Event listings
Check out our facebook page for the most up to date event listings and happenings in the neighborhood–new restaurant openings, special promotions and weekly art events!
https://www.facebook.com/QueenStWestBIA
The Future Streetscape of Queen St.West
Click here to see the handout from our Jane’s Walk
Urban Toronto’s Dumitru Onceanu summarizes our Jane’s Walk and streetscape master plan ideas in the article below. Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts about the Queen St. West streetscape by emailing us at info@queenstwestbia.ca, posting on the Urban Toronto comments section or by tweeting to @queenstwestbia.
http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2012/05/bia-considers-improvements-queen-street-west
The Queen St. West BIA has hired PMA Landscape Architects (working with Chris Hardwicke of &Co and Janos Badovinac of Fugitive Glue) to create a Streetscape Master Plan. The final design will be revealed in November 2012.
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Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, May 2012 in the BIA
Once again, BIA member venues are participating in the annual
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. This year’s venues include:
Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen St. West
Asif Rehman, Muslims?!
May 1–June 3
Opening May 3, 5–9pm
The Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar, 194 Queen St. West
Carlos Ferguson, Silent Sound
May 1- May 31
Queen Mother Cafe, 208 Queen St. West
Marie Heintzman, Light Tapestry Series 1
May 1–June 30
Opening May 5, 3–5pm
The Rivoli Restaurant, 334 Queen St. West
Jacqueline Bruner, You Are Here
May 5–June 29
Opening May 12, 3–5pm
Arepa Cafe, 490 Queen St. West
Maria José Govea, Rumba
May 3–31
Opening May 3, 7–11pm
Cabinet Salon, 577 Queen St. West, 2nd floor (side entrance on Portland)
Richelle Forsey, Modern Canadian Interiors
May 1–June 30
Opening May 3, 6–9pm
Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen St. West
Jeffery Caires, T. Andrew Morton, Erin Riley
April 27–May 31
Opening April 27, 7–11pm
Shanghai Cowgirl, 538 Queen St. West
Sandy Baron, Iconic
May 1–27
Opening May 1, 8–10pm
Duke’s Cycle, 625 Queen St. West
Mark Ridout, Yikes on Bikes
May 1-31
Opening May 3, 6–9pm
NEWS
Over $50,000 raised for the Starlight Foundation of Canada
Over $50,000 was raised for the Starlight Foundation of Canada during this year’s Torontoland Snowman campaign. The Queen St. West BIA was proud to take part in this initiative with Tourism Toronto. Thank you to everyone who participated! Below is a photo our our snowman, designed by artist Melinda Josie.
Photo by Jackson Chiu
Outstanding Capital Streetscape Improvement Award
On October 26th TABIA hosted the inaugural Toronto BIA recognition awards. We were nominated and won in the category of Outstanding Capital Streetscape Improvement Award for our custom designed bike racks by OCAD University Students Michael Pham (Halo) and Evi K. Hui and Olivier Mayrand (Speech Bubbles). BIA Chair Spencer Sutherland and Coordinator Laura Schaefer were present to accept the award from Councillor Michael Thompson, Chair of the Economic Development Committee, and TABIA President Michael Comstock.
A special thank you to our past chair Marc Glassman and the jury of the design contest–Councillor Vaughan, Lisa Rochon and Justin Garak, OCAD University, designers Michael Pham, Evi K. Hui and Olivier Mayrand, and Raj Kumar at the City of Toronto for all of their hard work on this project. It continues to put Queen St. West on the map!
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Time Flies! We are currently working on Out of Site 2012 and will be posting details about the selected art works and performances in the coming months. The date for Out of Site is Saturday September 29, 2012.
Out of Site 2011 featured:
- An exhibition curated by Earl Miller
- Shorts Under The Stars a free outdoor screening of recently produced short films from across the country produced with grants awarded by Bell Media’s Bravo!FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent).
- Seven Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Independent Projects
- Independent art installations and art windowsthroughout Queen St. West between Simcoe and Bathurst.
