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Urban Planner: September 20, 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].
Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham at the moment his band won last year’s Polaris Prize. Photo by David Topping/Torontoist.
In today’s Urban Planner, treasure hunters begin pounding the pavement, local improvisers warm up the crowd at the Toronto Improv Festival, and one of ten bands will take home the Polaris Prize.
GAME: It’s not a gold brick, but it’s worth many shiny doubloons: treasure hunt site leisurerules.ca opens a new contest today for avid treasure hunters. They’ve posted a picture of a specific brick, and the first seeker to snap a photo of it and describe its location in great detail wins a $100 cash prize. More details, including clues, are available on their website; you have a week to find it, though there are many avid hunters who may track it down much quicker than that. Downtown Toronto, 7 a.m., FREE.
MUSIC: If you haven’t managed to score an invite to tonight’s Polaris Music Prize gala award ceremony at the Masonic Temple, where all ten of the nominees will be performing, fret not; the Drake Hotel, where the long list and the short list were both announced, is holding a simulcast screening party, and it’s open to the public. Drake Hotel Lounge (1150 Queen Street West), 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. screening, FREE.
COMEDY: The Toronto Improv Festival is divided into two halves this year: from today until Wednesday, the fest will be featuring local talent, and the out-of-town guests will take the spotlight from Thursday on. Tonight features over forty performers in two-person scenes in the 8 p.m. kickoff show, and the 10 p.m. showcase is given over to Sex T-Rex, The Jeremy Birrell Show, and Trotsky and Hutch. Comedy Bar (945 Bloor Street West), 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., $10 (less with pass).