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Damien Hirst Painted Guitar Sells For $146,730 To Benefit War Child
Damien Hirst Painted Guitar Sells For $146,730 To Benefit War Child Photo credit:Prudence Cuming AssociatesA Canadian-made Carparelli guitar painted by famed British artist Damien Hirst sold for $146,730 (U.S.) at Christie's showroom in London, England, on February 17. All proceeds went to War Child U.K., an international organization which supports…
Planet In Focus Film Festival To Award Green Production Practices
Planet In Focus Film Festival To Award Green Production Practices Canadian environmental media arts organization Planet in Focus will hand out its inaugural Green Screen Award on October 14, during the Planet in Focus Film Festival, which runs from the 12th to 16th in Toronto. Sponsored by Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund, the award will honour green…
HIV/AIDS Benefit Includes Roundtable Talk With Harry Belafonte and Stephen Lewis
HIV/AIDS Benefit Includes Roundtable Talk With Harry Belafonte and Stephen Lewis Photo credit: Gordon Griffiths / Courtesy of The Stephen Lewis FoundationThe Hope Rising! benefit concert, dinner and roundtable discussion, May 3 at The Sony Centre for Performing Arts in Toronto, is a brand new fundraising event for The Stephen Lewis Foundation to help…
Canada's Stephen Harper Establishes The Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards
Canada's Stephen Harper Establishes The Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards Canadian Samaritans have the chance to be recognized by the federal government and win some money to donate to their favourite non-profit. Conservative leader Stephen Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister, has established the annual The Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards “to…
Australian Flood Relief CD Includes Springsteen, Foo Fighters, P!nk, Bob Dylan and 55 More
Australian Flood Relief CD Includes Springsteen, Foo Fighters, P!nk, Bob Dylan and 55 More Kings of Leon, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jeff Buckley, Beyonce, Foo Fighters, P!nk, Sting, John Mayer, Bob Dylan and Australia’s own Keith Urban, Powderfinger, Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus and Crowded House are just a sample of the artists whose tracks Sony Music…
Neil Young To Receive The Allan Waters Humanitarian Award At Junos
Neil Young To Receive The Allan Waters Humanitarian Award At Junos Neil Young hasn't attended the Juno Awards in 29 years, but the Canadian music legend will be on hand to accept the 2011 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the 40th anniversary show, March 27, at Toronto's Air Canada Centre. Young, co-founder of Farm Aid and the Bridge School Benefit…
Bell Canada's Initiative Makes Taboo Topic Talk Worthy
Bell Canada's Initiative Makes Taboo Topic Talk Worthy We hear the words corporate social responsibility a lot and see corporate logos at all kinds of charity events or on product packaging, but we don’t usually hear the dollar figures or find out the details of the CSR platform. So kudos for Bell Canada for bringing a taboo topic out in the open in a major way. The telecommunications…
Musician Tom Waits and Photographer Michael O'Brien Team Up On Book To Help Homeless
Musician Tom Waits and Photographer Michael O'Brien Team Up On Book To Help Homeless Tom WaitsMusician Tom Waits and photographer Michael O’Brien have teamed up for a hard cover book called Hard Ground, hoping to bring to light the hardships and realities facing the homeless, and Waits is releasing a limited-edition chap-book based on a lengthy poem…
Shad and Dallas Green Choose Skate4Cancer For EP Proceeds
Shad and Dallas Green Choose Skate4Cancer For EP Proceeds Dallas Green and ShadRapper Shad and singer Dallas Green of Alexisonfire and City and Colour have selected Rob Dyer’s Skate4Cancer charity as the recipient of all profits from the sale of their new collaboration, Shad & Dallas:Two Songs. "I'm inspired by the integrity and compassion that…
World Jazz For Haiti Double CD Raises Thousands
World Jazz For Haiti Double CD Raises Thousands In just three months, the World Jazz for Haiti double CD has raised $7,000 for the Canadian Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Appeal fund from sales in 20 countries. “Most of the sales at this point are from physical copies of the CD,” musical director/producer George Koller tells Samaritanmag. “Online sales only…
2010's MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Ensures Music Lessons For Low-income Kids
2010's MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Ensures Music Lessons For Low-income Kids Rock band Billy Talent with 2011 MusiCounts teacher of the year, Marian Cheney — Photo credit: Barry RodenThe Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) has named Toronto’s Marian Cheney 2010’s MusiCounts teacher of the year. For 20 years, she has been…
Project For Awesome Charity Video Makers Webjack YouTube
Project For Awesome Charity Video Makers Webjack YouTube YouTube is not just for wasting hours and hours of time or making videos of your cat snoring or buddy falling flat on his face. Today at noon (EST), some dedicated YouTube users are taking over the online video site and using it to make the world more awesome. Participants in Project For Awesome (…
Jeweler Starts New F Cancer Ambassador Program
Jeweler Starts New F Cancer Ambassador Program Who doesn’t want to give the middle finger to cancer? Jewelry designer Susan Fiedler, creator of the sterling silver Fuck Cancer bracelets, has launched The F Cancer Embrace Life Ambassador program. Since creating the bracelet two years ago, she has raised more than $70,000 for Vancouver-based InspireHealth…
Meet Nelly Furtado, Have Dinner With Drake Or Kardi...And Help Their Friend
Meet Nelly Furtado, Have Dinner With Drake Or Kardi...And Help Their Friend DrakeHave dinner with Drake, meet Nelly Furtado or attend a music video shoot by Director X. These are just some of the cool auction items up for bid in support of Toronto's Lincoln J. Russell who has lifelong and loving friends in the music world. Besides the auction, X, whose …