 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | (Tim Boyle/Getty Images) | | | The Oscars air tonight, and within mere hours, I suspect a bunch of us are going to be frantically Googling how to watch the show. This link should save us all some time — but it won’t solve another problem. Feeling a twinge of social anxiety because you RSVP’d to a watch party? Try this quick fix: not one, but two awards-season explainers from CBC News. It’s everything you need to hold your own against the loudest film nerds in the room, and for further conversational ammunition, consult our list of Oscar predictions — plus picks from Commotion too.
Click all those links and you’ll be ready for tonight, chum. And why not use all that new-found bandwidth to explore an adjacent topic? Canadian movies.
Yesterday, CBC Gem released a collection of 11 features by homegrown storytellers. Look for Spotlight on Canadian Film the next time you open the app. There are movies by folks you’ve heard from on Q and CBC Arts (including one of our past Rising Stars). Check it out. All of the films are free to stream. | | | | | Because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Erika Germain | | At Latitude 53 in Edmonton, artist Erika Germain is asking folks to leave their hate … love, fear or hope at the door. Erika will open a new show at the gallery March 7, and alongside her paintings and ceramic works, she’s presenting a project that invites a little audience participation. Visitors will be prompted to offer a feeling “and leave it behind in exchange for a small ceramic star.” (Pictured: a detail from A Hope to Wish for on a Star.) | | | | |  | Sean Alward | | Golden Weed Field (Tansy) by Vancouver-based artist Sean Alward. | | | | |  | McMichael Canadian Art Collection | | | | | It’s an exhibition that warns of political strongmen, techno-fascism and Canadian sovereignty in jeopardy. John Scott: Firestorm is on now at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont. | | | | |  | Wade Muir | | | | | Award-winning playwright (and former barista) Rosamund Small plumbs her eclectic work experience in the new immersive show, Performance Review. The play is being staged in a Toronto cafe. | | | | |  | Poems in Passage | | | | | | | The organizers of Poems in Passage call the program a “public health intervention” for Toronto. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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