Today in Toronto: TIFF, Kate Hilliard, Seamus Blake, David Hoffos

Toronto International Film Festival: The megawatt fall fest celebrates its new home at the Bell Lightbox with an extended ribbon cutting: 100 influential films will screen as part of the Essential Cinema program, alongside an art exhibition featuring installations by the likes of Guy Maddin (Hauntings I and II) and Atom Egoyan. Find out more >>

Seamus Blake: Born in Britain, raised in Vancouver and based in NYC, this exhilarating young tenor saxophonist can improvise a riff until you’d swear he was channelling Olivier Messiaen. Find out more >>

David Hoffos: This Albertan artist uses dioramas and video projections to create an eerily familiar domestic world that might just turn around and bite you. Find out more >>

Kate Hilliard: The Brutes, Hilliard’s latest project, was born out of a tête-à-tête with NYC experimental theatre figure Corinne Donly; it makes its Toronto premiere as part of DanceWorks CoWorks. Find out more >>