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The EMERGENCE symposium on Community Arts practice is coming up on February 24th, 2012. Registration details coming soon!

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Celebrate with us at EMERGENCE! NAN Members, keep an eye on your inbox for a special invite from eventbrite...
Who are the leaders in arts and culture in your community? Nominate an artist or group for an ACE Award and $2,000 prize!
We'd love for you to support the Neighbourhood Arts Network and celebrate these wonderful achievements by giving to the Neighbourhood Arts Network Community Campaign.
Check out the ACE Awards site to discover the 2011 ACE Awards finalists!
Intersted in helping out with our upcoming EMERGENCE Symposium? Contact skye@torontoarts.org to find out more about volunteering!
On July 14th, the Neighbourhood Arts Network and Working Women Community Centre facilitated a community conversation about arts and the settlement process in Toronto.
Join us on November 10th from 4-7pm for a free screening and discussion of the film Waste Land!
Our next Arts & Equity workshop is coming up on January 18th. Stay tuned for details!
Many great ideas, observations and suggestions came out of our Bridging the Gap event on April 21, 2011. We've compiled a summary of some of these insights!
Ismailova Theatre of Dance company is looking for...
Happy Birthday to Us!   January 27, 2012...
For six Monday afternoons this winter artists are...

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AFCY has created an innovative new Drumming Program that engages children and youth with music through performance,...
Music, Performance Arts
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NOW HEAR THIS's Students, Writers and Teachers (S.W.A.T.) Program sends authors into Toronto Catholic high schools...
Literary
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Through the creation of the Glendower Arts Council, Art Starts is sharing its expertise in developing and managing...
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Toronto Artist Kurt Rostek will be offering drawing and painting classes for adults from his west end studio. For more...
Visual Arts
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The Cultural Chain Cube Project (CCC) is an innovative sculpture-based project that is based on two main concepts:...
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This project inspires exploration of words and pictures and bookmaking with a book scaled to children sized hands....
Storytelling, Visual Arts, Other
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TOURING MARCH 22 – APRIL 16 Why is gang life so appealing? Follow one youth’s journey from the beginnings of a...
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photrospective - Is bringing together 25 emerging photographers from different walks of life and have their works...
Help give back the gift of sight. Eyes On Tibet is accepting donations of work for the 2011 fundraising Art Sale....
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WRITE ON! offers creative writing workshops to various organizations, schools and community centres through out Toronto...
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ART on the Go, a new art business is celebrating its launch with a launch party in style! Featuring local York Region...
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LUME LUME is a collective of wanderers who follow their curiosities around the world and make jewellery. Our pieces are...
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Call for Portfolio Submission Art and Revolution The Most Notable Uprising I Witnessed in My Life Yet (Curated...
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Morro and Jasp are off to celebrate Spring Break at the beach. Looking to shake off city life for some fun in the sun,...
Theatre
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Program Without Walls is a collaborative initiative comprised of many components, from nutrition to education to...
stimulate-us is an art event that provides opportunites for artists to respond with their works to themes that connect...
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A 10 session program bringing together youth and seniors from the Eglinton/Keele neighbourhood with renowned dub poet...
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TAIS ANIMATION SHOWCASE 2011 - Call for Submissions Have you made an animated short film in the last 18 months?...
Media Arts
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Supporting Our Youth & AGO Youth Council present: A showcase of arts-based initiatives from many of the SOY...
Once a week we open our doors to host weekly multidisciplinary art drop-in workshops for youth in our community....
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I'm looking forward to an exhibition of my photographs at Leslieville's Voulez-Vous Café in July. "The...
Visual Arts
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Parkdale-Roncesvalles Community Murals Starting January 18th 2011, 4pm Painting Our Stories is a community-based...
Storytelling, Visual Arts
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WHEN: April 20, 2011 @ 7pm WHERE: Artscape Wychwood Barns, Studio 251. 601 Christie St. WHAT: b current is...
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In 2010 I started a birch tree series and it met with a warm response. I organized a successful show at Gladstone Hotel...
Visual Arts
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Photography workshops for LGBT and questioning youth. A project of Supporting Our Youth (SOY). Generously sponsored by...
Visual Arts
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Art Starts is proud to have formed a three year partnership with Dusk Dances to co-produce an outdoor dance festival...
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Illustrator Horseplay
Visual Arts
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BLITZ is a three-day intensive film workshop for 4 crews of 4 youth aged 16-26 to create 2-5 minute films. We start by...
Media Arts, Other
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One World: Glendower is a music/recording program conceptualized and designed in its entirety by youth in Scarborough’s...
Music
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ArtHeart's Children and Youths Arts Program runs two days a week as an after-school drop in and as an art camp in...
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This year marks the first year that the inPrint Collective is eligible for capitals grants, offering us the first step...
Visual Arts
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PCDG proudly unveils Radio Parkdale, a multimedia based website that raises the profile of the community and showcases...
Media Arts, Music, Visual Arts, Other
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Call for performers and back stage help needed for a performance of Jack and the Beans...talking during the outdoor...
Performance Arts
Call for Submission – Gallery Membership...
Media Arts, Visual Arts, Other
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http://zouchmagazine.com/poetry-in-the-house-where-i-grew-up/
Literary
Please join us at the Paper Mill Gallery at Todmorden Mills 67 Pottery Road from Jan 12 to 23, 2011 for an exhibit of...
Visual Arts
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ARTiculate is a Youth Leadership in the Arts Program at Lakeshore Arts. This stellar two-week summer program for youth...
Interdisciplinary Arts
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Jumblies Theatre makes art in everyday and unexpected places, with, for and about the people and stories found there....
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Do you like art? Kids? Looking to help out in a meaningful way? Are you a student? If yes, then you should apply for...
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Steeped Tea loose teas and accessories will be sold at the ArtsMarket during the month of November. Drop by and say...
Other
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Look Up: Live Large is the culmination of six weeks of workshops with renowned artist Dan Bergeron and the children and...
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IX GALLERY | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS iPHONEOGRAPHY Deadline: DECEMBER 1ST, 2011 IX Gallery is the exhibit and...
Visual Arts
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Community members are invited to join The Sherbourne Health Centre Mosaic Project, a new community engaged mosaic...
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In this project portable digital photo booths are used as creative resources to capture portraits of Toronto’s priority...
Media Arts, Visual Arts
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In honour of Mad Pride week, celebrating victory over mental health issues, I read two of my poems on cjsf radio....
HEAR/HEAR is a bi-annual reading series featuring writers from the NOW HEAR THIS! program. All readers are actively...
Literary, Performance Arts
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The Style Council is a fashion media program that brings together a collective of emerging writers, stylists, and...
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Scarborough Youth Have a Dream Calling youth dancers ages 13 to 20 to participate in a FREE Scarborough Arts dance...
Dance
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Anonymous
Call To Artists "The Spirit Of The Thing" is an exploration of Art that deals with spirituality. I asked a...
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Five artists and 12 youth aged 11 to 16 spent a summer turning an abandoned, boarded up house into a Kingdom of Awesome...
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In our Leader-in-Training(LIT) program youth aged 14 and up learn and practice effective leadership skills while also...
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S.L.A.M. I AM is all about honoring and reclaiming our Warriorism through Spoken Lyricism Arranges Meaning or (SLAM)....
Interdisciplinary Arts
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Inner City Angels artist Marsha Stonehouse builds a story inspired eco-arts education project in St. James Town with...
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Artword is a blog I started 2 years ago with a dual purpose of writing reviews of local art exhibits, as well as...
Literary, Visual Arts, Other
Photographer Michael Mitchener embraces his love of streetcars through an exhibit of Red Rocket photographs (and one or...
Visual Arts
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In Carol Cece Anderson’s Swan Song of Maria, a radical re-imagining of Swan Lake, tap dancer Jillian and playwright Joe...
Dance, Theatre
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AFCY's Healthy Living Lunchroom Program transforms dull, often basement-located lunchrooms into exciting,...
Visual Arts
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Stainless steel flower reaching up in an exponential way - upwards and sideways. More Scholar Stone Flowers could be...
Visual Arts
Culmix Arts is an artist-run non-profit art organization. The organization is committed to supporting artists advance...
The Tale of a Town by FIXT POINT THE TALE OF A TOWN is a neighbourhood arts project about Queen West that will take...
Performance Arts
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Glendower is now proud to present its very own hip hop dance crew led by renowned dancer/choreographer Paul Thurton,(...
How did our public services come to exist? Who fought for them? Who worked for them? How have they changed over the...
Interdisciplinary Arts
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Inner City Angels, along with several other arts, eco and community charities, are the proud recipients of the...
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Join us for our Culture Days event! In the spirit of sharing art and print with the hold, the InPrint Collective is...
Visual Arts
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Project ACT is an exciting new province-wide initiative between the Ministry of Health Promotion and Mixed Company...
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ArtHeart's Adults Arts Program is held three days each week year-round and has an attendance of up to 30...
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Students' projects
Visual Arts
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AFCY's Youth X Press program provides opportunities for young people to design and create public murals that are...
Storytelling, Visual Arts
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<p>The Urban Sight Block Project (USBP) encourages users to block things that they do not wish to see by asking...
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Scarborough based performing arts company, TC3, is hosting a unique summer day camp experience, full of jazz music,...
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BIG BAM BOOM is the annual signature event of AFCY, and showcases the talents of over 500 young people (ages 12-24...
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Photrospective - Is calling for emerging photographers to submit works for a one night exhibition downtown Toronto....
It is an ordinary alleyway in Kabul Afghanistan. I was practicing water colour so I thought of doing something related...
Visual Arts
From March to June 2010, 130 community members of all ages and 6 youth volunteers came together to create paper mache...
Visual Arts
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Pink Ink is a conscious, multi-disciplinary, for-youth-by-youth writing program for queer, transgender, Two Spirit and...
Literary, Performance Arts
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In honour of the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) mascot and this year’s Chinese zodiac sign, we are proud to...
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This project asks a community to come together to explore what masks they show to the world. Those from other cultures...
Visual Arts
Mahlikah Awe:ri Spoken Word Story Weaver: Legacy Sessions is an intensive mentoring session for youth aspiring to...
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This original play, created in collaboration with the residents of Rivertowne (Canada's first deliberate mixed...
Theatre
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Jasp has decided to write a book about ‘going green’ so that she can become a famous author. Only one problem: she...
Performance Arts, Theatre, Other
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In the fall of 2008 over 45 youth participated in the creation of a permanent public art piece at Maria A. Shchuka...
ix gallery has open calls to artists practicing photography and digital imaging to participate in our 2011 season....
Visual Arts
Calling Youth Ages 13-18! August 22-26, 11-4pm This is an opportunity to express yourself AND your community...
Interdisciplinary Arts
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http://ning.it/pk6DJo
Literary, Storytelling
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ontario-Writers-and-Authors-Group/324522567569755?sk=wall Newly formed Facebook group...
Literary
Flux is a large-scale public artwork project that was led by Red Dress Productions, based in the 519 Church Street...
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Through a community mural, people stop to write their thoughts or draw pictures answering the questions: "What are...
Clearly visible from Sherbourne Street, Scape is an 18' public artwork located at the entrance of Bleecker Street...
Visual Arts
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Project: Painting This project is intended to explore double standard reaction of US and developed countries to man-...
Visual Arts
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This illustrated 60-page companion book to the "Bridge to Oneness" inspirational workshop is filled with...
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CALL TO ARTISTS Artists are invited to submit their portfolio for an exhibition in April 2011 at the Etobicoke Civic...
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Colourgenics and IX Gallery has open calls to our clients to participate in our rotating Technology Showcase which...
Visual Arts
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The Toronto Animated Image Society's winter workshops cover a variety of topics. Prior experience not required....
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All AFCY programs are environmentally focused. Where possible we use recyclable materials and foster relationships with...
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Call for submitions 50/50 Juried Art Exhibition Queen Gallery is accepting submissions to the 50/50 show. All...
Visual Arts
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A poem by Patrick Connors about Depression and Anxiety.
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Oil On Plywood With Routered Details, 24" x 24"
Visual Arts
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Just BGRAPHIC will be coming to your school to see who can throw down the best and take home the title as the King or...
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Expressing poetic-rapology Slam Poetry, in step with hip hop and traditional interpretive dance & drum moves...
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"An abstraction is made when something not capable of existing in isolation is thought of as in an isolated state...
Visual Arts
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Creative Mosaics, a new collaborative project involving seven organizations, will set out to identify and respond to...
Interdisciplinary Arts
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My Owen; My Okara (My Word; My Story), explores creating poetic pieces and rap lyrics inspired by Indigenous visual...
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CALLING ALL INTERGALACTIC SPACE EXPLORERS ! Project GAIA is a journey of the imagination for curious minds.
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this was a collaborative art project thru labspaCE studios. this was my response to the challenge: turn something...
Visual Arts
All you need is a camera and a curiosity for the city. Join us for a photography adventure, as we explore the city...
Visual Arts
Inspired from a recent trip to P.E.A.C.H, JBG has launched a online contest called HOT 16. Youth who have a skill in...
Music
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From 31:20 to 36:57, I read two of my poems, with commentary: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16002403
Using a unique paper mache technique, AFCY has developed a visual arts program that can potentially transform libraries...
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register at everybodyisateacher.eventbrite.com Everybody is a Teacher will explore big questions through the...
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Street Projection is a form of street art, It requires projectors and computer equipment but the effects are much the...
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A fun comedy about the many wonderful, crazy temptations of the 60's - free love, peace, freedom, social...
Theatre
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Multigenerational drop in arts workshops feature everything from basketmaking, t-shirt design and graffiti to dance,...
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Participants aged 6 to 19 work with professional artists to explore their community & its people, its space, its...
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Artscape is pleased to announce the launch of the tenancy process for the Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre with two...
Other
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About We are a new book club in the east end of the city. Every month, the Nutmeg Pantry Book Club selects a new book...
Literary
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Art Starts, working in partnership with facilitating artists Red Pepper Spectacle Arts, worked with Glendower residents...
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More than 50 children and elders joined together over several months in 2009 to create this community engaged public...
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AFCY is a key partner in the Toronto Community Foundation’s innovative after-school pilot program called Beyond 3:30....
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AFCY’s Community Sharing Program (CSP) is an umbrella of programs that build capacity in the community. Through CSP,...
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Upper Toronto is science fiction design proposal to build a new city in the sky above Toronto. Imagine a city...
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Over a four-week period, Mixed Company Theatre artists collaborate with youth who are ‘at-risk’ or have experienced...
Theatre, Other
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Don't Hold Back! This is our time! This is our Pride! Fruit Loopz is the youth stage at Pride. Come enjoy...
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AFCY’s Outreach Program includes intergenerational projects such as the Intergenerational Art Awakening project. The...
Storytelling, Visual Arts, Other
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After a 5-star, sold-out run in the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival and an extension at the Best of the Fringe at the...
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“My Story” is a series of professional community arts programs and opportunities that provides young artists with the...
Visual Arts, Other
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http://zouchmagazine.com/poetry-a-rhetorical-question-for-wcw/ Written in class at George Brown the City College, St...
Literary
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Mixed Company Theatre (MCT) produces innovative, socially relevant drama as a tool for positive change. Founded as an...
Performance Arts, Theatre
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