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WHAT: Mark Kingwell presents “Walking in the City”
WHEN: April 25, 6:30 pm
WHERE: Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre at the ROM

“Any material becomes the sum of its treatments” says Mark Kingwell in the introduction to Concrete Reveries, a new work exploring the consciousness of the urban milieu. Kingwell, one of Toronto‘s leading popular theorists, will present “Walking in the City” a lecture based on his new book to a crowd of urban singles. The talk is part of the ROM Life Lecture series and will focus on the architecture and consciousness of modern cities. Tickets are $70 at the door or $60 in advance through the ROM’s box office.

Click here or call 416.586.5797 for more information.

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WHAT: Trees Across Toronto: City of Toronto Spring Planting
WHEN: April 26, 10 am — 12 pm
WHERE: Colonel Sam Smith Park, Earl Bales Park, Eglinton Flats, McCowan Park, Sun Valley — Lower Don Valley

Each year Trees Across Toronto holds a city-wide planting event at various parks in an effort to increase our tree canopy. Just show up at one of the 2008 planting site to learn how to plant a tree and help us grow our urban forest.

Click here for more information.

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WHAT: Community Environment Days
WHEN: April 26, 10 am – 2 pm
WHERE: Dieppe Park (455 Cosburn Ave.) and Malvern Community Recreation Centre (30 Sewells Rd.)

How many times have you heard that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure? It’s a familiar saying, and for good reason: it’s true! Bring your unwanted and unused “stuff” to your local Community Environment Day, hosted by your city councillor, and transform your trash into treasure.

Click here for more information and a schedule.

WHAT: Book launch for Capital in Flames
WHEN: April 27, 2:30 pm — 4 pm
WHERE: Fort York National Historic Site (100 Garrison Rd.)

Commemorate the Battle of York by attending the release party for the first book that explores this event. In Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813, historian Robert Malcomson describes the most traumatic day in this city’s history, when the citizens faced a choice—flee or remain to protect your homes against the invaders.

For more details contact rbrass@sympatico.ca

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WHAT: Dance in Yonge and Dundas Square
WHEN: April 27, 1 pm — 5 pm
WHERE: Yonge and Dundas Square

Celebrate International Dance Day at Yonge and Dundas Square. Come out and watch performances of all dance styles to live music, and learn some smooth moves.

Visit www.danceumbrella.net for more information.

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WHAT: This Is Not A Reading Series: Toronto Noir
WHEN: April 28, 7 pm — 12 am
WHERE: Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St. West)

This Is Not A Reading Series presents kashic Books’ esteemed series devoted to short, hardboiled crime stories. Each collection is set in a different city, finally moving north to the rain-soaked streets of our less-than-fair town with Toronto Noir. Co-editor Nathaniel G Moore will join Gun Moll’s Damian Rogers and Sacha of Eye Weekly to host “Noir Confessions,” an evening in which contributors to Toronto Noir will confess the most film noir-like things they’ve ever done.

Visit www.pagesbook.ca for more information.

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WHAT: Grand opening of galleyDK
WHEN: May 1, 6 pm — 10 pm
WHERE: 1332 Queen St. West

As part of the Contact Photography Festival and the Toronto Festival of Architecture and Design come out and celebrate the grand opening of galleryDK with the launch of DK Photo Group’s newest photography exhibition, anamnesis.

Anamnesis: the recollection or remembrance of the past. A factory once alive with the powerful force of industry, now left stagnant and collapsing under the weight of its own history. Two very different images, but both are connected at the point where memory and history collide. This is the very embodiment of the work of the DK Photo Group.

Visit www.galleydk.com for more information.

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WHAT: Jane’s Walk
WHEN: May 3 and 4, different times through out the weekend
WHERE: Many locations across Toronto including Lawrence Heights, Victoria Village, Parkdale, and more.

The Centre for City Ecology celebrates the legacy of Jane Jacobs, the foremost urban thinker of our times, with a series of more than 50 free neighbourhood walking tours across Toronto on the weekend of May 3 and 4.

The walks will be led by well-known and unsung neighbourhood leaders – from former Mayors and community gardeners, to journalists and street food connoisseurs – who speak knowledgeably about the people, places and history that make each community unique.

Visit www.janeswalk.net for schedules, locations and more information.

The Events Guide is a regular feature on Spacing Toronto. To submit a listing, email eventsguide@spacing.ca. Please note that, due to demand, we cannot guarantee publication of your listing.

Photo courtesy of M.V. Janzten.

 

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