Sistema Toronto
96 Vine Avenue, Suite 5 M6P 1V7 Toronto, ON, Canada

The first month of 2021 has been #OrganizationMonth at Sistema Toronto. Keeping our schedules, homes, workplaces, and possessions organized can feel like an endless chore, but the more organized our environment the easier it is to organize our thoughts! Read more in our January #SpotlightOnSocialSkills blog: https://www.sistema-toronto.ca/spotlight-social-learning-or

Our Parkdale Senior Viola students have been working on their G Major scale exercises! Learning and practicing scales may seem tedious initially, but it helps you develop the correct finger and arm muscle memory while improving intonation

My song is about a child through the pandemic, and it shows how this can affect kids, too, Sabeshan said. Not being able to see my friends and not being able to go out to restaurants and all that stuff, it sucks.

On Monday we held our final session in our workshop series with drag stars Fay & Fluffy Here’s a clip of Fluffy talking to our senior students about the importance of expanding our knowledge of the world through the media we consume, building a better future, and using our language to support each other instead of bringing others down. These amazing sessions were funded by Community One Foundation and we’re incredibly thankful for the support! #GratitudeWednesday

The way our cities are designed and the way they are excluding people and the facts around the inequalities in who is contracting COVID were baked into our cities long before the pandemic hit. The question now is what do we do?"

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the memory of Trans people whose lives were taken through acts of anti-trans violence, as we work together to make ...communities across Canada safer & consciously more inclusive. Read Minister Bardish Chagger’s statement: https://www.canada.ca//statement-by-minister-chagger-on-tr See more

Reminder: today is a PA day so there's no Sistema online classes this afternoon. We hope you have a great day and weekend ahead!

Our winter newsletter is out now! This newsletter brings you reflections on this year as it comes to a close, as well as updates from the Sistema Toronto team regarding fall programming, holiday season fundraising, recent news, success stories, and more https://www.sistema-toronto.ca/upbeat-sistema-toronto-winte

Orson is a junior cellist from our Parkdale centre, and he's so proud of his progress playing Twinkle Twinkle that he shared this wonderful video with us. Bravo, Orson! Keep up the great work

A Brooklyn-born music prodigy has become one of the youngest-ever composers featured by a major orchestra, in a piece inspired by the challenges and cultural reckonings of 2020. I feel that music can change the way other people see the world around them, Moore said. #ourfutureleaders

Our Scarborough/Yorkwoods senior violin students are working hard to develop their playing skills, including their smooth slurs and sharp staccatos! Slurs indicate that the notes should be played smoothly and without separation, and a dot placed above or below a note indicates that it should be played staccato - detached and of shortened duration #WednesdayWisdom

Are you passionate about our program? Another way to help Sistema Toronto this holiday season is by entering for a chance for us to WIN $5,000 from CanadaHelps as part of #GivingTuesday! To enter, simply submit which charity you would like to see win the $5,000 prize before November 30th

Sistema means... friendships For #GivingTuesday2020 we're showcasing what Sistema means to our students and why you should consider supporting our program this holiday season. Here's a little sneak peak from Scarborough Music & Movement student Lorene. T-minus 5 days to go!

This weekend, people all over the world celebrated Diwali - the festival of lights! Parkdale student Pranavi shared her Diwali celebrations with her class on Friday, and explained more about the importance of the holiday and some of the traditions

On this #GratitudeWednesday we would like to say thank you to Sara Jordan from The Jordan Family Foundation and Dr. Amol Verma for supporting our composition project with University of Toronto student Shreya Jha! Here's our Parkdale Music & Movement class performing their 2020 lockdown rap called "One Day" which they worked on with Shreya this year Shreya’s position is funded by the Gordon Delamont Memorial Scholarship through The Jordan Family Foundation, and we are also incredibly grateful for the foundation’s scholarships from the Bernie Pitch Memorial scholarship and scholarship in honour of Eleanor Lawrie which supports some of our most diligent students!

"Online subscriptions and charity donations are easy ways to give the gift of sound this year."

#GivingTuesday2020 is only one week away! Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. We'll be celebrating, and we hope you will too!