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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Thank you to all of our artists, curator Earl Miller, Judy Gladstone and Gina Dineen at Bravo!FACT, our Out of Site commitee (Spencer Sutherland, Elana White and Marc Glassman), participating businesses and the volunteers who made Out of Site 2011 a great success!

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.

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Works curated by Earl Miller

Curated by Earl Miller, Out of Site 2011 features work by six important Toronto artists and collectives: Darren O’Donnell, Dave Dyment, Shannon Griffiths, Mike Hansen, Life of a Craphead, Nathalie Quagliotto.

Click here for works curated by Earl Miller

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Shorts Under The Stars

Click here for the list of films that were shown

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Time: 6:59 pm Saturday, October 1 to 7 am Sunday, October 2, 2011

From University to Bathurst along Queen St. West visit the 7 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Independent Projects by artists Jonathan Brett, Dave Dyment, Shannon Griffiths, Mike Hansen, Malcolm Levy, Life of a Craphead, Nathalie Quagliotto.

Click here for the Independent Projects

Click hereto visit the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche web page for Independent Projects in Zone C