David Miller, Christopher Hume and philanthropist Alan Broadbent talk about strengthening Canadian cities at an event that doubles as a plug for Broadbent’s Urban Nation: Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong. May 8. Midi Onodera, Richard Fung and other video stars show short films at the launch of Mike Hoolboom’s anthology Practical Dreamers: Conversations With Movie Artists. May 13. Taras Grescoe travels from an American Red Lobster to an Indian curry spot in search of the perfect seafood, and discovers some nasty secrets along the way, in Bottomfeeder: A Seafood Lover’s Journey to the End of the Food Chain. May 20. Best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver fuelled the locavore movement with Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Now plugging the trade paperback, she provides an onstage update. May 27. $10. MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Bldg. McSweeney’s contributor Pasha Malla does a very McSweeney’s thing and multimedias his high school journals, during a fête for his first collection of short fiction, The Withdrawal Method. May 28. Free. Gladstone Hotel.—Brent Ledger