Scarborough Arts Council Annual General Meeting – October 19
September 22, 2009
Creative Visions Art Show & Sale
September 20, 2009
Annual Art Show and Sale
Friday, September 25 – 11am to 8pm
Artists’ Reception at 6pm
Saturday, September 26 – 9am to 1pm
Important Dates:
Friday, September 11: Submissions Forms Due
Thursday, September 24: Deliver your Artwork
Saturday, September 26, 2pm-4pm: Pick up your Artwork
Presented By:
Port Union Seniors
@ Port Union Community Centre
5450 Lawrence Avenue East
416-396-4034
For more information contact
Scarborough Arts Council
416-698-7322
info@scarborougharts.com
Our City Our Stories: Free Photography Workshops for Youth
September 15, 2009
Our City Our Stories
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Free Photography Workshops
Date: Mondays & Thursdays
October 5 – 29, 2009
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
Location: Pro-Tech Media Lab
Toronto Public Library – Kennedy/Eglinton Branch
2380 Eglinton Ave East
Scarborough, ON M1K 2P3
For more information please contact us at 416 698-7322 or programs@scarborougharts.com.
Workshops presented as part of the “Our City, Our Stories” urban youth photography contest. To qualify as a contestant, all entrants must complete a series of Our City Our Stories Workshops.
Contest runs from March 2 – December 15th for ages 13 -22.
Enter the Our City, Our Stories contest to tell your story and you could win fabulous prizes from Canon Canada, the City of Toronto and have your work exhibited and published. Visit www.toronto.ca/arts-services to find how to enter or call 416 392-6833 for more information.
Scarborough C.A.R.E.S. Summer Programs & C.A.R.E.S. Blog
September 11, 2009
With the support of its partners, Scarborough C.A.R.E.S. was able to run 2 additional programs this summer.
C.A.R.E.S. clicks, a photography based workshop for youth 12-14, ran for five weeks with two sessions a week focusing on advanced use of a digital camera and Photoshop editing. C.A.R.E.S. clicks centred on the local community surrounding the program location.
C.A.R.E.S also facilitated the digital arts portion of the Leaders In Training a program run by East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club which centered around providing youth 14-17 with life and employment skills. C.A.R.E.S. not only instructed the youth on proper use of the equipment, but participants were also able to develop their own work. As part of the program, they had the option of seeking placement with our regular summer workshop, instructing and assisting junior youth.
As always, C.A.R.E.S. work from all of our programs are featured on our blog and look for our upcoming projects on the East End Arts Portal.
Scarborough C.A.R.E.S. (Community, Art, Recreation and Education Services) project is a fully mobile, after-school program for youth ages 6 to 12 provided with no cost to the parent or hosting school. Launched in late 2007, the program is collaboration between Scarborough Arts Council, N.Y.A.D. (Not Your Average Daycare), East Scarborough Boys and Girls Club, West Scarborough Boys and Girls Club, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto and other organizations across the city. The program is made possible through multi-year funding from The Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Making a House a Home: SAVAC Drawing Workshop
September 10, 2009
Presented by South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC) and hosted by Scarborough Arts Council, Making a House a Home is an exploration of memory and oral narrative through drawing. Share and recreate the homes that you have memories of, or ones you have only heard of.
When: Sunday, September 20, 1:00 – 4:00pm
Where: Scarborough Arts Council
1859 Kingston Road
Toronto, ON
Cost: FREE
Registration Deadline: September 14.
An all-ages event
To participate, please contact us at programs@scarborougharts.com or 416 698-7322. Space is limited.
www.savac.net
www.scarborougharts.com
Global Poverty Project – Launch with Chris Adams, executive producer of An Inconvenient Truth
September 3, 2009
Inconvenient Truth producer brings next project to Centennial College
Centennial College has been selected to host the North American launch of The Global Poverty Project in partnership with Chris Adams, executive producer of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, on Friday, Sept. 11 at 11 am at The Danforth Music Hall.
The launch will feature the premiere of 1.4 Billion Reasons, a presentation similar to and inspired by An Inconvenient Truth, presented by Hugh Evans, Australian author, humanitarian and founder of The Global Poverty Project.
Adams is the co-founder of film company Participant Productions, with well-known Canadian philanthropist and eBay’s first CEO, Jeff Skoll. Participant’s credits include Syriana, with George Clooney and Matt Damon, North Country, with Charlize Theron, and Good Night and Good Luck with George Clooney.
Led by former Young Australian of the Year Hugh Evans – who was a member of the team behind the Australian Make Poverty History campaign featuring U2’s Bono – the Global Poverty Project aims to help the planet’s poorest 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty – defined as those living on less than a $1.25 a day.
With the support of actor and Global Poverty Project spokesperson Hugh Jackman, the initiative advocates the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals, developed in 2000 and adopted by 189 countries with the objective of improving the lives of the world’s poorest people by 2015.
The Centennial College presentation is timed to coincide with the Toronto International Film Festival and may draw some surprise guests. The free 90-minute presentation has been showcased in major centres in Australia and New Zealand.
Centennial’s event partners include The Canadian Film Centre, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Interactive Ontario, Scarborough Arts Council, Outward Bound Canada and WNED/PBS.
Date: Friday, Sept. 11 at 11 am
Location: The Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth Avenue, Toronto