Leap into the second week of Festival Temps d'Images with Stéréoptik's live drawing, Une fête pour Boris's drama, Thierry De Mey's music, and Emmanuel Madan's electro-magnetic Ground at Usine C (1345 Lalonde), see usine-c.com. Award-winning author Miguel Syjuco talks at Stefan Christoff's photo exhibition On Movements in Manila, capturing the human impact of the Philippines' economic crisis, at Kaza Maza (4629 Parc), 6 p.m. Group drawing installation Horror Vacui gives Galerie McClure (350 Victoria) a black-and-white, freaky makeover, 6 p.m. Brendan Fernandes launches culturally provocative Haraka Haraka at MAI (3680 Jeanne-Mance), 5 p.m. Polaris Prize noms Elephant Stone play the Segal (5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine) and Trevor Dunn's Madlove turns Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent Blvd.) into a nuthouse.

FRIDAY 5

Join the Black History Month roundtable Innovation and Human Rights: The Case of Haitian Refugees in Montreal, at Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges (5290 Côte-des-Neiges), 5:30 p.m. Down the street at Bistro Olivieri (5219 Côte-des-Neiges) is Soirée bénéfice Étonnants voyageurs, an evening of Haitian literature read by Montrealers, 6 p.m. Artist Raymonde April and curator Eduardo Ralickas talk about their video and photography project Équivalences, at Les Territoires (#527-372 Ste-Catherine W.), 5 p.m. Montreal artist Tyler Rauman, known for fantastical, sometimes robotical show posters, goes into Transmogrification mode at Monastiraki (5478 St-Laurent Blvd.), 7 p.m. And pop rebel La Roux rouses Métropolis (59 Ste-Catherine E.).

SATURDAY 6

Photographer Lynne Cohen shows how human presence lingers, sometimes creepily, in unoccupied spaces, at Art45 (#220-372 Ste-Catherine W.). Young, Gifted & Black 2010: A Black History Month Showcase sees performers revisit their African roots, featuring Vox Sambou, at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall (7141 Sherbrooke W.), 8 p.m. Studio 303 wonders how well dancers follow Instructions, in works of fantasy, wish-fulfillment and shape-shifting from Fanadeep, Emma W. Howes, Oreet Ashery and 2fik, at Studio 303 (#303-372 Ste-Catherine W.), 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The Pink Floyd Story laser-lights-up Métropolis. And pop-makin' Passovah Productions throws a Passovah Two-Year Anniversary Party with The Luyas and Shapes And Sizes at Il Motore (175 Jean-Talon W.).

SUNDAY 7

There's nothing like taking in new sights as Canada's cruellest month begins. At least it's only 28 days long. Pfft. The Musée d'Art Contemporain starts February fresh with the strange sculpture of Marcel Dzama, contextual paintings of Etienne Zack and felt work of Luanne Martineau - and in conversation Feb. 4, 4 p.m. Plus Land Of Talk plays MACM's Nocturnes Feb. 5, 7 p.m. Discourse meets design in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's Take Note, pivotal moments in the relationship between writing and architecture, a collaboration with UCLA's Hi-C, at 1920 Baile, with vernissage and talk by curator Sylvia Lavin on Feb. 4, 7 p.m.

MONDAY 8

Kim Pate, of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, talks about women who fall through the cracks in "Why women are Canada's fastest growing prison population and why you should care," at McGill (Leacock, room 232), 6 p.m. Photographer Jean-François Bouchard's Still Life goes to extraordinary lengths seeking out strange and marginalized relationships, at Galerie SAS (#416-372 Ste-Catherine W.), with vernissage Feb. 4, 5:30 p.m. And Opéra de Montréal marks its 30th anniversary! With Puccini's Tosca, the tragic story of love in a time of war and revolution, at Place des Arts today and Feb. 6, 11 and 13, see operademontreal.com.

TUESDAY 9

Old Montreal offers visual stimulation at DHC/ART (451 and 465 St-Jean) and the Darling Foundry (745 Ottawa), where Eija-Liisa Ahtila's multi-screen film work stimulates the grey matter in vivid colour, and Galerie Pangée (40 St-Paul W.), where Valérie Jodoin Keaton's photos take us into the backstage lives of relaxing or ready-to-rumble rock musicians. Montreal playwright Michael Mackenzie tells a late-19th-century aristocratic tale of money, social aspirations, education and obsession in Geometry in Venice, at the Segal Theatre (5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine), 8 p.m., to Feb. 14. And Michael Haneke's Oscar-nominated mystery The White Ribbon gets its due in North America.

WEDNESDAY 10

The NFB delves into Black History Month with over 10,000 films, including Black Soul, Tales of Sand and Snow and Maroon: On the Trail of Creoles in North America, at Cinérobothèque's viewing stations (1564 St-Denis). Blue Light Burlesque bookends Valentine's Day (urgh) tonight and Feb. 17 with the titillating talents of Mlle Oui Oui Encore, Blue Eye, Coco Vanille and more, hosted by Peter J. Radomski, at Café Campus (57 Prince Arthur E.), 8 p.m. And the delightful songstress Krista Muir (alter-ego: Lederhosen Lucil) conquers the pop-folk genre and the ukulele at Festival Voix d'Ameriques, at Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent Blvd.), 5 p.m., free.
 
 

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~Ø~     No mention of the Super Bowl or of the many Super Bowl parties going around the city? Really? Ok, I'll grant you that we're more of a hockey town than a football one but c'mon, it's not as if the Winter Olympics are moving any of us to get together and celebrate. Anyways, I'm only in it to see the halftime show. The Who...performing in Miami...on CBS. Tell me this doesn't demand a David Caruso moment. That's all I gotta say.
Pedro Eggers		February 7th, 2010

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