DUSK DANCES

This week till August 8 at Withrow Park (South of the Danforth between Logan and Carlaw, Closest TTC stop: Chester) enjoy an enchanting evening of dance. Bring your own chair and blankets and settle down to enjoy five exciting dance pieces as the sun sets.

Opening Band: Noubâng
Host: Ryan Egan

Featuring exciting works from:

* AKA Dance (Amy Hampton and Keiko Ninomiya)
* Tribal Crackling Wind (Peter Chin)
* Dora Alexander (Christophe Brochard, Luke Garwood, and Alex Grant)
* Julia Aplin
* I Rock With the ONE.

Band starts at 7pm, Dance starts at 7:30pm
Pay-What-You-Can
More info – http://www.duskdances.ca/2010Season_withrow.html

Posted: August 4th, 2010 under August 2010 newsletter.
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The Theatre Centre loves where it lives. We’ve been here for 20-odd years and it rocks!

Running along the two kilometer strip – between Bathurst Street and Gladstone Avenue – are over 300 galleries, design houses, unique shops, restaurants and boutique hotels.

Every first Thursday of the month many of the business stay open late – click here to find out more.

There are too many great places to mention, so here are a just a few of our personal favourite haunts:

Cinnamon Girls: every day this cute cafe serves up some fantastic special dishes. And, since they post these up on the website each day, you can start daydreaming about what you’re going to eat for lunch as soon as you get in to work (you find Franco in there pretty much every weekday).
Ravis Soups: who knew a bowl of soup could taste so good? They do nice wraps too.
MOCCA: a beautiful gallery hosting interesting exhibitions, lectures, opportunities to meet the artists – all for FREE!
The Workroom: have you ever wanted to make your own sock monkey, quilt, tie or simply learn the sewing basics? This fantastic shop runs different courses throughout the year.
The Drake: we’ve mentioned them many a time, but they really do keep delivering an eclectic line-up of events. This month they’re offering free pancakes, $5 film screenings (I went last month and enjoyed The Goonies, a bottle of beer, a bowl of sloopy joe and a bag of popcorn, all for a fiver!), PWYW yoga classes… the list goes on.
The Gladstone: we’ve also mentioned these guys before, but we’ll do it again. We love their Harvest Wednesdays, regular art exhibitions (checkout Room 212), their life drawing classes and Bluegrass Sundays.
Woolfitts Art Shop: it’s pretty amazing how long I could spend in this shop simply starring at all the pretty coloured paints!
Poppies: forgotten someone’s birthday, forgotten an anniversary? This cute florist has helped us get out of a few tight scraps!

Posted: August 4th, 2010 under August 2010 newsletter.
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The Midway – an interactive carnival of booths and services
On the Theatre Centre Balcony, December 18+19, 2010
Curated by Becky Johnson

For our 2010 show, City of Craft is launching a new initiative; the balcony of our main venue (The Theatre Centre) will be converted into a wild midway of craft-based, artful, conceptual, weird and/or unique interactive booths.

To give you an idea of what we are looking for, past interactive programs at City of Craft have included a love letter service, unflattering portraits, payed opinions, plaster nose casting, a silhouette photo booth and more. Of course, these are other people’s projects. What can you dream up?

How it works:

* Ideal booths are limited to a ground footprint of 4′ square and can be no more than 7′ tall. If you have another plan, let us know, but this size seems like the best fit.
* Applicants are responsible for the construction and transportation of their booths to and from the venue
* Booths can be as simple as a card table or as complex as you can imagine. Clearly, wildness excites us, though.
* Booths are payed for by donation (ie. The artist will pay City of Craft whatever they think the booth was worth) if sales are limited only to the service offered.
* You may charge as you like for your service.
* If you also wish to sell your own premade art and/or objects, booth spaces will cost a flat $60 for the two days. That’s a pretty good deal.
* It is best if services and activities proposed are legal.

More information and a submission form can be found here – http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/midway/call.html

Information on other installation and exhibition programming and calls can be found here – http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/installations.html

And our vendor call is still open here – http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/apply.html

Posted: August 4th, 2010 under August 2010 newsletter.
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