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Urban Planner: January 10, 2012
In today's Urban Planner: a photo exhibit about prostate cancer in Brookfield Place, a talk and screening with Renzo Martens, Craig Stickland is hitting the stage at the Drake, Spare Hearts Improv kicks off 2012 with its first show, and there's still time to check out great shows at the Next Stage Theatre Festival.
A photo of Ron Telpner, CEO of The Brainstorm Group, from the TIEd Together exhibit. Photo by Michele Taras.
ART: Going for a lunchtime stroll downtown? Starting today you can wander through the Allen Lambert Galleria in Brookfield Place to visit Photosensitive’s newest exhibition, TIEd Together. The organization has partnered with Prostate Cancer Canada for a showcase of over 100 black and white photographs and 10 short films that tell the stories of Canadians’ experiences with prostate cancer—a disease experienced by one in six Canadian men. The exhibit runs until January 22. Allen Lambert Galleria (181 Bay Street), all day, FREE.
FILM: Catch a talk and screening of Dutch artist Renzo Martens’ work presented by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery today. Martens is known for documenting civil unrest and questioning the role of journalists and tonight, you can see Episode 1, where Martens travelled to Chechnya and turned the camera on himself to ask subjects what they thought about his presence. Hart House, East Common Room (7 Hart House Circle), screening at 6 p.m. and artist’s talk at 7 p.m., FREE.
MUSIC: Indie rocker Craig Stickland is playing one final set in Toronto before heading off to record his debut solo full-length album. Formerly a member of We Are The Take, Stickland’s new solo material is inspired, in part, by his bartending job at a Toronto hot spot and the people he saw on a nightly basis. Also onstage at the Drake tonight will be Brent Jackson and Megan Bonnell. Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen Street West), 8 p.m., $7.
COMEDY: Ready to laugh your way through 2012? Spare Hearts Improv is hosting its first show of the year and they want you to “shake off the heartbreak of the past, to make room for new heartbreak.” The show is called “This Year It’ll Be Different!” and will be hosted by Sondra Piea and Geoff MacDonald, along with Carolyn Williamson, Tanya Morgan, and William Nishri. Free Times Café (320 College Street), 8:30 p.m., PWYC.
NEXT STAGE: The curated winter edition of the Toronto Fringe Festival (complete with heated beer tent), The Next Stage Theatre Festival features a selection of previously produced hits, and is programmed to be all killer, no filler. Check out our preview here.
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