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BIG-On-Bloor Festival - Toronto
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| 2012-07-21 - 2012-07-22 |
1 to 9 pm |
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Bloor Street from Dufferin to Lansdowne
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More Information:
BIG on Bloor Festival, Bloor Street from Dufferin to Lansdowne celebrates local business, community, arts and culture with a unique community and city-building festival featuring hundreds of events, activities and exhibitions.
Bloordale, from Dufferin to Lansdowne celebrates business, community, arts and culture with a unique community and city-building festival featuring hundreds of events, activities and exhibitions. There will be performers, musicians, singers, dancers, theatre, and karate
More than 200 participants feature table exhibitions that line the street and present their projects, products, consumer goods, information or events. Community awards are presented to honour exceptional citizens and there are interactive games, craft tables and attractions for families and children. BAAF: Bloor Alternative Art Fair brings art institutions, collectives, galleries and artists to our street. Crafts, story-telling, face painting, green and social information, dog shows and much more will take place.
Strolling buskers and parades weave through the crowds. Our famously diverse restaurants - East African, South Asian, Somali, Vietnamese, Caribbean, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Canadian host food, music and dance, some with outdoor extended licensed patios. The Responding Festival culminates its month-long activities of art, architecture, poetry and performance at the Bloor/Dufferin school-grounds.
Schedule:
July 21 & 22, 2012,
BIG on Bloor's Responding Festival works in progress at the Bloor/Dufferin school-grounds.
Bloor is car free for two days this year and filled with table exhibitions, BAAF: Bloor Alternative Art Fair, stage performances, parades, extended patios and other outdoor events.
Stores and restaurants offer Savour Bloordale with special in-store events, sales and menus and is the culmination of the Responding Festival's month-long activities at The Big on Bloor Festival
Special Feature Events
BIG AWARDS
BIG awards are part of the BIG rn Bloor Festival opening ceremonies on the Bloordale Stage at Bloor and Dufferin Street, July 21, 2012, 1:00 PM.
Elected officials, Councilor Ana Bailao of Ward 18, Jonah Schein, Member of Provincial Parliment and Andrew Cash, Canadian Member of Parliament, will present awards to outstanding local citizens. Names: To Be Announced
Andrew Prosser Prize presented by the Bloordale BIA and Ana Bailao for emerging practitioners in animation, journalism, photography or video.
The Andrew Prosser Prize is awarded to his memory, 1988 – 2010. Andrew Prosser was a Bloordale resident and activist, a volunteer with the Bloordale BIA, a member of TAIS: Toronto Animated Image Society, a contributing editor and founder of Bloor Magazine and creator of Bloordale videos: The New Bloor Festival, A Mayor for Bloordale and Gloam. His talent as a writer, actor, photographer, musician and videographer, and his humor and generosity is sorely missed by Bloordale friends, neighbours, BIA and the City of Toronto.
BAAF: Bloor Alternative Art Fair
The BAAF is a unique opportunity, an affordable art fair for art galleries, art dealers, and artists to take art into the streets with exhibitions, and public performances.
This year, the BAAF's focus will be on partnerships between emerging artists and arts instructors, arts professionals, and/or senior artists to exhibit, sell work, and engage in a diverse and artistically rich neighbourhood. This is a great way to start or add to your art collection.
Cultural institutions are also invited to participate by producing displays or interactive demonstrations to provide information to new audiences.
This is the second year BAAF will be at the festival bringing art institutions, collectives, galleries, emerging artists to our street. This is a great way to start or add to your art collection!
Celebrate Here: Music Festival
Groups and performers will fill the stage, at Dufferin and Bloor, as well being woven through the fabric of the neighbourhood. Walk around and discover!
This year will encourage stage event for originals songs, raps, plays or performances that include references to the local, local being a sliding scale mentioning any of the following: Bloor Street, Bloordale, Toronto, Ontario or Canada.
Savour Bloor
On July 21 & 22, stores from Dufferin to Lansdowne celebrate Bloor Street with Savour Bloor and offer special-in store events, discounts, sales or prizes. Some local restaurants will provide tester menus that encourage visitors to explore one of the most diverse culinary sections of the city including: Portuguese, Indian, African, Vietnamese, Caribbean, Vegetarian, Contemporary Experiment and Middle Eastern.
See store windows for individual store offering. For samples check back here.
Responding Festival
July 21 & 22
Play-ground, Bloor Street at Dufferin Ave. Toronto
The Responding Festival is a project by artists, designers, architects, poets, community groups, residents and volunteers and is a feature event of the BIG On Bloor Festival July 21/22, 2012. Please make Bloor and Dufferin in Toronto a destination for a summer walk, drop by often to see what is evolving and to participate.
The School playground directly edges Bloor Street but is separated by a 12 foot high chain-link barrier fence. Last summer we opened the playground area of the school and offer it as a Bloor Street public space. We will transform the empty space into a public art environment, a collision of art and architecture, performance, poetry, landscape, discussions and playgrounds made by artists and architects, cultural collectives and community participants. The intention is to make a non-stop swirl of activity, a site for evolving experimental forms and new ways of creating in a shared place that responds to the city, the community, each other and being here now.
Responding actively marks the schoolground site for designation as an on-going public space when Kent School closes in June, 2012. The project is an effort to claim the corner of Bloor and Dufferin and safeguard for community use in forth-coming development proposals.
More information about Responding see www.respondingfestival.com | www.poetrylookout.com
Contact dyan@dyanmarie, 416.539.8129 for appointment or to contribute an event.
Who is invited to the BIG on Bloor Festival
We invite the local community, residents of Toronto and Canadian and International tourists interested in the contemporary culture: art, performance, music, walking, multi-culturalism, food, and family participatory events.
Thank you to our sponsors, contributors, participants and the Bloordale Community.
Everyone is welcomed here.
The BIG on Bloor 2012 Festival is an initiative of the Bloordale BIA.
Bloordale BIA | BIG: Big Improvement Group
For further information please contact:
Dougal Bichan, Musician, Artist, BIG Festival Director
416.645.0295 | dougal@dougalco.com
Dyan Marie, Artist, BIG Co-chair, Bloordale Creative Director
416.539.8129 | dyan@dyanmarie.com