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Urban Planner: November 26, 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].
A panel from Egan McConvey’s 22 Reasons to Fear the Future, a comic series that launches tonight at the Garrison. Image drawn and inked by Juan Romera, and courtesy of Liberated Ink! Comics.
In today’s Urban Planner, UBC alumni organize a fundraiser for Haiti in Toronto; record stores put their own spin on Black Friday; an art exhibition inspired by the concept of Preformation; and a comic book launch, featuring bands befitting its vision of the future.
FUNDRAISER: The University of British Columbia has a special association just for its alumni living in Toronto, and they’re hosting a charity event for Pierspective, which is part of the reconstruction effort in Haiti. The Honourary Consul General of Haiti, Dr. Eric Pierre, will be their special guest, and the event has a silent auction and Mad Men theme, so you’ll want to suit (or cocktail dress) up. Drake Hotel Corner Cafe (1150 Queen Street West), 6–9 p.m., $23 ($5 goes to Pierspective).
ART: The InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre is hosting a reception tonight to open its new curated exhibition, Oath of the Humunculai, featuring work inspired by the concept of Preconception. All of the works draw inspiration from scientist Nicholas Hartsoeker’s Homunculus, a drawing depicting his concept that a “small animal” in every cell had the potential to become a fully formed organism. Inter-Access Electronic Media Arts Centre (9 Ossington Avenue), 7 p.m., FREE.
SHOPPING: We don’t really recognize Black Friday on our side of the border, but it’s a big deal in the U.S.A., and even the Record Store Day organization gets into the spirit, releasing limited edition LPs and singles. Local music emporium Criminal Records is participating with a day of featured sales and “surprises.” Criminal Records (493 Queen Street West) 10 a.m.–9 p.m., FREE. Meanwhile, over at Sonic Boom, while they will have some special Black Friday stock in, they’re more interested in pushing local releases, like Revolvers‘ new album Apocalypse Surfin’; the throwback blues and psych outfit are playing an in-store to celebrate their new LP. Sonic Boom (512 Bloor Street West), 8 p.m., FREE.
MUSIC: Local writer and illustrator Egan McConvey’s new graphic comic book series, 22 Reasons to Fear the Future, is being launched with a night of music by bands whose music (and in some cases, names) evoke the images contained in McConvey’s dystopian vision of the twenty-second century. On the bill: Quest For Fire, Saffron Sect, Blood Ceremony, and Pony Da Look. The Garrison (1197 Dundas Street West), doors at 9 p.m., $10.