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Can you see in the dark? March break at the NFB Mediatheque
Location
Saturday, March 10 through Sunday, March 18
10 AM - 4 PM daily
For all ages. $5 per child; an adult must accompany children at no extra charge. No registration required.
Enlighten your children with a unique visit to the world where life is seen with all of your senses... except your eyes. Also, join us for a screening of the animated film that inspired this truly "sensational" interactive activity, Private Eyes.
Winterfolk X
Location
Now in its 10th year, Toronto's annual winter folk and blues festival is back, and has moved to a new location, the Delta Chelsea Hotel (33 Gerrard St. W.). The festival showcases both established and developing roots artists. This year's performers include David Essig, Lynn Miles, Jory Nash, Laura Fernandez, Tony Quarrington, Mr. Rick & the Biscuits, Danny Marks, Jaron Freeman Fox & the Opposite of Everything, The Lemon Bucket Orkestra and the Wanted. Most events are pay what you can, and people of all ages are welcome.
http://www.abetterworld.ca/?page_id=4936
https://www.facebook.com/events/130235373764860/
CIBC LunarFest
Location
Harbourfront Centre is celebrating the Lunar New Year with CIBC LunarFest. CIBC LunarFest is Canada's premier presenter of contemporary expression in Asian arts and culture, and this year's festival, celebrating the dawn of the Year of the Dragon, will be centred on the theme of "Treasures of the Sea."
The festival's centrepiece will be a giant Lantern Aquarium. Inside, a variety of exhibitions of traditional and contemporary arts created by some of Taiwan's foremost artisans explore the world under the sea.
Nature Trust and Acadia University land conservation announcement
Location
A dynamic new land conservation partnership has been formed between the Nova Scotia Nature Trust and Acadia University.
The consequences of Toronto city cuts for youth
Here's one dirty word you can call me, Mammoliti. Call me motha. You, too, Ford brothas. It's about time we started to talk family, because you're not just messing with the grown-ups when you tear all civility and grace from Toronto's public sphere.
The KPMG report you're studying for surgical guidance documents every place where the city offers any degree of excellence or innovation. These are highlighted as "opportunities" for the knife. How's that for a subliminal message to the kiddies? Let's gang up on the best and brightest.
This is perhaps too subtle for the mayor, but if you check out news from across the pond you can see it's time we paid attention to the subliminal messages in our urban culture fashions.
The hunt for better housing
Good Places To Live
Jim Silver's latest, Good Places to Live, presents an unequivocal argument against the trend towards demolition of public housing projects and sale of these properties to private-sector developers. Pulling no punches, Silver characterizes such acts as a transfer of wealth from the poor to the already wealthy, and demonstrates the role of neo-liberalism in displacing the poor and furthering the current housing crisis.