Gerrard East Community Organization
Gerrard/Ashdale Library
Saturday, February 9th, 2013
11:00 a.m. to Noon
Gerrard/Ashdale Library
1432 Gerrard St. E.,
Toronto, ON M4L 1Z6
416-393-7717
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
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
‘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
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.
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
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)
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.
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
GAS’s inaugural show, New Works by Max MacDonald runs from April 14th to the 28th.
Opening reception Saturday April 14th from 2pm to 7pm.
Gerrard Art Space | GAS
1390 Gerrard Street East
416.778.0923
