Category: Arts & Culture
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eNewsletter: Community Consultation, Survey on Spending Development Funds, and the Arts!
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What would you like to see improved in Corktown? When developers build more height or density than is allowed, they give an amount of money to the neighbourhood to compensate. This money is called Section 37 funds. This is a one time payment and can be used for updates to the community. So we would like…
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Put Your Mark on Corktown: Enter Our Design Competition
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DESIGN COMPETITION – NEW CORKTOWN T-SHIRTS & BUTTONS Do you have an eye for design? A way with logos? Then we want you to enter the Corktown Design Competition to create a design for some Corktown swag! Help out your community association by designing some Corktown swag to show our love for this little corner…
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eNewsletter: Cheering, Running, Don Trail Closure and the Arts!
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Scotiabank Marathon Corktown Cheer Station! After all those months of training, thousands of runners will take to the streets of Toronto on Sunday. Corktown will have a cheering station at the corner of Cherry and Eastern and the runners will pass by TWICE during the race at 23k and again at 37k. It’s the perfect spot…
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Oscar-nominated “Room’s” Tom McCamus and Tony Award-winner Brent Carver to Star in Groundling Theatre’s “The Winter’s Tale”
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“Mini-Me” Shakespeare at Intimate Coal Mine Theatre, Previews begin this Tuesday, Jan. 28th By Dennis Kucherawy, corktown.ca As the world this year celebrates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare, Toronto’s new Groundling Theatre launches its first production of the Bard at the popular, intimate Coal Mine Theatre at 1454 Danforth, slightly west of Coxwell Ave. Unlike…
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The Envelope, Please! And the Winner is … Toronto!
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Hooray for Hollywood! Hooray for Former Corktown Composer Stephan Moccio! Hooray for Bridgepoint Hospital and “Room”! CORKTOWN CRED: Academy Award nominee — and former Corktown resident — Stephan Moccio. Photo courtesy StephanMoccio.com By Dennis Kucherawy, corktown.ca Stephan Moccio, former Corktown resident and hit pop composer, is just one of several Canadians who got a sprinkling of…
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Corktown Ukulele Jam celebrates 7th anniversary
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A Real Slice — Steve McNie, co-founder/host, teacher and conductor of the Corktown Ukulele Jam, celebrated with his friends the group’s 7th anniversary last Wednesday, Jan. 13th at Regent Park’s Paintbox Bistro. The birthday night’s theme, in keeping with the 7th anniversary, were songs celebrating luck and fortune as, Steve said, “such as that we’ve…