Three to See Saturday: Women of Aviation, Totoro and FAB Gallery shows

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: Helping to balance a global movement for equal gender representation in aviation, Elevate Aviation has partnered with the Blatchford museum to host a career fair look into aviation featuring real-life pilots, air traffic controllers and aircraft maintenance engineers. You’ll be able to ask questions, interact with actual aircraft and participate in staged activities as Alberta Aviation Museum celebrates the 112^th anniversary of the world’s first pilot’s license awarded to female flyer Raymonde de Laroche.

Details: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Alberta Aviation Museum (11410 Kingsway Ave.), $11.50-$17, age-dependent

My Neighbor Totoro (1988): The tale of, ultimately, two children trying to deliver corn to their sick mother, this high-water-mark Hayao Miyazaki film is a sensory wonderland of increasingly weird, giant spirit cats who live in a nearby forest. What makes Satsuki and Mei’s tale so endearing and enduring is just how unexpectedly the wonder and laughs come, from giant yawns to sudden downpours, and this is one’s definitely worth seeing on the big screen with kids in the audience having a blast. English dubbed, 86 mins.

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Details: 1 pm at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $13, but kids 12 and under free

Matthew Lapierre and Ester Rosta: Closed over the weekend, but worth noting there’s still the upcoming week to catch these compelling shows over at U of A’s FAB Gallery: Lapierre’s The Idiot Box and Rosta’s fifty-nine events. The latter is the documentation of the artist’s personal, sometimes painful performance art seen through the lens we all know so well (and most are happy to leave behind): restricted physical proximity. Lapierre’s art by him, meanwhile, includes video, drawings and painting that contrast slimy, phallic vulgarity and politeness, as he’s a fan of both low brow and refined classical art. Lots to ruminate on here, hop on the LRT and drop by!