Comic extraordinaire Carol Burnett is in town! She’ll be performing and answering audience questions at Theatre St Denis Saturday night. Your ticket price includes a copy of her latest book. Tickets here.
The "largest grape-and-wine gathering" in Eastern Canada comes to Place Bonvaenture this weekend (Nov 3-5) for La Grande degustation de Montréal. The focus this year is on champagne (yay 375th birthday!), rielsling wines and varieties from Washington state. To sip and spit to your heart's desire... it'll cost you $15 to get in (tasting glass included) and $1 per drink coupon.
The 175 restaurants taking part in MTLàTABLE this season (until November 16) are offering up table d'hote menus at $21, $31 and $41 a pop... with some brunch specials at $15. Perfect for foodies who want to stick to a budget. Seach for a restaurant here.
Whether you're committed to the animal-free life or just curious, check out the Vegan Festival of Montreal, which takes over Bonsecours market Saturday and Sunday. Learn “Fuss-free vegan cooking”, see the premiere of animal doc The Age of Beasts and meet someone named Chris Cooney, aka the Vegan Zombie, at 1pm on Saturday.
In the theatre world...
Halloween may have ended at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday, but it’s alive and well at MainLine Theatre, where a Rocky Horror Show-themed Strip Spelling Bee takes place Friday night at 9pm. Sign up, wear your best Time Warp costume and strip when you get assigned unreasonably tough words.
And if you want to strip without the spelling...try Bareoke at Cafe Cléopatre tomorrow night! The monthly singalong encourages exhibitionists of all kinds to get onstage, sing and get naked!
Speaking of singing... Grammy Award-winning Montreal baritone Gino Quilico sings a selection of love songs for the Westmount Rotary at Victoria Hall on Saturday night at 7:30pm, with a silent auction at 6pm. The evening is to celebrate the Rotary's centennial and to raise money for a water purification system funded by the group for a small town in Kisumu, Kenya. Organizer Peter Starr says the Vermont-made system, in place these last few years, has "changed the quality of life" in Kisumu. One of the benefits: children once sent to fetch fresh water every morning now have time for schooling.
Montreal's premier live storytelling series Confabulation plays the hits when it returns to its original haunt, MainLine Theatre, for a pay-what-you-can evening of classic stories from the archives. Including performances from the likes of Taylor Arrell-Tower and Darren Sugar Schilling.