Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Soviet Cult Films Opening Night at Margret

Soviet Cult Films Movie Nights at Margret artjunction.blogspot.comPoster: The Arts Junction’s Opening Night and Reception for our 'Soviet Cult Films'
Movie Nights at Margret, September 27, 2008
Credit: Margret Bar / Lounge for the Junction

The Arts Junction presents
Soviet Cult Films at Margret 2008/09 Season
Opening Movie Night

Saturday, September 27, 2008
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-дза-дза! in Russian, pronounced 'Kin-dzah-dzah')
director: Georgi Daneliya
year: 1986
country: Soviet Union
language: Georgian | Russian with English sub-titles
company: Mosfilm

Margret Bar / Lounge for the Junction
2952 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON

*Admission: Free

The Arts Junction is proud to present, as our opening night of the 2008/09 Soviet Cult Films Season, the Oscar non-winning director Georgi Daneliya 1986 sci-fi-comedy Kin-dza-dza!, starring Yuri Yakovlev (The Idiot, Anna Karenina) and Yevgeny Leonov (famous comedian).

The film is masterfully filmed by Daneliya with outstanding creativity and given scarcity of technical means; with amazing insight showing the culture clash of socialist and market societies, East and West mentalities in the disguise of intergalactic encounters just before "Perestroika" happened.

This is an 'all-men movie'; women play a little part in it which is one of the characteristics of Daneliya's movies.

After the action settles down, please join us for an all Russian "zakuski" reception after the film. It's a great chance to get to know the Margret bar and the Margret's amazing host Chris as well as talk about the film and mingle with other movie lovers!

Please RSVP if you are planning to attend: olga.artjunction@gmail.com

Olga Goubar
The Arts Junction
http://www.artjunction.blogspot.com

** The AJ (artjunction) is an independent, local blog dedicated to arts and culture events in the Junction area of Toronto West, and Russian cultural events coming up in Toronto.

links:
Soviet Cult Films at Margret: Opening Night: Kin-dza-dza!
Soviet Cult Films at Margret: The White Sun of the Desert
Soviet Cult Films at Margret: Ashik-Kerib
Soviet Cult Films at Margret: Seasonal Classic and Masterpieces of Animated Shorts
Soviet Cult Films at Margret: Ivan's Childhood
Soviet Cult Films at Margret: Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa
Soviet Cult Films at Margret: The Dawns Here Are Quiet by Stanislav Rostosky

Friday, September 19, 2008

Invitation to the Gala: Celebration of the Toronto Junction Local Option Art Awards

West Toronto Junction Local Option Art Awards Gala 2008 poster, by artjunction.blogspot.comJunction Local Option Art Awards Gala
Thursday October 23rd, 7pm
Latitude 44 Gallery
West Toronto Junction Historical Society
100 FLAGS CAMPAIGN and LOCAL OPTION ART AWARDS
The West Toronto Junction Historical Society Centennial Committee is launching the 100 Flags Campaign. It is our goal to have at least one hundred flags flying on the day of the Centennial, April 14, 2008: any flag you like. Or create your own Junction Flag. We’ll keep the campaign rolling through the summer with the hope of 1,000 flags up throughout the community for the Arts Festival in September. The 100 Flags Campaign was designed to promote the Local Option Art Awards and to bring the community together for the Centennial. At this point we have 16 Junction Business Improvement Area venues lined up to host artwork for the Local Option Art Awards which are sponsored by Mariposa County artist Michael Reeves. More than 40 artists who have responded to a public call will vie for $1,000 first prize, $500 second prize and $250 third prize which will be awarded to winners determined by public vote throughout the Junction between the Centennial weekend and the Arts Festival in September. A winning voter will receive Reid English’s sculpture, "Spirit of the Junction," specially commissioned by the Institute of Canadian Popular Culture. All winners to be announced on the last day of the Arts Festival and awards will be presented at a WTJHS fundraiser in October. WTJHS is launching this campaign in the memory of Enoch Ward, who flew a solitary flag to commemorate the birth of “Junction City,” so that we might celebrate the independent spirit in all of us and participate in the Art of Democracy.
www.wtjhs.ca
Credit: thejunctioncity.com

West Toronto Junction Local Option Art Awards Gala 2008, by artjunction.blogspot.comPress-Release West Toronto Junction Local Option Art Awards GALA
Credit: wtjhs.ca
From April 12th – September 7th 20 Junction businesses have hosted the works of 20 artists and the winners have been chosen by public vote in this West Toronto Junction Historical Society Centennial initiative.

We have a tie for First prize. Emmanuel Mifsud whose work is showing at The Super Sub ( Dundas West and Keele) and Peter LIU Gang showing at High Park Martial Arts ( Dundas West of McMurray). Second prize goes to Brian Anderson showing at Triple Z Roti and Third prize to Olga Sadowy also showing at Triple Z (Dundas and Medland).

The prizes will be presented at The Local Option Art Awards Gala and silent auction fundraiser for the WTJHS on Thursday October 23rd, 7pm at the Latitude 44 Gallery, 2900 Dundas Street West (ph 416- 769-2900)

Framed reproductions of historic photographs from the WTJHS archives will be among the evening’s most sought after works including silver and gold leaf, historic artifacts from the Junction Fire Hall, Station #423 and original works by contemporary artists. A lucky member of the voting public will be presented with the specially commissioned sculpture 'The Spirit of the Junction' by Reid English.

There have been wonderful spin off’s from this project. Several of the artists have sold their work, some have had work commissioned through their participation in the Local Option Art Awards, and children have been seen running through the Junction ballots in hand following the map. Artists have been offered more space to continue to show their works in the businesses. The feedback has been tremendously positive— this project has been a joy from start to finish and the Gala will be a wonderful celebration of this dynamic Centennial initiative.

Local Option Art Awards GALA
Thursday October 23rd, 7pm
Latitude 44 Gallery
2900 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
phone: 416 – 769 – 2900
Cara Reeves, WTJHSCC.

links:
Toronto Junction Local Option Art Awards: Self Guided Walking Tours
Junction Art Tour: The White Goddess Graces Pandemonium
The AJO: Toronto Art Junction Option + Guided Walking Tours
Toronto Junction's Rich Living Exposition of Art: the Local Option
Vital Links Between Arts and Business: Toronto Junction Local Option
Explore the Local Toronto Art Scene and Vote for Your Favourite Artist
insidetoronto.com: Celebrating art is the function at the Junction
by Lisa Rainford, July 31, 2008

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Art + Trees = Toronto Junction Tour

West Toronto Junction Tree Tour: IT Ceremony's Slideshow on Flickr, by artjunction.blogspot.comTodd Irvine gives the Junction tree tour on September 7th 2008.
The West Toronto Junction Tree Tour: itceremony's slideshow on flickr: 47 photos
2008 @ artjunction.blogspot.com
arborist. (2008).
In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
Main Entry:
ar·bor·ist
Pronunciation: \'är-be-rist\
Function: noun
Date: 1578

: a specialist in the care and maintenance of trees

Retrieved September 17, 2008,
from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arborist

See a flickr's photo serial about the Junction Tree Tour, read an article from the National Post about it, and oh yeh, join the next Edible Tree Tour on September 20, 2008.

Screenshot: National Post, Tall tales of Toronto's treesScreenshot: Tall tales of Toronto's trees
Published: National Post, Saturday, September 13, 2008
Article: Alison Broverman / Photo: Peter J. Thompson
Edible Tree Tour on September 20, 2008

September 20th — 1pm to 3pm

After touring the historic english orchards of the Spadina House participants will be treated to a sample of heritage apples freshly picked for market that morning by volunteers. Guest leader Laura Rainsborough will discuss Not far from the tree a wonderful new organization that is inventorying heritage fruit trees on residential properties in the area and then harvesting their bounty, 952 pounds of fruit so far this year! LEAF arborist Todd Irvine will share the history of the massive white oaks on the Spadina house grounds, so old that members of the Anishinabe Indian tribe, the area's first inhabitants, possibly passed under their canopies. The tour will also visit the grounds of Casa Loma and a steep forested ravine slope with century old mansions peering over its edge.
Trees and shrubs that provide edible fruit for both people and animals will be profiled throughout the tour.
If you would like to attend, please complete our RSVP form.
Suggested donation: $5
Meet at: Spadina House main entrance, 285 Spadina Rd. (just northeast of Casa Loma) | Map
Credit: treetours.to

link:
Press-Release: The 2008 Green Village is Home Green Home at Junction Arts Festival
"...a new special feature of the 2008 Green Village is the Junction Tree Tour (meeting on the N.W. corner of Keele Street and Dundas Street West, Sunday September 7 at 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.), which will be presented by Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests (LEAF)."

Saturday, September 13, 2008

TIFF08: My Russian Film List: Smaller, Thinner and Lighter

Toronto International Film Festival 2008: Smaller, Thinner and Lighter, by artjunction.blogspot.comtiff08: smaller, thinner and lighter
2008 @ artjunction.blogspot.com
tiff08: smaller, thinner and lighter

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a cinema fête of filmmakers and moviegoers, motion pictures and stars, cars and bars, cell phones and ipods, etcetera; so it's something for everyone.

I have 8 movies in My Film List (compare with last year):

The Ghost
Domovoy, triller
director: Karen Oganesyan
country: Russia
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


Country Wedding
Sveitabrúðkaup
director: Valdís Óskarsdóttir, directorial debut
country: Iceland
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


White Night Wedding
Brúðguminn, "...updates and modernizes Anton Chekhov's "Ivanov" and transplants it to Flatey, a remote island off Iceland's north shore."
director: Baltasar Kormákur
country: Iceland
year: 2008
tiff's program: Contemporary World Cinema

Tulpan
Dreaming of a nomadic wedding in the Hunger Steppe
director: Sergey Dvortsevoy
country: Germany / Switzerland / Kazakhstan / Russia / Poland
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery


Medicine for Melancholy
"A Medicine for Melancholy was originally a collection of science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury. The colossal differences and quaint similarities between our two tales can be explored..."
- strikeanywherefilms.com
director: Barry Jenkins
country: USA
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery
tiff tags: First Time Feature, Romance, Identity
The screening was preceded by the short:
Jesus and the Giant
director: Akin Omotoso
country: South Africa
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery

New York, I Love You
Brighton Beach, Brodsky, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky are essential parts of this NYC's love stories.
"NEW YORK is a dozen foreign cities, so far as its alien population is concerned. It is already known as one of the largest German, the largest Italian, the largest Russian, cities in the world."
- NYT, June 7, 1908
director: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randy Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Scarlett Johansson, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen, Andrey Zvyagintsev
country: USA
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Special Presentations


The Sky Crawlers
“You can change the side of the road that you walk down every day. Even if the road is the same, you can still see new things. Isn't that enough to live for?”
– Yuichi Kannami in The Sky Crawlers
director: Mamoru Oshii
country: Japan
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Visions
tiff's tags: Animation, Literary Adaptation, Science Fiction

Native Dancer
Baksy
Co-written and produced by the great Russian director Sergei Bodrov.
director: Guka Omarova
country: Kazakhstan/Russia/France/ Germany
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


tiff07 blogs:
Girish Shambu's Blog TIFF 2008 Film-List
MySpace Daniel Clark's Blog: Toronto Film Festival
prospere-magazine.com: Interview with a TIFF Volunteer
artjunction's tiff posts
TIFF07: My Russian Film List
TIFF06: My Russian Film List
TIFF05: From TIFF to MIFF using SWA


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Saturday, September 06, 2008

JAF08 Day 4-5: Junction Arts Festival 2008: Celebration Arts and Centennial of West Toronto

Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008 Website Screenshot by artjunction.blogspot.comScreenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008

Junction art meets street party

On September 6 and 7 over hundreds of events scheduled to the Junction art meets street party which takes place along one kilometre of Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue.

Grab a festival guide, take a camera, wear good walking shoes and please join us!
"As with any birthday milestones, 16, 21, 50 or 75, what many people do is go all out and throw a big party; do something out of the ordinary; invite huge amounts of people; have a feast and mark the occasion with an event that they won't soon forget. Well, that's what we're doing at the Junction Arts Festival for the Junction's 100th birthday. We're putting on a huge art meets street party to celebrate the Junction's proud independent and artistic heritage, and we're inviting everyone to join us; the doors are open and the party goes until they shut us down."
Michael Menegon, Festival Executive Director
For detailed information go to, http://www.junctionartsfest.com

Juried Art Exhibition
7 pm - 9 pm
The Academy of Realist Art
2968 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
academyofrealistart.com

The Urbanscape Gallery
2959 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
urbanscapegallery.com/blog


Junction Galleries & Art Installations
Various Times
Various Locations

Artists: Junction Gallery Venues
Aspinall, Peter: Pandemonium (2862 Dundas St. W.)
Chen, Songhe: Axis Gallery & Grill (3048 Dundas St. W.)
Creative Works Studio: West Toronto Paint (2975 Dundas St. W.)
Farris, Julie Seddon: Delight Chocolate (3040 Dundas St. W.)
Kumuzawa, Shinya: Bending Spoons Gallery at Vesuvio (3010 Dundas St. W.)
Tait, Les: The Relax Shack (3026 Dundas St. W.)
McDonald, James: Toronto Orthopaedic (2916 Dundas St. W.)
Mifsud, Emmanuel: Agora Mediterranean Café (3015 Dundas St. W.)
Sealock, Rick: Smash (2880 Dundas St. W.)
Smith, Roch: Portable Gallery Project - Roaming Locations
TBA: The Beet Organic Cafe & Market (2945 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Latitude 44 Gallery & Framing Decor (2900 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Margret's (2952 Dundas St. W.)


Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008: Site Map, by artjunction.blogspot.com2008 Junction Arts Festival: Site Map
Credit: junctionARTSfest.com/2008/map/

Toronto Festivals and Free Events: 2008 Junction Arts Festival

This year the Junction is celebrating its Centennial anniversary marking its incorporation as West Toronto in 1908.
Celebrations are being planned all year, but none as big as the 16th annual Junction Arts Festival, so the festival theme is 'Historic Mind / Modern Eye'.

Starts: September 3, 2008 12:00 PM
Ends: September 7, 2008 11:00 PM

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival features eight distinct categories, all events are free;
  • the Visual Art Exhibits (starting Wed, Sept. 3),
  • the Movieola Movie Night (Thurs, Sept. 4),
  • the Live Music Stages (on Fri, Sept. 5, Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Dance/Street Performance Artists (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Poetry Peepshow (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the KidZone (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Green Village (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Historic City (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Junction Centennial Homecoming (on Sat, Sept. 6).
eventful: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008
communities.canada.com: The Junction Arts Festival returns
Published Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:11 PM by Joanna Sloane
neighbourknowledge.com: Junction Arts Festival

Friday, September 05, 2008

JAF08 Day 3: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008 Launch Main Stage Live Concerts


Kick Off the Main Stage Concerts Night

Friday, September 5
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Main Stage - Junction City Square
2960 Dundas Street West at Pacific Ave.

FREE
This year's festival features more music than ever before with the addition of a Friday night concert. Located in the Junction City Square, the stage will be fronted by an all-ages viewing and seating area as well as the Mill Street Brewery Beer Garden.

7:00 pm - Julian Fauth
8:15 pm - Samantha Martin and the Haggard
9:30 pm - Justin Rutledge

Julian Fauth Biography
Julian Fauth is one of the most exciting and accomplished musicians on the North American blues scene today. A pianist par excellence, Julian is also a creative guitarist, a strong and soulful vocalist, and a highly original songwriter. He is a full time musician, playing at many music festivals as well as various blues, folk and jazz venues. He has residencies at several clubs in Toronto, his home base.
Julian Fauth was nominated for a 2006 JUNO award for Blues Recording of the Year for his CD Songs of Vice and Sorrow, released on the Electro-Fi Records label. That CD has received rave reviews, lots of radio air time and it has sold well. Julian has just released his second Electro-Fi CD, Ramblin’ Son, and it has received rave reviews, it is selling very well, and is getting wide radio airplay, particularly in the United States. It currently stands at Number 2 on the Bluesville chart on XM Satellite Radio.
julianfauth.com

Samantha Martin and the Haggard Biography
A true "trucker's daughter" and a fellow Junction resident, Samantha Martin is continuously traveling, writing and performing. With early critical acclaim, and the completion of her latest release, Back Home (2008), she is certain to be catapulted in the upper echelon of the roots/country scene in Canada and The U.S.
samanthamartin.ca

Justin Rutledge Biography
Justin Rutledge, who was credited as the “Best Toronto songwriter in 2006” by NOW, returns to the festival this year with his third album, Man Descending (2008); a collection of quieter, darker songs that were inspired by the 1982 book of the same name by Guy Vanderhaeghe. Rutledge’s debut album, No Never Alone (2005), was called “an incredible breakthrough,” by the UK’s NME and his sophomore release, The Devil On A Bench In Stanley Park (2006), earned him a Juno nomination and the Galaxie Rising Star Award at the Edmonton Folk Festival.
justinrutledge.com

For detailed information go to, http://www.junctionartsfest.com/2008/sites/livestages/

Juried Art Exhibition
7 pm - 9 pm
The Academy of Realist Art
2968 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
academyofrealistart.com

The Urbanscape Gallery
2959 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
urbanscapegallery.com/blog


Junction Galleries & Art Installations
Various Times
Various Locations

Artists: Junction Gallery Venues
Aspinall, Peter: Pandemonium (2862 Dundas St. W.)
Chen, Songhe: Axis Gallery & Grill (3048 Dundas St. W.)
Creative Works Studio: West Toronto Paint (2975 Dundas St. W.)
Farris, Julie Seddon: Delight Chocolate (3040 Dundas St. W.)
Kumuzawa, Shinya: Bending Spoons Gallery at Vesuvio (3010 Dundas St. W.)
Tait, Les: The Relax Shack (3026 Dundas St. W.)
McDonald, James: Toronto Orthopaedic (2916 Dundas St. W.)
Mifsud, Emmanuel: Agora Mediterranean Café (3015 Dundas St. W.)
Sealock, Rick: Smash (2880 Dundas St. W.)
Smith, Roch: Portable Gallery Project - Roaming Locations
TBA: The Beet Organic Cafe & Market (2945 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Latitude 44 Gallery & Framing Decor (2900 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Margret's (2952 Dundas St. W.)


Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008: Site Map, by artjunction.blogspot.com2008 Junction Arts Festival: Site Map
Credit: junctionARTSfest.com/2008/map/

Toronto Festivals and Free Events: 2008 Junction Arts Festival

This year the Junction is celebrating its Centennial anniversary marking its incorporation as West Toronto in 1908.
Celebrations are being planned all year, but none as big as the 16th annual Junction Arts Festival, so the festival theme is 'Historic Mind / Modern Eye'.

Starts: September 3, 2008 12:00 PM
Ends: September 7, 2008 11:00 PM

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival features eight distinct categories, all free;
  • the Visual Art Exhibits (starting Wed, Sept. 3),
  • the Movieola Movie Night (Thurs, Sept. 4),
  • the Live Music Stages (on Fri, Sept. 5, Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Dance/Street Performance Artists (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Poetry Peepshow (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the KidZone (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Green Village (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Historic City (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Junction Centennial Homecoming (on Sat, Sept. 6).
eventful: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008

Our digital perk: Junction Bound

2008 © Co-written by Neil Ross and Samantha Martin

Friends, Can you hear that lonesome whistle sound?
It's the trains running through a busy railway town.
I've been through the country chasing dreams down,
But I lost myself before the sun went down.
* *

I've seen everything between Halifax and North Vancouver
But I always loved the Junction and swore to be true to her.
* *

Junction Dream, beyond my caress
Junction Dream, bring me home from the west
There's a railway town I call my own
Blue Lights of the Junction call me home
Blue Lights of the Junction call me home
* *

Friends, if you asked me my creed it comes down to this,
There is misery and greed, but somewhere there is bliss.
I've seen them dance at Keele and Dundas West,
Where the trains all meet and my bones they will rest.
* *

I'm homesick and hurtin' but tonight homeward I'll be
Always loved the Junction and pray she remembers me.
* *
Junction Dream, just beyond my caress
Junction Dream, I'm coming home from the west
There's a railway town I call my own
Blue Lights of the Junction they're calling me home
Blue Lights of the Junction they're calling me home
Blue Lights of the Junction I'm finally home.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

JAF08 Day 2: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008 Movieola "Silver Screen Classics" Cinema Night


Movieola Movie Night
A Classic Evening Under the Stars!

Thursday, September 4
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Junction City Square
2960 Dundas Street West at Pacific Ave.

FREE
Join "Silver Screen Classics" as we invite you and your family to popcorn and a movie. Come see the brightest of Hollywood's stars, the faces you remember, in films you can't forget, all compliments of "Silver Screen Classics". For one night only, come and join us - you're sure to enjoy a taste of great classic films from the golden era of movie making under the stars. Children are welcome to participate in our "Wall of Fame" hand painting event while others can relive their childhood memories with that slapstick comedy of the Three Stooges, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton, Our Gang and last but not certainly not least, the one and only Charlie Chaplin. You may even meet with King Kong and the Marx Brothers! Please join us!
SILVER SCREEN CLASSICS MOVIE LINE-UP (listed in screening order, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
For detailed information go to, www.junctionartsfest.com/2008/sites/movienight/.

Juried Art Exhibition
12 pm - 7 pm
The Academy of Realist Art
2968 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
academyofrealistart.com

The Urbanscape Gallery
2959 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
urbanscapegallery.com/blog


Junction Galleries & Art Installations
Various Times
Various Locations

Artists: Junction Gallery Venues
Aspinall, Peter: Pandemonium (2862 Dundas St. W.)
Chen, Songhe: Axis Gallery & Grill (3048 Dundas St. W.)
Creative Works Studio: West Toronto Paint (2975 Dundas St. W.)
Farris, Julie Seddon: Delight Chocolate (3040 Dundas St. W.)
Kumuzawa, Shinya: Bending Spoons Gallery at Vesuvio (3010 Dundas St. W.)
Tait, Les: The Relax Shack (3026 Dundas St. W.)
McDonald, James: Toronto Orthopaedic (2916 Dundas St. W.)
Mifsud, Emmanuel: Agora Mediterranean Café (3015 Dundas St. W.)
Sealock, Rick: Smash (2880 Dundas St. W.)
Smith, Roch: Portable Gallery Project - Roaming Locations
TBA: The Beet Organic Cafe & Market (2945 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Latitude 44 Gallery & Framing Decor (2900 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Margret's (2952 Dundas St. W.)


Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008: Site Map, by artjunction.blogspot.com2008 Junction Arts Festival: Site Map
Credit: junctionARTSfest.com/2008/map/

Toronto Festivals and Free Events: 2008 Junction Arts Festival

This year the Junction is celebrating its Centennial anniversary marking its incorporation as West Toronto in 1908.
Celebrations are being planned all year, but none as big as the 16th annual Junction Arts Festival, so the festival theme is 'Historic Mind / Modern Eye'.

Starts: September 3, 2008 12:00 PM
Ends: September 7, 2008 11:00 PM

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival features eight distinct categories, all free;
  • the Visual Art Exhibits (starting Wed, Sept. 3),
  • the Movieola Movie Night (Thurs, Sept. 4),
  • the Live Music Stages (on Fri, Sept. 5, Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Dance/Street Performance Artists (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Poetry Peepshow (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the KidZone (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Green Village (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Historic City (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Junction Centennial Homecoming (on Sat, Sept. 6).
eventful: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008

Our digital perk: Boom Times video, "Last Call (Before the Junction Goes Dry)" by Muddy York Films, celebrating the Centennial of "Junction City" 1908-2008:
Screenshot: "Last Call (Before the Junction Goes Dry)" by Muddy York Films
Credit: Muddy York Films
Boom Times video, "Last Call (Before the Junction Goes Dry)" by Muddy York Films
Poetry by Neil Ross
Starring Neil Ross as A.B. Rice
Producer Adam Angeloni
Director/DOP Alan Sukonnik
Production by Muddy York Films

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

JAF08 Day 1: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008 Launch Party

Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008: Opening Night, September 3, by artjunction.blogspot.comScreenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008 Opening Night Festivities

Kick off the opening
of the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
with an Outdoor Opening Night Party.


Opening Night Festivities

Wednesday, September 3
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Junction City Square
2960 Dundas Street West at Pacific Ave.

FREE

Come party with us at the Junction Arts Festival and launch the centrepiece of the 2008 Junction Centennial Celebrations. The Juried Art Exhibit, indoor installations and all our galleries will be opening that night as well. Visit the galleries, then drop by the Junction City Square for the announcement of the Juried Art Exhibit winners, special guest speakers and the official [murmur] project unveiling at 9pm.

Mix and mingle, listen to the great music of Gypsophilia from Halifax, and enjoy our cash bar and snacks.

Details:

Juried Art Exhibition - Gallery Openings
7 pm - 9 pm
The Academy of Realist Art
2968 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
academyofrealistart.com

The Urbanscape Gallery
2959 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON
urbanscapegallery.com/blog


Festival Opening Party
featuring Gypsophilia
7 pm - 11 pm
Junction City Square
2960 Dundas Street West at Pacific Ave.


Juried Art Announcements, [murmur] Unveiling
9 pm

Junction Galleries & Art Installations
7 pm - 9 pm
Various Locations

Artists: Junction Gallery Venues
Aspinall, Peter: Pandemonium (2862 Dundas St. W.)
Chen, Songhe: Axis Gallery & Grill (3048 Dundas St. W.)
Creative Works Studio: West Toronto Paint (2975 Dundas St. W.)
Farris, Julie Seddon: Delight Chocolate (3040 Dundas St. W.)
Kumuzawa, Shinya: Bending Spoons Gallery at Vesuvio (3010 Dundas St. W.)
Tait, Les: The Relax Shack (3026 Dundas St. W.)
McDonald, James: Toronto Orthopaedic (2916 Dundas St. W.)
Mifsud, Emmanuel: Agora Mediterranean Café (3015 Dundas St. W.)
Sealock, Rick: Smash (2880 Dundas St. W.)
Smith, Roch: Portable Gallery Project - Roaming Locations
TBA: The Beet Organic Cafe & Market (2945 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Latitude 44 Gallery & Framing Decor (2900 Dundas St. W.)
Various Artists: Margret's (2952 Dundas St. W.)


Toronto Festivals and Free Events: 2008 Junction Arts Festival

This year the Junction is celebrating its Centennial anniversary marking its incorporation as West Toronto in 1908.
Celebrations are being planned all year, but none as big as the 16th annual Junction Arts Festival, so the festival theme is 'Historic Mind / Modern Eye'.

Starts: September 3, 2008 12:00 PM
Ends: September 7, 2008 11:00 PM

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival features eight distinct categories, all free;
  • the Visual Art Exhibits (starting Wed, Sept. 3),
  • the Movieola Movie Night (Thurs, Sept. 4),
  • the Live Music Stages (on Fri, Sept. 5, Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Dance/Street Performance Artists (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Poetry Peepshow (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the KidZone (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Green Village (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Historic City (on Sat, Sept. 6 and Sun, Sept. 7),
  • the Junction Centennial Homecoming (on Sat, Sept. 6).
eventful: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008

See you there,
~olga

Monday, September 01, 2008

Press-Release: The Poetry Peepshow is a First at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival

Credit: junctionartsfest.com
9 writers and poets
1 at a time
2 minutes is all you get and maybe a rhyme
25 cents lets you peep as they create
2 hours at a time in a 10 by 10 crate
7 city blocks somewhere this room you must find
4 voyeurs at once get to peep into the mind
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The Poetry Peepshow is a First
at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival


Toronto, ON, August 21, 2008 – The Junction Arts Festival (September 3 to 7, 2008 in Toronto), produced by the Junction Forum for Art & Culture, presents a cultural extravaganza like no other and the Poetry Peepshow, taking place during the weekend Dundas Street West street closure on Saturday, September 6 and Sunday, September 7, is a brand new feature of the 16th annual celebration.

Now attracting 150,000 visitors annually, the 2008 Junction Arts Festival, which practices and encourages reducing, reusing and recycling throughout the entire festival location, is set to throw the party of the year as the Junction celebrates its centennial of becoming the City of West Toronto in 1908.

For the first time, the Junction Arts Festival proudly presents Poetry Peepshow during the weekend festivities (located within the festival boundary on Dundas Street West, exact location to be determined).

In true voyeuristic style and for a quarter (25 cents), the viewer will be offered an intimate "fly on the wall" experience with one poet, who will be sitting in a specially built 10-foot x 10-foot wooden room, for a two-minute session to perhaps gain some literary knowledge or peer into an open window of a poet’s soul and see the secret world of the individual writer.

States Junction Arts Festival Executive Director Michael Menegon, "We‘re excited to be presenting the Poetry Peepshow this year and hope it returns as an annual component. It’s new and different, and it adds an important element to the overall creative energy!"

Poetry Peepshow will showcase a roster of nine Toronto based writers, each for two hours at-a-time, as they are in the midst of their creative, and usually private, process.

POET LINE-UP (listed in alphabetical order, schedule times to be determined)
Aisha Sasha John is a writer and dancer living in Toronto. Her work has appeared in such places as Exile Quarterly, Contemporary Verse 2, Carousel and TOK 3: Writing the New Toronto.

Anne-Marie Woods, aka Amani, is a spoken word artist, producer, educator and creative consultant. Known as the "Contemporary Blues Poet", she has been performing spoken word since 1996 and has had the honour of being the headline international poet in Trinidad at the 19th annual Rapso Festival (2008).

Gili Haimovich is an internationally published poet. Her chapbook 'Living on a Blank Page' was released in 2007 (Ice Flow Press). She has also published three volumes of Hebrew poetry. Her work is featured in The Literary Review of Canada (LRC), Tok 1 - Writing the New Toronto, ARC - American - Israeli literary journal and In My Bed Magazine.

Kimberley Orton is a playwright, screenwriter, poet and, most recently, Birth Doula and Reiki Practitioner. Kimberley keeps her word collection in a medium sized old house in an odd corner of the Junction.

Lo Bil, a performance artist, playwright and poet, received an Ontario Arts Council Spoken Word grant tour "A Professional Occupation" – where she sits in public writing poetry and creates performances that relate to the community where the poems were written.

Patricia Archer is a storyteller, poet, performer, editor and publisher. Her most recent project has been to transform her poetry book, ‘The Whiskey-Haired Man’, into a one-woman play. She was co-editor for Descant Magazine and is a former Literary Coordinator for the Junction Arts Festival.

Simla Civelek is an Istanbul-born performer, actor, poet, and dancer. In August 2007, she contributed her installation/performer piece "Poetry Caravanserai" in AleeyJaunt and won the Best Overall Children's Choice Award presented by Darren O'Donnell's Theatre Company, Mammalian Diving Reflex.

Simon Leigh is from Australia and is now retired from teaching English at Seneca College. Short Strokes is his third poetry book. His poems have appeared in the Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Parchment, The Review of Contemporary Poetry, Rhyme and Reason: Modern Formal Poetry and Descant.

For detailed writer biographies go to www.junctionartsfest.com/2008/sites/poetrypeepshow/. Schedule times to be determined closer to the festival date.

PLEASE NOTE: For more details and updated schedules of all events please visit regularly at
www.junctionartsfest.com.

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival will take place along Dundas St. West between Keele St. and Quebec Ave., and will feature free fun and creativity in eight distinct categories; the Visual Art Exhibitions (starting Wednesday, Sept. 3), the Movieola Movie Night (Thursday, Sept. 4), the outdoor Live Music Stages (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) and the Dance/Street Performance Artists, the Poetry Peepshow, the KidZone, the Green Village, and the Historic City (during the weekend on Saturday, Sept. 6 and Sunday, Sept. 7).

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival will be supported by title sponsor the Junction Business Improvement Area, and Department of Canadian Heritage Anniversary program, Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, Toronto Arts Council, NOW Magazine and The Villager.

The Junction Forum for Art and Culture (JFAC) is an arts presenting organization whose main project is the annual Junction Arts Festival. JFAC was incorporated as a non-profit group in February 2004. The people who make up the Board of Directors of the Junction Forum for Art and Culture are dedicated cultural producers, artists, residents, business owners and politicians all of whom are connected in some way to the Junction.

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For media information, artist biographies and photos and interviews please contact:
Laurie Lockhart,
Publicist
2008 Junction Arts Festival
Tel: 416-988-2530
Email: gtmessage@sympatico.ca
Web: www.junctionartsfest.com

For general information please contact:
Junction Forum for Art & Culture,
2008 Junction Arts Festival
Tel: 416-767-5036
Email: junctionartsfest@bellnet.ca
Web: www.junctionartsfest.com
Councillor Bill Saundercook (Ward 13, City of Toronto), JFAC Chair


links:
Press Release: David Usher Headlines the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: Visual Art Ignites the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: Live Stages Rock for Three Days at 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press Release: Dance and Street Performers Come Alive at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: Movieola Movie Night is New at the 16th Annual Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: The Poetry Peepshow is a First at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: The Kidzone is Hands-on at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: The 2008 Green Village is Home Green Home at Junction Arts Festival

Press Release: The Historic City: A New Zone Celebrating the Junction's Centennial at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
canadianpress.google.com: Poetry peepshow staged for literary voyeurs at Toronto arts festival

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Press-Release: Movieola Movie Night is New at the 16th Annual Junction Arts Festival

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Movieola Movie Night is New
at the 16th Annual Junction Arts Festival

"A Classic Evening under the Stars" with "Silver Screen Classics"
Thursday, September 4, 2008

Toronto, ON, August 25, 2008 – The Junction Arts Festival (September 3 to 7, 2008 in Toronto), produced by the Junction Forum for Art & Culture, presents a cultural multi-arts extravaganza like no other and the free outdoor Movieola Movie Night, taking place on Thursday, September 4 (7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.), is an all new feature of the 2008 celebration.

Now attracting 150,000 visitors annually, the Junction Arts Festival, which practices and encourages reducing, reusing and recycling throughout the entire festival location, is set to throw the party of the year as the Junction celebrates its centennial of becoming the City of West Toronto in 1908.

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival proudly showcases Movieola Movie Night, sponsored by Channel Zero Inc. (broadcaster for Movieola – The Short Film Channel and Silver Screen Classics), in the Junction City Square (2960 Dundas Street West and Pacific Avenue), where movie goers can sit under the stars and watch three hours of the brightest of Hollywood's actors in classic black and white short films from the golden era of movie making.

States Junction Arts Festival Executive Director Michael Menegon, "We're excited to welcome Channel Zero Inc.'s Silver Screen Classics to their new home office in the Junction (on Dundas Street West) and to the celebration this year. Even though film has always been a part of the festival, we hope that this is the beginning of a new tradition together."

For one night only, viewers will see shorts featuring slapstick comedy greats including The Three Stooges, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton, Our Gang, Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin, and children can participate in hand-painting on the "Silver Screen Classics Wall of Fame" as well as meet up with King Kong and the Marx Brothers characters.

SILVER SCREEN CLASSICS MOVIE LINE-UP (listed in screening order, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
For detailed information go to, www.junctionartsfest.com/2008/sites/movienight/.

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival will take place along Dundas St. West between Keele St. and Quebec Ave., and will feature free fun and creativity in eight distinct categories; the Visual Art Exhibitions (starting Wednesday, Sept. 3), the Movieola Movie Night (Thursday, Sept. 4), the outdoor Live Music Stages (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) and the Dance/Street Performance Artists, the Poetry Peepshow, the KidZone, the Green Village, and the Historic City (during the weekend on Saturday, Sept. 6 and Sunday, Sept. 7).

PLEASE NOTE: For more details and updated schedules of all events please visit regularly at
www.junctionartsfest.com.

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival will be supported by title sponsor the Junction Business Improvement Area, and Department of Canadian Heritage Anniversary program, Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, Toronto Arts Council, NOW Magazine and The Villager.

The Junction Forum for Art and Culture (JFAC) is an arts presenting organization whose main project is the annual Junction Arts Festival. JFAC was incorporated as a non-profit group in February 2004. The people who make up the Board of Directors of the Junction Forum for Art and Culture are dedicated cultural producers, artists, residents, business owners and politicians all of whom are connected in some way to the Junction.

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For media information, artist biographies and interviews please contact:
Laurie Lockhart,
Publicist
2008 Junction Arts Festival
Tel: 416-988-2530
Email: gtmessage@sympatico.ca
Web: www.junctionartsfest.com

For general information, please contact:
Junction Forum for Art & Culture,
2008 Junction Arts Festival
Tel: 416-767-5036
Email: junctionartsfest@bellnet.ca
Web: www.junctionartsfest.com
Councillor Bill Saundercook (Ward 13, City of Toronto), JFAC Chair

links:
Press Release: David Usher Headlines the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: Visual Art Ignites the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: Live Stages Rock for Three Days at 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press Release: Dance and Street Performers Come Alive at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: Movieola Movie Night is New at the 16th Annual Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: The Kidzone is Hands-on at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Press-Release: The 2008 Green Village is Home Green Home at Junction Arts Festival
Press Release: The Historic City: A New Zone Celebrating the Junction's Centennial at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival
Movieola: The Short Film Channel in Canada
Silver Screen Classics: the only Canadian TV channel specializing in classic movies from the 1930s to the 1960s


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