Canada Day Week in New York: June 5 - July 1 Eat.Drink.Canada. June 25 - July 1 Locations around New York City Beginning Monday, June 25. Nine New York City restaurants, with ties to Canada, will participate in Eat.Drink.Canada. week by featuring special dishes and menu items that reflect Canadian cuisine. Participating restaurants include, Trattoria Machiavelli, Dirt Candy, Milos, City Lobster, Mile End Deli, Flex Mussels, Le Pescadeux, Steak Frites, and Left Bank Restaurant. Great Canadian Cocktail Competition Tuesday, June 26, 6-9 pm Penn Club 30 West 44th Street (212) 403-6627 The Consulate will host the 'Great Canadian Cocktail' competition at the Canadian Association of New York's Annual Canada Day celebration at the Penn Club. The competition will be judged by Kevin Brauch, the host of the 'Thirsty Traveller' and the floor reporter of 'Iron Chef America.' Follow us on Twitter and 'Like' us on Facebook for full coverage of Eat.Drink.Canada., and for a list of participating restaurants, event details, and to enter the competition. The competition will be co-sponsored by 40 Creek Whiskey, Victoria Gin, and Crystal Head Vodka. Consul General, John F. Prato, rings NASDAQ Closing Bell Friday, July 29, 4 pm 4 Times Square (888) 534-0565 In honor of Canada Day, the Consul General will ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ. To watch a live webcast of the closing bell click here. Canada Day “Birthday Bash” Concert Sunday, July 1, 7 and 9:30 pm 425 Lafayette Street (212) 539-8778 The annual Canada Day “Birthday Bash” music shows at Joe’s Pub are a beloved annual celebration in New York, and the two shows sell out fast. All-star musicians sing a tribute to Canada’s greatest hits. This multi-artist event, hosted by the Public Theater's music space, Joe’s Pub, will involve two shows to celebrate Canada Day, the first at 7 pm and the second at 9:30 pm. For tickets please click here. Empire State Building in Red and White Sunday, July 1, dusk 350 Fifth Avenue (212) 736-3100 The Empire State Building will be lit in red and white from July 1 at dark until July 2, 2 am in honor of Canada Day. Please click here for more information.

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Peter Leitch
Sunday, July 1, 8 - 11 pm
Sunday, July 8 - 11 pm
Sunday, July 15, 8 - 11 pm
Sunday, July 22, 8 - 11 pm
Walker's
16 N Moore Street (between Hudson & Varick Streets)
(212) 941-0142
Canadian guitarist Peter Leitch has travelled worldwide with his own groups and those of other musicians. He will perform in New York with four special musical guests (Charles Davis, tenor saxophone; Harvie S, bass; Sean Smith, bass; Jed Levy, tenor saxophone; and Dwayne Burno, bass).

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Martha Wainwright
Wednesday, July 25, 8 pm
City Winery
155 Varick Street
(212) 608-0555
Martha Wainwright brings her hugely expressive voice and an arsenal of powerful songs to the City Winery Stage for one night. Martha’s new album is due out in the fall of 2012.

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Musk Ox
Thursday, July 26, 9 pm
Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 North 6th Street, Brooklyn
(718) 486-5400
Expressing the essence of Canada’s vast, magnificent landscapes through sound, Musk Ox takes listeners on a journey through natural realms where darkness and light, substance and void, sorrow and joy, exist as a single entity.

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Plants and Animals
Monday, July 30, 8 pm
Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues)
(212) 353-1600
Post-classic rock indie band Plants and Animals will open for the Bombay Bicycle Club.

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The Barr Brothers
Tuesday, July 31, 8 pm
Wellmont Theatre
6 Seymour Street, Montclair NJ
The Barr Brothers will open for US alternative country singer Brandi Carlile. The Brothers are a Canadian folk quartet founded in Montreal, consisting of Andrew and Brad Barr (of The Slip), Sarah Page, and Andres Vial.

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Our Lady Peace 
Tuesday, July 31, 7:30 pm
Irving Plaza
17 Irving Place
(212) 777-6800
Alternative rock band Our Lady Peace will perform a solo show. Our Lady Peace's overall sound is often compared to that of other alternative rock bands, including The Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam. The band's melodic structure is also said to echo that of bands such as The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

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Deep Dark Woods
Tuesday, July 31, 7:30 pm 
The Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston Street
(212) 260-4700
Performing with Wailin Storms, the Deep Dark Woods bring their subtle orchestration to stage and perform songs trimmed with minimal embellishments of banjo and piano, with subtle mellotron flutters.

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Cold Specks
Wednesday, August 1, 8:30 pm
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue (Williamsburg, Brooklyn) 
(718) 599-1450
Cold Specks, led by Al Spx, the female lead singer who's being touted as "the next Adele" in Rolling Stone, will perform.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Thursday, August 2, 7:30 pm
Friday, August 3, 8 pm
Saturday, August 4, 8 pm
Sunday, August 5, 3 pm
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
65 St. at Columbus Avenue
(212) 721-6500
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, one of the most exciting talents of his generation (and, as of this September, the new music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra), returns to the Mostly Mozart Festival to conduct four performances with works from Beethoven, Hayden, Mendelssohn, Bach, and, of course, Mozart.

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Cowboy Junkies
Sunday, August 5, 8 pm
City Winery
155 Varick Street
(212) 608-0555
For more than 20 years, Cowboy Junkies have remained true to their unique artistic vision and to the introspective, quiet intensity that is their musical signature, creating a critically acclaimed body of original work.

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Lara St. John
Tuesday, August 7, 7:30 pm
Naumburg Bandshell
Concert Ground, Central Park
Lara St. John, Pablo Ziegler & Friends celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Astor Piazzolla's 1987 Central Park Concert. The concert will be broadcast by WQXR. 

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Grimes
Thursday, August 9 (time tbc)
Pier 84
Hudson River Park (Twelfth Avenue and W. 44th Street)
(212) 627-2020
Hot indie music act Grimes will perform with Wild Nothing. Claire Boucher, alias and stage name Grimes, is a Canadian artist, musician, and music video director. She is a member of the band L$D along with Kreayshawn, Tragik, and Blood Diamonds.

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Carly Rae Jepsen
Friday, August 24, 8 pm
Mohegan Sun Arena
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd
Uncasville, CT
(888) 226-7711
Emerging Canadian star Carly Rae Jepsen will perform her wildly famous “Call Me Maybe” during this one night gig in Connecticut.

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Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana
Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue
(212) 247-4777
An acrobatic rock opera, Zarkana blends circus arts with the surreal to create a world where physical virtuosity rubs shoulders with the strange. Cirque brings its theatrical wonder back to New York for a second summer.

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Centre for Education and Theatre in Montreal (CETM) and
Cutter Productions: Le Prince et le Pauvre
Friday, July 27, 6:45 pm
Saturday, July 28, 11:30 am
Sunday, July 29, 12 pm
June Havoc Theatre
312 West 36th Street
midtownfestival@gmail.com 
Le Prince et le Pauvre, the musical hit of last year's Next Wave Festival in Montreal, makes its US premiere at the Midtown International Theatre Festival. In French, with English subtitles, this modern reinterpretation of the tale of fate and fortune in the court of Henry VIII is suitable for all ages. With David Terriault conducting.

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Charles Hayter: Going In
Saturday, July 28, 12 pm
The WILD Project
195 East 3rd Street
(212) 228-1195
Charles Hayter presents a reading of his show, Going In. It is set in 1969: the year of the Stonewall riots. Canada decriminalizes homosexuality, but officially it remains a mental illness. Seventeen-year-old Charles develops a crush on another boy and consults his father's psychiatry textbook, after which he diagnoses himself as a homosexual and discovers the best way to proceed. See Fresh Fruit Festival website for details.

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Jesus Christ Superstar
Now playing
Neil Simon Theatre
250 West 52nd Street
(212) 757-8646
Two-time Tony Award-winning Canadian theater director Des McAnuff brings a bold, new vision to Jesus Christ Superstar, the classic rock opera by Tony, Grammy, and Academy Award-winners Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

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Pierre Przysiezniak: The Battle of San Romano
Machiavelli
519 Columbus Avenue (at 85th Street)
(212) 724-2658
The frescoes of Canadian painter Pierre Przysiezniak recently have been installed at Machiavelli, an Upper West Side restaurant owned by Nathalie de La Fontaine. The frescoes were inspired by The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, a 15th-century Florentine painter.

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Roberto Dutesco: The Wild Horses of Sable Island
The Wild Horses of Sable Island Gallery
64 Grand Street
(212) 219-9622
Call for specific dates and times.
Canadian photographer Roberto Dutesco captures and shares the wild horses of Sable Island in a unique mobile gallery.

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Monique Daneau: Manifestations of Milieu
Through July 3
Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street
(212) 226-4151
Monique Daneau’s acrylic and mixed media on canvas paintings have a jagged, abstracted quality, which combines tantalizingly with her opulent treatment of color.

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Erik and Martin Demaine
Through July 22
Dorsky Gallery
11-03 45th Avenue, Long Island City
(718) 937-6317
Canadian doctors (and father and son duo) Erik and Martin Demaine participate in a group exhibition, (Un)folding Patterns, which brings together mathematics and art. Curated by Ombretta Agrò Andruff. 

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Yael Brotman, Libby Hague, and Raluca Iancu
Through July 27
International Print Center New York 
508 West 26th Street, 5th floor
(212) 989-5090 
These three Canadian artists will participate in the group exhibition, New Prints 2012/Summer. The show consists of 78 prints by 72 emerging and established artists, selected from a pool of over 2,500 submissions. 

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Patrick Harbron
Through August 10
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
(212) 870-1600
Rock and Roll Icons: Photographs by Patrick Harbron features portraits of influential rock musicians and groups from the 1970s and 1980s, capturing pivotal moments in their respective careers.

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Franco DeFrancesca
Through August 13
Elisa Contemporary Art Pop Up Gallery
3732 Riverdale Avenue (near West 238th Street)
Riverdale
(212) 729-4974
Canadian digital artist Franco DeFrancesca presents a show of pulsating digital orbs in this exhibition, Tickled Pink. The group exhibition features mixed media paintings (paper, paint, and resin).

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Canadian Artists in Focus on Nature
Through December 31, 2012 (opening events: Friday, August 24)
New York State Museum
Cultural Education Center
222 Madison Avenue, Albany
(518) 474-5877
The Focus on Nature XII: Natural History Illustration exhibition, which is currently open to the public, is an international juried exhibit that features four Canadian artists: Kathryn Chorney, Emily S. Damstra, Dino Pulerà, and Karen M. Reczuch.

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Carolyn Leaf: The Owl Who Married a Goose
June 11 -  July 8 (selected dates/times)
National Museum of the American Indian, Auditorium
One Bowling Green
(212) 514-3737
Carolyn Leaf follows a story of love between an owl and a goose, demonstrating the magic and beauty of family and the struggles that arise from cultural differences. Presented in Inuktitut

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Yung Chang: China Heavyweight
Opens July 6
IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue (at West 3rd Street)
(212) 924-7771
Filmmaker Yung Chang (IFC Center hit Up the Yangtze) returns with another eye-opening look at contemporary China. In China’s rural southwest, state boxing coaches recruit talented adolescents for the nation’s next Olympic team. But there are many challenges.

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Taylor Kitsch in Savages
Opens July 6
A marijuana-growing duo faces off against the Mexican drug cartel that kidnaps their shared girlfriend. 

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Zacharias Kunuk: Qaggiq/Gathering Place
July 9 - July 29, daily at 1 pm, 3 pm. Thursday, 5:30 pm
National Museum of the American Indian, Auditorium
One Bowling Green
(212) 514-3737
At a late winter Inuit celebration in the 1930s, four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing, and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes.

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Eric McCormack in Perception
Premieres July 9
Airs on TNT
This upcoming American TV crime drama series stars Eric McCormack as Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist who assists the FBI on some of their most complex cases.

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David Cronenberg: Cosmopolis
Opening August 17
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager finds his day devolving into an odyssey that starts to tear his world apart.

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Seth Rogan in For a Good Time Call
Opening August 31 (Limited Release)
Former college frenemies move into a fabulous Gramercy Park apartment. In order to make ends meet, the unlikely pair start a phone sex line together.

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Jessica Paré
Airs on AMC
Mad Men “It Girl”, Jessica Paré, hails from Canada. The award-winning American dramatic television series explores various segments of society in 1960s New York and places emphasis on recollective progression as a means of revealing characters' pasts.

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Rivka Galchen
Beginning July 2, 6-9 pm
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
(212) 415-5470
Writer Rivka Galchen guides students in crafting their stories. In-class constructive critiques focus on the small decisions that writers make that have major impacts on how a story stays with the reader.

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Melissa Stylianou
Available throughout the summer
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
(212) 415-5470
Vocalist Melissa Stylianou will offer private instruction for adults and children on all orchestral instruments, piano, and voice.

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Intolerable : A Memoir of Extremes
by Kamal Al-Solaylee
(Harper Collins)
Intolerable is part memoir of an Arab family caught in the turmoil of Middle Eastern politics over six decades, part personal coming-out narrative, and part cultural analysis. This is a provocative and compelling story of the modern Middle East.

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Shadows Cast by Stars
by Catherine Knutsson
(Atheneum Books)
Two-hundred years from now, blood has become the most valuable commodity on the planet, especially the blood of aboriginal peoples, as it contains antibodies that protect humans from the plague ravaging the world. Sixteen-year-old Cassandra Mercredi might be immune to the plague, but that doesn’t mean she’s safe.

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The Retribution
by Val McDermid
(Atlantic Monthly Press)
As detective Carol Jordan is set to move from down-and-out Bradfield to a new post in nearby (and less crime-ridden) Worcester, Tony Hill, her long-time criminal psychologist colleague, wonders if there might also be new horizons for their complicated relationship. 

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The Town That Drowned
by Riel Nason
(Goose Lane Editions)
Living with an eccentric little brother can be tough. Falling through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to assembled onlookers? That solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful hallucination was her entire hometown, houses and people, floating underwater.

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Everybody Has Everything
by Katrina Onstad
(Emblem Editions)
What happens when the tidy, prosperous life of an urban couple is turned inside out by a tragedy with unexpected consequences? Combining a pitch-perfect, whip-smart dissection of contemporary urban life with a fresh and perceptive examination of our individual and collective ambivalence towards parenthood, Everybody Has Everything balances tragedy and comedy with verve and flair.

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Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World
by Bruce Philp
(Emblem Editions)
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, and for the same people who read Seth Godin and bought The Black Swan and How We Decide, this book breaks down the myth of brands and puts the power back in consumers' hands.

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The Anatomy of Stretching
by Craig Ramsay
(Thunder Bay Press)
In Anatomy of Stretching, Craig Ramsay brings to everyone the lessons learned in ten years as a trainer and the star of Bravo’s Thintervention. You’ll learn when and how to do a tricep stretch and a shoulder stretch, when to avoid toe touches and hamstring stretches, and much more. 

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In Search of R.B. Bennett
by Peter B. Waite
(McGill University Press)
R.B. Bennett was Prime Minister of Canada during the worst years of the Great Depression. This biography explores Bennett’s statesmanship, ideas, and temperament, and presents an enigmatic portrait of a difficult and fascinating man.

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Among Others
by Jo Walton
(Tor Books)
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

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Walking into the Ocean
by David Whellams
(ECW Press)
In the debut mystery featuring veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, what seems like a simple domestic crime turns out to be a series of murders ravaging a peaceful English coastal community.

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Out of the Blue: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness
by Jan Wong
(Jan Wong)
At the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong's world came crashing down. A story she wrote on a school shooting sparked a violent backlash, including death threats. After a series of events, she spiralled into clinical depression, was unable to write, and was soon out of work and in an unenviable place in life.  

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