Vaughan Film Festival
April 2-4, 2014
Colossus Vaughan Cinemas
3555 Hwy 7 West
$10
The annual Vaughan Film Festival takes kicks off tonight and features up and coming filmmakers from around the world. Each block will screen a number of short films ranging in length from one minute and up, while the event itself is a celebration of arts and entertainment. The festival will culminate in an awards ceremony hosted by Rick Campanelli that highlights artists and actors while also supporting students.
For more information and to purchase tickets,
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Toronto: This City in Seven Years
Friday April 4, 2014
Fleck Atrium, Rotman School of Management
105 St. George Street
7:00 p.m.
$15 general admission/$10 students
Join former Yonge Street managing editor Shawn Micallef as he moderates a panel imagining what Toronto will look like in seven years, turning attention the architectural and community possibilities of Toronto's distinctive laneways. The panel discussion will feature Fortune editor Leigh Gallagher (author of The End of Suburbs) and professor and architect Brigitte Shim, while also featuring the work of illustrator Michael Cho, author of Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes.
The event is part of the Spur Festival, which discussions notions of politics, art and ideas as a catalyst for change.
For more information, please visit the Spur Festival's website
here.
NASA International Space Apps Challenge
April 11-13, 2014
Ontario Science Centre
770 Don Mills Rd.
Free
NASA's
International Space Apps Challenge returns to Toronto next weekend and it's not too late to sign up to participate. The event celebrates open data by encouraging participants to reimagine the role of space and space technology to find solutions to a series of diverse NASA-designed challenges ranging from visualizing asteroid data to piloting an orbiting satellite. The hackathon event will feature 150 participants in Toronto (and more than 9,000 globally) and is designed to unite people around the world to enhance life in space and on earth.
The winning local solution will win a semi-permanent home at the Ontario Science Centre.
There are four ways to get involved in the event. You can register to participate for the adult event, you can register a youth to participate in a special youth (ages nine to 15) version taking place on Saturday April 12, become a mentor, or volunteer to assist.
A pre-event for participants featuring beer, pizza and ideation will take place on April 4 at the Toronto Reference Library at 6:30 p.m.
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