The Gallerist is Torontoist's new bi-weekly arts listings. Starting January 31st, check back every other Wednesday for a new batch of events. Last Thursday local painter Colin Druhan hosted a busy and boozy reception at Katharine Mulherin's secondary space on Queen West. His work (see 'Hail Satan' at right) features mainly portraits of fashionable men and sinister women, but there are a few friendly looking dog portraits scattered within the small space. Sharing the gallery......

Our boy reporter called him "arguably the greatest Canadian animator ever" after viewing the Best of Norman McLaren during the Toronto International Film Festival, so you might be interested to see that starting tonight the NFB are celebrating 65 years of animation production with nightly, free of charge events. Tonight at 7pm, a Masterclass with BAFTA-award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Hodgson. On Wednesday at 7pm, "24 Frames Per Second", the Mediatheque’s 2D Animation workshop for adults, using......

Sisters are doing it for themselves this week and today marks the opening of The 5th Annual Female Eye Film Festival. Running until June 18th, the fest boasts 68 short and feature films by female-only directors from around the world. Held at The National Film Board Cinema( 150 John St.), each showing offers a few shorts, a feature and Q & A with the directors. Special to this fest is the 1st Young Filmmaker......

> is French for "get your drink on" - when translated by The Brasserie (133 John St). And tonight is the prime opportunity to do so as VIPs gather at the hyped opening of the first of the Brasserie's weekly variety shows (yes, Torontoist is one of these VIPs.) Starting with tonight's Urban Burlesque, the patio will host a Sight & Sound event every week (hence weekly) for the rest of the summer. Although our......

Terminus 1525, the Canadian web arts portal, has gotten together with the NFB to bring propaganda films back into the lives of relatively unbrainwashed young Canadians. They've created "-40," a CD/DVD compilation of 20 young audio/video/new media artists who've taken the 1940s propaganda films supplied them, and created what Torontoist hopes will be good stuff(ie-new shorts and audio pieces). A little glam propaganda could be a good thing (glamaganda?), muses Torontoist. In fact, the......