Vol.9 No.6 - Jun 1999

Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative
and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015.
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Kensington's history Part 6
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teatreOVAL is a newly created
theatre group with goals of contributing
to the repertoire of original work
for stage by, for and about the ·
Portuguese in Toronto.
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marked and defined the hves, loves,
Publishers:
dreams, and stories of the pioneering
David Perlman and M.J. Buell men and women from Portugal that
Advertising:
chose to call Toronto home. It begins
Pat McKendry
in May 1953 in Kensington, and
Good Friday ftsh ba,t:hecue: a Kensington Portuguese tradition. ,
Editor: ·
David Perlman
Research
Pat McKendry, Sophia Perlman
Layout/Design/Photography:
Mike Busija
Next DRUM: July 25 1999
Advertising deadline July 22
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Editor's
Notebook
Fences
There's a story,
I think true, about some wellmeaning
naturalists who
discovered some rare and
precious lilies growing around
the base of certain forest
giants. Always, and only, the
lilies were to be found near
these trees.
Next, to their horror, they
found that the wild pigs knew
what they knew and would
come to the trees, root up the
lilies and eat them.
Protect the lilies they said ..
And so they built a fence
around each tree, to keep ouY
the pigs and preserve the
plants.
Was it them, or the next
generation of naturalists who
discovered, after the lilies had
become extinct, that the way
the lilies germinated was
passing through the digestive
tract of the pigs?
Where are we building fences
in Kensington?
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14 KENSINGTON. AVE. TORONTO CANADA
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continues to May 1978.
People attending the big Bellevue
Square celebration on Monday 21
will get quick glimpse of 0 Nosso
Baile during that event, followed by
a full length preview at 8:30pm the
same evening at Tasca. There will
then be two further workshop
presentations Friday June 25 and
Saturday June 26, both at 8.30pm.
Written and directed by Helder
Ramos, who also teaches at Lord
Lansdowne Primary School, the
production features N\Maria Aide,
Isabel de Almeida, Silvia Anacleto,
:bigodiho", Sergio Dias, Americo
Esgaio, George Galego, Sandra
Gamboias, John Joe Kavanagh,
Eduarda Madureira, Lidia Saragaco,
and invited guests.
For more information or to reserve
tickets, call244-1986 or email
teatrOV AL@excite .. com.
Admission is pay-what-you-can
on Monday and $8 on Friday and
Sat~rday.
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CELEBRAfiN6 KENSINGTON MoNDAY JuNE 21
On June 21, in and around Bellevue
Square Park, The Kensington Listening
Post presents Celebrating
Kensington Market, a six hour .tribute
to_the history and spirit of Kensington.
Children from surrounding ar_ea
schools will contribute.
The event will run from 12 noon to
6pm, starting with International
Dancers, a childrens choir and a short
human rights play (all by students of
Ryerson Community Public School).
Following this, there will be a
"story tour" of the market where the
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audience will be escorted
to various "story
stations".
Later, Clay and Paper
Puppe~ Theatre will lead
the audience and
storytellers back to the
park, for more entertain-
. ment including drummers,
the comm~morative
plaque unveiling, a.
fado singer, a Klezmer
band, and a feast.
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Plaque _presentation
part of the proceedings.
The centre-piece of the event
(from 2:45p.m. to 3:15p.m. approxi- Art and history
mately), will be the presentation to Also during this time, from 12-4p.m.,
the community of the historical onlookers. will have the opportunity
plaque. The photograph on the to view a display of contemporary
plaque was taken at 18 Kensing- Kensington art and of historical
ton Avenue in 1922 and shows a material in the basement of the
typical street scene of the era. Kiever Synagogue located at the
Commissioned by Heritage northwest corner of the park. And
Toronto (the Toronto Historical they will be able to read some of the
Board), the plaque will be perma- historical
nently installed in Bellevue Square · interviews
Park. David Pinkus, a long time that mem- -
resident of Nassau Street will be hers of the.
the keynote speaker during this . Kensirrgtor,
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42 Kensington Avenue
Toronto. Ontario
M5T 2J7
[416] 595-7199
Fax: [416] 204- 1984
Listening Post have gathered over
the past year. from community
elders.
· Finally, the audience will be able
to partake of some of the fabulous
foods of the Market, donated by
these generous merchants:
Amadeu's Restaurant, lberica
Bakery, King's Cafe, Noim's Market
Grill, Micaelense Home Bakery, and
Perfect Vegetarian Restaurant.
Kensington Listening Post
Kensington Listening Post, a
partnership of Heritage Toronto and
the Kensington Market Action
Committee is chaired jointly by
Marsha Krakowsky of Heritage
Toronto and Market resident David
Melville. The Listening Post's'
activities provide opportunities for
stories of Market people through
the years to be gathered and told.
Check the Market's bulletin
boards for dates/times of Listening
Post meetings. Come meet the
people involved Monday June 21,
or call Mike Lipowski of Heritage
Toronto at (416) 392-6827, ext. 265 or
Barb Matthews of KMAC at 364-
6955.
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Discouqts range from
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