As most of you know, every weekend there is always something fun and exciting happening in Toronto. I thought I’d take a moment to round up a few events and festivals for you.
FILM
ReelWorld Film Festival
The festival is fully underway and continues until Sunday, April 6th at Famous Players Canada Square Cinema. I suggest the following screenings for you:
Friday, April 4, 9pm
Music Video Night
Saturday, April 5, 1pm
Family Screening
Free admission to children 12 and under, when accompanied by an adult.
Sunday, April 6, 5:30pm
Closing Night Gala: Horizon Beautiful
Toronto Silent Film Festival
The festival began this past Thursday but there are still some great films to catch on the big screen. It runs at the Carlton Cinema, Innis Town Hall, Casa Loma, and the Revue Cinema until Tuesday, April 8th. My choices for TSFF include:
Friday, April 4, 7:30pm
Carlton Cinema
City Girl – Dir. F. W. Murnau
Sunday, April 6, 4pm
Fox Theatre
1000 Laffs: It Started with Charlie – Dir. Charlie Chaplin
Monday, April 7, 8pm
Casa Loma
Seven Years Bad Luck – Dir. Max Linder
Guest Musical Accompanist: Clark Wilson
I have also made some suggestions for Cinéfranco, as well as, aluCine Latin Film + Media Art festivals. Both of which continue this weekend.
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| My Hat And Glasses, J. Toonoo Image Courtesy of Feheley Fine Arts |
VISUAL ARTS
Saturday, April 5th, 3pm
Artist Talk & Reception
Still Life: Drawings By Jutai Toonoo
Feheley Fine Arts
This is an exhibition of recent works by Cape Dorset artist, Jutai Toonoo. Toonoo often mixes media, adding oil pastel or charcoal to pencil crayon. His exploration of inanimate objects is based upon photographs, found objects, and both natural and staged scenes.
Sunday, April 6th, 2pm
Sunday Scene: Tour by Katie Kilroy-Marac
The Power Plant
Katie Kilroy-Marac is an Assistant Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She specializes in the social history of psychiatric thought, the naturalization of of psychiatric categories, and the spaces in which local understandings of illness and suffering come into contact with Western psychiatric models. Kilroy-Marac will be leading a tour of the current exhibition.
THEATRE
Minotaur
Young People’s Theatre
Runs through April 13, 2014
I recommend YPT’s productions often because they are family friendly. I also enjoy them because of their inventive ways of telling myths, folk, and fairy tales. Minotaur sounds like a fun and adventurous telling of the Greek myth story combined with a young boy’s efforts to save his soldier father. The good people from Mooney on Theatre also give it a good review.
50 Shades! The Musical
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Bluma Appel Theatre
Runs through April 13, 2014
A completely original score, live band on stage, and sexy men and women running around scantily clad in leather gear… This is certainly an Adults-Only show, but why not? I have not read the book which ‘inspired’ this musical, nor do I care to. But this show sounds like fun…especially after dark.
I am currently on film festival training mode as the season is just beginning for us in T.O. Nonetheless, I will be making time to check out other happenings too. Hope you do as well. And if you see me around town, stop and say hi!
