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Urban Planner: January 11, 2011
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 glimpse inside one of The Keyhole Series’ life drawing session. Photo courtesy of The Madame.
Today’s city scene presents a doc on environmental toxins, a scandalous life drawing session, and more trivia straight from Springfield.
FILM: If Captain Planet has taught us anything, it’s that toxins are a constant threat to our environment. What Saturday morning cartoons didn’t quite articulate is how saturated our bodies—and, worse, the bodies of our children—are with chemicals and carcinogens. Luckily, documentarian Barri Cohen has brought us Toxic Trespass, a film that investigates the unprecedented level of poisons saturating the world around us, as well as our very DNA. There will be a screening of the NFB production this evening, followed by a discussion led by producer Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg. Trinity St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor Street West), 7 p.m., FREE.
ART: Scintillating life drawing series The Keyhole Series is kicking off the new year with a new format—now a monthly series instead of weekly, and with sessions lengthened from two hours to three. Also added: a bar! Appropriately named The Reeperbahn (German for The Ropemaker’s Way), tonight’s debaucherous show will feature three models bound with ropework by J.P. Robichaud. Attendees must bring their own materials—take a quick peek at the rest of the code of conduct here. The Great Hall (1087 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., $20.
TRIVIA: Thank Jeebus, WOO HOO! is back with another night of Classic Simpsons Trivia. Face off through three rounds of questions spanning the first eleven seasons for the prize of donuts, possibly even those with purple in them—purple’s a fruit! Frankly it’s high time those shmoes from the box factory were dethroned, so assemble a team of up to six friends with serious Simpsons s-m-r-ts and head on down. Also featuring alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all of life’s problems! Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), 8 p.m., FREE.