I’m only slightly late in recommending that everyone in the Toronto area investigate the goings-on at the weekend-long Vector festival, which will bring together a sort of staggering array of artists for exhibitions, screenings, workshops, performances and round table discussions.

Included in the lineup are a slew of familiar game & artworld names including: Bill Viola, Tracy Fullerton, Alex Myers, Ed Key & David Kanaga, Droqen, Damian Sommer, Dames Making Games, Eddo Stern, Jon Rafman, Jim Munroe, Cindy Poremba, and Austin’s own Party Time! Hexcellent!

You can dig through the schedule at Vector’s site here, as well as the special programs here — including the opening reception happening in just a few hours time tonight — and buy your tickets for all the proceedings here.

A reminder for all our Toronto indie friends and an update for those that might not have yet seen: this Friday, December 7th will see the latest meetup of the city’s Hand Eye Society — the progenitors of hyper-local indie game meetups — with a series of talks on the subject of roguelikes.

On hand will be N+ co-creator Raigan Burns of Metanet, who’ll discuss how the genre’s “minimalist proceduralism inspired indie hits like Spelunky” and debunk the myth that it “introduced the notion of permadeath as an antidote to the poisonous excess of infinite lives” with his “trademark intensi-passion”.

Metanet’s also brought in Kornel Kisielewicz from his native Poland to discuss DoomRL, his conversion of id’s classic first-person-shooter into a top-town turn-based spacebase-crawler, with pixels by none other than Spelunky creator Derek Yu.

Everything kicks off at 7pm at Toronto’s Monarch Tavern, and we desperately hope someone’s got an iPhone camera handy with a little tripod to bring us video after the event.