Community
Occupy Toronto Join the all-issues extended demo in the financial district targeting corporate greed, social injustice and government protection of the wealthy – and much else besides. The protest meets at 10am at King and Bay and at 10:30 the actual occupying site will be announced. Free. See nowtoronto.com for tweets and updates. See listing.
Non-Violence Conference Day two of an event planned before Occupy Toronto, but now happily orienting to it, with lots of discussion of peaceful resistance and its practice and benefits. The meet features James Loney, Lyn Adamson, Alex Speers-Roesch and many others. 10 am-6 pm. $25/$20. OISE. See listing.
Movies
The Thing Who knew that this prequel would be this good? If you’re a fan of John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror classic, you won’t want to miss this. See review.
Darwin Nick Brandestini’s doc stands out in the green-friendly Planet In Focus fest, which wraps up on Sunday. See review.
Stage
Canadian Comedy Awards Stand-Up Gala Shaun Majumder hosts a starry night of comedy featuring nominees Nikki Payne, Steve Patterson, Tim Steeves, Darrin Rose and others. At the Panasonic. See interview with The Debaters host Patterson.
Louis C.K. The phenomenal stand-up and actor brings new material to his show at the Sony Centre. See listing.
Music
Skrillex The divisive electro-house/dubstep superstar plays two gigs this weekend: Saturday night at Kool Haus, and then Sunday night at the Hoxton.
Hollerado It doesn’t look like Rob Ford will be meeting with Hollerado for the Toronto stop of their Meet The Mayor tour, but that shouldn’t put too much of a damper on their Saturday night show at the Opera House. See listing.
Dum Dum Girls Buzzsaw bubblegum queens Dum Dum Girls turned down the fuzz a bit for theirnewest album, but still sound as cool as ever. They play Lee’s Palace Sunday. See listing.
Art
Revisioning The Indians Of Canada Pavilion: Ahzhekewada [Let Us Look Back] OCADU’s aboriginal visual culture program, the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and ImagineNATIVE present a two-day conference that takes as its jumping-off point the Expo ’67 pavilion and explores changes in critical theory and curatorial and artistic practice since then. Presenters include Robert Houle, Diana Nemiroff, Gerald McMaster and Duke Redbird. At OCADU. See listing.
