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26th Annual Vegetarian Food Fair
:: The Vegetarian Food Fair offers a wide range of free
programming to visitors, including cooking demonstrations, guest speakers, workshops, book signing sessions, film screenings, and children's activities.
Visitors to Toronto's annual Vegetarian Food Fair
have the unique opportunity to sample new vegetarian products hitting grocery store shelves in the fall.
Vegetarian-supportive organizations provide information to the public about issues such as health,
environment, animal welfare, and food security at the Fair.
Sept. 10 - Sept. 12 York Quay Centre, Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. | Free Admission
Fall National Bridal Show
:: Find flowers, cakes, limousines, music, food, unique reception halls, invitations, jewellery, bridal registries, tuxedos,
and magnificent honeymoon destinations and more, all in one location.
Daily fashion shows where you will experience all the latest designs for the coming wedding seasons.
For further details,
please click here
Sept. 10 - Sept. 12 International Centre, Hall 5, 6900 Airport Rd. | Admission: $15
Annual Beaches Celtic Festival
:: The Beach Celtic Festival was created in 2004 to pay homage to Celtic culture, with music, vendors and food from
Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and it's the only outdoor Ceilidh in Toronto. The success of the previous years has given this all things Celtic event a solid following.
The "gathering of the Celtic Clans" is
held Kew Gardens in the Beach area of east end Toronto. The site is best known as the home of the Beaches Jazz Festival.
The event this year features singer/songwriter Don Graham, the Wallace-Symington
Highland Dancers, the Pipes & Drums of 25 (Toronto) Service Battalion, and roaring Celtic band Wheelhouse. There's also entertainment for kids (Milk Toast Jam), and local Celtic radio personality Hugo Straney will
be an on-stage host.
For more details, please click here
Sat. Sept. 11 & Sun. Sept. 12
10 AM - 6 PM Kew Gardens (Queen St. East & Lee Avenue) | Admission: FREE
Toronto In-Water Boat Show
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Features over 200 power and sailboats ranging in size from 10 to 57 feet. Get a first glance at new boat models for 2006, purchase current models at reduced prices, check out marine accessories, gifts, nautical clothing & footwear or write the Pleasure Craft Operator Card Test
Sept. 16 - Sept. 19 Ontario Place Marina, Admission $5 - $20 (family of 4 pass $55)
Queen St. West Arts Crawl
:: For three exciting days the artists, arts
organizations and businesses of Queen Street West throw open their doors to the city of Toronto and present the 3rd annual Queen West Art Crawl.
Explore this dynamic, diverse and magnetic stretch of the
Toronto landscape. Over five hundred artists working in every discipline imaginable come together and transform the neighbourhoods of Queen Street West into one of the largest indoor/outdoor cultural events in the city.
Most events are free and include; street theatre, artist open studio tours, music, performance art, outodoor art show and sale, and much more.
Sept. 17 - Sept. 19
Queen St. W. | For Further Information,
please click here
The Niagara Wine Festival
:: Celebrating Canada's internationally acclaimed grape and wine industry in the heart of beautiful Niagara each September,
the festival includes tours and tastings, concerts, Niagara cuisine, artisan shows, wine seminars, family entertainment and one of Canada's largest street parades, the Niagara Wine Festival offers something for every
taste.
For further festival information, please click here
Sept. 18 - Sept. 27 St. Catharines and various locations around the Niagara region
Small World Music Festival
:: Small World is a celebration of cultural
diversity expressed by one of the most potent tools available - music. It is based on a vision of sharing cultural experience and ultimately, building bridges between cultures. It is about discovery and 'opening ears'.
In this role, the company has presented many Canadian and Toronto debuts by international performers; has given a platform to dozens of developing Canadian artists of various backgrounds; and has presented innovative,
risk-taking programming that uniquely represents Canada and Toronto.
The Small World concert experience can range from international giants of traditional and contemporary world music in the city's grandest
performance spaces, to emerging local artists in intimate club settings, from classical music rooted in centuries of tradition to cutting edge fusions where technology and history combine for the newest sounds.
Festival at a Glance
Sept. 23 – Funkabelly feat. Nomadica and DJ medicineman @ Lula Lounge (Gypsy Funk + Belly Dancing) $15/$20
Sept. 24 – Darbazi feat Kakheti (dance troupe)@ Mazzoleni Auditorium, RCM (Georgian Choral Ensemble) $25/$30
Sept. 25 – Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Pooran Maharaj @ Betty Oliphant Theatre(Indian Slide Guitar)
Sept. 26 – Small World on the Street as part of the Word on the Street Festival - 6 Toronto global music acts- FREE!
Sept. 28 – Mahala Rai Banda w/ Wild East DJs @ Opera House (Romanian Gypsy Brass) $25/$30
Sept. 29 – Kinobe @ Lula Lounge (Ugandan Vanguard) $15/$20
Sept. 30 – Talvin Singh @ The Great Hall, $20/$25
Oct. 1 – K'naan @ Kool Haus (Somalian Hip Hop) $34.50 + service fee
Oct. 1 - Elito Reve y su Charangon @ The Courthouse (Cuban Salsa), $30/$35
Oct. 2- Sashar Zarif @ Studio Theatre, Great Hall (Persian dance & performance)- FREE
Oct. 3 - Global Soul @ Isabel Bader Theatre - (Cross-cultural, multi-faith, musical gathering), $20/$30
Full admission to the festival, valued at over $200, is available for only $50.00
(Does not include Oct 1 K'naan show) For more information and to order tickets, please click here
Sept. 23 - Oct. 3 Lula Lounge, Isabel Bader Theatre, Kool Haus, Opera
House, Royal conservatory of Music, Betty Oliphant Theatre | Tickets: $15 - $35
ScotiaBank Toronto Waterfront Marathon
:: Awarded a prestigious IAAF Silver label for both 2009 and 2008, as one of the 50 best road races in the world, the 42 km
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon returns with a revised course that eliminates the Leslie St. Spit and reroutes the race down Queen St. right through the Beaches neighbourhood.
Toronto Waterfront,
however, is much more than just the run... it's a festive, full weekend that starts with gurus John Stanton and Coach Jenny Hadfield at the free 2-day Expo, Friday and Saturday.
There's a Saturday morning
(free) short International Friendship Run, hosted by the Running Room, a fun carbo load pasta dinner on Saturday night featuring guest speaker Joan Benoit Samuelson, and a post-race Victory party in Nathan Phillips
Square from 9am to 3pm on Sunday.
For complete details, please click here
Sept. 26 Marathon, Half Marathon and 5km runs spanning the Toronto waterfront from Etibicoke to The Beaches,
ending at City Hall | To register, and for further information
click here
Annual The Word On The Street Toronto
:: Every year on the last Sunday of September, in Vancouver, Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax, The Word On The Street
unites the country in a national celebration of literacy and the written word. Annually attracting more than 200,000 visitors to its Queen's Park location, The Word On The Street in Toronto is the largest book and
magazine festival in Canada.
The Word On The Street is proud to partner with the Toronto Comics Arts Festival for the third consecutive year to present some of our country's top creators at the Comics and
Graphic Novels Tent.
Sept. 26 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Queens Park | Admission: FREE For further information, please click here
Toronto Fall Home Show
:: At the Toronto Fall Home Show you'll get advice
from celebrities and experts, great deals on hundreds of products and services, and information to do-it yourself or help finding someone to do it for you.
Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, contributors to the
Toronto Star and hosts of HGTV's Home Heist are making their triumphant return to the Fall Home Show presented by The Toronto Star. Catch them in all their kilted glory as they present in the Style Lab presented by HGTV
on Friday October 1 and Saturday October 2.
From home decor to renovation, local experts and HGTV celebrities will offer insight, inspiration and advice on all your home improvement needs.
Find ideas, inspiration and home solutions all in one place.
For more show information,
please click here
Sept. 30 - Oct. 3
Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place | Tickets: Adult $11 / Seniors and Students $7 For Further Information, please click here
ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche
:: For one sleepless night, hundreds of museums, galleries and institutions across Toronto will open their doors to present
free art programs. Residents and tourists will also be invited to explore unusual spaces not normally open after dark and not normally tied to an art event.
Under the direction of 4 curators, 40 temporary
public art projects by local, national and international artists have been commissioned within 4 outdoor exhibitions. To encourage involvement by a wide range of Toronto artists - established and emerging - each
exhibition includes projects selected by the curators through an Open Call process.
Some works encourage an intimate, evocative encounter with the art, while others will wow you with large-scale interactive spectacle.
The literal translation of Nuit Blanche is "white night" a term used
to describe a natural phenomenon that occurs at high latitudes where the dusk meets the dawn for a night without darkness. Colloquially, Nuit Blanche refers to a "sleepless night." While Toronto embraces this
celebration of art planned to run from sunset to sunrise, a sleepless night is exactly what we have to look forward to this fall.
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will be a uniquely Toronto adaptation of the highly
successful Paris event created by the City of Paris in 2002. This annual event is at once a "high" art event (past commissions in Paris included works by Bill Viola, Sophie Calle, and James Turell) and a free populous
event accessible to everyone. Nuit Blanche is such an enormous success in Paris, that similar celebrations are now held in Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Montreal and Riga, among others. Toronto is the newest addition to
this international list.
For an alphabetical list of the Independent Projects and project descriptions, please click here
The evening of Oct. 2
6:57 PM to sunrise, Various downtown locations. ________________________________ |
