Category: Events
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You’re invited: Corktown Day Party & Live Art Festival – Saturday, June 20 in Underpass Park!
Love Corktown? Show your neighbourhood pride at the FREE Corktown Day Party & Live Art Festival taking place this Saturday, June 20 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Underpass Park — right here in Corktown! The event will be a multi-arts festival celebrating mural, graffiti and street art. The day-long party will feature a smudge…
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Call for volunteers: Live Art Festival, Saturday June 20 in Underpass Park
Interested in the arts? Volunteers know what goes on behind the scenes at the Live Art Festival. Mural Routes requires several volunteers to assist in making the Live Art Festival at Underpass Park, Corktown a success. The Live Art Festival brings together graffiti, mural, and street artists to transform the Underpass Park pillars through live painting as…
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Riverside’s 2015 Eats & Beats StreetFEST a Record-Breaking Success
“Earth without art is ‘eh’, eh?”: Gorgeous weather attracts an estimated 10,000 Festival Goers, Doubles Last Year’s Attendance RIVERSIDE PAINTING: Live painting by the STEPS Initiative at last weekend’s Riverside 2015 Eats & Beats StreetFEST. Photo courtesy the Riverside BIA By Dennis Kucherawy, Corktown Correspondent Last weekend’s Riverside 2015 Eats & Beats StreetFEST was like Louis Armstrong’s…
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eNewsletter: Return of the King Streetcar, Underpass Park public art & Corktown shines bright in the spotlight
DING DING: Spotted once again on King East last week, after a long absence: the 504 streetcar. Photo courtesy Steve Munro. Your Corktown e-newsletter for the week of June 8, 2015 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: Against all odds and after a long absence, streetcars returned to King Street East last week. With the support pillars below now repaired…
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Next week a Great Place will host the celebration of a Great Leader
High profile entertainers, business people and politicians to congratulate Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes on his 65th birthday next Wednesday with wine, food and song at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park By Dennis Kucherawy, Corktown Correspondent Recently, media around the world trumpeted news that an Irish referendum successfully supported same-sex marriage in that country, and all sorts of leprechaun…
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News & Events: CRBA meets Tuesday, new Sumach St public art, Queen Street Bridge lights up, Pan Am info & more!
LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT: “Sumach Silhouette”, a new public art installation, has been installed at the corner of Eastern & Sumach. It looks particularly cool at night. Photo by Ole Calderone. Corktown E-newsletter for the week of June 1, 2015 CRBA MEETING: You’re invited to come out this Tuesday, June 2 for the June public meeting of…