyrell. From 9:30 am at the ROM. See listing.
Tom Sherman The veteran video artist, who’s written extensively on the “culture of messaging” (texting, social networks, Twitter), talks with Carolyn Seck Langil on the occasion of the opening of a program of recent work that examines forms of communication, including You Speak My Language and Hyperventilation 2011. At Vtape. See listing.
ARTbus On Sunday, a bus tour takes you to receptions for the new shows at Oakville Galleries (The Birds And The Bees at Gairloch Gardens, in which artists bypass the reproduction metaphor to explore avian and insect architecture, migration and ecology, and Sublimation at Centennial Square, artworks that contemplate the limits of visibility). It continues westward to the Art Gallery of Hamilton for The Defibrillators, playful kinetic sculptural installations by Quebec’s Diane Landry, and works by Matisse and Rouault. Leaves OCAD at 11:30 am, costs $15.
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