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ART: Award-winning photographer Nigel Dickson gives a talk at the Ontario College of Art and Design tonight. The internationally recognized artist engages in both editorial and commercial work; his diverse oeuvre includes personal portraiture, corporate campaign work, and panoramic landscapes. He received sixteen National Magazine Awards—the most awarded to any artist in the category of Visual Design—and also won the Les Usherwood Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Advertising & Design Club of Canada. Ontario College of Art and Design, Auditorium (100 McCaul Street), 6:30 p.m., FREE.

COMEDY: The National Theatre of Canada creates a new Canadian play every week with Impromptu Splendor. Each Thursday, the cast presents a spontaneous one-act play, an improvised homage to theatre inspired by a playwright. The show takes on the selected playwright’s theatrical style and evolves from a title suggested by the audience. Colin Mochrie from Whose Line is it Anyway? guest stars tonight. Comedy Bar (945 Bloor Street West), 8:30 p.m., $10.

FUNDRAISER: Ron White, a major Canadian shoe retailer, has donated over sixteen thousand pairs of shoes to needy Torontonians since starting his annual Shoe Drive thirteen years ago. This year's charity drive launches at White’s flagship store this afternoon with support from Jeremy Irons, among others, and photo opportunities for the public. All six Ron White stores in Toronto will be accepting shoe donations—gently-worn as opposed to well-used—to be cleaned up and passed on to those who need them. Ron White, Manulife Centre (55 Bloor Street West), 1–2:30 p.m., FREE.