Vol.10 No.2 - Dec 1999

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Volume 10 #2
Kensington Marl<et
DRUM
A Kensington people's paper
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December 14, 1999
AbQve, Left to right
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Tia Maria, Chris
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Angela, Savi $
Kamaroo, and
.AJani, joined many
voluteers making
lanterns for the
upcoming Festival
of Lights
See Page 2
INSIDE
11th annual Festival of Lights ...............:............: ...... 2,3,6
Editorial: When is a wall not a wall? .................. 4
Letters to DRUM ............................................................ 4
So what's happening .,vith .....................................................4
Community calendar ........................................................... 5
LIVING KEIVSIJVGTOJV .Chrlstmas on $~00.
Mask by Aim Fauchon keeps six as Batz Maru, the wide
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Kensington's oldest festival takes the streets Tuesday December 21 at 5.30 pm
Festival of Lights is ll years young~
TATTOOS & PIERCING
283 Augusta Avenue
Toronto, Ontario ..
phone:416.204.1657
Tuesday December 21
at 5. 30pm, Kensington
.Carnival's 11th annual
Kensington Festival of
Lights--a celebration
of the Winter Solstice-­
takes to the streets of
the Market,
This traditional
procession of lanterns,
drummers, stiltwalkers,
jugglers,
.firebreathers and
revelers winds through
the colourful streets of
Kensington beckoning
the Sun to return on
the longest night of the ·
year.
Congratulations for
another successful
Festival of Lights.
Best Wishes for the
Holiday Season
and for the year 2000.
854 Dudas St. West,
Toronto M6J 1 VS
Tel: (416) 603-9664
• ' ' Fax: (416) 603- 1241
Rosario Marchese email: rmarchese.co@ndp.on.ca
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Surprise theatrical scenarios
are interspersed throughout
the Market- including a
rooftop Nativity Scene,
lighting the Hanukkah
Menorah on the steps of the
Synagogue (a spectacular new
offering this year from the
Ashkenaz Festival), a pagan
Solstice story told with giant
puppets, Italy's La Befana, a
blazing send-off of the "old
year", a Mummers' play, the
Ten Suns of Chinese mythology
and more.
Created by Ida Camevali in
1988, the Festival of Lights is
Toronto's original lantern
procession - a joyous blend of
visual spectacle and popular
outdoor theatre to celebrate
the cultural diversity of the
Market and beyond. Creative
Directors Gabriella Caruso,
Andy Moro and Valerie
Buhagiar, will be joined by
hundreds of local and visiting
artists, donating their talents
and time once again to offer to
the community this free
magical winter night's event.
Some costumes and hats are
available to the public, as are
glowing lanterns to carry in
the procession and take home.
Volunteers are always welcome.
But most of all, bring
Continued on page 6
Festival of Lights is family fun
As much fun as the festival is
to watch, it is even more so to
participate. Come to one or
more of the Festival's
popular Lantern Making
Workshops ... where anyone
can make a beautiful
lantern. Two workshops have
already been held: Saturday
Dec.ll and Sunday Dec.12.
The two remaining\workshops
are Saturday Dec.18 Noon-
6pm, and Sunday Dec.19
Noon-6pm There is a $5
materials fee per person.
Also offered this year is a
Festival Drumming Workshop,
in Pan African and
Caribbean Continental
Diaspora Drumming techniques.
This workshop takes
place on Sunday Dec.19 from
2-5. The fee is $25.
Registration is required for
the drumming workshop and
recommended for Lantern
workshops. All workshops are
at St.Stephen's Church (cnr
College and Bellevue) - enter
through the Bellevue doors.
222 Augusta Ave.
( 416)979-0700
Lowest Prices & Best Selection
In Kensington Market
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Kensington Carnival
Festival of Lights
1999 Parade Route
& Scenarios
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3. East Coast Boat. Vignette.
4 Poinsetta Children vignet~e
5. Middle Eastern Boat. Vignette
6. Fish boat. Vignette
7. East Coast Boat. Vignette
8. Hannukah. Scenario on the
synagogue steps
9. White Buffalo Calf Woman.
A I Vignette,
1 0. A Chagail Moment Vignette
11 . 10 Tai-Chi suns Vignette
12. Nativity. Scenario. Exact
location TBC. Probably Park
Washroom roof ·
13. Solstice,.Scenario,
Wading Pool, Bellevue Park
14 Burning the old year.
Scenario. Wading pool
Tom's
1 5 Mummers Play . Scenario
back at St Stephen's Church
More on the
Festival of Lights:·
please see page 6
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Kensington Market DRUM
Vol 10 #2 December 141 999
is published by
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Advertising deadline Feb 5
So, w.hat's happening with ... ?
Above, the Bellevue Square seat wall: approved in the spring, longed
for all summer, hoped for in the fall, promised in November .... now
under way. See THE EDITOR's NOTEBOOK, this page.
The Kensington Health tough go, especially at this time of
Centre (200 bed long-term care
seniors' facility on the site of the
former Doctors Hospital)
The story so far: the former
Doctors Hospital (Kensington
year." So it looks likely that the
200-bed facility on the south half of
the site will go ahead. (Local city
councillor Olivia Chow promised
last March that the design will be
Kensington Market
Action Committee
The story so far: Elected to
KMAC October 7 were: Susarmah
Bunce, Mike Busija, Dawn Eagle,
Susanne Langlois, Christine Melo,
David Me/vi/le, Greg Peacock, Jnta
Rid/er, Michael Rosenberg, and
Charles Udo.
Update: on the basis of the group's
achievements since the October 7
AGM, Human Resources Development
Canada (HRDC) has agreed
to extend KMAC's funding (set to
expireDec 2) till the end ofMarch.
The extra funding provides salaries
for KMAC's facilitator and community
worker, and rent on the
KMAC office at 67 Kensington
Avenue. Next KMAC general
meeting is Tuesday January 11th at
7pm at 67 Kensington Avenue.
Western Hospital's "thumbs
down" to providing housing
on the site
L--------------' Health Centre) cleared a m_ajor brought to a meeting of Toronto Last time we reported that the
TALKING DRUM
THE EDITOR's NoTEBOOK
When is a wall
not a wall?
Answer: it always is.
It's what a wall does or doesn t
do that's more to the point: And
the wall now being built around
the playground in Bellevue
Square Park doe~ just great. We
could have ended up with chain
link or pickets or a squabble
between parents and dog
owners.
Instead we got:
--a gentle boundary line, not a
barricade, .between park uses;
--a place to lean paintings
during "art in the park";
--a place to stand to watch the
climax of next week's solstice
parade;
--an archipelago for "island
tag";
something way more comfortable
for people to sit on than
your typical Kensington fence!
technical hurdle in October when community council for deputations Western Hospital had ruled out the
the City Building Department ruled by the community.)
idea of permanent housing in the
they could go ahead using the 1985 Meanwhile the Doctors Hospital two buildings slated for demolition
Doctors Hospital zoning approvals. has applied to the province for a on the site, but that they would
Neighbourhood residents began · further 150 long-term care beds on consider providing "transitional
attempting to raise money to take the north half of the site (in accommodation" for people
the ruling to court. · contradiction of iheir earlier discharged from the,ir hospital with
Update: according to Sussex- statements that they would provide nowhere appropriate to go.
Ulster neighbOurhood spokesperson a "continuum of care from inde­
David DePoe, trying to raiSe money pendent to chronic" on the site).
Update: cross-town "rival" St.
Michael's Hospital has just anto
take the struggle to court was ''a More in January. CoNTINUED NEXT PAGE
Re: "Welcome all newcomers"
(Kensington Market DRUM, Vol.
10, #1, November 8, 1999)
"We wish you a speedy adjustment
to the noise, the confusion and the
smells. Remember, they were here
before you."
What kind of a welcome message
is that for the homeowners just
moving into the new Kensington
Lofts? Personally I hope the
newcomers will be more insistent
and, morejmportantly, more
influential in turning around the
declining quality of life in Kensington.
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Yes, noise, color and diversity are
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should have to put up with litterand
graffiti-strewn steets, needle­
'intested park~ ami playgrounds,
and in-your-face squeegees that are
also, tragically, part of the Kensington
fabric.
If we accept the status quo and
the rundown state of affairs,
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Kensington in favor of better-kept
communities elsewhere in the city.
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That's a shame because with its
central location and diversity,
Kensington has the potential to be
one of the city's strongest investment
magnets and most coveted
iie1gfi60ihoods: · - · ... ·
So how about this for a revised
message?. "Welcome all newcomers.
Please protect and enhance
your new investment, by getting
involved and doing everything it
takes to turn your neighborhood
into a cleaner, safer and more
attractive place for everyone."
Yours sincerely,
JoHNHoWE
(Mr Howe is not
himself a resident
ofthe Kensington
Lofts. He lives on
Oxford Street.)
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trepidation. There are t1
the time of gift giving tJ
hidden them in every nook an<
practice that fails with people I
· ment, December 24th, around
Anna and St(lwart greet custome
paradise at "Courage My Love".
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my favourite eatery, Club 56/c .
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SING TON
BY MCHAB. BusuA
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many of us, fraught with anxious
enough to plan ahead, so that by
huge piles of offerings and
is a certain logic to this
usually wait till the last mo-
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Fortunately my
assignment for this
issue offered the
opportunity to avoid
the panic and frenzy
characteristic of last
minute shopping.
And a happy chore it's
been. Given a budget
of$100 I set out to see
what treasures I could
find in Kensington
Market. For the first
studded gift time in my life I've
done all my gift
buying a month ahead. ·
great Hungarian dinner for two at
56/c Kensington. The food at
the Market. I know Daniel and his
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Kensington I picked up
Kensington" pro­
$12.00 each. This CD
finest home grown.
AtRegalo on Kensington
Avenue,
where there were
hundreds of suitable
gifts, I purchased a
fine hand made
camel-bone box from
India for friend
Shawn. ($12:00)*
Community Calendar
Kensington's History: part 6
Here is the revised te~t of a historical
plaque to be installed in
Bellevue Square Park adjacent to
the new seat wall. The plaque, a
joint project of Heritage Toronto
and the Kensington Listening Post,
was originally to be installed as part
of last June 21 s Celebrating
Kensington event at Bellevue Square
Park.
For thousands of years before the
arrival of immigrants, the First
Nations hunted and gathered on
these lands. What we now know as
the culturally diverse downtown
neighbourhood of Kensington,
bounded by Spadina Avenue,
Bathurst, College, and Dundas
Streets, has a long history of human
habitation.
In the early 1800's the Kensington
area consisted of large uncultivated
plots of land owned by the Denison
and Baldwin families. George Taylor
Denison, the first son of Captain
John Denison, built Belle Vue, a
notable mansion with adjacent
erchards and gardens in 1815. This
stood where the Kiever Synagogue is
located today in Bellewe Square. In
1858, Robert Brittain Denison, son
of Geprge Taylor Denison donated
land and money to build the first
Anglican church west of Spadina,
St. Stephen-In-The-Fields. The area
developed slowly over the next few
decades, as the family estates were
divided and sold.
By the 1870's increased immigration
initiated a housing boom in Kensington
and English, Irish, and
Scottish labourers begm~. to settll,'! in
the area. In the years prior to WWI
Eastern European immigrants
moved into homes located along the
back lanes, such as Kensington
Place and Fitzroy Terrace. During
nounced that they have
put in place a "transitional
program" of this
type. So it can be done.
HAT'S HAPPENING
The proposed
1000-sq ft
storefront community
space ·
in the Kensington
Lofts?
The story so far:· a
community meeting
June 16 decided that
no further decisions
should be taken on this
untli the new board of
the Kensington Market
Working Group has
decided where it stands
on the issue. The space
is now available for
occupancy.
Update: None. The
KMWG board elected
July 27 has not yet
announced who their
new office bearers are,
and has not called or
held any community
meetings.
Questions to So What's
Happening with •.•••
Fax 603-3787: e-mail
drumkm@web.net
this time small businesses emerged to
serve the local community. Merchandise
was first sold from valises, then push
carts, horse-drawn wagons, and eventually
along Kensington Avenue. Ground floor
rooms were then converted into "Mom
and Pop" storefronts. The area became
known as the Jewish Market.
Since the early 1900's many have found
refuge in Kensington, from the First
Nations to many waves of immigrants.
From First Nations aits endeavors to the
many profitable retail grocery and dry
goods businesses, Kensington continues to
attract new merchants, residents, and
visitors and is one of few remaining open
air markets in Canada. On this day, June
21, 1999, Kensington ~tands as a microcosm
of our nation owing its success to
the constant arrival of new immigrants.
CALENDAR
KMAC HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
Members of the Kensington Market Action
Committee cordially invite you to join them in
celebrating the festive season at their
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St. Stephen's
COMMUNITY
HOUSE
. Crming Opponunrti<s
Strengthffung Convnunmts
§ce<al§<O>lrll 1 §
GrlF<eetdng§
to the ~
Kensington Community
and Congratulations on the
11th Annual
,.,eatiuat
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The Staff and Vohmteers
St. Stephen's Community House
91 Bellevue Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2N8
Tel: (416')925-2103 Fa)(: (416)966-2178
St. Stephen's makes a difference in the lives of over
19,000 people a year! Our programs include: Child
Care, Youth Services, Employment and Training
Services, Wellness Promotion, Lailguage Training and
Newcomer Services, Senior Services, Services for
Homeless/Marginally Housed People, Conflict
Resolution Services and Neighbourhood Development.
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information, please contact Barb Matthews, , ...,
KMAC Coordinator at Tel: (41 6) 593-9604 or I A. ·
Fax: (416) 364-6474 or Email:
kmac@web.net.
COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE,
Toronto Western Hospital, Wednesday
December 15, 5pm, Fell Pavilion, Toronto
Western, room 6-1 03 (6th floor)
ACCESS ALLIANCE: HOLIDAY OPEN
HOUSE in their new location at 340 College
Street, Suite 500 (College east of· Brunswick)
324-0927 ext 238 or 242. 3:30 to 6:30
Thursday December 1 6. Light refreshments,
craft display, entertainment, special guests,
ribbon cutting at 5pm
AFmCAN
& DIASPORA
276 Augusta Ave
Art, Batiks, Bags, Baskets, Beads,'
Books, Candles, Cards, Clothing, Mud­
Cloth, Drums, Fabric, Jewelry, Kora,
Marimba, Mbira, Music & Music
Instruments, Painting, Pottery, Silver,
Wall-Hangings_ and much more.
Learn African Music
guitar, trumpet, piano, bass, drums
Satellite Music School
Jojo Bennett (Satellites Reggae Band)
Learn African Drumming
Muhtadi & Chi
Learn African Dance
Easy & Welcome
Rehearsal Space Available
South African Centre
Tel: 416-966-4059
Fax: 416-935-0367
email:
sasic@globalserve.net
Cecil Community Centre
Winter Programs
Monday
Got a question about
your health?
A free health information centre
sening West Toronto
• Pamphlets and brochures
• Books and videos, databases
• Community information:
• Toronto Social Housing
Connections
• Health, social, and recreation
programs
- . Free and low- cost..wot:_ltqiQ~ :: ·.: .
• Printed resources in Chinese, English,
Portuguese, Spanish. and Vietnamese
• Falamos Portugues
• Hablamos Espanol
9am- 5pm Tuesday 1:30pm 8pm
Wednesday 9am- 5pm Thursday 9am- 8pm
Friday 9am - 5 pm
Tel: 603 -:- 7200 Fax: 603-7203
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Scadding Court Community Centre
707 DUNOAS STREET W TORONTO, ON MST ZW6
TEL (416) 392-0335 FAX (416) 392-0340
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
ESL ONE-TO-ONE TUTORING
Tutors are needed Monday and Wednesday evenings
to assist adult learners to develop their English language skills
. in a supportive. learning-centred environment.
me to the exotic
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Looking to get out of the cold? Why not drop by Cecil Community Centre
and join in on some great programs. we· offer programs for children, ·youth,
adults, seniors and families. Some of them include: the Toy Lenders Library
I Caregiver's Drop-In, Children's Craft & Reading Circle, Community •.
Libra~, Community Dr~p-ln, Youth Program & ESL Classes. As well during . C ··._.
. the w1nter season we Will "Offer YOGA and Wen-do courses. ·
If you are interested in volunteering, Cec[l is a great place to get involved.
We have many opportunities available for ESL Tutors, program assistants,
administrative work, just to mention a few. If you are interested in
volunteering please drop by the Centre or give us a call. ~------~
Located at
Please drop by the Centre to pick up a calendar of activities or- 58 Cecil Street
call the Canter for more information. When you are in the (416) 392-1090
area, feel free to stop in and relax in our new lounge area. We (East of Spadina, one
look forward to seeing you at the Centre....
block south of College)
SWIM AND SOCIAL
Volunteers are needed on Monday and Thursday evenings
to help people with disabilities to enjoy
the pool and social time.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Special Events • Community Cafe • Childcare
Community Garden • Greenhouse • Composting
Administration • After School Programs
Referee, Coach, Teach Sports
Please contact Carol Lynn Wallace, 392-0335, ext. 230, for more information
Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas Street West (at Bathurst)
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Feast of Stephen's: post-parade tradition continues
The final scenario in the
Festival of Lights parade is
the Clay and Paper Theatre
Mummers Play, back at St.
Stephen's Church where the
parape began.
But this final scenario is
actually only the half-way
point ip. the evening. What
happens is that, after chilling
their ¥ies wandering
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MIDDLE EASTERlY DELl
Authentic Middle Eastern .Foods
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Hommous, Babba
Gannuge, Fooll, .
Moudammas (Fava
Dip), Tabboli,
Spinach Pies, Zataar
Pies, Baked Eggplant,
Vegetables, Nuts,
Olives, Cheeses.
through the market, participants
Drummer/Singers; Debbie D. and more ....
get to go inside the and the Pan-African drum- The final line-up will not be
church to warm their bellies mers; Darbazi Choir; Lisa known until the event is over!
with hot soup and bread Skeete and the Ryerson But the fun is guaranteed.
provided through the generosity
Community School African · Over the course of five years
of the market's merchants. Caribbean heritage class this "feast of St. Stephen's" has
A raucous evening's merrymaking
and socializing then
performing a Kwanzaa Song; become a Festival highlight. .
follows.
. The post-parade stage will
.
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feature the Eagl~ ~eart family and friends and anyone a non-perishable food item,
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in the cold to join in one of the clothing for St. Stephen's
year's' most touching events- Corner Drop-In and Youth
Fallafel Sandwiches,
Baked Falafel, -
Shawarma and
Chickenwarma.
Butter of Peanuts,
Almonds, Cashews
and nazell'Vuts.
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Visit our showroom and enjoy the aroina
and atmosphere of our products.
Christmas Baskets for Gifts available
Season's Greetings
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the Festival that honours the Arcade. You can call the
traditions of old and has Festival Hotline at 929-8413
become a tradition in itself. for details, workshop registra-
You are asked to please bring tion, and to volunteer.
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Community Health Centre
Queen West Community Health Centre is
looking for Volunteers for:
*Client support and accompaniment
*front· desk reception
* music group
*and other positions
If yo.u have 4 hours a week to share and
are interested in helping out please call
Michelle at: 703-8482 ex 330
Qoups at Queen We9
TEL.: (416) 59.3-9754 FAX: (416) 593-7135
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Interested in learning new skills and meeting
new people? Queen West Community health
Centre offers group work opportunities. We
run an assertiveness group for women, a
relaxation group and a music group for those
who like to sing and make music with others.
If you are interested in any of these groups or
have an idea for another group, give Janice a
call at: 703-8482 ex325