SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH

ART | Sixth Annual Erotic Arts and Craft Fair
Come As You Are, TO's favourite sex shop, is holding its 6th Annual Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair, today at the Gladstone! Valentine's Day isn't just about the heart, after all. As you will discover at this show, the are a few other organs and body parts of note involved as well! Crafters, zine publishers, artists, card makers and more will be displaying their work for sale. A quick glance at the event's website will reveal that this is one craft show that isn't for the faint of heart or the 'prudish' in nature: these artists are celebrating sexuality in big way! You might just find a special gift for someone that could make your Valentine's Day a very happy one!
The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West) 12PM to 8PM

FILM | King Street Alt Film Festival
Just when you thought Toronto had its fill of film festivals, the King Street Alt Film Festival comes along. This small grassroots filmfest will focus on short narrative and experimental films by local artists and in honour of its inaugural year, the Audience Favourite winner from the 2011 Toronto Spring 24 Hour Film Challenge, The Trial, will be screened. The festival is one night only and it will all take place in Corktown on, as its name suggests, King East.
Betty's (240 King Street East) 8PM Free

ARTS | Winter Arts Festival 2012
If you're wandering by Queen and Sumach tonight, you'll definitely be asking, "What are they doing back there?" Behind the Queen Street Dominion store in a small cabaret space, some of the city's greatest poets, writers, artists, playwrights and musicians gather for the Winter Arts Festival. Kicking off tonight, this back alley event will feature music by Leonia Thames and Alfred Chow, comedy by Evelyne Russell and performances by the Socratic Theatre Collective. The festival runs all weekend for the next two weeks but you'll have to venture into the backstreets to find out just what they're up to.
Behind the Dominion (Sumach Street and Queen Street) 7:30PM $5-$10

CULTURE | Dare To Wear Love
The Textile Museum of Canada presents a special fashion exhibit that opens today: "Dare To Wear Love." This exhibition is focused on the work of Canadian fashion designers who have made a point of contributing original works with the intention of raising both funds for, and awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Dare To Wear Love is an organization that was founded in 2009, by Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell of Hoax Couture, with the aim of putting fashion to work for a greater cause. "Dare To Wear Love" runs until May.
Textile Museum of Canada (55 Centre Avenue) 10AM

FILM | TAIS February Incubator with Madi Piller
The Toronto Animated Image Society monthly Incubator session is for animation lovers to share, invent and network with their own kind and this month. Madi Piller will host a two-hour, camera-less filmmaking session. By scratching, painting and drawing directly on film stock and celluloid, Piller will demonstrate how to animate without the expensive equipment. Bring the animation you're working on to create collaboratively with like-minded artists!
TAIS (60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102) 6:30PM Free

MUSIC | Asteroid Galaxy Tour at the Hoxton
Asteroid Galaxy Tour hit the Hoxton tonight! This Danish band has a poppy sound, but definitely takes the music to many interesting places, both modern and retro. They can thank the late Amy Winehouse for giving them their "big break:" the English singer heard their demo, and recruited them as her opener for a Copenhagen concert. Soon after they had a few of their tunes on high profile commercials for Apple and Heineken — the rest is history! Vacationer opens for them tonight. Should be good!
The Hoxton (69 Bathurst Street) 8:30pm $16.50