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Toronto Arts Foundation Awards 2011 Winners

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More than 300 artists, business leaders, cultural professionals and community builders gathered today for the announcement of the 2011 Toronto Arts Foundation Awards at the annual Mayor’s Arts Awards Lunch. “Toronto’s artistic community is very present here today,” said Susan Crocker, Chair of Toronto Arts Foundation. Claire Hopkinson, Executive Director of Toronto Arts Foundation added, “Our artists play a vital role [...]

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D’bi.Young’s THE SANKOFA TRILOGY

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By Khamal Murray I sat quietly in one of the many staging rooms of Tarragon Theatre, reviewing my notes as I waited for D’bi.Young. It’s a chilly fall evening and the sun is in it’s final moments of yawning goodbye to the day. I am early. I first saw D’bi on BET‘s Def Jam Poetry performing her piece [...]

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Alternavox Recommends: Life In Flight at the 2011 Allende Arts Festival

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September 23 – October 1, 2011 Artscape Wychwood Barns and Lula Lounge The Allende Arts Festival continues the evolution and celebration of Latin American & World culture inCanada. This multidisciplinary festival showcases a wide spectrum of music performances, visual arts, theatre, dance and performance art, poetry and spoken word, and offers an array of activities [...]

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Steven Marshall

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Steven Marshall is a British horror author who now calls Toronto home. While many horror writers look and act like horror writers; take Stephen King, for example – the typical harried artist with a tortured soul that you may not choose to come across in a dark alley. Then you have Steven Marshall, who from [...]

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Alterviews: Save Afrofest in Queen’s Park

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(Publisher’s Note: In the interest of public discussion and information we are posting this letter verbatim) Many of you will have heard the news already. On March 19 the city Parks Department confirmed to Music Africa that the city would not issue us a permit to hold AFROFEST in Queen’s Park. The department gave as [...]

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