Lighting up the night
At We Are The Lightthe underrepresented become the presented, and the presenters.
Saturday, Jan. 26
* Station 16 archive sale
* DJ workshop at Never Apart
* Great Canadian Kilt Skate
* Strange Froots at la Vitrola
* Dômesicle at SAT
* Cosmic Café afterhours
* Disco Troopers afterhours
Nicole Kidman gives a perfectly grotesque performance in Destroyer
Karyn Kusama’s film has its hard-boiled clichés but hits the right notes with its low-key grit.
Friday, Jan. 25
* Afro Urban Fest
* ArtJam at NOMAD Life
* Ellise Barbara’s Ayibobo™ QT Dollhouse Factory at Lux Magna
* House of Laureen drag at Diving Bell
* Misa Negra at Local Legend
* Glitter Bomb at Bar le Ritz
The Kid Who Would Be King is the kind of movie a kid might actually make
Joe Cornish follows up Attack the Block with a tremendously British fantasy film that lets kids be kids.
Show some love for a record store in need
A benefit gig tonight demands your presence PLUS the rest of the best gigs of the week.
What we talk about when we talk about crisis
“As a theatre artist, it just makes sense to explore the thing that scares you,” says Elsewhere playwright and performer Joy Ross-Jones.
Thursday, Jan. 24
* Plantzy plant sale
* Kid Koala Music to Draw To at SAT
* CCA expo Come and Forget
* Wàsakozi at MAI
* Sound Central benefit at Turbo Haus
* Lux Magna Festival
The Great Darkened Days is an expansive and expensive movie
Filmmaker Maxime Giroux and actor Martin Dubreuil on getting an ambitious and strange film off the ground.
The Ayurvedic facial is the Cadillac of holistic beauty indulgences
We sampled the experience at Montreal salon Seed and Rind.