WHAT: Mark Kingwell presents “Walking in the Cityâ€
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
Click here or call 416.586.5797 for more information.
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WHAT: Trees Across
WHEN: April 26, 10 am — 12 pm
WHERE:
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:
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:
Commemorate the Battle of York by attending the release party for the first book that explores this event.
For more details contact rbrass@sympatico.ca
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WHAT: Dance in Yonge and
WHEN: April 27, 1 pm — 5 pm
WHERE: Yonge and
Celebrate International Dance Day at Yonge and
Visit www.danceumbrella.net for more information.
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WHAT: This Is Not A
WHEN: April 28, 7 pm — 12 am
WHERE: Gladstone Hotel (
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:
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
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
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.
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