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November 14 to 18 marks the return of the Reel Asian International Film Festival. Last night, the Japan Foundation played host as filmmakers and media types gathered at a press conference to kick off the 11th annual incarnation of the fest. And with more than 70 independent works from all over the world, this year’s Reel Asian Festival will be worth cracking open that golden piggy bank for.

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Spin Gallery presents the work of James Meija, Chad VanGaalen and Julie Fader with performances by Julie, Brian Borcherdt and Chad and DJ sets by Off The International Radar and Holy Fuck. It all goes down tonight, starting at 7 pm at 1100 Queen Street West.

Eye contributor Liisa Ladouceur helps run the Royal Sarcophagus Society a neo-gothic collective that makes and sells crafts, organizes readings and more. The group's latest event is Wanderlust,an evening of raunchy road-trip tales, provocative poetry and more tonight at the Gladstone art bar.

John Redekop, whose work can be seen at Spin Gallery, takes strips of paper cut out of magazines and newspapers and laboriously transforms them into sculptures like “Heap.” A piece where Redekop glued thousands of pieces of paper and balanced them on a single nail. The resulting work looks and feels like a cross-section of a giant tree trunk. But instead of leaving us a record of the climate, of droughts and rainy seasons, Redekop instead gives us a conceptual archive of popular culture and disposable media.