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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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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.

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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