Adults with High Cholesterol Needed for University of Guelph Muffin Nutrition Study We are currently recruiting adults (35-70 years old) with high cholesterol but not taking cholesterol medication to participate in a Muffin Nutrition Study that is being run out of the University of Guelph. The study involves 6 weeks of consuming 2 muffins per day (made from soy or wheat flour). Participants will visit the University of Guelph each week to pick up their muffins and will have body measurements and blood samples at weeks 1, 3 and 6. Financial compensation is provided. If interested, please contact The Muffin Study at 519-824-4120 x58081 or muffin.study@uoguelph.ca. This study has been approved by the University of Guelph Research Ethics Board.

Art Green:  I SHOULD BE PAINTING On view until January 6, 2013 Gallery Stratford is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Stratford-based artist Art Green.  A respected painter whose work has been widely exhibited and collected in North America, the Gallery celebrates Green’s recent achievements with a selection of oil on canvas works and reflects on the artist’s influences dating back to Chicago in the 1960s.  With an expansive body of work marked by a complex layering strategy and a saturated palette, the project allows the viewer to explore the artist’s eclectic use of patterns and the sources of his inspiration drawn from commercial and personal imagery. The exhibition is the 20^th anniversary of Green’s last solo exhibition at Gallery Stratford in 1992. XXXX Collective: INSTANCE On view until January 6, 2013 Gallery Stratford is pleased to present an exhibition of multi-media works by the XXXX Collective, featuring art by Shannon Garden-Smith, Corrie Jackson, Emily Smit-Dicks and Polina Teif. Through painting, sculpture, photography and video, the Collective investigates why nostalgia has become a prolific theme in our culture, and the desire for artists to document their environment and experiences. Through archiving and manipulating found and personal imagery, the artists examine the significance of documentation and its impact on the construction of personal identity. Gallery hours 11 am to 3 pm, Tuesday to Sunday

Stratford Cinemas, 7 pm, box office opens at 6:30 pm $9 Public, $8 Gallery Members Through a partnership with tiff, Gallery Stratford offers a special selection of films on the third Monday of every month from September to May at the Stratford Cinemas. The film series allows the audience unique access to view Canadian and international films in limited distribution. November 19: INTOUCHABLES Already breaking box office records as the second highest grossing non-English language film ever (behind The Passion of the Christ), Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano's The Intouchables has become a worldwide sensation. Nominated for nine César Awards (France's equivalent to the Academy Awards), and winning Best Actor for Omar Sy (beating The Artist's Jean Dujardin) The Intouchables tells the story of the improbable friendship between Philippe (François Cluzet, Little White Lies, Tell No One) a wealthy quadriplegic, and Driss (Sy, Micmacs), a young offender of Senegalese descent, who is hired as his live-in caregiver. A widower, Philippe lives with his teenage daughter in a luxurious Paris apartment. When a paragliding accident leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, Philippe requires a caregiver to assist him with his daily physical needs. With the help of his assistant Magalie (Audrey Fleurot, The Women on the Sixth Floor) he interviews a number of highly qualified candidates, all of whom he subsequently rejects in favour of Driss; a recently released ex-con who has only applied for the job to ensure he keeps getting welfare payments. Charmed by Driss's brash self-confidence and sometimes brutal straightforwardness, the jaded Philippe finds the young man’s lack of pity precisely what he wants in a caregiver. Thus begins an unlikely pairing, one of which will change both their lives in a remarkable ways. Propelled by Sy's charismatic performance, The Intouchables is well-executed and thoroughly enjoyable culture-clash comedy about a friendship that transcends the social and economic divide. Based on a true story, writer-directors Nakache and Toledano add just enough real-life seriousness to anchor their narrative, but this simple yet elegant film never loses its sense of humour.

Explore a freestyle art-making process, where intuition is encouraged and inhibitions are abandoned. Local artist, Melissa Quinn will guide participants through a variety of art exercises to encourage self-expression and portfolio development. 6 weeks, Mondays, 7:30-9pm November 12 – December 17 $85 Gallery Member, $95 Non Member