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210. Irie Music Festival

July 29, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 29, 2011

The 10th annual TD Irie Music Festival gets its start today, and you’re not going to want to miss out on the fun! Featuring reggae, salsa, soul and African music; spoken word/literature; film; food; visual arts exhibition and dance from the African Diaspora, this four day festival is a highlight on the Toronto summer festivals calendar.

Events take place at two main stages at Queen’s Park and Yonge Dundas Square; to check out the schedules for these venues for the Festival, go to http://iriemusicfestival.com.

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209. Tasty Thursdays

July 28, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 28, 2011

Escape the office to Nathan Phillips Square every Thursday this summer, right up until September 1st! Each week an assortment of Toronto restaurants bring their cuisine for tastings, priced at $5 or less a serving! You’ll have the opportunity to sample everything from juicy burgers to delicious Pad Thai to fresh mango salad – basically, whatever you want for lunch is available!

A civic event produced by the City of Toronto, Tasty Thursdays offers free admission. For more information, check out the City’s website.

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208. TIFF in the Park: Classic Musicals

July 27, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 27, 2011

Every Wednesday this summer you can enjoy a free outdoor screening of a classic screen musical at David Pecaut Square, right next to Roy Thomson Hall! Presented by TIFF and the Toronto Entertainment District BIA, screenings start at 9:00pm in July and 8:30pm in August (as the sun starts to set earlier).

Tonight’s TIFF in the Park presents The Sound of Music, the classic tale of a nun who brings music, love and laughter back to a strict widower and his seven children. This is a film the entire family will enjoy, so pack some snacks and settle in for an evening of fun and film!

For more information on TIFF in the Park, go to http://tiff.net.

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207. The Glass Menagerie

July 26, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 26, 2011

A four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie first premiered in Chicago in 1944. Williams reworked the classic play from one of his short stories, “Portrait of a Girl in a Glass,” and is thought by many to be an autobiographical play about Williams’ life.

The Glass Menagerie will be brought to life by the Soulpepper Theatre Company at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts tonight at 7:30pm. Tickets range in price from $31.65 (for students) to $67.81 (for adults) and are available at http://www.soulpepper.ca/. An award-winning and well-loved play, don’t miss your opportunity to see it at Soulpepper’s fantastic venue in the Distillery District neighbourhood!

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206. From Page to Screen Film Festival

July 25, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 25, 2011

This summer, the Carlton Cinema will host the Toronto Film Society’s “From Page to Screen Film Festival” over seven Monday nights. Tonight’s program is the third of the summer, and includes The Horse’s Mouth (1953) and The Wrong Box (1966) with special guest speaker Risa Shuman, former executive producer of “Saturday Night at the Movies.”

The Horse’s Mouth is the tale of starving artist Gully Jimson as he searches for the “perfect” wall for his masterpiece. A British comedic masterpiece, this film is based on a novel by Joyce Cary. The Wrong Box is also a British comedy, based on Robert Louise Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne’s novel about inheritance and killing whoever is in the way of that inheritance!

The From Page to Screen Film Festival welcomes non-Toronto Film Society members; simply enquire at the Carlton Cinema box office for information on tickets. To learn more about the summer’s film line up at the Toronto Film Society, go to www.torontofilmsociety.com/.

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205. Frugal Fashion Week

July 24, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 24, 2011

Calling all frugalistas! Today is the last day of Frugal Fashion Week, your opportunity to support local retailers and discover some of our city’s own talented designers. All proceeds of this event will go to the Stiletto Project, a social enterprise dedicated to supporting at-risk women. This unique Fashion Week features events such as “If These Clothes Could Talk…” (a style installation featuring “pre-loved” clothing donated by celebs and stylistas), The Fauxialite Ball, an ultimate fashion party, an e-tail market where guests can learn about local designers who sell their wares via the world wide web, and I ♥ Fashion – a free after-dusk crawl of the shops and boutiques of Queen West.

Though many of these fashion-fun events have wrapped up, there’s still plenty to see and do today! Check out www.frugalfashionweek.com for more information on how you can get involved in this celebration of style!

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204. BIG on Bloor

July 23, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 23, 2011

Taking place from Dufferin to Lansdowne on Bloor, the BIG on Bloor Festival celebrates local arts and culture, community, and businesses with hundreds of events, activities and exhibitions. The Festival includes large-scale participatory commissioned art projects, two stages for performers, singers, musicians, theatre, dancers and karate, and 300 tables filled with information about community projects and local neighbourhood events. The weekend’s festivities also include BAAF: Bloor Alternative Art Fair, which will bring art institutions, collectives, galleries and artists to the street with crafts, face painting, story telling, and much more!

Today Bloor Street will be closed from Dufferin to Lansdowne from 1pm to 9pm, and will be filled with table exhibitions. Tomorrow the festivities continue on Bloor side streets, stores and restaurants, Susan Tibaldi Park and Kent School (but Bloor Street will re-open for traffic). For more information on all the festivities, go to http://bigonbloor.com/festival/.

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203. Half-Price Friday Nights at the ROM

July 22, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 22, 2011

Kids getting restless as summer is nearly at its half way point? Half-Price Friday Nights at the ROM are here to the save day (and save you some money and your sanity)! Starting at 4:30pm tonight (and every Friday), admission is half price to the ROM, meaning that adult tickets are $12, seniors and students pay $10.50, and children 4 to 14 only pay $8 for their tickets! To beat the lines, purchase your Half Price Friday Night tickets in advance online. Keep in mind that these tickets are good for general admission, meaning that separately-ticketed exhibitions are subject to extra fees (Water: The Exhibition is separately-ticketed).

With general admission you’ll have the opportunity to check out almost everything the ROM has to offer! Right now you can enjoy Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs; Sitting Still: Faces of Childhood; Riotous Colour, Daring Patterns: Fashions + Textiles 18th to 21st Centuries and the standard World Culture Galleries and Natural History Galleries! There’s something that everyone will enjoy at Toronto’s most famous museum! (And if the kids don’t calm down after spending the evening at the ROM, you can always threaten to leave them in the Bat Cave!)

For more information on Half-Price Friday Nights at the ROM and to purchase tickets in advance, go to www.rom.on.ca.

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202. Say Cheese! And Cheers!

July 21, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 21, 2011

Everyone knows that wine and cheese go together like salt and pepper, but what about beer and cheese? Explore the world of beer and cheese pairing tonight at the Black Creek Historic Brewery’s “Say Cheese! And Cheers!” Tonight’s theme is “Coast-to-Coast Canadian Beer and Cheese Tasting,” so you’ll have the opportunity to enjoy specialty cheese and craft beers from across the country, in addition to experiencing a guided tour of the Brewery.

Tickets are $30 per person; call 416-667-6284 to purchase. For more information, go to www.blackcreekbrewery.ca.

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201. Free Tour at the Toronto Botanical Garden

July 20, 2011 Heikki Walden

July 20, 2011

With an array of 17 award-winning themed gardens, the Toronto Botanical Garden is four acres of beauty and tranquility. Areas include a Herb Garden, Kitchen Garden (this year’s Kitchen Garden’s theme is Ireland), Terrace Garden, Woodland Walk, President’s Choice Show Garden, and many more! Explore them all today at 7pm as you experience a free 90 minute tour, starting in the George and Kathy Debmroski Centre for Horticulture.

Whether you’re a green thumb or whether you simply appreciate beauty and tranquility in the midst of a bustling city, you’ll certainly enjoy the Toronto Botanical Garden! For more information, go to www.torontobotanicalgarden.ca.