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Urban Planner: July 6, 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].
The Shriner Parade. Photo courtesy of PUNCH Canada.
Fringe continues today! Also see: outdoor heist flicks, a tribute to literary provocateurs, and men in fezzes driving miniature cars.
FRINGE: The Toronto Fringe Festival continues today with over one hundred and fifty theatrical works being staged at two dozen venues across town. Today’s many options include clowns coming of age in Morro and Jasp Gone Wild, a visceral look at the dark side of Shakespeare in Raven for a Lark, and a meeting of strangers with a shared past in Georgia & Leona. Not one to be cooped up in a dark theatre? Check out Dead Cat Bounce playing on the patio of Kos Restaurant in Kensington, or pile into the back of a moving van for a mobile clown hostage caper in The Getaway. And that’s just to name a few—for more, check out Torontoist’s Fringe guide, coming later today. Various venues and times, all shows $10 or less.
PARADE: Did you wake up today with the single overwhelming thought that your day would be incomplete without a parade of men in fezzes driving miniature cars? Well, that’s weird—but lucky for you the Shriners are in town. The Masonic fraternity is hosting their 136th Imperial Council Session in Toronto this week, which includes an Imperial Day Parade full of clowns and miniature automobiles today. The procession will begin at Queen’s Park South and travel down University Avenue to Front Street. For more information—and some seared retinas—check out the gif-heavy website here. University Avenue from Queen’s Park South to Front Street, 1 p.m., FREE.
WORDS: This year’s Scream Literary Festival pays tribute to the agents provocateurs of the literary world; the tricksters who use words to dazzle and confound their readership. The festival kicks off its eighteenth year tonight with Welcome to the Carnival, an evening with poets David Antin and Steve McCaffery, the latter of whom will be introducing the newest chapter in his Carnival Panel series. The Arts and Letters Club (14 Elm Street), 7 p.m., $10 (or $5 with original poem, which will be added to a chapbook to be sold at the Scream in High Park event on July 12).
FILM: William Goldman may be best known for writing the novel The Princess Bride, but in his heyday he was also one of Hollywood’s most coveted screenwriters. In addition to picking up a couple of Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men, he also penned the lesser-known comedy caper film The Hot Rock, starring Robert Redford and George Segal. See it tonight as part of Virgin Mobile’s outdoor heist film screening series Safecracker Cinema. Yonge-Dundas Square, 8:30 p.m., FREE.