By Alison Horn

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.

Triptych for Micah by Suzanne Swannie. Courtesy of Textile Museum of Canada.

ART: Halifax-based artist, designer, and educator Suzanne Swannie—known for her functional textiles, pictorial tapestries, and architectural installations—brings her work to the Textile Museum for “Danish Modern: Suzanne Swannie Textil.” Imbued with her Danish upbringing and Scandinavian training, Swannie employs the Danish Modern style of textile design, with repetition of modular units and an emphasis on rich colour schemes with hand-dyed wool, silk, linen, and cotton. The exhibition, which runs until October 11, is curated by Ingrid Jenkner and organized by the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery. Textile Museum of Canada (55 Centre Avenue); artist talk at 5 p.m., opening reception at 6:30 p.m.; $12 (FREE for members and full-time students).
MUSIC: Scottish indie-rock quartet Frightened Rabbit is in town for an intimate club gig, fresh off the festival circuit this past weekend at New York’s Siren Music Festival and Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival. Their live shows—full of rawness and energy—have received stellar reviews, as has their sophomore album, The Midnight Organ Fight. It’s no surprise that tickets for tonight’s show are sold out, although you may get lucky through alternate channels (hopefully without having to pay a heart and a lung). Horseshoe Tavern (368 Queen Street West), 9 p.m., $15.
FILM: If you weren’t one of the twenty-seven thousand people who flocked to the nation’s capital for last year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), the National Film Board and the Toronto Animated Image Society bring the “Best Of” to town tonight. Highlights from the 2008 edition of the festival, which are now being screened internationally, include A Letter to Colleen, Cattle Call, and the NFB’s The Mixy Tapes. After seeing tonight’s program, you may consider attending this year’s OIAF, which is slated for October. NFB Mediatheque (150 John Street), 7 p.m., $6 ($4 for students, seniors, NFB and TAIS members).
FAMILY: The snakes are slithering off the pages of books from the 597 shelf at the library this afternoon. During “The Mystery Of Snakes,” children (ages 7–12) will learn about these reptiles through a live presentation and slide show. Today’s event is part of a series of free summer programs happening at Toronto Public Library branches across the city, which include storytelling, author and illustrator visits, the children’s mystery-themed TD Summer Reading Club (detectives-in-training even receive a free “spy kit” with a poster, stickers, and an activity book), and the Word Out! teen reading program. If you can’t make it out to your local library, TPL also offers some at-home options with oodles of online activities at KidsSpace and Dial-a-Story, available twenty-four hours a day in eleven languages. Palmerston Library (560 Palmerston Avenue), 1–2 p.m., FREE. Register by calling 416-393-7680.