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Amplified Spotlight: Laila Biali joins us April 30 for our International Jazz Day broadcast Sing About Freedom. Be sure to get your Amplified Membership (br...avoniagara.org) and tune in for the series beginning this Friday! #TDJazz TD #lailabiali #bravoniagaraamplified #internationaljazzday #singaboutfreedom Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist and CBC Music national radio host Laila Biali has headlined festivals and venues spanning five continents from New York City’s Carnegie Hall to Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, and supported international icon Sting. This year, Laila was honoured by SOCAN Music with the Hagood Hardy Award for Excellence in Songwriting. In 2019, Laila’s eponymous release won her a JUNO (Canada’s GRAMMY) for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.

Looking forward to the day we open up again soon and welcome everyone back into our store! We will have lots of Crown Royal waiting for you!

The city of Niagara Falls has declared April 11 Steve Ludzik Day in Niagara Falls conjunction with April being Parkinson’s awareness month on the evening of the 11th ,the Falls will be illuminated red to Honour Steve Ludzik and his contributions to the city and its community.

WATCH : This Friday February 19th, 2021 on the CW Network at 9:00 pm EST as Greg Frewin defines the Great Niagara Falls in a barrel. Check me out @thecw on ...@fooluscw Penn and Teller Fool Us Friday at 9pm perform and illusion in #NiagaraFalls that Houdini never was able to do. #niagarafallsescape #daredevil #foolus #illusion #ESCAPE See more

Final Reminder! Moccasin Talks: Renewing the Spirit of our Mother the Earth is tonight! 7PM. More info on how to register below: https://onepagelit.ca//moccasin-talks-renewing-the-spirit/

Get Your Tickets Now for the Amazing Seasky International Light Show And SAVE! This larger than life exhibit is like nothing you have ever seen before with over... 30 magical LED light exhibits experienced on a 1.5 hour outdoor walking trail in beautiful Niagara Falls, Ontario! Get 20% Off Preview Nights and 10% Off All Other Nights with Coupon Code: LIGHTS10

Snapshots from today's filming of "Menorah" performed by violinist Marc Djokic and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centr...e for Bravo Niagara!'s new "Sounds of Hope" initiative. Commissioned by Bravo Niagara!, Menorah is a composition by renowned multi-JUNO Award-winning Canadian composer Christos Hatzis. Film production partner: Fourgrounds Media Inc. World Premiere coming November 2020

This concert is presented as part of Bravo Niagara!'s Voices of Freedom Festival: Sounds of Hope, a new initiative to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust.

The #SkylonTower is delighted to announce it has been awarded the #SafeTravels Stamp. The Safe Travels Stamp is an international symbol designed to allow travel...lers to recognize governments and companies around the world, which have adopted health and hygiene, standardized protocols so consumers can experience ‘Safe Travels’. #NiagaraFalls See more

We are very excited to announce our Wine Dome Lounge is now OPEN and ready for you enjoy our flights, wine by the glass or cheese plates! Visit our website www.fieldingwines.com to book or call the winery at 905-563-0668.

Sadly, he's had to celebrate alone but the management and staff at Niagara Duty Free wish Pat a very Happy Thanksgiving and thank him for his years of service!

CASTING CALL: Are you not able to spend the holidays with your family out of town? (Compensation: $1000 + if selected) Stella Artois is launching a new campaig...n for the holidays and we're looking to feature someone living in Toronto, Canada (GTA), who won't be able to spend the winter holidays with their family who live out of town. Apply: https://www.thecastinggroup.com/stella-a-taste-of-home The commercial will follow the featured person selected from this casting call who, for one reason or another, won’t be able to go back to their parents/grandparents/uncles/aunts/etc place over the holidays, and because of that reason, they will miss out on the home-cooked holiday food. We will be wanting to feature both the stranded person in Toronto, and a person from home out of town to fully tell this story of missing out of spending the holidays with the family. This most likely will be (but doesn’t have to be) a child and a parent or grandparent. For the person who can’t go home stuck in Toronto: We are looking for someone age 25+, any gender and ethnicity, working in Toronto, but with their family elsewhere in Canada or abroad that they would typically spend the holidays with or had planned on spending the holidays with but of course due to several potential reasons, this year they cannot. Example Stories: International Families: Students, or workers who aren’t able to travel back home during the holidays. Canadians who have older relatives in other countries. Due to COVID or other travel restrictions you cannot make the trip and spend the holidays with them. Or Somebody who lives in Canada but has a lot of family overseas. She doesn’t normally go home over the holidays, but it’s when she misses family and food the most. Holiday Workers: Firefighters, hospital workers, taxi drivers, etc who usually have to work over the holidays so they can’t be with their families from a different part of Canada. Small business owners as well. Example: Young paramedic in Toronto who works through the holiday season and doesn’t have time to go home to Ottawa. Or maybe a Hospital worker who is avoiding contact with her parents to be safe, so you have to spend holidays alone. Or Small restaurant/business owners who need to try to stay open during the holiday and can’t go home. Whatever your story is we want to hear all about it. To be considered, please apply here: https://www.thecastinggroup.com/stella-a-taste-of-home

A HOT TICKET FREE ONLINE EVENT SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER AT 7PM FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, @City of St. Catharines, ON View at www.FirstOntarioPAC.ca - no t...ickets required! CO-HOSTED BY Mayor Walter Sendzik WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: Danny Michel, Tom Wilson, Kevin Fox, Twin Flames, Great Lake Swimmers, Joe Lapinski, Philip Davis of Ol' Child, @Serena Pryne & Nick Riot of The Mandevilles, @MAGNA CUM LOUD WITH DR. PEE (John Press) FROM Gord Downie's COUNTRY OF MIRACLES BAND, Angela Siracusa & Rob Leclerc, Simply Hip, Julian Taylor AND MANY MORE FROM NIAGARA'S TALENTED MUSICAL COMMUNITY! The goal of this event is to provide an opportunity for a diverse, cross-section of amateur and professional musicians to share in Honouring Gord Downie’s music, poetry and artistic work. This concert has been an opportunity for our community to come together to raise funds in support of the PAC’s ongoing commitment to the Downie Wenjack Fund. We encourage you to make a donation and tune in to the event LIVE! DONATE HERE: https://firstontariopac.ca/online/Article/GordDownieFund WATCH FOR FREE HERE: https://firstontariopac.ca/online/Article/GordsLegacy2020 This HOT TICKET presentation by the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre is sponsored by Vineland Estates Winery and is part of our year-round commitment to Celebration of Nations Indigenous featured programming sponsored by Brock University. #TheArtsLiveHere #OurHomeSTC #FirstOntarioPAC #StCatharines #NiagaraPerforms #CelebrationOfNations #BrockU #TheTragicallyHip #TheHip #DownieWenjack #DoSomething

#OrangeShirtDay at #NiagaraFalls #EveryChildMatters Photo MarkZelinski.com from the upcoming book #Niagara #LandBetweenTwoWaters markzelinski.com/photography-books/ #OrangeShirtDay2020 #Indigenous Merci Brian Kon, Phyllis Jack Webstad orangeshirtday.org

What a weekend! Thank you, Chi' Miigwetch to everyone who came together virtually for the 4th annual Celebration of Nations. A MASSIVE thank you goes out to al...l the artists, partners, sponsors and fire keepers that made this year's Celebration of Nations a success! We had over 30,000 viewers during the weekend and all streams will remain online on Facebook, YouTube and www.celebrationofnations.ca until Sun 27 Sept. It was heartwarming to see Indigenous Peoples and allies tuning in and engaging from across Turtle Island and around the world. Live concert photography from Block 1 courtesy of Mark Zelinski Photographic Design and From The Heart Publishing.

Thanks to Kenny Lee Lewis from the Steve Miller Band for the greetings and the song! Celebration of Nations 2020 | Virtual Edition www.celebrationofnations.ca

#OrangeShirtDay at #NiagaraFalls #EveryChildMatters Photo MarkZelinski.com from the upcoming book #Niagara #LandBetweenTwoWaters markzelinski.com/photography-books/ #OrangeShirtDay2020 #Indigenous Merci Brian Kon, Phyllis Jack Webstad orangeshirtday.org

In partnership with the Quarantine Dance Specials 2020 Facebook Group Celebration of Nations has launched a call to participate in a virtual Smoke Dance Competi...tion. The competition will be facilitated by Kehala Smith (Tuscarora Nation, Turtle Clan) and Jordan Smith (Mohawk, Bear Clan) and entries will be showcased as part of the Celebration of Nations weekend and will feature cash prizes for top male and female dancers. Cash prizes will be awarded for top 18+ male and female dancers. Tune into to our live stream Saturday 12 September at 11am to catch this virtual dance compeition. Winners will be announced on Sunday 13 Sept at 11:30am. Celebration of Nations 2020 | Virtual Edition www.celebrationofnations.ca

Thanks to Kenny Lee Lewis from the Steve Miller Band for the greetings and the song! Celebration of Nations 2020 | Virtual Edition www.celebrationofnations.ca

Dr. Robert I. MacDonald and Martin Cooper will lead the teaching, "13,000 Years of Indigenous Navigation and Settlement in the Great Lakes Watershed" live on Sa...turday 12 Sept at 3pm. Even as the Laurentide ice sheet was withdrawing over 13,000 years ago, Indigenous peoples were exploring the newly available landscape as clearly shown by archaeological evidence. The locations of settlements and the tools and technology that make up the archaeological record demonstrate superb adaptation to an environment that changed significantly and continually for thousands of years. This presentation will highlight both the environmental changes and how Indigenous peoples responded to these changes in the Niagara Region and throughout the Great Lakes watershed, including the shift by some southern communities from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural economy over the last 2000 years. https://www.celebrationofnations.ca/2020-virtual-events/ Celebration of Nations 2020 | Virtual Edition

The virtual edition of the 2020 Celebration of Nations has just been announced! "When we were reviewing the Indigenous music scene to curate this year's concer...t, we never could have predicted the outcome," said Tim Johnson, Celebration of Nation’s Artistic Producer. "By serendipity, good fortune, and perhaps a little skill our two choices both ended up winning 2020 JUNO Awards! LeE HARVeY OsMOND (Tom Wilson), Celeigh Cardinal and 2020 Polaris Music Prize shortlisted artist Lido Pimienta are set to share livestream performances. Celebration of Nations will take place virtually from 11-13 September in a continued commitment to supporting the vital voices of the creative and intellectual community. The virtual program will also feature a livestreamed performance from Six Nations of the Grand River of Blood Water Earth by renowned Indigenous creator Santee Smith of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre. For more information and full schedule, please visit us online: https://www.celebrationofnations.ca/ See more

The deadline to register for all workshops is 1 Sept 2020. April Mitchell-Boudreau is a Turtle Clan Mohawk with roots at Six Nations and will lead a virtual Med...icine Wheel Bracelet Workshop on Sun 13 Sept. A long time maker, she is the owner/ designer of Lofttan, a convertible jewelry line made in Niagara on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishnabe people. April is passionate about awakening and engaging the Creator that lives in all of us, and teaches a variety of creative empowerment classes. In this hands-on workshop participants will explore the teachings of the Medicine Wheel through the creation of a beautiful stretch bracelet. At the end of your order, you will have the option of either picking up your workshop materials via no-charge Curbside Pick-Up at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in downtown St. Catharines or you can select the Mail delivery option for a $5 charge. All workshop costs include materials and instruction fee. Zoom links will be sent to all registrants closer to the workshops. Click here to register and to see all of the workshops available at this year's Celebration of Nations. https://firstontariopac.ca///EventArticle-20FEST-Workshops