Cabbagetown Art Show

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Doug Fisher’s Cabbagetown Artists, a specialised blog, a spin off of the Cabbagetown Neighbourhood Review, is hosting a pop-up art show this month at Caranberries Restaurant at 601 Parliament Street Nov. 26th and 27th. The artists will be there and the art is going to be fantastic. Support your local Cabbagetown Artists, find the perfect […]

DVAC Holiday Show and Sale:

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The show remains open at the Papermill Gallery until Sunday, November 20th at 4pm We are excited to be back in our favourite haunt, the Papermill Gallery at Todmorden Mills for this year’s Holiday Show and Sale, that remains open and in person through Sunday, November 20th then continues online through November 27th. You can […]

My Betty White

Photo credits Marion Voysey

My Betty White Photo credits Marion Voysey Betty White– is a visual artist, living and working in downtown Toronto. Born in the US, Betty studied painting and, for a period, paper making, in a number of cities including Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Boulder (Colorado), Montreal and also Toronto. Throughout her journey as an artist, Betty […]

mysteries to discover within the walls of this unexpected art sanctuary

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“I have gone past this building so many times but never tried the door until now,” exclaim college students walking into Gallery Arcturus, in a state of mild shock at the abundance of colour and unexpected artworks visible in the first room they see. For them it’s as if a four-storey art museum suddenly and […]

Gallery Arcturus Cover

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Ed Drass is a former writer for daily newspapers who now acts as guide for   visitors to Gallery Arcturus, a not-for-profit contemporary art exhibition centre funded and operated by The Foundation for the Study of Objective Art, a private charity. Note on accessibility: This heritage structure requires the use of stairs to access the […]

Arto Yuzbasiyan

Arto Yuzbasiyan Lane in Cabbagetown, Toronto 1980, oil on board 12in x 16 in

Arto Yuzbasiyan was born in 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey to a talented, pianist mother and a father who was a textile manufacturer. Though he did not play a musical instrument like much of his mother’s family, he was interested in drawing and painting. At the age of eight, he began taking lessons from a religious […]

How is it this place has been hiding in plain sight?

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Since last winter, during the depths of lockdown, I’ve been trying to coax readers outside to enjoy unexpected sights – public art located mere blocks from Cabbagetown. Now that temperatures are coming down once more it’s time to take advantage of re-opened galleries … as this Gentle Treasure Hunt series continues. Let’s start westward from […]

Live theatre is back!

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Be a part of the audience for the workshop performance of Transit, a play written by Alumnae member, Susan Brown. Is one man’s known universe big enough for the rest of us? October is Islamic History Month, and just in time, there’s a play that examines what happens in smalltown neighborhoods where cultural transformation exposes the […]