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Urban Planner: April 10, 2009

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“A City Renewal Project” installation. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist.


ART: Dan Bergeron (Fauxreel) and Gabriel Reese (Specter) launch their limited edition book about last year’s exhibit “A City Renewal Project.” The installation recreated actual store façades—and a whole city street—in an interior gallery space as a manufactured urban landscape. The one-hundred signed and numbered books available at the event feature full-colour photographs of the installation and include essays by Elissa McGillivray and Nicolas Brown ($40). Show & Tell Gallery (1161 Dundas Street West), 7–11 p.m., FREE.
KIDS: From the adorable Easter department comes the Toronto Zoo’s Annual Easter “Egg” Stravaganza (on until Monday). A special passport leads kids (strictly limited to those under twelve—darn!) to egg-laden pavilions where the animals’ keepers will give special talks. Lucky kids receive a Hershey’s treat at the exit for the ride home. Toronto Zoo (361A Old Finch Avenue), 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m., $21 ($13 for kids 12 and under).
MUSIC: Keys N Krates and Free the Robots shake it up remix-style at Supermarket. Toronto’s Keys N Krates combine live drums and keyboards with turntable action for some serious danceable electronic fun. Free the Robots (aka Chris Alfaro) of Santa Ana, California, refers to his own instrumental mash-ups as hip hop, but that definition puts an unfair limit on the scope of his work. Supermarket (268 Augusta Avenue), 10 p.m., $15.
FILM: The Bloor Cinema launches a new Friday night concert film series “Live on 35mm,” with Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same. The film wasn’t a huge critical success—especially among the band’s members—but serves as a fascinating window into the band at the peak of its success. We look forward to seeing big-screen versions of The Last Waltz (Scorcese), Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (D.A. Pennebaker), Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme), and more in the coming months. Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor Street West), 11:55 p.m., $10.
ART: What happens when YouTube bloggers become the curators of international contemporary art discourse? Digital hacker Cory Arcangel and real-world curator Hanne Mugaas examine the question of unregulated cultural reinterpretations in their informal multimedia lecture “Live 5: Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet)” hosted by Pleasure Dome and part of this year’s Images Festival. Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West), 7–9 p.m., $10 ($8 students)

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