Hello and welcome! We are here once more with a roundup of a few stories from our neighbourhood that we wanted to make you aware of, it’s your Weekly WEP.
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Art Toronto Returns!
Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building
October 26-29
Canada's oldest and largest international art fair will host over 100 national and international galleries, installations, project spaces, and so much more!
Enjoy guided tours free with your entry to the fair. See the show through the experienced eyes of art collectors, galleries, and curators. Attend engaging talks and events and visit this year’s FOCUS exhibition curated by Kitty Scott.
More info on their website HERE
Ford Tracker
Public pressure helped reverse the Greenbelt Land swap, this government must be watched and held accountable. We highlighted
Use this Ford Tracker from the Ontario Federation of Labour to follow & fight Ford’s decisions that affect you.
It all happens right HERE
Devil In The Details
revisit our cover story from our Ford issue , which looks at the 7 key ways his party’s policies have put the squeeze on neighbourhoods across the province during five years in office – and meets a growing contingent of people pushing back to protect what’s left.
Read it online HERE
Family friendly, multi-arts programming for everyone!
Clay and Paper Theatre presents the 24th Annual Night of Dread Festival, from October 5th to 28th, a month-long series of free, public, hands-on workshops, culminating in a theatrical pageant, with giant puppets, fire spinners, stilters & live music.
At this much loved, family friendly, multi-arts festival, Clay and Paper Theatre invites Davenport residents to call on, mock and banish their small fears and their big fears for their community and the world. Through engaging art making opportunities, puppetry, pageantry, installations, shadows shows, music and ritual, we’ll face our darkest fears together.
More info on their website HERE
Basketball Chat with Leo Rautins and Wayne Parish!
On Saturday, October 29 at 1 PM, Join us at WEP Central for an evening with Leo Rautins, in conversation with Wayne Parrish!
Leo Rautins has been on the Canadian basketball scene for more than 30 years as a player, broadcaster and ambassador of the game. He is now in his 20th season as television analyst for Raptors games.
Wayne Parrish is a long-time media and sports executive, with deep experience in and a passion for storytelling across a range of platforms.
Leo and Wayne will chat all things basketball, media and broadcasting and take questions from the audience! A rare opportunity to hear from two legends of the sport!
Co-presented with support by our friends at Stylegarage
Entry by donation at the door, RSVP to hello@westendphoenix.com
An Afternoon with Art Bergmann!
On Saturday, November 4th, we are pleased to present you with a one-of-a-kind afternoon at WEP Central with the legendary Art Bergmann!
As Canada’s punk poet laureate, Art Bergmann has been tearing up stages, and terrifying the music industry, for half a century. Often referred to as “Canada’s Lou Reed,” Art’s story is one of rock and roll’s great tales untold. Until now. From his days helping to lay the foundation of the Vancouver punk scene with The K-Tels, to his acclaimed solo work in the ’80s and ’90s, and a late career resurgence that has culminated with being named to the Order of Canada,
Working with veteran music journalist Jason Schneider, The Longest Suicide chronicles every unlikely twist and turn Art’s life has taken. With dozens of people who took part adding their own voices to corroborate (and sometimes dispute) the often-incredible chain of events. With cameos by John Cale, Bob Rock, The Clash, Bob Geldof and many others, The Longest Suicide is both a triumphant story of personal survival, as well as a unique glimpse inside the rise of alternative rock. Above all, it is a tribute to Canada’s most unheralded singer-songwriter, whose greatness is only now being widely recognized.
Art will sit in conversation with author Jason Schneider and moderator Mary Dickie, a Toronto-based writer and editor. She has been publisher and editor of Impact magazine, editor of Music Express, music editor for Eye Weekly and music columnist for the Toronto Sun, and her interviews, features and reviews have also been published in Maclean’s, Chart, Elle Canada, In Toronto, SOCAN Words & Music and Musicworks, among others. She interviewed Art Bergmann for an Impact cover story in 1995, and counts it among her favourites.
Join us for a conversation on Art’s long career, his new album ShadowWalk out now on (weewerk), The Longest Suicide and everything in between! Following the chat there will be a Q&A and the opportunity to purchase a signed copy of The Longest Suicide!
It all happens at WEP Central (#3 Bartlett Ave) on November the 4th from 1 - 3 PM
Entry by donation at the door, pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of funds!
RSVP to reserve your spot: hello@westendphoenix.com
On Thursday, November the 16th, we’ve got the one and only Jim Bryson gracing the stage at WEP Central for a beautiful evening of music to warm our hearts as the days cool around us!
A beloved musician with long, deep ties to the Canadian music scene, Bryson has toured extensively as a side player for beloved artists like Kathleen Edwards, The Weakerthans and The Tragically Hip, is a National Folk Award nominated musician and records with artists from all over at his home studio in Stittsville, Ontario.
His most recent release, 2022’s “Country Wifi”, is a hushed pile of beautiful whispers and gently considered lyrical ruminations. As our own Dave Bidini wrote in his review, “the emotional acrylic of the and the swanning beauty of Lambchop or Iron and Wine.”
We’re beyond the moon to host Jim in our space at 3 Bartlett, but seats are limited and you’ll want to move quickly before they fill up!
It all happens Thursday, November 16th at 7 PM.
Tickets - $25 plus HST, get them HERE