By Colleen Hale-Hodgson

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com.

Still from Skhizein by Jeremy Clapin, courtesy of CFC Marketing & Communications.

FILM: The Worldwide Short Film Festival kicks off today with the gala screening of Award Winners From Around the World. Each of the seven shorts screened tonight have won awards at either the Cannes International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, or one or two of the many other film festivals around the world. They range from four minutes long (Teaching the Alphabet) to fourteen minutes long (Coffee and Allah and Jerrycan), and feature a mix of animation (Skhizein), live action (Next Floor), documentary (The Secret Life of Beards), and experimental content (Teaching the Alphabet). Two of the shorts are even filmed on beta! Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor Street West), 7 p.m., $20.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tonight, why not enjoy the splendour and magnificence of the Canadian North without ever having to don your parka? Mike Beedell is an adventure photographer who has made a living photographing some of the most remote and exotic regions of the world for several well-known magazines and agencies, including National Geographic, Time, and Environment Canada. Today, he, along with Canadian Geographic and Adventure Canada, is bringing some of his five hundred thousand stock-piled images to the Ontario Science Centre for a visual presentation titled Great Journeys & Explorations In The Northwest Passage. Expect adorable (yet deadly) polar bears to make an appearance. Ontario Science Centre (770 Don Mills Road), 6:45 p.m., $15 (or $10 for Royal Canadian Geographical Society members. Must RSVP to 1-800-363-7566 or rsvp@adventurecanada.com).
FOOD: When you drink Ontario wines you’re not only delighting the palate, you’re also supporting locally grown food. In celebration of the award-winning VQA wines of Ontario (as well as Ontario Wine Week), sip and Savour Ontario offers a selection from twenty-five wineries paired with some seasonal cuisine in the heart of the historic Distillery District. There’s even a complimentary shuttle bus that runs between the event and Union Station, so there’s nothing holding you back from showing just how much you love wine. Distillery District Fermenting Cellar, Building 6 & 7 (55 Mill Street), 7–9:30 p.m., $60.
MUSIC: Dala is a Canadian folk duo generating lots of buzz these days. When they’re not on Breakfast Television or Canada AM, they’re touring with the CBC’s Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Cafe. Tonight they are celebrating the launch of their new CD, Everyone is Someone. You can catch them at the Harbourfront before they move on to the Newport Folk Festival in August. Harbourfront Centre, Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West), 8 p.m, $22.
WORDS: Happy Bloomsday! June 16 is the one day of the year when those who really enjoy James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses get to throw on the bonnet, practice their Dublin accent, and generally geek-out to an array of events across the city. The day is so chosen because the events that occur in Ulysses all take place over the course of one day—June 16—and is named after the novel’s lead character, Leopold Bloom. Joyce chose this specific date as a sort of tribute to his wife and muse, Nora Barnacle. Bloomsday revellers can partake in a live re-enactment of scenes from the novel at the Beach, singalongs, lots of food along the way, and a hooley at P.J. O’Brien’s. Meet at the TTC loop at Neville Park (Queen Street streetcar #501), 8:30 a.m., hooley starts at 8 p.m., FREE (hooley is P.W.Y.C., with reservations at P.J. O’Brien’s advised).