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ART: In a candid talk about the oldest profession around, the Textile Museum of Canada curators Natalia Nekrassova and Roxane Shaughnessy will discuss the art of hooking. Originating as domestic products of thrifty pioneer families, hooked rugs have come to be recognized as a fine art form and admired for their colour, texture, and design. During tonight's seminar, participants will have the opportunity to look at artifacts from the museum's collection, which reflects diverse communities and geographic regions, including many pieces of Canadian origin. Textile Museum of Canada (55 Centre Avenue), 6:30 p.m., $15 ($12 for museum members and PWYC for full-time students).

Urban Planner is Torontoist's daily guide to what's on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com.

Urban Planner is Torontoist's daily guide to what's on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com.

OCAD's events calender may be gently filling up in anticipation of Nuit Blanche awesomeness, but before we can think of drowning our bodies in caffeine and submitting them to a twelve-hour period of sleeplessness (Torontoist will have our Nuit Blanche preview posts coming on Tuesday, incidentally), you may want to take some time to welcome OCAD's visitor.

The Toronto Public Library is the only good thing to have come from amalgamation. One of the worst things to have come from amalgamation, on the other hand, is City Council's insistence that everything that it doesn't do is a result of not being able to afford to do it, and that everything that it does do is a result of not being able to afford not to do it.

In the second of this series, we've picked another five "must see" events -- this time from Nuit Blanche's Zone B. All these activities are happening in and around the OCAD building. Unless specified, the events we've picked run for the full 12 hours, so you can visit them at any point in the night.

"There is often confusion as to whether the insects in my work are real," says Jennifer Angus, Canadian insect artist. Using over 15,000 insects, Ms. Angus has combine textile design and art - sticking bugs on the wall in patterns that are reminiscent of your average wallpaper spread. And considering that the beetle population alone accounts for 25 per cent of all animals, it's about time.

A purveyor of nifty online exhibits, the Textile Museum of Canada has an annual More Than Just A Yardage Sale. At the risk of fatal punnery, the fundraiser really is quite the yard sale, offering unusual trimmings, craft supplies, wool, yarn, quilting fabric, notions (love that word) and mysterious “small mechanical equipment” at major bargain prices. Happening at the downtown museum, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, today from 11am-6pm and 10am-1pm Saturday.