On this Easter Monday in Toronto the Early Monthly Segments crew present three of Mark LaPore's short-to-medium length films at the Gladstone Ballroom. Boston-area professor and filmmaker Mark LaPore, sadly, became one of those legendary and mythologized what-ifs when, in 2005, he took his own life.

In his early 50s at the time, LaPore helped usher in a turn toward ethnography in experimental documentary filmmaking, photographing locations such as Sudan, India and Sri Lanka, drawing attention to cultural and economic divides between Eastern and Western worlds. Check out the rest of our top picks for today below. For even more events, click on over to our events section.

• Sports: Talks on Baseball (CSI Annex)
• Lit: Readings at The Common (Food & Liquor, 1610 Queen St. West)
• Design: YSDN Grad Show (The Fermenting Cellar)
• Film: Early Monthly Segments: Mark LaPore (Gladstone Ballroom)
• Comedy: Wham City Comedy Tour 2014 (Double Double Land)

Have an event you'd like to plug? Submit your own listing to the blogTO Toronto events calendar or contact us directly.

Film writing by Blake Williams. Photo via the YSDN grad show web site.