May 3 – 5 Andre 3000’s favourite Kid in the Hall hosts a weekend worth of sketch and improv shows at Kevin McDonald Weekend at Comedy Bar. See “Denim Vest” himself play alongside Canada’s best young improvisors.
From Sebastiao Salgado’s GENESIS exhibit. Image courtesy of CONTACT Photography FestivalMay 1 – 31 In it’s 17th year and on for the full month of May, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival has developed into the largest photography festival in the world. Two shows worth checking out are Arnaud Maggs’ Scotiabank Photography Award-winning exhibit at the newly opened Ryerson Image Centre (the only photography-dedicated museum in the country) and Sebastiao Salgado’s GENISIS exhibit at Royal Ontario Museum. Maggs’ work examines his fascination with photographing found objects and his talent for portraiture while Salgado’s black and white photography captures the “majesty of regions not yet touched by the impact of globalization” including arctic and antarctic landscapes and photographs of isolated tribes peoples from various locations around the world.
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