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    Community Clean-up – April 20

    As part of a City-wide Clean Community initiative, neighbours and business owners will be joining efforts to tidy up our neighbourhood. The city will be providing garbage bags, gloves and collection afterwards.

    We’d love to see each street take ownership of their own clean-up or pick a designated area (i.e. green space, alleyway) that needs some love and attention and then drop-off garbage at the corner of your street and Gerrard.

    Business owners along Gerrard will be providing some refreshments and give-aways.

    Time: Saturday, April 20, 10 am – 1 pm
    Location: Clean-ups can take place wherever needed in the Gerrard St East neighbourhood, focus on problem areas such as laneways, or lend a helping hand to your local shop owner or community group i.e. school, church, etc.

    Update: Bags and gloves are available for pick-up at The Swag Sisters Toy Store, 1511 Gerrard St East. Our advertised “window” of cleaning is 10am-1pm and any amount of time commitment you can make is greatly appreciated. Even a small amount of pick-up will make our neighbourhood that much more beautiful. :)

    Earth Day Clean Up - April 20, 2013

     

     

    Holiday Art Show – Dec 15

    Hi Everyone!

    The Holidays are upon us and as always, they come and go so fast! …In case that 12/21/12 event does not disperse us in a uniquely fragmented merry way, we have a few announcements about events and classes coming up this month and the next.

    Our Holiday Show opening reception will be held here as GAS Saturday December 15th from 6 to 9pm. Thanks to all who brought in works for the show! It’s going to look fantastic and we hope you have a great time.

    Upcoming classes: At the moment we a working towards organizing an adult art program, so please check the website regularly for upcoming classes. There is still time to register for Beginner Life Drawing with Joanne Filletti. Please contact gerrardartspace@gmail.com for details. From the Fridge Door is holding a Portfolio Clinic on December 17th and 18th with Nicola Maguire for grade 8 students hoping to attend an arts high school. See the attached flyer for details.

    GAS will be closed for the holidays from December 24th until January 9th.

    See you soon, chillax and have a great holiday!

    Valeria Csizmadia
    Gallery Administrator

    Winter Fair – Dec. 9

    Everyone is invited to the Winter Fair at Equinox Holistic Alternative School.

    When: 11am – 4pm, Sunday, Dec. 9
    Where: Equinox Holistic Alternative School (inside Roden PS) 151 Hiawatha Rd.
    Admission: Adults $2, children FREE

    Featuring the children’s enchanted Woodland Pond, crafts for kids, face painting, children’s store, live entertainment, games, food, baked goods, refreshments and more! Students and local artisans selling hand made items – great gift ideas. Raffle baskets with something for everyone! Activities will be ticketed and some will take place outdoors. Parking available south of Roden/Equinox school.

     

    East Side Boom! – Dec 8

    December 8th Super Live Music Party w/

    Eva and Lisa
    Julian Brown
    The Volunteers
    and The Woodshed Orchestra!
    (Great line-up!)

    It’s gonna FOLK N’ ROCK!
    Good times in the making!
    Hope you can join in the fun.

    Door@7:30
    Show@8:00

    $10 suggested
    (pay what you like!)

    This is a licensed event.

    Thanks!

    For more info:
    East Side Boom! Facebook page

    Gerrard Art Space

    Arts/Craft Gala – Dec 5

    ‘Tis the season to buy local! Come see local artists in Lazy Daisy’s mini ‘one-of-a-kind’ show.

    Wednesday, December 5
    6pm – 8:30pm
    Lazy Daisy’s Café
    1515 Gerrard St. East

    GECO Meeting – Nov 14, 7pm

    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!

    Diwali Mela – Nov 10 & 11

    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

    South Asian Fest – July 7/8

    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

     

    Bike Parade – June 28

    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

     

     

    Community Meeting – May 29

    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/)

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