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Radar: May 8th, 2009
Photo: "Jane and Finch" by ardenstreet, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
Events on Toronto's Radar for FRIDAY, MAY 8th, 2009
...lovingly handpicked from blogTO's events calendar
WORDS | The Globe and Mail Open House Festival
Words, ideas, fact, and fiction collide in support of PEN Canada, with leading writers and thinkers featured over the entire weekend. Guests include Stuart McLean, Jeb Brugmann, Richard Florida, Naomi Klein, John Ralston Saul, Gwynne Dyer, Wayson Choy, and more.
see website for location and times
$15-100
STAGE | Tuesdays with Morrie
Hal Linden (Barney Miller) stars in a stage adaptation of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, a biography of his life-loving, ailing professor. Previews begin tonight. Runs to May 31st.
Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge Street.
830pm / $55-92
FASHION + PARTY | Textstyles.ca Party
Indie vintage and fashion blog textstyles.ca celebrates its 1st anniversary, patting Toronto's fashion community on the back. With a lot of funkily-dressed people and music by Circle Research.
Rolly's Garage, 124 Ossington Avenue.
10pm / PWYC
ART | in(animate)
With works by Mani Mani, Conan Masterson, Bevan Ramsay, Annie Tse. Opening reception tonight, runs to May 10th.
Minnow + Bass, 594 Dundas Street W.
7pm / FREE
FASHION | Fashion Group International Designer Sample Sale
High fashion sample sale in Liberty Village, including designs by Wayne Clark, Farley Chatto, and Izzy Camilleri.
Studio NAFA, 171 East Liberty Street, Suite 315.
2-8pm / FREE
FOOD | Spirit of Toronto
A party for whiskey lovers, with 100 single malts and premium spirits, tastings, food, and live music. Whiskey writer Dave Broom will be in attendance.
Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe Street.
630-1030pm / $115-145
MUSIC | Loney, Dear at Rivoli
Loney, Dear takes the headlining seat -- after a recent opening stint with Andrew Bird -- and makes you wonder how falsetto can come so easily to a Scandinavian man.
Rivoli, 334 Queen Street W. (416) 596-1908.
9pm / $10
MUSIC | Vivian Girls at Horseshoe
Brooklyn's Vivian Girls perform some shoegazer/noise rock with opener Crystal Antlers.
Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen Street W. (416) 598-4753.
10pm / $13, $11.50 advance
PARTY | Goin' Steady
A '50s and '60s dance fest of doo-wop, Motown, country boogie, girl groups, and rockabilly, full of girls in cute polka-dotted skirts and guys in their best plaid.
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street W.
9pm
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Great artists, good times :)
i actually had that saved for tomorrow for the official exhibition dates at TRL. good times, indeed...
http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf/
Graphic Novels: The Creation of Art and Narrative.
Gallery Showing at Harbourfront Centre
Friday May 8th - Sunday June 21st.
Opening Reception Friday May 8th, 6pm-10pm
York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
FREE
Featuring: Jeff Lemire, Kagan McLeod, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki, and Doug Wright/Seth (Canada), Anke Feuchtenberger (Germany), Emmanuel Guibert (France), Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Japan),and Adrian Tomine (USA).
Harbourfront Centre will play host to a unique series of installations by top cartoonists from Canada and around the world as they attending the fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9-10. Illuminating the creation of “The Ninth Art,” Graphic Novels will include original artworks and process materials, as well as tools, sculpture, and photography to build an insightful portrait of the creators working in this popular medium. All artists are scheduled to be in attendance for this opening.
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Authors at Harbourfront Centre: Seth, Adrian Tomine, and Yoshihiro Tatsumi
In association with The Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Friday, May 8 at 7:30 pm
Brigantine Room, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
Tickets $8.00, available at harbourfrontcentre.com
Authors at Harbourfront Centre helps jump start the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival with an evening of world-renowned graphic artists/novelists: Seth, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and Adrian Tomine. Seth (George Sprott: (1894-1975)) and Tomine (Shortcomings) debut their latest graphic novels, followed by a discussion between Tomine and Tatsumi about Tatsumi’s latest work, A Drifting Life. All three authors appear courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal).
Following the event, all authors will be on hand to sign copies of their work. All graphic novels will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of The Beguiling Books and Art.