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ERICA BRISSON: LOCAL COLOUR INFO CENTRE
October 4 to November 11, 2012 | Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Miracle Thieves
249 Crawford St. (at Dundas St., across from Trinity Bellwoods Park)
Emerging Toronto artist Erica Brisson engages audiences in an exploration of public space, identity and community through drawing and urban interventions. Inspired by tourism information centres as well as the process of public consultation, Local Colour Info Centre sets up a social space where passersby can share their personal interpretations of the city's intentional or informal landmarks.
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, October 4, 6 - 9 PM | Artist talk 7 PM
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IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER FOR FALL CLASSES AT THE KOFFLER!
The Koffler offers classes in visual art, ceramics, music, dance and more for all ages and interests in our signature art and studio classes at three locations:
- at our home base in the Prosserman JCC on Sherman Campus at Bathurst and Sheppard
- at the Schwartz/Reisman Centre on the brand new Lebovic Jewish Community Campus, just north of Bathurst and Rutherford in Vaughan
- at the beautiful new studios at The Leo Baeck Day School, South Campus (Arlington)
*NEW* ONLINE REGISTRATION IS OPEN... REGISTER TODAY!
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HONESTYA performance intervention by Jordan Tannahill, starring Virgilia Griffith October 18 to November 4, 2012
Tuesday - Friday, Act One: 5 - 6:30 PM, Act Two: 7:30 - 9 PM Saturday - Sunday, Act One: 2 - 3:30 PM, Act Two: 4:30 - 6 PM | FREE
Honest Ed's, various locations within the store | 581 Bloor St. West, Toronto
Honesty is a performance intervention in two acts that plays out in various locations within Toronto's iconic Honest Ed's discount emporium. By embodying the diverse people who sustain it daily, performer Virgilia Griffith becomes a living, breathing record of the store. Shape-shifting between voices, transcending age, gender, and race, she also comes to represent the very essence of Toronto's working class, who have come to rely on the store over decades.
Presented in partnership with Suburban Beast and in association with the Koffler Gallery Off-Site exhibition Summer Special. Summer Special continues until November 11, 2012.
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KOFFLER @ THE IFOA
Sunday, October 28, 2012 | Noon
Harbourfront Centre, Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W.
$18 General | $15 Koffler Envision Members & AUTHORS Supporters | Tickets
The Koffler co-presents Man Booker Prize-winning British author Howard Jacobson at the International Festival of Authors. Jacobson will be interviewed by Dan Friedman, Managing Editor of the Forward, and read from his latest work, Zoo Time.
Presented together with the International Festival of Authors.
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LIFE IN STILLS - A FILM BY TAMAR TAL AND Q&A WITH BEN PETER
Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 7 PM | Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street W.
Film: General $12 | Koffler & Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Members $10
Film + post-screening soirée at the Victory Café (incl. drink ticket and food): $18
Tickets
The award-winning Israeli documentary explores the relationship between Ben Peter and his 96-year old grandmother Miriam - the late photographer Rudi Weissenstein's 96-year-old widow - as they try to save Weissenstein's landmark photo studio in Tel Aviv from development. Screening followed by Q&A and soirée with with Ben Peter at the Victory Café.
Presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts, Size Doesn't Matter and Sternthal Books. Sponsored by Ryerson University. Additional sponsor: Hillel of Greater Toronto.
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IN THE COMMUNITY
Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company presents Nazi Hunter: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
October 9 - 18, 2012 | Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St.
Tickets start at $30 | 1.855.985.2787
Uma Nota Festival of Tropical Expressions
October 19 - 21, 2012 | Various venues
The Uma Nota Festival returns to Toronto with local and international live and DJ musical performances, workshops, a talk series, films, food and drink. New for this year, Uma Nota will co-present two films over the weekend and will produce the Brazil Film Fest opening and closing parties.
Art Toronto 2012: Toronto International Art Fair
October 26 - 29, 2012 | Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street W.
General Admission: $18 online | $20 onsiteArt Toronto is an ideal opportunity to view and purchase original art by Canadian and international artists. Featuring exhibits by more than 100 international galleries from 23 countries, Art Toronto includes a program of art tours, video screenings, curated projects and solo exhibitions. This year, Art Toronto welcomes 3 galleries from Israel: Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv & Toronto; Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and Vision Neil Folberg Gallery, Jerusalem. These galleries will feature both contemporary and historical work by Israeli and Jewish artists.
Jaffa Road CD Release: Where The Light Gets In
October 28, 2012 | 8:30 PM | Hugh's Room, 2261 Dundas St. W.
$20 advance | $22.50 doorJoin us for the CD release of Jaffa Road's new album, Where the Light Gets In. Shimmering with pulsating dub grooves, ambient electronic textures and enough rollicking rhythms to make your belly dance, Jaffa Road's new album transports listeners to the Middle East, India, Spain, North America and all points in between.
Koffler Centre of the Arts is proud to be a Community Partner for this event.
Echo Sculpture Studio
3906 Chesswood Dr.
Echo Sculpture is pleased to announce their evening instructor, Kathryn D. Ellis. Kathryn earned a BFA in Sculpture from NSCAD in 1995 and her work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. She has spent time carving in Querceta Italy, and in 2005 participated in the Stone Carving Symposium in Inverness, Nova Scotia. |
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Koffler Centre of the Arts
4588 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario M2R 1W6
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The Koffler Centre of the Arts is Canada's only multidisciplinary, contemporary Jewish cultural institution. We present cutting-edge exhibitions of new Canadian and international art, and diverse programs in music, dance, literature, film, spoken word, and theatre. Our programs welcome everyone from every background. The Koffler Centre of the Arts is an agency of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Thank you to our supporters: 
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Join ENVISION, the Koffler Centre of the Arts' membership program.
Benefits include access to special member's events, great discounts and more.
Membership begins at just $80.
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