Saturday January 20 Café Scientifique Discussion on the consumption craze and whether there is a biological urge to buy. With Dr. Sara F. Sarkar, Rotman School of Management Biologist and MBA candidate; Dr. Stephen L. Muzzatti, Ryerson University Department of Sociology, Dr. Michael Prokopow, Ryerson University Department of Communication and Design, Department of Arts, University of Toronto, Fauclty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and Curator at the Design Exchange. 4 pm. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen Street West www.cafescientifique.ca

Monday January 22 Bob Snider performs at the TRANZAC plus open
mic w/ Shawn Sage.

Wednesday January 24 Surrealist poet and math professor Hugh Thomas and poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, short-story writer and Guggenheim laureate M. NourbeSe Philip read at the Test Reading Series. Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art, 37 Lisgar Street, 7:30pm, pwyc www.testreading.org