The six art installations that will make up the Winter Stations 2022 exhibit along Woodbine Beach have been selected. They are ENTER-FACE (from Turkey); Wildlife-guard Chair (from Canada and France); THE HIVE (from Canada); S’winter Station (Ryerson University); Introspection (University of Toronto); and One Canada (University of Guelph). Winter Stations began in 2015 as a […]
By ERIN HORROCKS-POPE Kyara Tetreault, a Toronto native currently residing in Leslieville, blew away both judges and audiences with her unique sound and stunning performances on Alter Ego, a music competition show that ran on the Fox television network earlier this year. The only non-American competitor, Tetreault, aka Seven (her digital avatar ‘Alter Ego’), was […]
With the first day of winter officially arriving earlier this week (on Dec. 21) , East Toronto resident Robert Garrison has shared the story below for Beach Metro Community News readers to enjoy. MY WINTERS OF DISCONTENT BY R0BERT GARRISON I’d stacked my wood, the truck’s rad was brimming with anti-freeze, last year’s dog-haired […]
By JESSE GAULT Beach writer Michelle Da Silva is the creator of The Pet Library fictional series of books. The series includes Grand Opening, published in August of 2020, then A Hare Raising Tale and also Something Fishy. The stories document the dramatic adventures of the young Audrey Plum. “I wanted to write about a […]
Tonight’s concert at Kingston Road United Church to welcome the winter solstice has been cancelled due to safety concerns surrounding the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Presented by local musician and realtor Mark Battenberg, the concert was originally slated to take place on the evening of Monday, Dec. 20. However, given growing health […]
By AMARACHI AMADIKE When Jim Clayton arrived at his daughter Lenny’s school to pick her up for March Break in 2020, they were instructed to stay home for three weeks. The COVID-19 pandemic was in its early stages. Two weeks into that extended break, with COVID numbers rising and the possibility of kids returning to […]
East Toronto poet and author George Elliot Clarke presents an online event celebrating poetry and music, including the debut of a transition of the late Leonard Cohen’s poem For E.J.P. into a song, on Dec. 10. Clarke, who was Toronto’s Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2015 and the National Poet Laureate of Canada from 2016 […]
Beach United Church will host the A Child is Born concert featuring vocalist Heather Bambrick on the afternoon of Saturday, Dec. 11. The concert is part of the church’s Jazz & Reflection series. Juno Award nominated vocalist Bambrick will be joined by a number of friends as they present a seasonal selection of music including […]
Boreal has been called a wintry seasonal gem, and local audiences can see them live in concert on Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Acoustic Harvest show set for southwest Scarborough. Boreal is the trio of Tannis Slimmon, Angie Nussye and Katherine Wheatley. All of with accomplished careers of their own, they have teamed up to […]
By MATTHEW VILORD What do you get when you take a group of talented Toronto youth and take them on a journey to the bottom of the sea? To quote SpongeBob Squarepants, the big yellow animated sponge that we all know and love, you get the “best day ever”. After two years of being kept […]
