T.O. Greenspiration Events: Happy IWD!
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Mar 2 11:05:32 EST 2014
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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Remembering Tooker and all those who have gone before us
Living our memories, nourished by gratitude and affection
Sun. March 2, 7 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther (St. George Subway), Toronto
Free
March 3rd is the 10th anniversary of the passing of our beloved Tooker Gomberg. Many of us have lost loved ones. Most of us grieve loss. This annual event honors our grief, invites us to share, and nourishes our hearts. All welcome. Bring something for the alter that represents your loss.
For more info: angela at cleanairalliance.org
FB event page: http://on.fb.me/1ftUTN6
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Hands-On Urbanism: How to Make a Difference
Alignments Between Architecture, Landscape, Planning, Art, Activism, and Civic Engagement
Through to March 7
Urbanspace gallery, Ground Floor, 401 Richmond W. (at Spadina)
Free
The exhibition “Hands-On Urbanism. How to Make A Difference” is devoted to a history of ideas of appropriating land in urban space and reveals potential for initiatives by citizens willing to take action in crisis situations.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e3cfa369a0f05c12b22cc3967&id=fc06693b63&e=3c2ef6888f
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A MOOC on Climate Change
We are very pleased to announce the World Bank's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on climate change. This course presents the most recent scientific evidence as well as some of the opportunities for urgent action on climate change. It also covers the latest knowledge and information based on cutting-edge research. It is being offered in two tracks: (1) General Public; and (2) Policy Makers and Practitioners. The course runs for 4 weeks, and is free of charge. You have access to the material for approximately 6 months after the course ends.
Sign up for the first delivery of the course at https://www.coursera.org/#course/warmerworld
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Harper's plan to win the next election: Cheat
Laughingly entitled the Fair Elections Act, Bill C-23 would legislate advantages for the Conservatives through voter suppression, and curtail the role of Elections Canada in promoting voting.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2014/02/harpers-plan-to-win-next-election-cheat
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Tell your MPP to give Ontario’s environment a present by Earth Day:
Pass laws to protect water and free speech by April 22
http://environmentaldefence.ca/tell-your-mpp-give-ontario’s-environment-present-earth-day-pass-laws-protect-water-and-free-speech-a
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Ontario's Greenbelt - Nine Years and Growing
Celebrating 9 Years of Protected Landscape
http://www.greenbelt.ca/ontario_s_greenbelt_nine_years_and_growing2014?utm_campaign=february2014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=greenbelt
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Get Canada Back on Track
Decades of deregulation, a severe lack of maintenance and repairs, and chronic under-funding have all taken their toll on both passenger and freight rail transport in this country. This is a critical time to be investing in low-carbon, environmentally responsible transportation infrastructure, and the Harper Conservatives seem intent on letting safety standards slide and VIA Rail die a death of a thousand cuts. Add your name along with thousands of other Canadians in support of strong, dependable rail service in Canada. Green Party of Canada's campaign.
https://www.greenparty.ca/back-on-track/petition?utm_campaign=C14.BAT&utm_source=massmail&utm_medium=email&source=C14.E.BAT
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All of our ash trees are at risk of dying due to the Emerald Ash Borer
We must act now to defend our urban forest through treatment and replanting! Become an EAB Ambassador with LEAF.
http://bit.ly/1meyVXy
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Greenpeace basic actions training
Greenpeace Basic Action Camp Toronto. March 7 - 9
Deadline to Apply is March 4
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gm4RjKB_lrENhMZuposrHKdeXjF3fpJ_ZNOZ2zYd3GE/viewform
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Want to learn how to make all sorts of lotions, potions and creams at a professional level?
Want to make a career or living from making and selling natural handmade local and fairly traded body care products?
If you are motivated and want a hands on, personalized education, consider an Apprenticeship with me at Anarres Apothecary. http://www.anarreshealth.ca/content/apprenticeship-and-work-exchange-application
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Stop the Spring Bear Hunt
The Kathleen Wynne govt. is proposing an open hunting season of the American Black Bear this spring. An open hunting season means there are NO LIMITS on the number of bears a licensed hunter can kill.
http://wildlifeontario.ca/campaigns/springbearhunt/email-to-supporters-2014.html
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Through to Mar 6
$5-$12. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W.
Screenings of films about human rights issues including LGBT rights, racism and violence against women.
ff.hrw.org/toronto
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Silence of the Labs
March 3, 7 p.m.
Rm. 140, University College, 15 King's College Circle, U of T
Join us to learn more about the government's silencing of science in Canada and to watch CBC's Fifth Estate documentary film. The Harper government has fired thousands of scientists, and has destroyed countless irreplaceable scientific reports and publications in the process of terminating a number of government-owned scientific libraries. This is in keeping with the Harper government's gutting of environmental assessment legislation and curtailing the powers of the Fisheries Branch of Environment Canada, as well as its failure to act on Climate Change, and its incessant lobbying in favor of tar sands developments in western Canada and the associated pipelines projects. Here's a chance to learn more and get involved.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1418575615055056/
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Social Media as a Civic Engagement Tool
Mon. March 3, 7 - 8 pm
E.J Pratt Library Room: 306 (computer lab), 71 Queens Park Crescent E (U of T)
Free – Donations are Welcome
Attend this workshop to learn the basics on how to use social media and web resources to stay engaged with your city and connect with others who share your interests.
https://www.facebook.com/events/215544338647513
http://vowpeace.org/event/social-media-as-a-civic-engagement-tool/
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The Systemic Crisis of Financialization
Monday March 3, 7 pm
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Ryerson
Costas Lapavitsas teaches economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has done research in the political economy of money and finance, the Japanese economy, the history of economic thought, economic history, and the contemporary world economy. During the last three years his interests have focused on the Eurozone crisis, and he has undertaken research on it with a group of researchers associated with Research on Money and Finance at SOAS. His longerterm research interests, however, include the financialization of capitalism, its characteristic trends, variable forms and manifold implications for contemporary society.
www.ryerson.ca/politics/phyllisclarke.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/276592549132035/
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Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
Monday March 3rd, 7pm-9pm
Innis Town Hall, UofT (2 Sussex Avenue)
Catch this new documentary film about how a social justice organization based in Oakland, California—Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)—focused on building long-term collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change. AIWA has inspired hundreds of low–wage immigrant garment, electronic and healthcare workers in the San Francisco Bay Area. AIWA’s Community Transformational Organizing Strategy (CTOS) has been a model for many immigrant organizations. After 15 years, Young Shin is taking CTOS on the road to foster a broader dialogue with local communities in Canada and the U.S. about the importance of grassroots leadership development in community organizing.
asian.institute at utoronto.ca
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Toronto Media Co-op - New Contributors Meeting
Don’t let news fall through the cracks!
Monday March 3, 6:30 pm
Harvest Noon Cafe (upstairs at 16 Bancroft Ave - GSU Building, U of T)
Join us at our Toronto Media Co-op (TMC) new contributors meeting to learn what’s happening in Toronto and collaborate on coverage for upcoming events and topics of interest. The meeting will start with a new members orientation including a talk about what exciting things we’ve covered in the past for those who aren’t familiar with the TMC. If you're into writing, photography, video, sound recording, illustrating, editing, reading, social media, event planning, fundraising or just plain talking to people... there's a place for you with the TMC! All levels of experience are welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/events/286097898181691
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca
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The Square
Mon. Mar. 3, 9:15 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
Already being touted by critics as an Oscar front-runner Jehane Nougaim's The Square is a riveting account of the recent Egyptian Revolution, as a nation strives to create a new society without corruption, brutuality, tyranny and greed.
http://prod5.agileticketing.net/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=17944~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&
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Dancing The Chakras Open To Grace
Monday, March 3, 7:30 - 9 pm
Anarres Apothecary, 749 Dovercourt Road
By Donation
Women! Come dance with us!
https://www.facebook.com/events/194146267441251/
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Tune In: Elizabeth May's Lyme Disease Legislation Up for Debate
Monday Mar. 3, 11 a.m.
Watch her speech - and those of the other parties - live online at cpac.ca or parlvu.parl.gc.ca.
If you have cable television, you can also watch on CPAC.
Bill C-442, the National Lyme Disease Strategy Act, is up for its first hour of debate. Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, will be leading off the debate in support of this important piece of legislation. If passed, Bill C-442 will make a difference in the lives of tens of thousands of Canadians. There is also still time to show your support. If you haven’t already, please add your name to the online petition at http://www.greenparty.ca/lyme-disease/petition.
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Connect - Canadian Electoral Alliance and LEAD
Tuesday March 4, 6 - 8 pm
The 519 Community Centre, 519 Church St., Toronto
It may not feel like it yet, but the 2015 federal election is just around the corner. If we start working together now, we can help hold this government accountable at the ballot box, and elect people with a strong mandate for action on democracy, climate, and inequality. More than that - we can help build a movement strong enough to push for real changes after the election. What is Happening to our Democracy? Presentation and discussion on the current democratic crisis and how it impacts on us.
http://www.electoralalliance.ca/connect-toronto-canadian-electoral-alliance
https://m.facebook.com/events/248223452025069
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Mars At Sunrise
Tuesday, March 4, 6:30 pm
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West
Suggested donation $5-10
A stunning work of political fiction inspired by the real-life of a Palestinian artist.
Jessica Habie / Palestine-Canada-USA / 2013 / 77' / Arabic -Hebrew -English / s.t. English
Canadian premiere. A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow
Mars At Sunrise tells the story of a war waged on imagination. The film abstractly portrays the conflict between artists on either side of Israel's militarized borders, and explores how a powerful creative mind survives, and even thrives, under pressure.
https://www.facebook.com/events/630847860296901
http://bit.ly/1cNQzaT
cinemapolitica.org/bloor
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Eco-Sex Workshop
Tues. March 4, 7:30 - 9 p.m.
Grassroots Danforth, 372 Danforth
$15, stu/srs $13.50
Learn about holistic fertility, sexuality and contraceptives.
grassrootsstore.com.
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Transit Matters - The history of the TTC and how to improve our transit system today
Wed. March 5, 7 pm
1674 St. Clair Ave. W. (Just west of Caledonia, on St. Clair)
Join MPP Jonah Schein and TTCriders to learn about the history of our public transit system in Toronto. Dr. Tony Turrittin, a local historian, will speak about how the TTC was formed and how it became the system we know today, while TTCriders will speak about ways to improve out transit system today.
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Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights: A Toolkit for Change
Wed. March 5, 1 – 4 p.m.
Centre for Social Innovation, 1st Floor, 215 Spadina Avenue.
This interactive workshop will introduce you to Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR), a powerful toolkit for environmental change. Whether your issues are wildlife or water taking permits, alvars or air quality, greenhouse gases or gravel pits, you want to ensure you have the full range of tools at your disposal. The EBR is designed to boost public engagement with Ontario’s environmental laws and policies.
http://sustainabilitynetwork.ca/ebr/
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Lost Rivers - with the Council of Canadians
Wed. March 5, 7 – 9 p.m.
Toronto Metro Hall (55 John Street), room 313A
Speaker: Professor Lino Grima
Lost Rivers documentary to screen at 7 pm. followed by presentations and discussion. Lost rivers were buried due to city growth and few people today are aware they even exist. They still flow out of sight beneath our feet as part of our city's storm sewer systems, often heavily polluted. Globally there's a movement to unearth these buried rivers and incorporate them into the vibrant city landscape.
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Start a food co-op
Wednesday March 5, 6:30-8:30
Food Forward Centre, 2 Homewood Avenue (at Carlton Street, a block east of Jarvis)
Cost: just $15 per person
We will hear from those in the sector and learn from them how a co-op works, how to get started, different models of how to run your business and some Q&A. Our speakers: Hannah Renglich is from the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network. This social-enterprise focuses on Ontario wide farming and food co-operatives and the sharing of information to further strengthen the industry. Ayal Dinner from the West End Food Co-op. WEFC is a not-for-profit community-driven co-operative working in the City's West end to increase markets for local, sustainable farmers and a fair, democratic, and meaningful workplace.
http://pushfoodforward.com/marchworkshops
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Child Soldier Recruitment in Intra-state Armed Conflicts
With Vera Achvarina, Assistant Professor, Political Science, U of T
Thursday Mar. 6, 7 - 9 pm
Room 179, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of T
All welcome. No charge.
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace.
http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/vital-discussions-of-human-security-fall-2013-spring-2014
If you miss it, the video podcast will be available on the SfP YouTube channel within 1-2 weeks after the talk.http://www.youtube.com/user/Science4Peace
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A Tree on Trial: Health and the Urban Canopy, or Saving the Urban Forest One Tree—and Lawsuit—at a Time
with Stephen Scharper, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UofT Mississauga and School of the Environment
Thur. Mar. 6, 4:10 p.m.
Room 257, University College, 15 King’s College Circle
Free
While The City of Toronto has a by-law requiring private property owners to obtain a permit before felling mature trees, dozens of mature, healthy trees are cut down each week in the GTA. The health and ecological benefits of these trees, including carbon capture, sun protection, species habitat, etc., is significant, yet they are being lost at a perilous rate. This is the story of how two UofT faculty members, Stephen Scharper and Hilary Cunningham, strove to protect one such mature boundary tree and achieved landmark legislation protecting shared trees in Ontario.
www.environment.utoronto.ca
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Feminist Art Conference
International Women's Day Exhibition and Conference
Thur. March 6, 7 - 11 p.m.
· Reception, performances and art exhibition at Beaver Hall Gallery (McCaul and Dundas)
Fri. March 7, 6 - 9:30 p.m.
· FREE screening of the short film CENSORIOUS! and longer feature film MISS REPRESENTATION
· Panel discussion curated by the FAC Committee.
Sat. March 8, noon - 7:30 p.m.
· Panel presentations, performances, reception
at Ontario College of Art and Design, Beaver Hall Gallery - Dundas and McCaul
Full program and details here: http://factoronto.org/fac-2014/
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Anti-Racist Organizing for Collective Liberation Workshop
Fri. March 7, 6:30 p.m.
Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue
Chris Crass is a longtime organizer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. Throughout the 1990s, he was an organizer with Food Not Bombs, an economic justice anti-poverty group, strengthening the direct action-based anti-capitalist Left. In the 2000s, he was an organizer with the Catalyst Project, which combines political education and organizing to develop and support anti-racist politics, leadership, and organization in white communities and builds dynamic multiracial alliances locally and nationally.
https://www.facebook.com/events/261939157302739/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
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The Green Majority
Toronto's Environmental Radio Show
Weekly, Fridays, 11 - noon EST
CIUT 89.5FM
Listen live or catch the podcasts
http://greenmajority.ca/
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International Women's Day (IWD) - Women Taking Power
Sat. March 8
Rally 11 am at OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. (St. George subway)
March to Ryerson: 1 pm
Fair: 1:30 pm @ Ryerson, 55 Gould St.
$14 Minimum Wage Now!
Public Services are Women's Services!
GenSqueezed: We Demand our Future!
www.iwdtoronto.ca
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Organic Urban Gardening 101
Sat. March 8, Mar. 17, or March 29
Great summer gardens get started in the winter! Want to be in control of what’s in and on the food that you eat? (We can relate!) The age-old art of growing your own delicious, garden fresh food is making a comeback. Go from absolute beginner to savvy urban farmer. Register now.
http://www.freshcityfarms.com/news-events-urban-farming-toronto-local-food-movement/organic-urban-gardening-101/
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The Earth is the Lord's: A Christian Response to the Environmental Crisis
Saturday, March 8, 2014. 8:30am to 3:15pm
St. James Cathedral Centre, 65 Church Street, Toronto.
$30 ($20 for students)
The years ahead will likely see upheaval and unprecedented changes in how humans adapt to a very different world. In this time of change and crisis, how will Christians re-tell the story “God dwells with us”? Come explore this pressing question at a Lenten workshop. Topics include: “The Crisis According to Science” “Climate Change: A Justice Issue” “The Theology of Inter-Connectedness” “Live Well with Much Less?” “God with us"
Guest Speakers include: Alanna Mitchell, Dennis Patrick O’Hara, Lynn McDonald, Stephen Scharper, and Sylvia Keesmaat.
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e8sjhq4b45db26da&llr=xpqviyhab
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Watershed Discipleship: Creation Matters!
Saturday, March 8, 9 a.m. - noon
Royal York Road United Church, 851 Royal York Road, Toronto (3 blocks south of Royal York Subway Station).
Join KAIROS in learning about Watershed Discipleship. What is Watershed Discipleship? It’s a program in which participants identify the major ecological justice issues affecting where they live, make the connections with Indigenous rights struggles, and explore how they are part of larger Canadian and global struggles for justice. It blends biblical and theological reflection with hands-on environmental experience and social analysis. With Guest Presenter, Sara Stratton, Lead Staff for the KAIROS Canada Watershed Discipleship campaign.
For more information call Mary Wilson at 416-231-1207, or Jean Smith at 416-626-3706.
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Women: Destroy The Patriarchical Prison System!
Sat. March 8. 7 p.m.
Harvest Noon Cafe, 16 Bancroft
Mapuche-anti colonial, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist solidarity night with a film screening and talk by Orllanda Pimentel of the Landless Workers Movement. wccctoronto.wordpress.com.
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Poetic Justice: Resisting Patriarchy through Revolutionary Lyrics
Sunday March 9, 6:30 p.m.
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue (one block south of Bloor).
Come out to OPIRG-Toronto's first spoken word/art night of the year. Are you an artist, veteran or first timer, who wants to share your artistic pieces centred on resistance, feminism, gender violence and health masculinity, love, friendship, rage and revolution? Are you an art lover and a revolutionary? Whatever your artistic background, experience and political know-how, this is the poetry night for you! Poems and performances around social justice and environmental justice are all welcome. You don't have to be a U of T student to perform. E-mail amor.y.justicia1980 at gmail.com or message the hosts if you are interested in performing. Send us your name and let us know what you would like to perform (poem, freestyle, performance, theatre of the oppressed, music, instrumental, etc.). If you get inspired at the event, room for open mic will also be available that night.
https://www.facebook.com/events/522916464490126/
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How to Avoid a Fukushima Disaster in Ontario
Tuesday March 11
7 p.m. – Anthony Wilson, Layah Jane and Brian MacMilllan, singer-songwriters
7:30 p.m. – Jack Gibbons, advocate for a nuclear-free Ontario
The Ossington: 61 Ossington (just north of Queen)
Free
On March 11, 2011, the world experienced its worst nuclear power disaster to date. Triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear disaster revealed nuclear power’s vulnerability and danger. Three years later more than 100,000 people are still displaced, likely never to return to their homes, and 300 tonnes of radioactive water stream into the Pacific Ocean daily while technicians gingerly remove the used fuel rods from elevated pools before another earth quake topples the damaged structure.
On the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, join musicians and advocates as we mourn, learn and organize how to avoid a similar fate here in Ontario.
Did you know there are 18 working nuclear power reactors in Ontario? And because they’re all old, the province is moving forward with rebuilding 4 reactors at Darlington (on Lake Ontario), 4 reactors at Bruce (on Lake Huron), and extending Pickering, at huge public expense? Is it possible to power ON without these reactors? How would we do it, and would it cost more, or less?
Jack Gibbons is an economist and the Chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. Because of his skillful research, advocacy and leadership, the province of Ontario phased out coal. Now he’s turning his attention to the phase out of ON’s nuclear stations. http://www.cleanairalliance.org/
Anthony Rankin Wilson, eco-psychotherapist and singer-songwriter, sings of loss and wonder, and shares the folk stage with his soulful daughter, singer-songwriter Layah Jane, and his friend and producer, the multi-talented musician, Brian MacMillan.
www.brianmacmillanmusic.com www.layahjane.com www.anthonyrankinwilson.com
Oss Talks are a community conversation, held the 2nd Tues. of each month at the Ossington, hosted by Angela Bischoff of Greenspiration and Ontario Clean Air Alliance. For more info or to volunteer your talent, angela at cleanairalliance.org
http://on.fb.me/1dAhyae
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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/
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Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
506 Bloor W (at Bathurst)
Check out the program:
http://bit.ly/1cvxk9A
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