performance; pedestrian issues; election (poverty and eco)

[angela bischoff]

Nuit Blanche - live performance by world-renowned DVJ artist Charles
Kriel.    explores psycho-pharmacological culture

DSM5
DVJ Charles Kriel
Solo Musical and Visual Performance

DSM5 is an extraordinary multi-media installation that will be projected
onto the façade of the ROM's new Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Performed live
by DVJ Kriel, DSM5 explores psycho-pharmacological culture in the United
States. Inspired by American commercials to "ask your doctor.", Kriel
examines how American culture seems to have developed a drug for every
disorder. He looks into three such drugs and uses them as a starting point
for crafting the music and imagery in DSM5.  

Performances take place at 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 pm with DVJ Kriel mixing
DSM5 live. From 11:00 pm to 7:00 am, a recorded version of DSM5 without
sound will be projected onto the Lee-Chin Crystal.

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Sunday Sept. 30 is Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington, from noon - 10 p.m.
Don't miss it! Also...

Our Streets – inserting oneself into the municipal process: a discussion
for the everyday person on how to bring pedestrian change to you
neighbourhood

Date: Sunday September 30

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil Street (near College and
Spadina)

Local residents, community groups and Business Improvement Areas are full
of great pedestrian ideas for their neighbourhoods but feel paralyzed when
it comes to effecting change. Where do I start? Who do I talk to? Where
does the money come from for all this? These are just a few questions.
While the municipality directs change at the citywide level, we have a
valuable resource that can offer input and ideas on the finest details:
area residents and businesses.

Come join TCAT for an open and frank discussion about how to insert
oneself in the process and bring pedestrian change to your neighbourhood.
Featuring:

Paul Hess, Geography & Planning Professor, University of Toronto
Paul Bedford, former Chief Planner, City of Toronto
Janice Etter, citizen activist involved with the campaign that led to the
ban on new drive-thrus

Moderated by Catherine Porter, Toronto Star Environment Reporter

Free, no registration required.

For more information on the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation
(TCAT) visit: www.torontocat.ca

For more information on the Walk21 conference visit: www.toronto.ca/walk21

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Join Streets are for People for 2 great evenings of city-fixing:

Monday Oct. 1 -- 4-7 p.m. at Metro Hall (55 John St.) Rm. 302
4 p.m.: Getting Out of the Box: An Introduction to Cultural Revolution
5:30 p.m.: The Anatomy of Pedestrian Zones panel
As part of Walk 21 International Walkability Conference, Streets are the
People discusses how cars got into every corner of our cities, and what we
can do to get them out.

Tues. Oct. 2 -- 9 p.m. - midnight at The Tranzac (292 Brunswick)
Design Charette
With scissors, glue, crayons, and beer, and a group of inspiring minds,
come and help redesign Toronto for bikes, people and living!

info at streetsareforpeople.org
416 841 8549
www.streetsareforpeople.org

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VOTE OUT POVERTY

DATE: Monday October 1, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Massey Hall, 178 Victoria Street
COST: One Hour's Wage
INFO: http://www.voteoutpoverty.ca/index.php

Ontario needs a poverty reduction strategy that sets specific goals and
actions to reduce the depth and scope of poverty.  Such a strategy would
offer a long term approach to prevent, reduce and alleviate poverty in
Ontario.  Poverty CAN be eliminated in Ontario.  Countries such as the UK
and Ireland have implemented poverty reduction strategies that have
achieved significant success, and are aiming to fully eliminate child
poverty by 2020.  Newfoundland and Labrador have implemented a poverty
reduction strategy and aim to become the province with the least poverty
in the country.  Quebec has adopted an Act to Combat Poverty and Social
Exclusion and published an Action Plan to Combat Poverty.

Keynote Speaker: Stephen Lewis
Hosted by: Mary Walsh
Special Appearance by: George Stroumboulopoulos

Music by:
Susan Aglukark
The Hidden Cameras
The Nylons
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings

Presented by the Ontario Coalition for Social Justice and Make Poverty
History.

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Environmental Election Debate!

The Environmental Priorities Coalition
(<http://www.prioritiesforontario.ca/>www.prioritiesforontario.ca) is
hosting an election debate on some of the most critical issues of our
time, including phasing out coal and developing a clean energy system. 
Come out and hear for yourself what the major parties have to say on
issues like clean air and water, green spaces, wilderness protection and
eliminating toxics and waste.

When: Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Place: Isabel Bader Theatre*, 93 Charles St. W., Toronto (one block south
of Bloor St., one block east of the Royal Ontario Museum).
Free - first come, first seated.
No signs, banners, props or costumes please!

*wheelchair accessible with a sound system for the hearing impaired.

Isabel Bader Theatre is Bullfrog Powered with green electricity.

If you can’t make it out to the debate, you can watch it live by webcast
at <http://www.prioritiesforontario.ca/>www.prioritiesforontario.ca.

Please pass this message on to your friends.

Thank you.

Jack Gibbons, Chair
Ontario Clean Air Alliance
402-625 Church St, Toronto M4Y 2G1
Phone: 416-926-1907 ext. 240
Fax: 416-926-1601
Email: <mailto:jack at cleanairalliance.org>jack at cleanairalliance.org
Website: <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/>www.cleanairalliance.org
Contest: <http://www.peakbusters.ca/>www.PeakBusters.ca


The Ontario Clean Air Alliance is a coalition of health, environmental,
and consumer organizations, faith communities, municipalities, utilities,
unions, corporations and individuals working for cleaner air through a
coal phase-out and the shift to a renewable electricity future. Our
partner organizations represent more than six million Ontarians.

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