Baseball is back! The Toronto Blue Jays face the Pittsburgh Pirates in a two-game exhibition series at the Big O. Relive what it was like - sort of - to have baseball in Montreal! They play Friday night and Saturday afternoon - as long as the roof holds! Tim Raines, friend of the Andrew Carter Morning Show and new Hall of Fame inductee, is getting some special honours before the Friday match.
Rise and greet the day with Daybreaker, an exercise session designed for fitness fanatics! It's Saturday morning, bright and early at 10am at Theatre Fairmount! The day starts with a hugging train, a one-hour yoga session and then a two-hour dance party, along with motivational speeches and 'artistic performances'. Breakfast, and kombucha, coffee and probiotic smoothies are all included in the ticket price!
See some of Montreal's best storytellers live with the monthly series Confabulation, this Saturday night 8pm at the Phi Centre. The theme is excellent: SECRET WEAPONS, SECRET WEAKNESSES: Stories of inner superheroes and Achilles heels!
Theatre:
I just learned about a pretty cool monthly event called General Audience, which is an opportunity for speakers to share know-how with an audience. The theme for April is Montreal Music Makers... artists talking about their influences in something that is a cross between a concert and oral presentation. Performers include Balkan/Quebecois singer Briga, indie pop collective Woodpigeon and Bergþóra Jónsdóttir (AKA DJ Backthrowa), who just moved here from Iceland. Catch this Saturday night at the Rocket Science Room in Little Italy.
Quentin Tarantino's shoot-'em-up classic Pulp Fiction is screening in an archival 35mm format. At the Dollar Cinema at Décarie Square Mall, Friday night at 9pm.
And Blue Night Burlesque takes over Café Campus Saturday night. The MC is Canadian Wolfman, out of Toronto, and performers include Bibi LoloBangBang, Trixie Cups and Velvet Latouche!