Sunday, March 10

* How to Survive a Plague @ Parc
* Short plays @ SIPA/Short Works Festival
* On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
* Edgy Lucha
* Winona Ryder Film Festival

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Winona Ryder in Heathers, Beetlejuice and Reality Bites

Oscar-nominated doc How to Survive a Plague, about the history of AIDS activism, screens at Cinéma du Parc. Concordia’s Thomas Waugh will moderate a discussion after the screening with activists Michael Hendricks and Karen Herland. 3575 Parc, 2 p.m., $11.50

Catch the first round of short plays presented as part of Concordia Theatre’s SIPA/Short Works Festival. Today’s lineup features This Must Be the Place/What My Mother Taught Me (7 p.m.), The Bucket (8 p.m.) and A Sketch Comedy Show (9 p.m.). F. C. Smith Auditorium (7141 Sherbrooke St. W.), $5/$2 for students per play

Fan favourite and George Lazenby’s sole appearance as 007, 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, screens in 35mm glory courtesy of the Cineclub/Film Society. J.A. De Sève Cinema, 1400 Maisonneuve W., 7 p.m., $8/$6 students. Join fellow Bond fans for 5 à 7 martinis before the screening at the Kafein Lounge (1429a Bishop), 5 p.m.

Masked fighters take to the ring for Edgy Lucha, organized by Belgian experimental theatre artist Marijs Boulogne as part of the Edgy Women fest, in the spirit of Mexican Lucha Libre fighting. Five female fighters will face off, and half-time promises a neo-burlesque, Hard Candy. Blue Cat Boxing Club (435 Beaubien W.), 8 p.m., $15-20

Are you cool enough to know where the Plant is, but not too cool to admit your love for Winona Ryder? Then you’re the target market for what the underground loft space grandly terms the first annual Winona Ryder Film Festival. The 90s alt-icon’s seminal cinematic work will be screened from noon to midnight (the sweet spot of Beetlejuice-Heathers-Reality Bites gets started at 2:15). The Plant (secret location; ask your nearest hipster), 12 p.m.-midnight, free (organizers advise “BYO butt cushion”)

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