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Urban Planner: April 27, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to [email protected].
Onlookers from a building at Yonge & College at Pride 2008. Photo by cityhearts from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
DISCUSSION: Is Pride too mainstream or not mainstream enough? Are chaps empowering or just unflattering? Has Pride outgrown Church Street? Watch mayoral candidate Keith Cole (profiled by us yesterday), Pride Director Jim Cullen, and activist Andrew Brett discuss how big is too big, followed by an open-format Q&A with the audience. A sign of a good night to come: the event’s already been moved to the bigger upstairs venue to accommodate the ruckus. Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), 7–9 p.m., FREE.
ART: It’s a fight ’til the death—or at least to moderate art fame—for Anna Pantchev (OCAD grad, graphic contemporary, likes angles and spaces) vs. Bryan Belanger (impressionism, organic and fluid, digs colour and texture). Bounce along to tunes as the artists go head to head in tonight’s Art Battle 5—they’re provided with paint and a canvas, but also a time constraint—as the crowd cheers and/or boos accordingly at
The Great Hall (1087 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., $5 for painters or $10 for patrons.
WORDS: Open Book: Toronto has partnered with The Spoke Club to bring you an old-fashioned literary salon, a gathering of booklovers and culture snobs for conversation and debate about all things literary. The premiere addition of the Toronto Literary Salon brings Canadian authors Joey Comeau, David Eddie, and Russell Smith, with host Nathan Whitlock of Quill & Quire, for a heated discussion of—well, you’ll have to show up to find out (or read our article all about it later this week). Afterwards, splurge for the thirty-five-dollar prix fixe dinner with the authors. The Spoke Club (600 King Street West, 4th Floor), 6:30 p.m., FREE.
FILM: Raindance Canada can save you from your day job: pitch your movie idea to a panel of experts (Telefilm’s Dan Lyon, producer Nicholas Tabarrok, director Warren Sonoda) at the Live!Ammunition! pitching competition at Czehoski. For ten dollars, or five dollars with a student card, you’ve got between one and two minutes to plug your idea to Canadian bigwigs and win over two thousand dollars in prizes. Czehoski (678 Queen Street West), 6:30–9 p.m.
FIGHT: It’s all short shorts and kneepads at the Mod Club, where fifteen dollars gets you front-row seats for a girly show. Charley’s the defending champ (though rumour says she cheated) but Olivia’s back for the belt (she’s vowed revenge) at tonight’s Pillow Fight League. Eager beavers can get advance tickets for twelve dollars at Rotate This. The Mod Club (722 College Street), doors open at 9 p.m.