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Urban Planner: November 18, 2008
SPORTS: The Natrel rink is now open at Harbourfront, which has loads of SK8 Culture celebrations planned for the rink’s twenty-fifth anniversary. If you’re there early enough (before 6 p.m. today), check out the two hockey-themed exhibits (“Blue Blood” and “The Arena Project”) on at the York Quay galleries until January 4. Harbourfront (235 Queens Quay West), 10 a.m.–10 p.m., FREE.
WORDS: On the heels of the recent debate spawned by Toronto Life‘s Aqsa Parvez article, Natasha Bakht moderates a panel discussion on the subject of Muslim identity in Canada. Bakht is the editor of a new anthology entitled Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada, launching tonight under the TINARS umbrella. The panel consists of Muslim writers and thinkers from a wide range of Canadian life, all of them anthology contributors. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m. (doors 7 p.m.), FREE.
COMEDY: The Movieola 48 HR Video Challenge starts tonight at precisely 8:30 p.m. as part of The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, on through November 23. Participants will have two days to write and produce a short video, conforming to criteria revealed at the start of the challenge tonight. All entries will be screened at the Comedy Bar on Thursday, November 20, at which point the audience will help judge the funniest one. The winner will be aired on Movieola. Diesel Playhouse Cabaret (56 Blue Jays Way), 8:30 p.m., $12.
FILM: Cinematheque Ontario is screening a restored 35mm print of Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 film The Exiles tonight and tomorrow. The film portrays a Native American couple who live in the Bunker Hill neighbourhood of Los Angeles, an area of extreme poverty—and on the cusp of major redevelopment by the city—at the time of filming. The film has re-emerged recently as a stunning portrait of a lost 1960s Los Angeles, and of the city’s Native American inner-city dwellers. Art Gallery of Ontario, Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West), 7 p.m., $12.14.
MUSIC: South-western American country-rockers Calexico play the Phoenix tonight. Oshawa alt-country band Cuff The Duke open. Pick up tickets beforehand through Ticketmaster or Rotate This. Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne Street), 9 p.m., $18.50.
Photo by robannz from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.