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Weekend Roundup, September 9 to 11

Friday: The Vegetarian Food Festival offers up a huge harvest (photo by Michael Cannon)

Friday, September 9
Discover new recipes and products at the 27th annual Vegetarian Food Festival at Harbourfront Centre. Dedicated salad-heads and cooks simply looking for new ideas are invited to view demonstrations and visit exhibitors and vendors during this weekend-long festival.

Catch American Idol winner Scotty McCreary and the rest of the season 10 cast as their American Idols Live! tour rolls into Air Canada Centre. The show includes individual performances and energetic group numbers like Cee-Lo Green’s “Forget You” and a Journey mash-up.

Get ready for your dream wedding at Canada’s Bridal Show held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The country’s premiere bridal event features hundreds of vendors, a fashion show, and amazing door prizes.

Saturday: Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, is one of the many films screening today at TIFF

Saturday, September 10
Get excited for the opening weekend of the Toronto International Film Festival! From September 8 to 18 over 300 films are screened from all over the world. See this year’s highly anticipated films and maybe catch a glimpse of celebrities like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling who are all set to attend.

Enjoy the Fall spirit with the 35th annual Cabbagetown Festival. In celebration of the community, the streets are filled with a variety of entertainers, food vendors, and a lively parade.

See country music super star Keith Urban on his 2011 Get Closer world tour. Accompanied by The Perry Band, Urban is sure to please the crowd at the Air Canada Centre with his memorable hits.

Sunday: Rock out with Pearl Jam (photo by Karen Loria, Pearl Jam Ten Club)

Sunday, September 11
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of iconic rock band Pearl Jam at their Air Canada Centre concert. The band just kicked off the Canadian leg of its tour with plans to rock the arena for two nights. (The new Cameron Crowe-directed documentary Pearl Jam Twenty is also screening at TIFF.)

Kick up your heels as Kew Gardens hosts The Beach Celtic Festival. The east-end event embraces Irish and Celtic culture through traditional dances, music, and food.

Support emerging and established artists at the Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show and Sale. Within the historic Sunnyside Pavillion—along the shore of Lake Ontario—you be privy to a variety of visual arts, installations, and live music during the final day of the event.

Weekend Roundup, March 4th to 6th

Friday: Witness the grace of Russia's Mariinsky Ballet

Friday, March 4
Marvel at Russia’s legendary Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet) as its skilled dancers float across Sony Centre stage in Swan Lake, arguably the world’s most popular ballet. Accompanied by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, this production of a beloved classic is sure to please the whole family.

Two hundred independent and emerging artists have gathered in Toronto this weekend for The Artist Project. Chat with the artists about their processes and inspirations as they display their paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and more.

Listen in on La Voix Humaine, a fantastic one-woman play written by renowned poet, author and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. On stage at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre, this drama details a mysterious phone call placed to a woman by a lover who abandoned her.

Saturday: Lucinda Williams takes the stage with Levon Helm

Saturday, March 5
Steep yourself in Americana tonight as Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Levon Helm brings his Ramble on the Road tour to Massey Hall. The former singer and drummer for The Band is joined by renowned roots artist Lucinda Williams, who is scheduled to perform a full set of her own, too.

Scour a treasure trove of the past at the Absolutely Vintage Show and Sale at Maple Cottage. Top vintage shops including Gadabout and Eclectisaurus have combined their collections of clothing, jewelery and antiques in a smorgasbord of unique fashion and accessories.

Tonight represents theatre goers’ final opportunity to catch the Canadian Stage Company’s Saint Carmen of the Main. This Greek tragedy with a Canadian twist tells the story of a young performer who leaves Nashville and returns to her roots in Montreal, where she sings of the hustlers and whores who attend her nightclub shows and sees those on the fringes of society become the heroes of her songs.

Sunday: Slip through the fog curtain to learn about water at the Royal Ontario Museum's latest exhibition

Sunday, March 6
Drink in every last drop of tantalizing information as the Royal Ontario Museum presents Water: The Exhibition. Through this comprehensive show, visitors can learn about water’s importance as an essential resource thanks to hands-on activities, live animal displays and much more.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a little bit early at the Tiff Bell Lightbox, which today presents the Toronto Irish Film Festival. Its day-long slate of films from the Emerald Isle—and Canada, too—honours the Irish and their cultural contributions to the visual media.

Considered by many to be one of the world’s finest classical ensembles, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra offers an applause-worthy program of Schubert, Wagner and Bartók tonight at Roy Thomson hall. Master conductor Semyon Bychkov leads the orchestra to mastery in grand Viennese style.

Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 10

Red carpets, nightly parties, fans’ faces obscured by continually clicking cameras—looks like the Toronto International Film Festival is back in town. Each day of the TIFF we’re not only listing our daily flick pick, but we’re mapping the hottest attractions, restaurants, and shops and services that are just steps from the screening spot.

The films: Saint Louis Blues, an unlikely musical that follows a road trip through Senegal, and 25 Carat, in which a car thief and big-time crook and struggle to escape the life of crime.

The venue: Cineplex Odeon Varsity at Manulife Centre, movie theatre where patrons aged 19 and over can receive full in-seat service during Varsity VIP film screenings.

What to do while you wait for doors to open?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 9

The films: A young peasant who struggles to start up a vineyard at the turn of the 19th century gets help from an angel in The Vintner’s Luck, and a family squatting in Amsterdam get a taste of the ups-and-downs of communal living in My Queen Karo.

The venue: Cumberland cinema in the posh neighbourhood of Yorkville, bound to be star-studded during TIFF.

Where are you going to go to catch a glimpse of a celebrity?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 8

The films: A free outdoor screening of U2: Rattle & Hum, which follows the iconic Irish rockers on their 1987 North American tour; and BAND, a multi-disciplinary film-based art installation complete with post-punk band Deerhoof live in concert.

The venue: Yonge-Dundas Square, located at the southeast corner of one of the city’s liveliest intersections.

If you want something different to what’s offered at the Square, where can you go?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 7

The film: A new print of Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s 1991 film The Adjuster, a work of dark humour depicting the emotional isolation of urban and suburban dwellers.

The venue: Jackman Hall, an event space housed among the 79,000 artworks at the prestigious Art Gallery of Ontario.

It might be a couple of hours of waiting in the admittance line, so how do you amuse yourself beforehand?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 6

The films: Foreign film Gigante is a romantic comedy between a grocery store security guard and a cleaning woman; while Videocracy from Sweden examines of how Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi uses his control of the nation’s TV empire to wield power over the people.

The venue: Cineplex Odeon Varsity at Manulife Centre, a movie theatre where patrons aged 19 and over can receive full in-seat service during Varsity VIP film screenings.

How do you round out your day of international fare?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 5

The films: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould investigates the life of the acclaimed classical pianist, and The Art of the Steal explores art collector Albert Barnes and the mysterious disappearance of his world-famous assortment of art.

The venue: AMC Theatres, a multiplex within Toronto Life Square at the buzzing intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets.

What else to do to make your day of documentaries complete?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 4

The films: The comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats, in which George Clooney portrays a member of a U.S. military unit that trains in the paranormal and psychic, and the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Road, in which a father and son embark on a threatening journey of survival.

The venue: Ryerson Theatre, where Ryerson University student shows and convocation ceremonies are also held.

What are you going to check out with your spare time before the films?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 3

The films: It’s all about dark and disturbing human psychology in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, and kids internalize fascism in White Ribbon, which earned writer-director Michael Haneke Palme d’Or at this year’s Festival de Cannes.

The venue: Scotiabank Theatre, a multiplex in the midst of partying clubland.

If not at an after-party, where are you going to be post-show?

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Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 2

The films: Matt Damon plays an executive at an agro-megacorp who’s forced to spy on his company’s dirty business practices in The Informant!, while the love affair between poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne is brought to life in Jane Campion’s Bright Star.

The venue: The Elgin Theatre’s Visa Screening Room at the historic Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre, the last operating set of double-decker theatres in the world.

What are you doing between whistleblowing and falling love?

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Weekend Roundup, September 11 to 13

It’s a festival frenzy in Toronto this weekend!

Friday, September 11th
Even if tickets are sold out, show up outside the Toronto International Film Festival screening of The Informant! and try to catch a glimpse of the film’s leading actor and Hollywood star Matt Damon.

For the last weekend, be mesmerized by the strange and fascinating art works in the Surreal Things exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Take a break from tasting veggie-friendly treats and check out The Real Iron Chef, a race to the finish to serve up meatless but high in iron meals, at the 25th Vegetarian Food Fair.

Saturday, September 12th
Bite into hot, roasted corn-on-the-cob in the afternoon, then do-si-do at the barn dance in the evening at Riverdale Farm‘s annual Fall Harvest Festival.

Join the Junction Arts Festival‘s street art party and follow dance ensemble rad (Random Acts of Dance) as they give a tour of the neighbourhood using dance rather than narration.

Explore the quaint community of Cabbagetown on a historical walking tour, offered by the Cabbagetown Festival. Stick around for the parade, short film festival, arts and crafts show and sale, amateur boxing show, food vendors and street entertainment.

Sunday, September 13th
Nosh on a pancake breakfast, nurse a lager in the beer gardens and take in Scottish country dancing at the fall fair cum food fest Taste of the Kingsway.

If you need more than fancy Scottish footwork to get your Celtic fix, head to The Beach Celtic Festival and clap your hands to the rousing music of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Maritimes.

At the Butterfly Migration Festival, meander through meadows for the one-of-a-kind experience of watching monarch butterflies take flight en masse to migrate south.

Festival Fare: 10 Days of TIFF—Day 1

The film: TIFF’s opening-night gala screening of Creation, a period drama about the tragedies and triumphs of Charles Darwin.

The venue: The massive upside-down glass bowl of Roy Thomson Hall, home to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and located in the heart of the entertainment district.

So what to do while your friend holds your place in line?

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