Goings on

Turns out there a lot of things going on right now or coming up soon that are worth knowing about. Here, as a public service, is a list of some of them in order of by when it would be useful to know about them.

1. Tonight - 7pm, Friday, May 6
   My high-school friend Jack Mitchell's cross-country epic poem-reading tour makes its Toronto stop at Fort York this evening. His website explains it best, but Jack, a classicist and scholar of Homeric epic, will be performing a version of his epic poem The Plains of Abraham, chronicling the 1759-60 Siege(s) of Quebec. This will likely be the best public example of iambic octameter of the year. I'm going to take my camera, so there may well be photos of it here soon.

2. On right now; May 1-31
   CONTACT 2005, the 9th annual Toronto photography festival, is on all month long with "over 400 Canadian and international artists and photographers exhibiting at more than 170 venues." There are a number of specific exhibits I'm going to try to make it to... more on this later. This month's Toronto Life has a good article on Stephen Bulger, one of the main organizers, and, by extension, about the growth of the festival.

3. All too soon — May 11-15
   Santé, the Bloor-Yorkville wine festival is on next week. There are events the whole week, but the fun and cheap wander-around-and-taste event is Saturday the 14th.

4. Start planning now — May 28-29
   That's right, it's time for Doors Open Toronto, when "over 100 buildings with architectural, historic or cultural significance open their doors to the public for a city-wide celebration."
   

That is all. Thank you.

Posted by madhava at May 6, 2005 01:59 PM