<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#008dc6">T.O.</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00c74d">Greenspiration</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#d9005b">Events</font></b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Pass this onto a friend. -a<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">p.s. If you can spare an evening between now and Sept. 6 (the by-election date) to raise awareness about nuclear costs, please let me know: <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#bb7d00"><b>Food Inc.</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sun. Aug. 26, 10 p.m.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">CBC News Network</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">In the Oscar-nominated Food, Inc., producer-director Robert Kenner and investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) lift the veil on the U.S. food industry - an industry that has often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihoods of American farmers, the safety of workers and our own environment.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/foodinc/">http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/foodinc/</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#6d00b5"><b>Farmers Markets </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">are exploding with local fresh and organic produce. Don't miss this tasty and nutritious season... Food is political!</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Find a complete list of Toronto's Farmers Markets here: <a href="http://www.foodshare.net/animators04.htm">http://www.foodshare.net/animators04.htm</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#009623"><b>Celebrate Yonge!</b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">August 17 – Sept 16</span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Come experience Downtown Yonge like never before! Beautiful planters are creating temporary spaces for people right on Yonge Street between Queen and Gerrard. Have a drink at one of our licensed patios, lounge in the many outdoor seating areas or sip a cold beverage at an outdoor café. Explore our 11 themed event areas to find the available activities, promotions, art installations and more!</span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.celebrateyonge.com/index.html">http://www.celebrateyonge.com/index.html</a></span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#a3000e"><b>Follow the Expedition to Protect KI First Nation’s Watershed<br></b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">From August 24 to September 7 a team of fromKitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Indigenous Nation, will venture 300 km beyond the nearest road to paddle the ancient route from the KI village to the Arctic Ocean at Hudson's Bay along the free-flowing Fawn and Severn Rivers. Along the way they will document and promote this wild watershed and the deep connection the community has to their life-giving river.</span><br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://kilands.org/">http://kilands.org/</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#004e95"><b>Two Ghost Bike Memorial Rides</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Mon. Aug. 27<br>7:30 am Bike Pirates (Bloor and Dufferin) to Islington by 8 am, then to Mississauga <br>6:30 pm Spadina to Scarborough</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">2 cyclists were killed last week. One was a 75 year old man that was hit and then fled. The second was an 18 year old hit at a red light. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#009617"><b>First Earth </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Mon. Aug. 27, 7 p.m.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Loft 404, 263 Adelaide St. W. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Screening of the 90-minute documentary film on sustainable living "FIRST EARTH - Uncompromising Ecological Architecture" + Q&A with director David Sheen. FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. It is a sprawling film, shot on location from the West Coast to West Africa. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream. FIRST EARTH is not a how-to film; rather, it's a why-to film.</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; "><br>Film Trailer: <a href="http://bit.ly/1stearth">http://bit.ly/1stearth</a><br>TEDx Talk: <a href="http://bit.ly/ecoarch">http://bit.ly/ecoarch</a><br>Film Website: <a href="http://www.davidsheen.com/firstearth">http://www.davidsheen.com/firstearth</a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/342471665840312/">https://www.facebook.com/events/342471665840312/</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#cb8400"><b>El Contrato <br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Screening and discussion<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Tues. Aug. 28, 7 p.m.<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Evergreen Brick Works, BMO Atrium.<br>*A shuttle bus will be available to transport audiences between Evergreen and Broadview subway station. The shuttle will be extended on August 28 with the last shuttle leaving at 9:15 PM.<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Free<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Join DOC Toronto as we launch our Community Connections free screening series with a celebration of El Contrato with director Min Sook Lee and subjects in attendance! This brave documentary was defiantly produced 10 years ago with the National Film Board of Canada and has been making a positive difference ever since.<br><br>Synopsis: El Contrato follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a father of four living in poverty in central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make an annual migration to southern Ontario. For eight months of the year the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant labourers who pick tomatoes for conditions and wages no local will accept. Under a well-meaning government program that allows growers to monitor themselves, the opportunity to exploit workers is as ripe as the fruit they pick. Grievances are deflected by a long line of others "back home" who are willing to take their place. Despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect, as much as for better working conditions. El Contrato ends as winter closes in and the Mexicans pledge, not for the first time and possibly not the last, that it's their final season in the north.<br><br><a href="http://www.doctoronto.ca">www.doctoronto.ca</a> <br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/378658592200229/permalink/380660855333336/">https://www.facebook.com/events/378658592200229/permalink/380660855333336/</a><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#d40066"><b>Rally Against Draconian Legislation</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Tues. August 28, noon </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Queen’s Park</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Join in solidarity with CUPE and ETFO. The early recall of the Legislature in order to introduce legislation that will impose contracts upon all teachers and education workers is in an affront to collective bargaining. This move by the government is unprecedented and undemocratic and it must not go unopposed. Stand up for the rights of all workers in Ontario and protest this cynically and politically motivated attack.<br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/498926103469311/">https://www.facebook.com/events/498926103469311/</a> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#be00c3"><b>LGBTQ Gardening Group<br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Tues. Aug. 28, 5 - 7 p.m.<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">AccessPoint on Danforth - 3079 Danforth Avenue<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">A monthly gardening group for lesbian, gay, bi, trans, two-spirited, intersex, gender queer and queer people. Join us the 4thTuesday of every month! No experience required. Learn about how to grow healthy foods. Enjoy the beautiful oasis of the Green Roof. Meet new friends. Share the harvest.<br><br>Please contact Lara to register or for more info: 416-699-7920 ext 405, <a href="mailto:lmrosovsky@accessalliance.ca">lmrosovsky@accessalliance.ca</a><br><a href="http://accessalliance.ca/content/lgbtq-gardening-group">http://accessalliance.ca/content/lgbtq-gardening-group</a><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/330372293719917/">https://www.facebook.com/events/330372293719917/</a><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#cd722d"><b>Peach Pie Filling Canning Workshop<br></b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Tues. Aug. 28, 6 – 9 p.m.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">FoodShare, 90 Croatia Street (steps south of Bloor Street on Brock Avenue.)</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">$50</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Learn to make and preserve peach pie filling with locally harvested peaches!</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://westendfood.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=179">http://westendfood.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=179</a></span><br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#d40030" size="5"><b>Tomato Salsa Canning Workshop<br></b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Wed. Aug. 29, 6 – 9 p.m.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">FoodShare, 90 Croatia Street (steps south of Bloor Street on Brock Avenue.)</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">$50</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Learn to make and preserve tomato salsa with locally harvested tomatoes and veggies!</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://westendfood.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=180">http://westendfood.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=180</a></span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#0078c2"><b>Democracy Salon<br></b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">With the Canadian Electoral Alliance</span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Wednesday August 29, 6 – 8 p.m.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The 519 Community Centre, 519 Church Street (n. of Wellesley)</span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Admission: bring a snack to share</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Appetizers - nibbles and snacks</span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">1. Planning of Town Hall October 2, 2012 Canadian Democracy in Crisis: Taking Action on Electoral Reform</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">2. Discussion of next steps</span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Invite your friends to our Democracy Salon and take Canada to real democracy!</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="mailto:contact@electoralalliance.ca">contact@electoralalliance.ca</a></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.electoralalliance.ca">www.electoralalliance.ca</a></span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#00c433"><b>Laila's Birthday </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Wednesday, August 29 @ 7pm </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">@ Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (1 door south of Bloor - at Bathurst subway) </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>The film chronicles a day in the life of a Palestinian cab driver (a day that also happens to be his daughter's seventh birthday). The plot consists of little more than a series of deliberately undramatic and wryly humorous vignettes and the cross section of humanity that passes through his cab that day. His passengers include a just-paroled ex-con, an amorous young couple looking for a place to be alone, a woman on her way to the cemetery and the hospital, and another woman whose husband has just been killed in a car bombing. Laila's Birthday doesn't push its political points or go for grand dramatic gestures and themes. It merely observes daily life as this one man witnesses it, finding humor in some of the unlikeliest of places. To learn more.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/12-08-29/Film_Laila_s_Birthday.aspx">http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/12-08-29/Film_Laila_s_Birthday.aspx</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#cf6200"><b>Art Spin</b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">– for bikers and rollers</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Thur. August 30</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Meet at 6:30 at Dufferin Grove Park (Dufferin south of Bloor), tour leaves at 7</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>The tour wraps up at around 9pm, which is when the after-party begins. The August after-party will be at our Finale Exhibition, with a top-notch location and plenty of wonderful participating artists.<br> <br><a href="http://www.artspin.ca/#!Upcoming%20Events/cihc">http://www.artspin.ca/#!Upcoming%20Events/cihc</a><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#9a00c3"><b>Remembering Darcy Allen Sheppard </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- 3rd year ann. of his tragic passing at the wheel of Michael Bryant</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Fri. Aug. 31</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">5 p.m. corner of Bloor and Avenue Road</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">6:30 p.m. Critical Mass Ride leaves from Bloor and Spadina</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Boycott Michael Bryant's book: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/188515707947914/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/188515707947914/</a> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#0089c2"><b>Japan Dolphins Day<br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Fri. Aug. 31, noon - 3 p.m.<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Consulate-General of Japan, 77 King Street West, TD Centre <br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">On August 31, 2012 rallies and peaceful protests will be held in front of Japanese Embassies & Consulates worldwide. The events are to protest the September 1 start of the annual Taiji dolphin cull as seen in the Academy-award winning documentary The Cove. The message is positive: Japan, let the dolphins live & be free!<br><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/383167135080113/">https://www.facebook.com/events/383167135080113/</a><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#009800"><b>Music from a Persian Garden </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Friday, Aug 31 @ 8pm </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (1 door south of Bloor - at Bathurst subway) </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Shiraz Ensemble founded to preserve and extend traditional Persian classical music is joined by the phenomenal, French-based percussionist Pedram Khavarzamini in a performance of instrumental music based on the Radif, the main treasury of Persian classical music. Radif is a collection of old melodic figures from many hundreds of years ago and preserved through oral tradition. The concert includes both composed tunes and improvised music. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/12-08-31/Music_from_a_Persian_Garden.aspx">http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/12-08-31/Music_from_a_Persian_Garden.aspx</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#a50089"><b>Queeriot Toronto </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Fri. - Sun. August 31 - September 2<br>Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street (near College and Spadina)<br><br>Bring your fierce bodies out! We are calling on all anti-authoritarian queer and trans folks to join us for a weekend of fabulous, glittery, accessible, consensual, anti-capitalist fun! Let's converge to talk about how we ‘queer’ organizing spaces! How do we talk about queer & trans struggles as interconnected with anti-racist, disability justice and feminist organizing? How do we bridge the gaps between sexual liberation politics and liberation from the exploitation of the capitalist system? And after all that…don’t forget to de-stress at the queer dance party! Want to host a workshop? Have a skill to share? Interested in tabling? Please get in touch with us! </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">E-mail <a href="mailto:queeriotTO@gmail.com">queeriotTO@gmail.com</a> for information about the schedule, accessibility concerns and billeting requests. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">More details at <a href="http://queeriotto.tumblr.com">queeriotto.tumblr.com</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#3b0098"><b>Toronto Laneway Bike Tour <br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sun. Sept. 2, 11 am<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">NW corner Gore Vale and Queen<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Free<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Bike tour of laneways in Trinity-Bellwoods, Little Italy and Queen West. <br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">For more info: <a href="mailto:info@graemeparry.com">info@graemeparry.com</a> <br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#a50007"><b>Labour of Love - real hip-hop tour<br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sun. Sept. 2, 9 p.m.<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The Central, 603 Markham Street (near Bloor and Bathurst)<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Mics will be ripped, parties will be rocked, hip-hop's back with a vengeance! Three of Ontario's most well-known rebel hip-hop acts are joining forces to celebrate workers struggles with lyrical class antagonism at it's finest. Featured Artists: Test Their Logik, OB (Kill the Autocrat), Lee Reed and more<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/369031719836890/">https://www.facebook.com/events/369031719836890/</a><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#007796"><b>Pig Save Veggie Dog Giveaway</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Mon. Sept. 3, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Stanley Park, Toronto - Wellington St and Walnut Ave</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Please join us for the second annual veggie dog giveaway and celebration at Stanley Park across the street from Quality Meat Packers pig slaughterhouse. There are alternatives to pig slaughter-- and we will be showing the way by giving out free veggie dogs and other vegan food in the local community. It will be a fun-filled day with music, artwork, auctions and vegan outreach. We hope to introduce hundreds of people to vegan food and encourage them to embrace a compassionate and cruelty-free lifestyle. <br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/212888618840978/">https://www.facebook.com/events/212888618840978/</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#e50097"><b>Basic Wen-Do Women's Self Defence - 2-day course <br></b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sundays September 9th and 16th, 9 am - 5 pm<br>St Clair & Dufferin area<br>Open to Women and girls age 10 and up<br>Fee: $150. If cost is a barrier, please speak to Claire.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">To register, or for more information: Call Claire at 416-538-8837.<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Women and girls: this course will be a great opportunity to...<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• learn simple, effective physical and verbal self-defence skills,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• develop your ability to recognize and deal with potentially dangerous situations, <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• increase your confidence, and <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• have fun!<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#009936"><b>PowerShift</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Oct. 26-29 - Ottawa</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">PowerShift 2012 is a youth-led conference seeking to bring 1500 young people together to tackle climate change head on. PowerShift recognizes<br>that the root causes of the climate crisis are the same causes of social injustices like poverty, racism, and Indigenous land struggles. Through<br>skills- and issue-based workshops, networking opportunities, and strategy sessions, PowerShift 2012 will unite concerned youth around climate justice<br>while giving them the skills and connections to make change from the ground up. 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