Canada Day Scarborough Celebration

Rhythm Performing Arts is a multicultural organization , unifying everyone under one art form: DANCE. (July 2nd, 8:00pm - 10:00pm) Their mission is to promote artistic and creative expression through dance and diverse performing arts at many showcases, events, and performances throughout the GTA. They have won many competitions since 2012, performed in front of the former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper in Brampton, performed, at the Pan Am Pre-Games Boxing Tournament, have been the opening act for artists like Anjulie and JRDN at concerts hosted by UTM, been the opening act with two other perfomance at UofT Festival of Dance (Canadas largest dance festival), to name a few!

From East to West: The Filipino Love of Music Come enjoy the best singing performance from the community (July 2nd, 5:00pm - 6:00pm) Chyrell Samson has been enchanting audiences and touching their hearts with her voice since 1995 in Toronto. She started singing at age 3, joined several choirs such as the UP Concert Chorus and the UP Manila Chorale in university and was a member the Mississauga-based Himig Pilipino Chorale Ensemble for 10years. She was also a part of a band... called the "Yan Yon Band" in the late 90s till mid-2000s. She won numerous singing competitions, received several awards, held concerts and released a couple of albums. Jennifer Uy is a rare vocal talent. She is a classically trained singer whose musical styles range from Opera to House to R&B. She won the Golden Voice award at FairchildTV's New Talent Singing Awards and was a finalist in the Maria Callas Opera Grand Prix in Athens, Greece. Past roles include Micaela in the opera, CARMEN, with the Summer Lyric Opera Theatre, and debuted the role of Kim in Nightwood Theatre's experimental new opera, PERSEPHONE CALLING, with Dora award-winning, Marjorie Chan as librettist and music by composer, Wendy Bartley. The Rize (boyband) is 3 member boy band consisting of Glenn Montera (21), Francis De Las Alas (19), and Aaron Hernandez (16). With education from Cardinal Carter Academy of the Arts and St. Michael’s Choir School, the members have been musical trained in both classical and more modern styles of music. Giselle Villegas is 9 years old. She loves to sing and dance . She goes to french immersion school. She also takes piano lesson, kung fu lesson and dance lessons. She is a member of MFFC (Markham Filipino Federation Center).

Toronto Inner-City Rugby Foundation (TIRF) is a rugby-centred community development non-profit organization. Their goal is to build communities through rugby and rugby through communities. TIRF has established strong relationships with all stakeholders in the rugby landscape to ensure that the game of rugby is accessible financially, geographically, and culturally. Visit their booth and watch the TIRF Rugby demonstrations using the field space consisting of: field games, mini rugby games, flag games, drills, etc.. (July 2nd, 1:00pm - 6:00pm)

Delegates of the Miss Teenage Canada pageant, Miss Teen Toronto E and Miss Teen Scarborough will also be attending the Canada Day Scarborough Celebration (July 1st, 1:00pm to 4:00pm)

ONE WORLD DRUM & DANCE - 4 different cultures, more than 20 traditional percussions will be collaborating live on stage. Enjoy the multicultural music and dancing that have made Canada, and Toronto their new home. Don't miss it... (July 1st, 8:00pm - 10:00pm)

Amigu di Macau Club (Toronto) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002, and officially registered in Canada. Their Club's Chinese music ensemble maintains a repertoire of traditional Macanese folk music, Chinese classical music and Portuguese music as well. They believe it is one of the important avenues to reach the community and overseas audiences, in preserving and promoting Macao’s unique cultural identity. (July 1st, 3:15 - 3:30)