Arts

Jo-Anne Ljubicic — The Ontario Volleyball Association (OVA) is proud to announce the winners of the prestigious Ken Davies Memorial Award and Evelyn Holick Award. The 2014 recipients are Andrew Richards (London, ON) of London Volleyball Club and Lauren Sanderson ...

Cathy Elliot — On Toronto’s 180th birthday, three hundred children and youth from Rexdale combined to create a performance that thrilled a community. A packed North Albion Collegiate Institute auditorium witnessed the premiere of a new joint initiative between DAREarts ...

She was born Marilyn Novak in Chicago in 1933, and she always said she never wanted to be an actress, much less a star. She came to California as “Miss Deep Freeze,” demonstrating appliances on a sales tour. She said, ...

I’ve always had a fascination with parking lots, especially in the Downtown core where you can bet that long before the automobile was invented there was something much more interesting there. For example on the southeast corner of Richmond and ...

More than thirty years after first performing it, Toronto Irish Players is bringing back one of John B Keane’s most celebrated plays, the often shocking, always entertaining Big Maggie. The play opens as Big Maggie Polpin buries her husband. Far ...

The City of Toronto Historic Sites present several events that provide enriching entertainment for all ages while connecting visitors to Toronto’s rich history. Visit www.toronto.ca/museum-events for more information. COLBORNE LODGE    South end of High Park on Colborne Lodge Drive Hours: ...

A long-lost 1771 portrait of Captain Gabriel Maturin by John Singleton Copley, painted by the artist during his six-month stay in New York four years prior to the American Revolution, will be sold in Bonhams American Art Sale on May ...

Eric Morse — The Canadian Opera Company (COC) has a laudable philosophy of getting them while they’re young and helping them at every stage of their emergence from the chrysalis. The COC runs the After School Opera Program for musically ...

So much of our early past has been demolished in the name of progress there are few buildings and even fewer institutions in Toronto that can date themselves back to our 18th century European beginnings; however there is one building ...

Kimberly Spice — Downtown resident Nadia Lloyd believes in getting an early start. That’s why she is already hard at work on the second annual CityPlace Art Crawl. The 38-year-old, artist, designer, entrepreneur and event planner decided to bring artisans ...