LISTINGS & EVENTS
MAY
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MICHEL TREMBLAY The Real World opens at Tarragon
LOST LOUNGE The Split Britches opens at Buddies
SEMELE Opening night at the COC
THE CONVENT OF PLEASURE First of two nights
CAROLE POPE Joins Bluebird North
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15 SWAN LAKE The Bolshoi comes to town
Art & Photography PABLO PICASSO Exhibition features more than 150 works from Picasso’s private collection, now in the holdings of the Musée National Picasso in Paris. Over his 70-plus year career, these are the works he kept to shape his artistic legacy. $25 (timed entry). Tue, May 1Aug 26. Art Gallery of Ontario. 317 Dundas St W. (416) 979-6648. ago.net. CONTACT Huge photo fest all across town throughout May. Highlights include works by Berenice Abbott, Ai Weiwei, Lynne Cohen, Richard Mosse, Larry Towell, Weegee and Michael Wolf. See page 24 for some of our LGBT selects. Also look for the Wish You Were Here show with Kelly Clipperton, Mark Gleberzon, Stev’nn Hall and Sandy Middleton. Opening. 6pm-10pm. Fri, May 4. MJG Gallery. 555 Parliament St. Huge group show Exposed with Julie
25 ATLANTIC BALLET THEATRE OF CANADA Ghosts of Violence, first of two shows
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RAGTIME Opens at Shaw starring Alana Hibbert & Thom Allison
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Opens at Stratford starring Ben Carlson & Deborah Hay
Castonguay, Daniel Chiu, Chris Ironside, Tom Ridout, Nicola Woods and many more. Opening. 7pm-10pm. May 3. Gladstone Hotel. 1214 Queen St W. And Drasko Bogdanovic’s Submisison, a new collection of sexually explicit male nudes. Opening. 7pm. Tue, May 15. Until May 27. Tallulah’s Cabaret. 12 Alexander St. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.
Thu, May 3. Royal Ontario Museum. 100 Queen’s Park. tfi25.eventbrite.ca. DOORS OPEN More than 130 buildings open to the public. Check for guided tours, architect talks and other special events. Sat, May 26 & 27. toronto.ca/ doorsopen.
Architecture & Design
SWAN LAKE 135 years after its premiere
TFI25 Toronto Fashion Incubator is a
nonprofit that fosters young design talent; many top designers in the country got their start there. The TFI celebrates 25 years with a dinner and fashion show inspired by Barbie. Four young designers vie for a $10,000 prize: Jameson Kane and [blak]-i of Toronto, Patrick l’Arrivée of Montreal and Sid Neigum of Edmonton. Hosted by songstress Jully Black. $100. 8:30pm doors.
Dance by the Bolshoi Ballet, the company brings its most celebrated creation to Toronto in a production with original revival choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. $71-$255. 7:30pm. Tue, May 15-17. 8pm. May 18 & 19. 2pm. May 19. Sony Centre. 1 Front St E. 1 (855) 872-7669. sonycentre.ca. GHOSTS OF VIOLENCE Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada makes its Toronto debut with its seminal ballet, an original full-length multimedia production,
choreographed by founding artistic director Igor Dobrovolskly, that puts gender-based violence centre stage. With music by Alfred Schnittke and Sergei Rachmaninoff. $29-$99. 2pm. Fri, May 25. 7:30pm. May 26. Bluma Appel Theatre. 27 Front St E. (416) 366-7723. stlc.com.
Film & Video INSIDE OUT The LGBT film and video festival runs Thu, May 17 to 27. The opening gala is My Brother the Devil. (The opening party with DJ Shane Percy is at OCAD Great Hall at 100 McCaul St.) The Closing Gala is Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes. Emmanuelle Beart and Beatrice Dalle star as two women who were lovers in a psychiatric institution when they were teenagers. insideout.ca. See page 26.