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FEBRUARY HIGHLIGHTS
Flavio Trevisan: Museum of the Represented City
Spring Classes
Honeycomb Way: A Musical Journey Into the Sacred
Koffler Chamber Orchestra: Music Off the Map
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Join Envision - the

Koffler Centre of the Arts' Membership Program.

 

Benefits include discounts on classes and programs, invitations to special members-only receptions and events, and more. PLUS get a MIX Card - with fabulous discounts across the GTA.

 

 

 

Working with a costumed model, work in any painting or drawing medium, including watercolour, pastel, oil or acrylic. Instructor:

Sadko Hadzihasanovic.

 

Fridays
9 AM - 1 PM
March 16 - May 25
$450 + HST

 

Life Drawing 

 

Get back into drawing the human form, or start drawing for the first time. Instructor: Brian Smith.

 

Saturday & Sunday 

9:30 AM - 4 PM
March 17 & 18
$180 + HST

 

 

 

Ideal for people looking to have fun while getting exercise, with one of Toronto's leading performers of Middle-Eastern belly dance. Instructor: Drorit Ibtissam.

 

Sundays
12:30  - 2:30PM
March 25 - June 10
$220 + HST

 

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CIBC Wood Gundy 

 

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National Post 2011 

 
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 Toronto Arts Council

 

Ontario Arts Council

 

Canada Council for the Arts

 

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  UJA Federation 2011

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FLAVIO TREVISAN:
MUSEUM OF THE REPRESENTED CITY 

Continues to April 8, 2012
Koffler Gallery Off-Site at 80 Spadina Ave., Suite 501

 

Toronto artist Flavio Trevisan creates an immersive museum environment with three-dimensional maps and playful objects, inviting visitors to explore different ways of engaging with the cityscape and Toronto's built history.

 

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Fall Classes
SIGN UP NOW FOR SPRING CLASSES!

 

Get the jump on spring and sign up now for classes in visual art, music, dance, writing, photography and ceramics at the Koffler Centre of the Arts.

 

The full class schedule and details are posted on our website. Spring classes start after Passover in April - register now before they fill up!

 

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HONEYCOMB WAY:
A MUSICAL JOURNEY INTO THE SACRED
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 8 PM
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E.
 
TICKETS ON SALE NOW! WILL SELL OUT!
 
Be the first to experience a one-of-a-kind journey mixing and melding the musical traditions of Middle Eastern Jews together with Eastern European Jewish music. Yair Dalal and Frank London will compose and perform new music together with Waleed Abdulhamid, Aviva Chernick, Rick Lazar, Lenka Lichtenberg, Demetrios Petsalakis, Debashis Sinha, and Maryem Tollar.

 

Plus: During their weeklong residency, Dalal and London will offer master classes, lecture-demonstrations and interactive talks for musicians and music lovers alike.

 

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Koffler Chamber Orchestra 2011-12
KOFFLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: 
MUSIC OFF THE MAP
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 3 PM
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W.
 
Featuring bold contemporary Canadian composers mapping the cosmos of new music together with Canadian soprano Melanie Conly. The program's theme is taken from the Koffler Gallery exhibition Museum of the Represented City.
 

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JOIN OUR TEAM OF ART INSTRUCTORS!

 

Starting in the summer and fall of 2012, the Koffler will offer classes in visual art and ceramics in the brand new, state-of-the-art studios at the Schwartz/Reisman Centre on Lebovic Campus in Vaughan. 


We are looking for dedicated and experienced instructors to teach workshops and full-term courses to adults and children in the following areas:

  • Painting/Drawing: classical and contemporary
  • Ceramics: wheel throwing, sculpture and functional
  • Crafts: high quality crafts such as sewing, knitting, jewelry making, etc.

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IN THE COMMUNITY

     

Visiting Mr. Green starring Theodore Bikel
January 28 to February 18, 2012
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E.
Don't miss legendary Academy, Tony and Emmy-award nominee Theodore Bikel in a great Jewish comedy!

Presented by the Harold Green Jewish Theatre.
Tickets & info: www.hgjewishtheatre.com | 416.366.7723

Quote: KOFFLER and get 20% off!

 

 

Zero Hour
February 8 to March 11, 2012

Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst St.
The return limited engagement of the madcap theatrical portrait of the legendary Zero Mostel. 

 

Presented by Lia and Dana Matthow.

Info & tickets: 1.855.448.7469 | www.zerohourshow.com  
Special Offer, 2 for 1 Tickets: www.zerohourshow.com/mailer/zero3.htm 

 

 

Lost and Found Spaces: Buildings, Cities and the Stories They Tell
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7 PM | $5
Kiever Synagogue, 25 Bellevue Avenue

Shawn Micallef (Spacing Magazine editor); Sara Ferdman Tauben (author of the new book, Traces of the Past: Montreal's Early Synagogues); and David Kaufman (filmmaker and architectural photographer) will discuss rediscovering forgotten urban spaces. Moderated by Lisa Rochon, award-winning architecture critic of the Globe and Mail. Reception follows. 


PLUS: FREE OPEN HOUSE AT THE KIEVER! Sunday, February 19, 2 - 5 PM: Featuring an architectural tour of the sanctuary and 100th Birthday Party for the Kiever for all ages.

 

Presented by Makom together with the Kiever Synagogue. Info: www.makomto.org

 

 

Yitzhak Yedid: Through the Window of Marc Chagall
Thursday March 1, 2012, 8 PM | $15
Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC | 750 Spadina Ave. @ Bloor
Acclaimed 'third stream' artist Yitzhak Yedid, a master pianist and shrewd composer, stops in Toronto for one night during his North American tour of new CD: Through the Window of Marc Chagall. Yedid has played Carnegie Hall, Europe, US, Asia and Africa and has released 11 CDs.

 

Presented by the Miles Nadal JCC.
More info & tickets: 416.924.6211 x0 | www.algreentheatre.ca

 

 

Olka And Her Blue Parasol by N'eema Lakin-Dainow
Arca Publishing in association with Amazon Kindle Books is pleased to announce the launch of Olka And Her Blue Parasol, an illustrated children's book by longtime Koffler Centre of the Arts' student N'eema Lakin-Dainow.
 

To buy or preview: www.amazon.com/dp/B0050W9KGI

 

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