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FILM: On the heels of a well-attended Ottawa screening, filmmaker Greg John is bringing his first independent documentary to town for two evenings. Operation Imani: Ideas for Sustainable African Development follows John onsite in northern Tanzania as he works with the Imani Vocational Training Centre in an effort to establish complete sustainability and self-reliance. Throughout the fifty-five minute film, John explores creative solutions to poverty in Africa with an emphasis on simple but innovative technologies. Proceeds from tonight's screening at the Royal (as well as tomorrow evening's screening at Revue Cinema) will be donated to the school and community that John has worked so closely with since 2005. He'll be in attendance for the screenings, so stick around for a post-film discussion and Q&A session. Royal Theatre (608 College Street), 7:15 p.m., $10 (tickets available at the door or online).

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WORDS: Authors at Harbourfront presents a night of architects as part of the current (and disappointingly haphazard) Festival of Architecture and Design 2009. Canadian architect Witold Rybczynski reads from My Two Polish Grandfathers, a collection of autobiographical stories of his family’s flight from war-time Europe. Glenn McArthur presents a new photographic book of the man responsible for some of Toronto's landmark buildings, A Progressive Traditionalist: John M. Lyle, Architect. Jack Diamond will be presenting a new book about his firm's own work, Insight and On Site: The Architecture of Diamond and Schmitt. York Quay Centre (235 Queens Quay West), 7:30 p.m., $8 (Free for members/students with ID).