What: AfterLife - a one woman play
Where: Glen Morris Theatre, 4 Glen Morris Street, Toronto
When: July 1: 7pm; July 3: 2pm; July 4: 10pm; July 7: 10:30pm; July 8: 3:30pm; July 9: 6:30pm; July 10: 5:30pm
Details: A critics' favorite when it premiered to Fringe audiences in the Summer of 2008, AfterLife, is a dramatic, yet darkly funny take on the evolution of women in modern society told through a 'karmic lens'. Plankmagazine.com of Vancouver called AfterLife, "impeccably structured with enough twists and turns to keep us on our toes". For more photos and video links please go to: www.sunsetgunproductions.com. Ticket: $10.

What: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Where: Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto
When: July 10: 10:30am - 7:30pm, July 11: 10:30am - 7:30pm, July 12: 10:30am - 6:30pm
Details: More than 500 of the very best contemporary artists working today will participate in the 2009 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Participating artists will exhibit in 14 different categories including ceramics, drawing, fibre, glass, jewellery, metal, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, watercolour and wood. TOAE will present more than $35,000 in awards to 42 artists exhibiting on Nathan Phillips Square. Judged by respected and established members of the arts community, the winners' work will be recognized for originality in conception and execution, quality of workmanship and excellence in design. A catalogue featuring work of each of the selected artists will be available on the TOAE website in June. Admission: Free.

What: A Season of Change at the AGO: Two New Exhibitions
Where: Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
When: May 23 - August 30
Details: Angelika Hoerle: The Comet of Cologne Dada is a powerful commentary on the intersection of art and politics in post–World War l Germany. In the midst of the cultural movement known as Dada, where traditional tenets of artistic expression were rejected in favour of "anti-art," Hoerle created an outstanding body of work from 1919 until her untimely death in 1923 from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-three. The Gallery's Fick-Eggert Collection of Cologne Dada material includes most of Angelika Hoerle's known works, numbering fewer than 40. The AGO exhibition showcases Hoerle's work in the context of other artists with whom she associated in the so-called Stupid Group in Cologne — including Max Ernst, Willy Fick, Franz W. Seiwert and Heinrich Hoerle.
Painting as a Weapon: Progressive Cologne 1920–33 / Seiwert - Hoerle - Arntz. This exhibition, organized by Museum Ludwig, examines the work of three core members of the Cologne Progressives — Franz W. Seiwert, Heinrich Hoerle and Gerd Arntz. Curator Lynette Roth documents the activities of these artists until the rise of Hitler in 1933, when their work was condemned as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime. With an eye to the leftist political aims of the group, this provocative exhibition examines how the Progressives deployed painting as a weapon during some of the most turbulent years in German history. Featured are sixty-three paintings and works on paper, a small selection of poetry and other documents relating to both exhibition history and the journal a bis z (the mouthpiece of the Progressives from 1929 to 1933).

What: SMAsquerade for Fight Spinal Muscular Atrophy Canada
Where: Distillery District, Toronto
When: September, 26th 2009, 8:00 pm-1:00 am
Details: The SMAsquerade is a charity event run by CML. The formal cocktail dinner will feature amazing food, a live band and its all for the charity FightSMA (spinal muscular atrophy) which is a life-threatening disease that children are born. For more information go to www.fightsma.org. The guest list ranges between 400-500 people and it is a night that will not be forgotten. More focused as an older event, ticket prices ($150 each) won't change for minors. Contact: Tracy Lacey for tickets and information at 416-319-7593.