Kids Play & Youth Outlook celebrates the positive achievements of young artists for their third year in Toronto on Saturday July 25, 2009. Normally held at Nathan Phillips Square, the youth festival has been moved to Exhibition Place’s Centennial Square,
Three-time Canadian Figure Skating Champion and 1988 Olympic Silver Medalist Elizabeth Manley has become the national spokesperson for the 2009 Winners Walk of Hope. Manley lost her mother to ovarian cancer last year. Elizabeth Manley was the first Canadian female
The 34th Toronto International Film Festival will be held Thursday, September 10 to Saturday, September 19, 2009. One of the Special Presentations with be the world premiere of “Mao’s Last Dancer”, a film that tells the true real-life story of
The Toronto Music Garden celebrates its 10th anniversary of outstanding free performances in a unique setting, and popular garden tours. Summer Music in the Garden showcases an eclectic array of music and dance performances that complement the beauty and calm of
The Toronto City Workers strike did not prevent the recent Salsa on St. Clair Festival, and proves to be no deterent to the launch of the 2009 Caribana Festival either. Thousands packed into Younge-Dundas square yesterday for the official launch
An online ad for Evian bottled water where chubby babies tear up a playgorund on little four-wheeled roller skates has received nearly 5 million hits internationally on YouTube in little more than a week. The babies dance to a remix
The 2009 Salsa on St. Clair Street Festival is running July 11-12 as planned despite the garbage strike and construction on St. Clair Avenue. There will be some unavoidable obstacles due to the construction but they will not affect the festivities,
Thirty thousand Michael Jackson fans gathered in Toronto’s Dundas Square on Canada Day July 1, 2009 to spend a few hours dancing together in celebratory remembrance of one of the world’s most renowned performers. Michael Jackson popularized many unique dance
The above is a tribute performed by the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines on June 27, 2009 in memory of Michael Jackson. This touching performance was completed by the entire inmate population of 1500 inmates just 10 hours
A group of young street dancers called “Diversity” surpassed singers, comedians, variety acts, and other talent demonstrations to win Britain’s “Got Talent” competition on the weekend. Their performance below won standing ovations from all three judges, with Simon Cowell describing it as “the only