The seventh annual Winter Stations outdoor art exhibit along Woodbine Beach is on tap to take place in 2021. The international competition for artists seeking to create one of the five or six installations planned for lifeguard stands along the beach is now open. “As an event that takes place solely outdoors in the expanse […]
Local writer Subrata Kumar Das will be taking part in the Toronto International Festival of Authors this month. Like many events that used to feature in-person sessions and live audiences, the 2020 version of this year’s festival will be held online. Das, who is executive director of the Bengali Literary Resource Centre in East York […]
Below is Chapter 15 of BOOM: A Child of the Beach in Toronto Remembers the 50s. Every Tuesday over the next few months, Beach Metro News will post up another chapter of the book on our website at https://www.beachmetro.com/ for readers to enjoy. To see our earlier story on Black, and to read Chapter One, please go […]
A wall of the Donald D. Summerville Pool at the foot of Woodbine Avenue will be turned into a giant projection screen this week as part of the outdoor public art project The Essentials: Art and Urban Recovery. A three-part series, The Essentials is being presented by The Bentway and The Waterfront BIA. It is […]
Forced to close their doors for a second time this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fox Theatre in the Beach continues to find innovative ways to raise funds and keep the community engaged beyond being able to watch movies inside the iconic Queen Street East site. Last Friday (Oct. 9), Toronto was moved […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON A series of videos showcasing local opera singers features a number of well-known Toronto locations including Balmy Beach and the Ted Reeve baseball diamonds. The five videos were the idea of Upper Beach resident Kathy Domoney in collaboration with opera stage director Francoise Racine and Coffeeshop Creative. She told Beach Metro News […]
By SHEILA RYAN Maybe it all started in June of 1967. Rod’s British mum was visiting her Birmingham family. She returned with a first edition Parlophone pressing of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It cost two British pounds.That album had not yet been released in Canada so it proudly made the rounds of many […]
Below is Chapter 14 of BOOM: A Child of the Beach in Toronto Remembers the 50s. Every Tuesday over the next few months, Beach Metro News will post up another chapter of the book on our website at https://www.beachmetro.com/ for readers to enjoy. To see our earlier story on Black, and to read Chapter One, please go […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON A pair of local musicians are working on bringing live music back to the Beach. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s going to be done on a very small scale and safety will obviously be the top priority for everyone involved. Tim Dawson and Tom Allen are organizing concerts at local churches […]
East York Days: Behind the Music! wraps up with its final online session tonight (Sept. 30). Presented by East End Arts, the three-part online event is being hosted CBC Radio’s Errol Nazareth. Earlier online presentations took place on Sept. 16 and 23, and the final one-hour Facebook Live event takes place on Sept. 30 from […]
