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Urban Planner: January 24, 2009
KIDS: Script Superheroes, a six-week writing workshop for seven- to ten-year-olds, starts today at the Comedy Bar. The afternoon workshops will teach your child how to write a powerful script, and how to impress an audience. At the end of the program, professional actors will step in to present a live reading of all the kids’ plays. Script Superheroes is taught by character comedian Kristen McGregor and artist/writer/former Torontoist editor Alison Broverman. The Comedy Bar (945 Bloor Street West), 2:30–3:45 p.m., $100/6 sessions.
BIKES: The Centre for Social Innovation, the Toronto Cyclists Union (in association with Take the Tooker) are hosting a one-day cycling workshop. The workshop, called “The Legal Toolkit for Cycling and Alternative Transportation Activists,” will be led by lawyers from Ecojustice, and will help educate cyclists on the legal tools available to ensure cyclists’ rights. Centre for Social Innovation (215 Spadina Avenue), 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., $25 (includes lunch, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds).
WORDS: This Is Not A Reading Series For Tots is back with a very special afternoon in the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom. Totsapalooza will feature performances from children’s indie rock band Sho, Mo & The Monkey Bunch, The Blue Bin Band, and author/musician Dave Bidini. Toddler rockers will be able to build their own instruments from recycled materials and spend the rest of the afternoon jamming. The event is hosted by Don Kerr, whose new book/CD The Sniffing Princess and the Sweet Toothed–Prince will be featured at the event. Other featured books are Bidini’s For Those About To Rock: A Road Map To Being In A Band and Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Punk Farm. As always, TINARS is presented by Pages Books & Magazines. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West), $15 (for two adults and two tots).
ART: Tonight at CineCycle, join curator Brenda Goldstein in discussion with video artists Aleesa Cohene and Dani Leventhal. The event, entitled “Internal Archivists,” will screen excerpts from Cohene’s new work Something Better and Leventhal’s new film 90 in 90, as well as clips from these ladies’ other widely acclaimed works. Young-Hae Chang‘s 2005 film Cunnilingus in North Korea and Matthias Müller‘s 1995 film Alpsee will also be shown. CineCycle (129 Spadina Avenue), 8 p.m., $8 ($5 for members).