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Weekend Tipsheet: May 14-15

Community

National Day Of Action For Electoral Reform Rally for an electoral process where everybody’s vote counts. Read our preview of the event here, and see listing here.

Contact bike tour Persilia Caton, Contact’s artistic project manager, leads a bicycle tour of the photography festival’s outdoor installations, starting at MOCCA at 3 pm on Sunday. See listing.

Movies

Meet Monica Velour There’s no glimpse of Sex And The City’s Kim Cattrall’s Samantha in this indie drama about an aging porn star’s relationship with a much younger guy. See interview with Cattrall and review.

Potiche François Ozon’s latest film stars the living legend Catherine Deneuve as a 1970s French housewife who runs her husband’s business and finds her true calling. See interview with the director and review.

Stage

Solos Of My Life Choreographer Sashar Zarif presents transforms autobiographical stories about identity and dislocation into several solos performed by different female dancers. Saturday at the Enwave. See interview with Zarif.

Orfeo et Euridice Robert Carsen directs a haunting production of the Gluck opera based on the classical myth, on Saturday and continuing until May 28 at the Four Seasons Centre. See review.

Music

Allie Hughes The local singer definitely knows how to put on a crazy extravaganza of a live show, and she’s got a new prom queen-themed spectacular at the El Mocambo Saturday night. See listing.

James Blake The UK “post-dubstep” artist has a lot of buzz behind him, and he’s playing both a live set Saturday night at Lee’s Palace and a DJ set later at Wrongbar.

Sloan The Canadian power pop icons just released a great new album, and play a free in-store gig at Sonic Boom Saturday afternoon. See listing.

Odd Future We were a bit let down by Tyler, the Creator’s label debut Goblin, but he’s still one of the most exciting new talents in hip-hop, and his Odd Future crew hits the Phoenix Sunday. See listing.

Art

Humberto Vélez In conjunction with his retrospective at York U, the Panama-born, UK-based artist, who travels the world connecting disenfranchised communities with art museums and other public venues, presents The Awakening. His first performance in North America, put together during several residencies at York, it’s a collaboration with the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation and the Monkey Vault Parkours Artists, inspired by Louis Riel’s prediction that when his people awaken after 100 years, artists will give then back their spirit. Free at the AGO. See listing.

Eric Gottesman Video artist Richard Fung speaks with Gottesman about his collaboration with Sudden Flowers, a children’s art collective he co-founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Contact show at Gallery TPW, Gottesman’s Paths That Cross Cross Again explores his relationship with a 12-year-old girl who died in 2004. A launch for Ciel Variable photography magazine precedes the discussion. At Gallery TPW. See listing.

Mayday: 1001 Chairs For Ai Weiwei Toronto Artists for Ai Weiwei’s Release, inspired by the Ai’s 1001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs, invites protesters to bring chairs and sit peacefully outside the Chinese Consulate. One of China’s premier artists, Ai has not been heard from since his arrest at the beginning of April as part of a crackdown on dissidents that may have been motivated by fears that the democracy protests in the Middle East might spread to China. See listing.

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