Hot tickets in town -- beyond TIFF

Toronto Indie Film Festival
Sept 8 to Sept 17
Toronto Underground Cinema

Toronto Indie presents the best of low-budget filmmaking from around the world, and mixes it up with relevant industry discussions and targeted social networking events. Toronto Indie uses the strength of Toronto's sizable independent filmmaking community to put on a fantastic festival. It's an indie film festival by and for indie filmmakers.

For the line-up of films, check out the Toronto Indie Film Festival website.

Caribbean Tales Film Showcase
Sept 7, Sept 11 to Sept 17
Harbourfront Centre

Now in its sixth year, the CaribbeanTales Toronto Film Showcase, and the recently introduced Market Access Program, will engage families, youth, community groups and the celluloid industry in a programme that includes workshops, screenings, networking sessions, and other activities celebrating the burgeoning film and television sector in the Caribbean

For more information, check out the Caribbean Tales Film Showcase website.

Cabbagetown Festival
Sept 10 to Sept 11
Various Locations

Food/pub crawl, film showcase, walking tours, arts and crafts in the park, Riverdale Farm fall harvest festival -- these are some of the events on offer at this annual festival.

For more information, check out the Cabbagetown Festival website.

Toronto Chinatown Festival
Sept 10 to Sept 11
Spadina Ave (between College and Dundas)

For its 11th year, the Toronto Chinatown Festival is presenting the Mid-Autumn Celebration, and it is going to be bigger and better than ever! Join the Chinatown BIA for incredible food, fun workshops, excellent shopping and amazing entertainment, featuring special Shaolin Kung Fu performances.

For more information, check out the Toronto Chinatown BIA website.

27th Annual Vegetarian Festival
Sept 9 to Sept 11
Harbourfront Centre

The largest of its kind in North America, the annual Vegetarian Food Festival gives you an unparalleled opportunity to enjoy a diverse cross-section of vegetarian cuisine. Discover new products and ideas from more than 100 exhibitors and enjoy a wide variety of presentations, cooking demos and music.

For more information, check out the Harbourfront Centre website.

Heritage Toronto Walks
Sept 10 (10:30 AM)
Lawrence Park

Explore part of Lawrence Park, a residential neighbourhood that dates to 1907, when Wilfrid Servington Dinnick, the young, English-born president of a Toronto loan and mortgage company, purchased two farm properties near Yonge St. and Lawrence Ave. E. His intention was to create a garden suburb - one of the first in Canada - for the city's middle class.

For more information, check out the Heritage Toronto website.

ROMWalks: Heart of Toronto
Sept 11
Meet at New City Hall

ROMwalk provides guided walking tours through Toronto neighbourhoods of architectural and historical interest to the public. Free walks take place on most Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons from May to September.

For more information on the Heart of Toronto walk, check out the ROM website.

Fall Restoration Site Planting
Sept 11
High Park (Meet at Grenadier Cafe)

Join the High Park Stewards in their main fall planting session to improve their current restoration sites and begin a new one. They will be working with Urban Forestry staff using plants supplied by the High Park Greenhouse Native Plant Nursery.

For more information, check out the High Park Nature Wiki.

Harvest Party
Sept 10
The Stop

Celebrate world crops with The Stop, CultureLink Settlement Services, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre and the Greenbelt Foundation. There'll be food samples prepared by our Global Roots gardeners using produce grown at Vineland, as well as guided tours of our eight Global Roots garden plots and a performance by participants in CultureLink's theatre program.

For more information, check out The Stop website.

Rumi Symphony Project
Sept 10
Sony Centre

The Rumi Symphony Project is an ongoing work in Hafez Nazeri's search to cross formal boundaries and integrate classical Iranian and Western musical traditions into a new genre. While the essence and elemental structures of Persian music are preserved in this work, its orchestration, harmony, rhythmic patterns, melodic forms, and resonance diverge from traditional Persian musical arrangements. No longer solely Persian or Western, the music matches the transcendent tone of Rumi's Sufi poetry, transposed into the context of a new age.

For more information, check out the Sony Centre website.