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    GECO Meeting – Nov 14, 7pm

    November 9, 2012 By

    Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 7 pm
    Lazy Daisy Café
    1515 Gerrard Street East

    Time to get back on track, share info, insights & ideas with each other. The agenda will be pretty packed but don’t let that stop you from suggesting things you think are relevant to improving and revitalizing our neighbourhood. We’ll post a draft agenda prior to the meeting. Everyone is welcome.

    We have lots to discuss and agenda items will be available prior to the meeting. If anyone has items they’d like to be considered, please feel free to contact myself or the GECO chair, Belynda Blyth and we’ll do our best to accommodate them.

    Looking forward to seeing everyone!

    Filed Under: Events

    Diwali Mela – Nov 10 & 11

    November 9, 2012 By

    On November 10 & 11, 2012, the Gerrard India Bazaar will celebrate the most important festival holiday of the year “Diwali”. Diwali, often referred to as the Festival of Lights, is the most glamorous and the most important occasion in India. People of many faiths and religions enthusiastically embrace it.

    Gerrard India Bazaar is the largest South Asian business community in Toronto. It is home to Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Afghani and Sri Lankan businesses. A wide range of grocery, fabric, jewellery stores, restaurants, art galleries, crafts stores are operating in this market place. In the Greater Toronto Area, the South Asian community ranks first among visible minorities with a population of over 684,000. To celebrate the festival, the Gerrard India Bazaar will have cultural, dance and music programs on the North side of Ashdale Avenue, just off Gerrard St E (between Coxwell and Greenwood).

    The timings are from 12Noon-10pm on both days.

    Everyone in Toronto is invited to join in the festivities as the Indian community welcome the New Year!

    Diwali celebrations are sponsored by BELL. Omni Television is the media sponsor for this festival.

    All Torontonians are invited to take advantage of this discount side walk sales offered by the member merchants of the Bazaar.

     

    Diwali Program schedule

    Filed Under: Art/Culture, Children, Events, Library, Uncategorized

    South Asian Fest – July 7/8

    July 7, 2012 By

    During this weekend’s TD Festival of South Asia on Gerrard St. East, GECO will have a photo/info display inside the back room of GAS. The exhibit will feature photos from various community events including Earth Day, Rally in the Alley, The Rail Garden’s many get-togethers and garden progress, Social Fabric quilt project and The Great End-Of-School Bike Parade. The installation will also include informative displays of current GECO initiatives.

    Please drop by, say hello and scan the pics – you’re sure to find a familiar face (or two).

    Gerrard Art Space (GAS)
    1390 Gerrard Street East (at Woodfield)
    noon – 5pm

     

    Filed Under: Art/Culture, Children, Events

    Bike Parade – June 28

    June 27, 2012 By

    The Great End of School Bike Parade

    Decorate your bikes, attach some noise makers, and let’s celebrate – School’s Out for Summer!! We’ll meet at Roden PS southfield for a helmet/safety inspection, do some final touch-ups. After circling the playing field, we’ll head west along Fairford to Woodfield, south to the laneway, east to the bike mural in the alley for a some hot dogs on the bbq. NO POTLUCK. NO CHARGE. Donations will gladly be accepted, however.

    Thursday, June 28, 5pm – 7pm
    Roden Public School, south playing field

     

     

    Filed Under: Children, Events

    Art Opening – June 1

    May 30, 2012 By

    GAS is pleased to announce it’s upcoming show ‘Keep Looking up’ by Marlene Pape.

    The show features 40 new paintings including Pape’s series of staircases, birches, abstracts and ‘skyscapes’.

    The show runs from June 1st to the 21st with the Opening Reception on Saturday June 2nd from 6 to 10 pm.

    For more information please visit
    www.marlenepapefineart.com.

    GAS is located at 1390 Gerrard St East. (NE corner of Woodfield)

    Filed Under: Art/Culture

    Community Meeting – May 29

    May 23, 2012 By

    Are you concerned about drugs and prostitution in our laneways?

    A meeting will be held this coming Tuesday, May 29 at 7pm at GAS (corner of Woodfield/Gerrard) between community members and 55 Division – Toronto Police Services to discuss the issue of drugs and prostitution in the laneways around Gerrard St and in the neighbourhood in general. This is an open meeting for anyone wishing to attend.

    If you cannot make it but have something you want to contribute to the conversation, feel free to email GECO and we will convey it. Outcomes from this meeting will be posted on the web site.

    –

    The Grid posted “Thirty-four big ideas to improve our city” today, including this…Interestingly,

    #7 TURN OUR ALLEYWAYS INTO CULTURAL HUBS
    Toronto has miles of hidden alleyways and laneways waiting to be reclaimed and transformed into lively public spaces. Here, when people think of laneways, they think, “Oh no, they’re dirty, there are drug dealers there.” But all you’d have to do is clean them up. We could hold weekly markets with vendors and even food stands. We could hold concerts, or film screenings, and would be perfect for pop-up restaurants. In Toronto, there’s almost no more land that you can actually develop. Why can’t we re-use underused space instead?—Jim Chan, manager, Toronto Public Health Food Safety Program
    (http://www.thegridto.com/city/opinion/toronto-the-better/)

    Filed Under: Events

    Quilting Bee – April 19

    April 18, 2012 By

    The Gerrard Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E.  is hosting a community workshop on Thursday April 19, from 7-8 p.m. for local businesses, community groups and families to create quilt patches to be sewn into a community quilt, part of the “Social Fabric” project.

    Filed Under: Art/Culture, Children, Events

    Community Cleanup – April 22

    April 17, 2012 By

    Three great opportunities to show your love for the community.

    Earth Day Clean Ups & Worker Bee
    Sunday, April 22
    11-2pm

    1. “Rally in the Alley” Laneway north of Gerrard St East (Ashdale to Highfield)

    2. Pathway along train tracks (Coxwell to Woodfield)

    3. The Rail Garden (at Monarch Park tunnel, top of Woodfield)
    Gardeners will actually be working in 2 hr shifts, cleaning, digging and building garden beds: 10am-12pm, 12-2pm, and 2-4pm

    We hope to come together after the work for some community socializing – TBA

    Garbage bags and gloves provided. Join us at any location or start one of your own.

    Filed Under: Events

    Book Launch – April 22

    April 17, 2012 By

    Please join author A.N. Persaud for a poetry reading and book launch of ‘FOOTPRINT of an elephant.’

    Sunday April 22nd
    3 to 6pm @ GAS (Gerrard Art Space)
    1390 Gerrard St. E.

    “As life races by, few people have time to appreciate nature’s miracles, and life as a whole….
    Persaud’s poetry provides a guide map of hope and happiness.”
    - Mihir Shah, US Review of Books

    Music by local band The Uplifters
    Poetry readings by the author
    featuring the Art of local artist Max MacDonald
    + appetizers and drinks

     

    Filed Under: Art/Culture, Events

    Equinox Garage Sale – April 21

    April 17, 2012 By
    Spring Clean Garage & Craft Sale
    Equinox Holistic Alternative School (shared with Roden PS) will be hosting their First Annual Spring Clean Garage & Craft Sale.
    Where: 151 Hiawatha Rd.
    When: Saturday, April 21, 9am – 1pm

    Crafters and Garage Sellers come together in this community event to sell a variety of items including handmade crafts, used toys, clothes, books, etc.
    There will be food, refreshments, henna art and bike decorating for the kids.
    Interested in selling your handmade craft or garage sale items at this event? Email ehas_spring_sale@googlegroups.com for details.
    See you Saturday!
    Filed Under: Events
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