1. DESIGN WEEK
We’ve long felt that Toronto's interior and industrial designers should have their own city-wide event, à la fashion week, and apparently they agree. This year marks the launch of the Toronto International Design Festival, which brings together the city’s biggest design events: the Interior Design Show, the Gladstone's annual Come up to My Room installation exhibit, and Made's Radiant Dark studio tours. Jan. 20 to 24. Various prices. Various locations, tidfonline.com.

2. ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
Indie theatre company Column 13 takes on Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play about AIDS in 1980s America, last performed in Toronto by Canstage in 1997. The epic follows a diverse cast of characters—including a ghost, a closeted Mormon lawyer, a rabbi and an angel—but centres on two New York couples whose lives become intertwined with each other and the devastating disease. Until Jan. 30. $15. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill St., Bldg. 58, The Cannery, Studio 313, 647-377-4903, column13.org.

3. DANCE ONTARIO DANCEWEEKEND
Dancers from 27 Toronto companies will be shaking their stuff this weekend at Harbourfront’s popular annual festival. Expect performances of everything from ballet to bharatanatyam. Jan. 22 to 24. $10. Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queens Quay W., 416-204-1083, danceontario.ca.

4. TORONTO INTERNATIONAL SOCCER SHOW
This show will be overrun with Toronto FC fans, but unlike at actual FC games, scoring (tickets) won’t take a minor miracle. Watch quality footie at the show’s tournament, check out the latest in gear and get tips on improving footwork at one of the teaching demonstrations. Jan. 22 to 24. $12. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, Hall C, 100 Princes’ Blvd., soccershows.org.

5. TIMBALAND
Star producer Timbaland’s CV reads like a who’s who of the top 40: Ludacris, Aaliyah, Jay-Z and Nelly Furtado are some of his collaborators. This weekend, he brings his similarly mainstream hip-hop style to Toronto in support of his most recent solo effort, Shock Value II. Jan. 22. $32. Sound Academy, 11 Polson St., 416-870-8000, ticketmaster.ca.

6. LA COMUNION
Pantera, the 17-year-old protagonist of this Beatriz Pizano play, has something of a past. At the age of 11, she tries to make her way out of some serious poverty by leaving her village and joining a group of guerilla fighters deep in the Colombian jungle. Six years later, she’s escaped from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the country itself and is trying to adjust to a new life in Toronto. Until Jan. 31. $18–$25. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St., 416-975-8555, artsexy.ca.

7. SHOP FOR THE CAUSE: HELP FOR HAITI (FREE!)
Organized by designer and store owner Nathalie-Roze Fischer, this shop-athon is a benefit to support Canadian Red Cross efforts in Haiti. Expect brand new loot donated by artists, designers, restaurants and shops from across the city, a jumble sale, silent auction and gourmet bake sale. Jan. 23. 11–5. Queen Street East Presbyterian Church, 947 Queen St. E., 416-792-1699, nathalie-roze.com.

8. ROBBIE BURNS BANQUET
Pay tribute to Scotland’s favourite son, poet Robert Burns, at Granite Brewery’s evening of piping, singing and plenty of haggis. Reservations required. Jan. 22 and 23. $50. Granite Brewery, 245 Eglinton Ave. E., 416-322-0723, granitebrewery.ca.