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Urban Planner: May 14, 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].
Toronto-based b-boys F.A.M. bust a move tonight at the Royal Ontario Museum. Photo courtesy of the ROM.
SHOP: Oh oh, girls (and fashionable boys), it’s that time of year again: The Clothing Show, Canada’s largest show of vintage/indie clothing and independent designers, opens its doors this afternoon at the Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place. Enthusiasts should sneak out of work early for first dibs on more than three hundred booths of streetwear, accessories, vintage, and sample sales. Perusers and the poverty-stricken can catch runway shows, live art, and a fashion photo contest. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place (195 Princes Boulevard), Friday 3 p.m.–Sunday 6 p.m., $8 online or $10 at the door.
FILM: “How many husbands have you had?” “Mine or other women’s?” Come see if Mrs. White is really the killer (and where, and with what) at the opening of Toronto Underground Cinema. It’s a free double-feature—Clue, of course, followed by John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China—for the lucky first seven hundred cult film–lovers at the new basement venue. The refurbished cinema will showcase cult classics, seldom-seen treasures, popular favourites, and the best damn movie based on a board game ever written. Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina Avenue), doors at 6 p.m., FREE.
FESTIVAL: It’s a double anniversary at the Chinese Canadian Heritage Festival this year: it’s the Chinese Canadian National Council’s thirtieth birthday (it doesn’t look a day over twenty-five) and the 125th anniversary of the Last Spike driven into the transcontinental railway. The celebration calls for a youth festival to commemorate and promote Chinese Canadian Heritage, complete with photos, paintings, films, readings, music, and more. You can even hobnob with Olivia Chow at the opening reception at 6:30 p.m. in the Brigantine Room. Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West), 6:30 p.m., FREE.
DANCE: It’s the last weekend to catch the CanAsian International Dance Festival’s Museum Dances: Ancient Inspiration, Contemporary Interpretation at the Royal Ontario Museum. As part of the museum’s Asian Heritage Month, dancers Soojung Kwon and Natasha Baht dance amidst (and are inspired by) the artifacts in the ROM’s collections. Don’t miss Japanese-influenced, Toronto-based F.A.M. performing martial arts and break dancing in the samurai section. Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queens Park), 7 p.m., FREE with admission.
FILM: If you’re not all Hot Doc’d out (us either), the Ryerson University Film Festival (RUFF) showcases the work of film grads at the School of Image Arts’ Film Production Program. Tonight’s lineup kicks off with Lady Late Night, a song and dance about love and late night, and concludes fittingly with The Last Stop, where Dante takes public transit. The Royal Cinema (608 College Street), 7 p.m., $10/night or $25/festival pass.