Royal Conservatory of Music marks Canada 150 By Heather Kelly May is a month of fantastic festivals and concert season finales on the Bloor St. Culture Corridor. It is also Museum Month, and there is no better time to visit the Bata Shoe Museum, Gardiner Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Festivals From May […]
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ARTS (MAY 2017) A month of festivals and finales
May 26th, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (MAY 2017) A month of festivals and finales
ARTS (MAY 2017): Examining pre-Confederation treaties
May 26th, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (MAY 2017): Examining pre-Confederation treaties
As Canada celebrates 150 years of colonialist history, this display presents another vital component to our history, which has forever shaped the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The exhibit delves into the geographic land negotiations — treaties — that predate Canadian Confederation. Each of the 24 panels provides a comprehensive explanation of the complicated […]
ARTS (APRIL 2017): Challenging the audience
April 10th, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (APRIL 2017): Challenging the audience
Brandon Hackett takes the stage in Second City revue By Geremy Bordonaro Brandon Hackett is a new breed of comedian. Fiercely funny and whip-smart, the Annex resident is one of the cast members bringing some diversity to Second City. He joined the Main Stage performers in June, and is currently appearing in Everything is […]
ARTS (MARCH 2017): Blue whale exhibit opens at the Royal Ontario Museum
March 22nd, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (MARCH 2017): Blue whale exhibit opens at the Royal Ontario Museum
Bloor Street’s cultural organizations starting to celebrate Canada 150 By Heather Kelly The Annex neighbourhood is so full of art and culture organizations that, for March Break, we don’t have to go far to find fun and creative activities. The Bata Shoe Museum will host “shoetastic shenanigans” during March Break, where kids can make shoe […]
CHATTER (FEBRUARY 2017): The beat goes on
March 5th, 2017 · Comments Off on CHATTER (FEBRUARY 2017): The beat goes on
READ MORE: ARTS: Molly Johnson launches new jazz festival (September 2016)
BLACK HISTORY MONTH (FEBRUARY 2017): Moving to the centre
March 5th, 2017 · Comments Off on BLACK HISTORY MONTH (FEBRUARY 2017): Moving to the centre
Crossing Bathurst Street with A Different Booklist By Annemarie Brissenden The Postman, a 2015 play about Albert Jackson, Canada’s first Black postman, opens with an invocation. “Toronto the Good. Toronto, the White. Toronto the Christian, Irish, Scottish, English. This is happening right here in this neighbourhood: Harbord, Major, Palmerston, Brunswick, Euclid, Borden,” says Jackson. […]
ARTS (DECEMBER 2016): HMS Terror found on greeting cards
December 20th, 2016 · Comments Off on ARTS (DECEMBER 2016): HMS Terror found on greeting cards
Thomas Fisher Rare Books a treasure trove unto itself By Annemarie Brissenden You may know that a maritime mystery was solved this September when Arctic researchers found the HMS Terror, one half of the Franklin Expedition that had set out to seek the Northwest Passage in 1845. Her sister ship, the HMS Erebus, had been […]
ARTS (NOVEMBER 2016): Toronto Mandolin Orchestra celebrates 60 years
November 18th, 2016 · Comments Off on ARTS (NOVEMBER 2016): Toronto Mandolin Orchestra celebrates 60 years
Milestone coincides with 125th anniversary of Ukrainian immigration By Summer Reid It’s a humble yet versatile instrument that was a bit of a fad in certain parts of Europe around the turn of the last century. But after the mandolin — a lute that has four pairs of strings tuned in a progression of perfect […]
ON THE COVER (OCTOBER 2016): Celebrating Bloor Street
October 28th, 2016 · Comments Off on ON THE COVER (OCTOBER 2016): Celebrating Bloor Street
This month’s issue includes a story on how the City of Toronto designated the stretch of Bloor Street that includes the RCM as a cultural corridor just as the conservatory received some much needed debt relief, as well as stories on the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre’s newly reopened accessible pool, and how citizen cyclists […]
ARTS (OCTOBER 2016): Interactive installations celebrate Annex icons
October 28th, 2016 · Comments Off on ARTS (OCTOBER 2016): Interactive installations celebrate Annex icons
Annual Nuit Blanche photo essay returns Gleaner art director Neiland Brissenden’s annual chronicle of Nuit Blanche returns this month. Previously featured on the newspaper’s Twitter feed, Brissenden’s photo essay highlights installations that interacted with the audience to celebrate some of our neighbourhood’s most loved faces and spaces. —Annemarie Brissenden/Gleaner News
CHATTER (SEPTEMBER 2016): Painted streets launch in Kensington
September 15th, 2016 · Comments Off on CHATTER (SEPTEMBER 2016): Painted streets launch in Kensington
READ MORE: ARTS: Bringing art to the people (April 2016) FORUM: Untapped potential: Animating our local laneways (February 2016) by Joe Cressy NEWS: Incubating micro-retail: Laneways untapped realm of urban design (December 2015) by Annemarie Brissenden NEWS: Graffiti artist Erica Balon creates mural on Bloor Street West (July 2015) by Justine Ricketts ARTS: A […]
ARTS (SEPTEMBER 2016): Remembering the coffee house era
September 15th, 2016 · 2 Comments
Bohemian Embassy tribute honours founder Don Cullen By Annemarie Brissenden At one time, it was one of the few places in Toronto where you could be a little bit different. It was a launching ground for some of Canada’s most legendary cultural icons, like Margaret Atwood and Lorne Michaels. It was even an ersatz university […]