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Toronto’s One of a Kind Show

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Today I visited the One of a Kind Show on its last day in Toronto.

Though  I’m not the biggest fan of shopping, and the show spanned the Ex’s entire Direct Energy floor, it was an awesome experience. The Show presented the work of artists for sale to the public. Each artist offered unique, handmade products of their own.

Among the many, two of my favorite vendors were Petit Flaneur with its modern printed doll house, and Margi Laurin with her array of altered books.

Though the Show has ended for the year, I strongly recommend everyone to go when they have the opportunity in 2010. I have the highest regard for independent artists, most who work tirelessly to produce the products of their art and passion. Furthermore, I have even greater respect for those who actively pursue their dream, sharing their products with the world like those present at the One of a Kind Show. The Show will certainly return in 2010, while also touring around Vancouver, Chicago and New York. Check it out when you can!

 

Petit Flaneur's modern printed doll house

Join Me Online on TorontoInColour.ca!

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Check out Toronto in Colour, a virtual community dedicated to Toronto’s diverse population. Created by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto in Colour offers an online ethno-cultural community for members to network and interact with thousands of others from similar communities and backgrounds. Members can share profiles, photos, groups, events, and classifieds, and interact with a fast-growing network of friends right in the GTA. Furthermore, members also have the opportunity to see their culturally or diversely themed fiction, non-fiction, or poetry published online by registering and submitting work.

Feel free to check out the site, sign up, and add me as a friend. I’m part of the Filipino network at the moment. And for any other Filipinos out there, come join me online as well as one of the site’s inaugural members to represent our background! We currently have a very small online Filipino community – a community that we can certainly grow to mirror the vibrant one we currently share everyday in Toronto.

Script Revisions, Book Prizes, and Piano Concerts

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Yesterday I went downtown to discuss my beat sheet with Krishna. I am now working on Beat Sheet Revision #7! According to Krishna, my script has become belaboured with too many plot lines and I have to really trim it down to the basic story. I was pretty discouraged but know that in the end my script can only benefit from Krishna’s mentoring.

On another note, I won a prize from Keep Toronto Reading! I think I probably won it through submitting a ballot at the Diaspora Dialogues Reading. I won five books by five different Canadian authors and will probably receive it later this week. I always love getting new books; it’s more to add to my library. Very excited!

On a final unrelated-to-writing note, yesterday I also watched Serhiy Salov play for the Four Seasons Centre’s Piano Virtuoso Series. It was the first of the series that I attended. I was especially impressed with his last performance of Mily Balakirev’s “Islamei: Oriental Fantasy”. He also performed some Scarlatti, Beethoven, and Ravel. I probably need to garner a greater appreciation for piano music to understand the complexity of the songs. Whenever I listen to piano music, especially Beethoven, I always picture black and white silent films from the early 1900s where people are hurriedly running about performing gags. It’s my Cinema Studies background getting the best of me and it’s sad to say that it usually ruins my perception of the music as I picture set up gags. At the end of his performance, Salov received a standing ovation.


Serhiy Salov playing at the Four Seasons Centre