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FAMILY: The Harbourfront Centre offers a packed itinerary for the long weekend, including HarbourKIDS: IMPACT! The event celebrates the ways in which kids can make an impact on the world around them, and the unmissable highlight is the Toronto International Circus Festival. Co-produced by Zero Gravity Circus, the festival showcases exciting feats for adults and kids alike, involving world-class acrobatics, blazing fire-eaters, daredevil stunts, stilt-walkers, jugglers, and more. The main show, SIRIUS FUN: The Impact! Big Top!, takes place this afternoon at the SIRIUS Satellite Radio Stage. Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West), events from 11 a.m.–5 p.m., FREE.

DANCE: Christopher House’s Chiasmata returns for a limited engagement at the Toronto Dance Theatre. What began as improvised movement is now a stylized showcase of twelve dancers who communicate through unexpected gestures such as shudders, hiccups, and twitches. A 2007 Dora Award nominee for Outstanding Choreography, Chiasma lost the award to another work by House, 2006’s Timecode Break. The performance features original music from Gemini Award–winning sound designer Phil Strong. Winchester Street Theatre (80 Winchester Street), 2 p.m., P.W.Y.C.

ART: Harbourfront's York Quay Centre hosts the opening party for eight new art exhibits. The highlight may be the Canadian premiere of Penny Klepuszewska's Living Arrangements, a photographic series studying the conditions of elderly people living alone in Britain. Other exhibits include New York artist Alfonso Volo messing around with the anthropomorphic critters of his childhood for "Creature Riffs," and a look at the work of Toronto design group Motherbrand for "Material Culture for the Modern Age." There are also three animation exhibits being shown in conjunction with the upcoming Images festival: "Frame by Frame," "Goodbye 20th Century," and "Topsy-Turvy." A two-hour film of "Frame by Frame" participants screens tonight at 7 p.m. Harbourfront (235 Queens Quay West), 6–10 p.m., FREE.