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

Screenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008: Movieola Classics Movie Night,

Thursday, September 4 at the Junction City Square

Credit: junctionartsfest.com

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.)

• Charlie Chaplin: The Masquerader
• Our Gang: Bear Shooters
• The Three Stooges (SS): Malice in the Palace
• Stan Laurel: Just Rambling Along
• Buster Keaton: Daydreams
• Charlie Chaplin: Pay Day
• Mack Sennett: Settled at the Seashore
• The Three Stooges (SS): Disorder in the Court
• Fatty: The Speed Kings
• Our Gang: Our Gang Follies of '38
• Mack Sennett: One Night Stand
• Buster Keaton: My Wife's Relation
• Keystone Cops: Silent Short

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.)

2008 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

JAF08 Day 1: Toronto Junction Arts Festival 2008 Launch Party

Screenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008 Opening Night Festivities

Credit: junctionARTSfest.com

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

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

Screenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008: The Poetry Peepshow

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 John
• Anne-Marie Woods, a.k.a. Amani
• Gili Haimovich
• Kimberley Orton
• Lo Bil
• Patricia Archer
• Simla Civelek
• Simon Leigh
• Sister Lois Jacob

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

Screenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008: Movieola Classics Movie Night,

Thursday, September 4 at the Junction City Square

Credit: junctionartsfest.com

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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.)

• Charlie Chaplin: The Masquerader
• Our Gang: Bear Shooters
• The Three Stooges (SS): Malice in the Palace
• Stan Laurel: Just Rambling Along
• Buster Keaton: Daydreams
• Charlie Chaplin: Pay Day
• Mack Sennett: Settled at the Seashore
• The Three Stooges (SS): Disorder in the Court
• Fatty: The Speed Kings
• Our Gang: Our Gang Follies of '38
• Mack Sennett: One Night Stand
• Buster Keaton: My Wife's Relation
• Keystone Cops: Silent Short

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
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Toronto Festivals and Free Events: 2008 Junction Arts Festival

Poster: Junction Arts Festival 2008
Credit: junctionARTSfest.com

Toronto festivals and events calendar: Central West:
Junction Arts Festival 2008

presented by:
Junction Forum for Art & Culture

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

Cost: Free

The 2008 Junction Arts Festival, announces David Usher as the headlining act (Main Stage, Dundas St. W. at Pacific Ave., Sat, Sept. 6 at 10:00 p.m.)

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).

Sept. 3, 4, 5 - hours, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
Sept. 6 - hours, 12:00 PM to 12:00 AM (midnight).
Sept. 7 - hours, 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

For more information contact:
Phone: 416-767-5036

Address:
Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue.
Dundas St. West at Pacific Avenue
Map to this event

TTC: Keele Subway Station.

Junction #40 bus from Dundas West station.

Contact Info
Email: junctionartsfest@bellnet.ca
Website: http://www.junctionartsfest.com
Location: 3047 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON

2008 Junction Arts Festival: Schedule of Events
Credit: junctionARTSfest.com/2008/schedule/

Common In-City Directions
On TTC:
From High Park station take the 30 Lambton bus; from Dundas West station take the 40 Junction bus; or from Keele station take either the 41 Keele or 89 Weston bus.

Driving from City-South:
From Lakeshore Blvd take Parkside Drive North to Dundas Street West (Parkside becomes Keele at Bloor)

Driving from the 401:
Take Blackcreek Drive to Weston Road, turn left and go south to Dundas Street West. (Weston becomes Keele at St.Clair)

From East or West:
The Junction is north of Bloor between Keele and Runnymede

2008 Junction Arts Festival: Site Map
Credit: junctionARTSfest.com/2008/map/

Press-Release: The Kidzone is Hands-on at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival

Screenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008: KidZone

Credit: junctionartsfest.com

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THE KIDZONE is HANDS-ON
at the 2008 JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL

Welcome the Art Gallery of Ontario

Toronto, ON, August 20, 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 KIDZONE, taking place during the weekend Dundas Street West street closure on Saturday, September 6 (12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.) and Sunday, September 7 (11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.), encourages participation and creation and is interactive, entertaining and engaging for the entire family.

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.

The KIDZONE (supported by Scotia Bank of Canada), located at the west end of the Dundas West festival footprint (Quebec Avenue entrance), will present free daily workshops, demonstrations and performances featuring activities in the visual arts, movement, music, film, martial arts and more including the Art Gallery of Ontario (brand new to the festival this year), the National Film Board of Canada Mediatheque, the Academy of Realist Art and the Junction community stage.
There is no registration required for all workshops.

States Junction Arts Festival Executive Director Michael Menegon, "We’re parents ourselves, so we created a KIDZONE that we think parents want to bring their children to; a place where kids can use their imaginations, get physical and learn about their community. And it’s free!"

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will present their Community Home Mural program and Home Button Project in the AGO tent (Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.).
Join the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Gallery School in creating a mural celebrating home and inspired by the Junction Arts Festival, and draw or write what home means to you and then make it into a button! Learn about the new AGO, win tickets to visit and talk to our 'AGO is A GO' community ambassadors.

The National Film Board of Canada Mediatheque (NFB) will present their Get Animated workshop at the NFB Family Animation Station (Saturday and Sunday, 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.).

Participants will bring their ideas to life using simple animation tools and techniques and learn about the world of animation filmmaking, exciting animation films and activities. Use your hands and try out fun animation tricks, games and more with your family and the NFB animation workshop team.

The Academy of Realist Art (ARA) will present Kids Art Lessons at the Academy of Realist Art tent (Saturday, 12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.).

ARA Instructor Diliana Popova will teach the children and teens who would like to begin developing their artistic skills. Participants are introduced to a variety of mediums and techniques through educational and fun projects including portrait drawing, painting with pastels and watercolours.

JUNCTION COMMUNITY STAGE LINE-UP (Dundas St. West and Quebec Ave.).
Saturday, September 6 and Sunday, September 7 (various times, check updated schedule):

• Aathi Muni Agasthiya Silambakkoyil Martial Arts
• Creative Children Dance Studio
• High Park Martial Arts
• Hip Kik Belly Dance
• Rhythm and Motion
• Vivacci Dance Studio

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 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: 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
toronto4kids.com: THE KIDZONE is HANDS-ON at the 2008 JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL

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Press Release: Dance and Street Performers Come Alive at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival

Screenshot: Junction Arts Festival 2008: Street Performances

Credit: junctionARTSfest.com

Photo: Larchaud Dance Project

Media Information – For Immediate Release
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Dance and Street Performers Come Alive
at the 2008 Junction Arts Festival

Toronto, ON, August 18, 2008 – The Junction Arts Festival (September 3 to 7, 2008 in Toronto), produced by the Junction Forum for Art & Culture, presents a cultural explosion second to none and the outdoor dance and street performances will burst to life during the weekend street closure on Saturday, September 6 (12:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.) and Sunday, September 7 (11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.).

Now attracting 150,000 visitors annually, the 2008 Junction Arts Festival is set to throw the party of the year as the Junction celebrates its centennial of becoming the City of West Toronto in 1908.

Throughout the one kilometre festival footprint on Dundas Street West (between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue), local and national dance groups, specializing in street performance, will present site-specific, random and roaming flash performances, contemporary interpretive pieces, street theatre pieces, performance art pieces and improvisational ensemble pieces spontaneously animating the Junction Arts Festival streetscape.

Former artistic director of fFIDA International Dance Festival (16 years) and Junction Arts Festival executive producer Michael Menegon states, "The one thing that people have repeatedly talked about and was hugely popular from last year's festival were the dance street performances. So, for 2008 we're bringing back some of last year's groups and adding some new ones; all specializing in street performing. They will transform the street into a carnival of surprises and everyone loves a surprise!"

WEEKEND DANCE/STREET PERFORMER LINE-UP (listed in alphabetical order)
Saturday, September 6 (12:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.) and
Sunday, September 7 (11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.):

• ASM Dance (featuring Jasmyn Fyffe, Adene Blackwood, Andrew Blackwood, Ashlee Deweerd, Solange Fermin, Kathy Lewis, Amanda Nicole).
• BAIN & BERNARD COMEDY (featuring Warren Bain, Matthew Bernard).
• JAY9 DANCE PROJECTS (featuring Jannine Saarinen, Anton Pasquarella, Tara Roberts, Jeff Stevenson).
• LARCHAUD DANCE PROJECT (featuring Robyn Alfonso, Jase Cozmic, Markus Laczk, Mayumi Lashbrook, Jennifer Robichaud, and youth performers Dylan Harding, Kacy Temple, Sidney Temple).
• NAGBOT – New Age Ghetto Ballet of Toronto (featuring Eroca Nichols, Kristina Udegbunam).
• OCTAMEROUS (featuring Brodie Stevenson, Amanda Acorn, Emily Law, Jennifer Lécuyer, with original music composed by Christopher Willes).
• PRAIRIE SKY PRODUCTIONS (featuring Catherine George McLaughlin, Kate Stashko).
• r.a.d. (featuring Laura Bolender, Julie Grant, Ivana Matovina, Liisa Murray, Zita Nyarady).
• TORONTO AERIAL DANCE.
• VERONIQUE MACKENZIE’S CITIZENS (featuring Veronique Mackenzie, Lisa Phinney, Susan Cook, Melissa Lively, Jacinte Armstrong, Kim Kraushar).

Ten ensemble companies from Toronto and provinces including Alberta and Nova Scotia will showcase unique performances.

ASM Dance founded by Jasmyn Fyffe presents a piece which explores the meaning and idea of materialism and addresses the societal norms and behaviours associated with the obsession of material things. Using contemporary movement, text/poetry and songs the idea of obsession and possession over material goods is displayed.

Bain & Bernard; a high-energy vaudevillian duo perform a comedy sketch. Drop by their wooden wonder cart and sample their “This Thing, That Thing, Everything Anything Elixir”.

Jay9 Dance Projects present the amazing automatons in “Wound About”, where life-sized wind-up toys come to life and dance around when audience members are invited to wind them up.

The Larchaud Dance Project will succeed once again in astounding all with their extreme physicality and unstoppable presence imagining what would happen if individuals of the punk movement were to travel back in time to influence the future and formation of society.

"NAGBOT", described as beat impromptu and superheroes of rhythm, have united into one tribe and will make their way as nomads across the universe taking over one street corner at a time.

Octamerous uses a group choreographic process and presents a site-specific installment entitled "Everything Ordinary", in which a group of strangers arrive in an alien culture and must learn how to make their way in this new environment.

Prairie Sky presents "Lucy’s Living Room", which is structured improvisation and a choreographer’s play with words, based around the central idea of urban green space and inspired by a game of Boggle.

r.a.d continue to create relationships with those who are not usually exposed to dance and will perform "Any Woman, Any Time" (four different comical vignettes), which will serve a taste of female etiquette and its evolution over the past century.

The Toronto Aerial Dance will present "Century"; a performance art piece retelling the story of the Junction Triangle in Toronto. Inspiring aerial choreography is woven with innovative modern dance to a back drop of projected images and original visual arts depicting the region.

Veronique Mackenzie’s "Citizens", inspired by the flash mobbing phenomena, will gather in an undetermined location perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse. As quickly as people realize there is something going on, the performance will have scattered only to reappear somewhere else.

PLEASE NOTE: For more details, artist biographies and updated schedules of all dance/street performance artists and all events please visit 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), and the outdoor Live Music Stages, 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 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: 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
Dance Ontario: Bringing Dance Information & News to Ontario
torontolife.com: Arts & Entertainment Guide: Junction Arts Festival
"To help cele­brate the Junction’s 100th anniversary, organizers have invited 10 groups from across Canada and the United States to form the dance component of this annual performance and visual arts festival. With last year’s demise of the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, the Junction’s party is now the only wildly diverse showcase for dance in Toronto."—Paula Citron
When: Sep. 3/08 - Sep. 7/08
Free Event
Location: The Junction: from Keele St. to Quebec Ave

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