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First 10 Artists Announced for Erickson’s 14 Artists for Ward 14 Button Project

Michael Erickson, candidate for City Council, Ward 14 Parkdale – High Park, announced the first 10 names of the artists involved in his ’14 Artist for 14’ button project, further solidifying his commitment to be a champion of The Arts.  Erickson has approached 14 artists to design 14 different limited edition buttons for his campaign [...]
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Ford calls on Vaughan to enter mayoral race

Leading mayoral candidate Rob Ford has challenged fellow councillor Adam Vaughan to “be a man” and jump into the mayor’s race.
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Artsvote Deputation To City Council Executive (text)

ArtsVote Toronto is a coalition of volunteers working to elect candidates who support the arts in the October municipal election. ArtsVote believes that strong arts policies and greater public investment in the arts are essential to the wellbeing of our citizens, the vitality of our neighbourhoods and communities, and the prosperity of our city. ArtsVote [...]
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// Executive unanimously recommends increase in arts investment to $25 per-capita

August 16 Community Release Executive unanimously recommends increase in arts investment to$25 per-capita Toronto, ON // Today the Executive Committee of the City of Toronto unanimously recommended an increase in arts funding to $25 per capita by 2013. Pending approval by Council on August 25/26 this will result in 17.5 million dollars in additional investment [...]
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ARTSVOTE TORONTO 2010 Election Priorities

Toronto’s arts industry and its stakeholders have outlined three priorities that we believe will contribute to a better Toronto, poised to reach its potential as a leading creative city on the world stage. Priority One: Toronto leads Canada in arts and cultural activity. It should lead the country in per-capita cultural investment, starting with an [...]
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International Dance Day Flash Mob at the Toronto Eaton Centre, Official Video

A Flash mob of dancers took took to the Eaton Centre to celebrate International Dance Day – click on the link below to experience! DANCE!
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Toronto leads the nation in number of artists

Toronto has more full-time artists than any other Canadian city – 22,300 – and these artists tend to live largely in neighbourhoods in or near the city’s downtown, according to an analysis of the 2006 census released this week. Read more…
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The top Arts Related issue in the City IS…

As the Mayoral and Council candidates start to line up, we’re starting work on the Survey that we’ll send to all incumbent Councillors and their challengers, and for the Mayoral candidates. Answers to the Survey questions help us determine each individual’s grade for the ArtsVote Report Card. What do you think is the top arts-related [...]
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Happy Holidays and a Contest!

We’ve got ten pairs of tickets to EAST OF BERLIN at Tarragon Theatre to give away to you.  Sign up on website between now and December 31 and you could win one of those pairs of tickets. How about that?
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City Passes Billboard Tax

Congratulations to beautifulcity.ca, illegalsigns.ca and everyone who voted, cheered, emailed, made phone calls and helped spread the word – it WORKED! http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/390798–city-ok-s-billboard-tax-fraction-of-money-may-go-towards-arts
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