The Hart House Filmboard is hosting a film party this Friday. The evening will feature loop installations and short films. There will be a big screen set up, and refreshments will be served.

When: Friday September 21. Reception at 6:30. Screening at 8:30.
Where: Hart House Courtyard
Details: Free

If you are considering joining the *gasp* world of work anytime soon, you might want to consider attending one of the Career Information Days (CID) next week. CID is the largest annual career fair at the University of Toronto. This event is a great opportunity to meet and network with representatives from over 100 top organizations as well as to find out what the job market is like, if not to get a job or internship.

Last week I attended a workshop at the Career Centre to help prepare for this. Unfortunately there aren’t anymore of them going on but you can find a lot of the same information I learned there on the Career Center website. The most important thing that I picked up from it was to practice doing a 30-second introduction!

Dates:
Monday, September 17, 2007 – Life, Physical Sciences and Business/Commerce
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 – Social Sciences and Business/Commerce
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 – Information Technology
Thursday, September 20, 2007 – Engineering
Friday, September 21, 2007 – Engineering*

Time: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. daily, unless otherwise specified

*From 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. only Friday, September 21, 2007

Location:
University College (UC), East and West halls, St. George Campus 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto

U of T student card (TCard) is required for entry to the event.

For more information about Career Information Days, check out the Career Centre website.

P.S. I’m told that it will be very loud, busy and warm so don’t go wearing a thick sweater or anything

Photos are now available on the BlogUT Flickr pool.

Enjoy, and keep reading BlogUT!

So you may already know that Jane Goodall (of chimpanzee fame) is giving a talk this Saturday Sept. 15 at Convocation Hall. Of course, if you do know this, then you’re probably also aware that the event is sold out.

However, it appears as if there might be another chance to catch her. She is giving a talk this Monday September 17 that takes place at University of Toronto Schools. Moreover, registration is free, and appears to open Monday morning. I haven’t heard much about this, but it seems like it could be interesting.

The Canadian Asian Student Society (CASS) is a large Asian post-secondary student network

with a large party happening at Afterlife tonight!

When: Tonight, doors open at 10PM.
Where: Afterlife (250 Adelaide St. W)
Details: No hats or runners. Jeans are okay to wear. $3.00 sweets all night long! Guestlist: $7 . Cover: $13. Contact Bao of Lifetime Entertainment for guestlist (647.896.8594 / info@enterlifetime.com). For more information check out the Facebook event page.

If you’ve strolled down Queen St. West, then I don’t need to work too hard to sell you this weekend’s Queen West Art Crawl. Lined with little galleries and shops, it’s where I go to remind myself that Toronto (mismatched architecture and all) is a pretty cool place. This three-day festival (Sept.14-16) offers up performance art , music, craft workshops, and it’s all for free. Art that Binds at Trinity Bellwoods Park sounds particularly intriguing. When’s the next time you’ll get to catch the Boy Choir of Lesbos before pimping out your bike or partaking in a round of supermarket zombie-tag? Now’s your chance, if you aren’t too exhausted from charging security barricades at TIFF galas (you know who you are).

We here at BlogUT are dependable admirers of cycling. Not only is it an enjoyable way to get exercise while traveling across the city, but it’s also a real step towards reducing our environmental footprints (and hey, it’s just plain sexy).

Stationary exercise bikes have always seemed agonizing to us (or at least for this BlogUTer), only because there is such a huge amount of wasted energy (you know, the bike doesn’t move).

Welobike, a Toronto organization, is remedying this issue with the introduction of their energy-harvesting bike. The prototype is a basic home exercise bike rigged up to a generator (made from a car alternator). The bike has the potential of generating 50 W of electricity per hour from pedaling and stores the clean green energy into an array of car batteries. The $1000 prototype was designed by Jerid LeClair of NBSInnovativeSolutions.com, but will cost much less once the bikes actually start being sold.

At their benefit concert tonight at the Annex Wreckroom, Welobike hopes to raise enough money to purchase these bikes to donate to The Gateway Homeless Shelter, who they are partnering up with for the event. The bikes will serve to light up some of their rooms on a continuous basis.

The concert will be hosted by local emcee Ill Seer, and will feature various genres of music, including folk-rock singer Julia Churchill, indie sensation Elephant and soulful hiphop by The Runaway.

Volunteers are still needed for tonight. For more information, contact info@welobike.com.

When: Tonight, 8 p.m.
Where: Annex Wreckroom
Details: $10 if you contact info@welobike.com in advance or $15 at the door. Check out their Facebook event page for more information.