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Live Painting Competition Among Party Games For Art Starts Fundraiser
Live Painting Competition Among Party Games For Art Starts Fundraiser Children at Glendower enjoyed making music during the summer — photo courtesy of Art Starts.Art Starts has been bringing professional artists and under-resourced neighbourhoods together in community-building arts programs across Toronto for 22 years, and it will host a fundraising “Art…
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch Jamming at Toronto’s Sketch Working Arts for Street-Involved and Homeless Youth — photo credit: Sonya Reynolds.For a long time, the Canadian music industry’s charity of choice, MusiCounts, operated by the Canadian Academy of Recording…
NHL Lockout Can't Stop Leafs Execs From Hosting Massive Holiday Dinner
NHL Lockout Can't Stop Leafs Execs From Hosting Massive Holiday Dinner Two members of Toronto Peel Police with Toronto Maple Leafs president/general manager Brian Burke (2nd from left) and head coach Randy Carlyle (far right).While the National Hockey League lockout continues, members of the Toronto Maple Leafs camp, including president and general…
Are Arts Grants Failing Artists? CUE's Radical Fix
Are Arts Grants Failing Artists? CUE's Radical Fix Tumbleweed InstrumentsThe grating drill of jackhammers are threatening to overtake Samaritanmag’s conversation with Toronto-based writer and arts activist Jason Samilski, but the reason for the tools’ raucous hum is kind of fitting to the discussion at hand. Samilski is talking about CUE, the…
Sketch Art Studio Encourages Creative Potential Of Street Youth
Sketch Art Studio Encourages Creative Potential Of Street Youth Toronto volunteer Phyllis Novak has spent the last two decades trying to maximize the creative potential for at-risk and homeless youth. In 1996, her efforts materialized into Sketch, an art studio that offers marginalized young adults, aged 15 to 29, the chance to express themselves through…