Toronto Ward Museum

Call for submissions! We want to hear from you about your favourite family or BIPOC owned restaurant in Toronto and what food experiences you’ve been missing during the pandemic. Write your favourite food makers and restaurateurs a love letter by filling out our submission form or submitting a video, audio or visual piece - get creative! See our Eventbrite page to access the submission form and to register for the live event on Saturday December 19th, where we’ll be sharing... these love letters! Submission deadline is Thursday December 17th. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/127075814181

Registration for our second Dishing Up Toronto event is live! Toronto’s food scene is, and will continue to be, one of Canada’s most diverse. Newcomers across the city help hold up and raise the dynamic world of food, by setting up restaurants, working in kitchens, sharing their recipes, and infusing the city with flavours from all over the world. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the food industry has been heavily affected and has reminded us that a food system is based not sim...ply on ‘moving calories’ but on a set of human relationships. ‘Love Letter to Toronto’s Food & Food Makers’ looks to celebrate and explore these ideas through love letters - from you! More information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dishing-up-toronto-homemade-lov

Dishing Up Toronto is back! With this year’s theme of Home-made, we’re kicking off with a Dumpling Making Virtual Workshop, hosted by caterToronto director, Vanessa Ling Yu. While you cook along at home, Vanessa will share insights about how people and places factor into culturally appropriate and commercially available foods. This event will enhance your understanding of what we can do to ensure diverse, dignified, and delicious eats in our future of food. Check out the three available options for this workshop (they make great holiday gift options!!) Click here for more information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dumpling-making-virtual-worksho

Excited to have Regent Park Film Festival host our Block by Block neighbourhood trivia for their family-friendly programming! See their caption below for more details!

Thanks to all the amazing volunteers every day and to recognize them especially today on https://volunteer.ca/index.php?MenuItemID=327

THIS THURSDAY at 7pm, join us for the first of three events in the Beyond Block by Block virtual series! In 2020, more than ever, acts of community care and solidarity have proven to be of utmost importance. We'll be having a conversation with community leaders from our four Block by Block Toronto neighbourhoods, to discuss the ongoing effects of gentrification, housing, community activism and much more. Meet our panelists: Miguel Avila (Regent Park), Waleed Abdulhamid (Parkd...ale), Sid Naidu (Victoria Park), Yan Chen (Agincourt) and Vijay Saravanamuthu (Agincourt). Register and learn more about our panelists here: eventbrite.ca/e/127510586597

Happy December! TWM's monthly newsletter is out; click here to read and subscribe: https://mailchi.mp//twm-december-newsletter-dishing-up-tor

Today is the day! We are so proud to launch our Block by Block 2020 programming! Check out all the events and exhibitions we will be hosting until the end of the month! More details and registration for all our free virtual events here: tinyurl.com/y5vypeby Our list of poster exhibition sites have expanded to include even more of your favourite neighbourhood businesses and organizations.... A big thank you to all our funders and partners for making this possible!! Ontario Trillium Foundation Inspirit Foundation Agincourt Community Services Association Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre Regent Park Film Festival Toronto Community Benefits Network Toronto Public Library West Neighbourhood House Working Women Community Centre Daniels Spectrum Kunafa's Ghadir Meat & Restaurant CiCi's Pizza & Wings, Toronto Kababayan Multicultural Centre Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre Tibet Kitchen

WE'RE GOING LIVE IN 10 MINUTES! Join us for our finale celebration 'Beyond the Block' on Youtube and Facebook Live! YouTube Live: ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E9fP4HIyDU Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/TOWardMuseum/posts/1888665401290328 See more

Check out the first news story for Block by Block. Thanks to Ryerson's CJRU 1280AM and journalist Sam Dharmasena! Well done TWM marketing and outreach coordinator Aashna https://www.thescopeatryerson.ca//Toronto-Ward-Museum-gear

'Beyond Block by Block' will host conversations with our 2020 Block by Block storytellers, youth curation teams, and a finale celebration featuring live performances from artists from Agincourt, Parkdale, Victoria Park and Regent Park. Details and registration: Community Care Across Toronto: www.eventbrite.ca/e/127510586597 Curating for Change: www.eventbrite.ca/e/127526520255... Beyond the Block: www.eventbrite.ca/e/127526943521 Additionally, get to know our four neighbourhoods and it’s residents through our physical poster exhibitions! Visit any of these 19 locations (with a mask!) to view these visual stories, illustrated by Curtia Wright, Ulama Saif and Luke Norrad. These exhibitions will give you insight into the conversations our teams had with residents from Agincourt, Regent Park, Parkdale and Victoria Park, all who participated in our oral history collection this year. You’ll learn where residents feel most at home and a strong sense of community, their neighbourhood traditions and practices of community care, and the ways they have taken charge of their own narratives through the work they do. Thanks to our partners: Agincourt Community Services Association, Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural, Centre Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto Community Benefits Network, Toronto Public Library, West Neighbourhood House Working Women Community Centre