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Koffler Gallery
Koffler Arts is a broad-based cultural institution established in 1977 by Murray Koffler, Murray and Marvelle Koffler and based at Artscape Youngplace in the West Queen West area of downtown Toronto, Ontario. History Koffler Arts was established in 1977 as part of the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre (BJCC) in the North York area of Toronto on Bathurst Street, Toronto, Bathurst Street. On July 1, 2009, the Koffler was incorporated as an independent not-for-profit charitable organization. The Koffler was home to the Jewish Book Fair (1977-2011), the Toronto Jewish Literary Festival (2012-2014) and the Koffler Chamber Orchestra (2005-2014). In 2008, Koffler Arts was rebranded and restructured, with a multidisciplinary program department that ran complementary to the Koffler Gallery. Unlike the Gallery, with its mandate to exhibit, interpret, and document works in the visual arts, focusing on contemporary Canadian art and programming of interest to the Jewish community, the multidis ...
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Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ...
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Linda Frum
Linda Frum (born January 13, 1963) is a Canadian author and journalist, and was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 2009 until 2021. She announced her retirement from the Senate effective August 27, 2021 to devote more time to other pursuits such as her role as chair of the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto. Life and career Born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Jewish family, Frum is the daughter of Barbara Frum, a journalist, and Murray Frum, a real estate developer. Her brother David Frum is a political author and journalist, and was a speech writer for George W. Bush and helped coin the phrase "Axis of Evil". Another brother, Matthew Frum, was adopted and is of aboriginal ancestry. Frum attended Havergal College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University, Montreal in 1984. She has authored two books, and edited a third. The two she wrote are: ''Linda Frum's Guide to Canadian Universities'' (1987, with an updated edition published ...
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Veronica Tennant
Veronica Tennant, (born January 15, 1946) is a Canadian producer, director, and filmmaker and a former principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada. She was born in London, England and moved to Canada with her parents and sister in 1955. Dancing from the age of four, by the age of 18, she became the youngest person ever to enter the National Ballet of Canada. She made her debut as Juliet in the principal role in ''Romeo and Juliet'' with partner Earl Kraul on a choreography by John Cranko. She gave her last performance dancing Juliet again in the same ballet in February 1989. Her official farewell gala in November 1989 includes dance excerpts from ''Giselle'', ''Washington Square'', ''Canciones'', ''Masada'', '' Onegin'' as well as a final pas de deux that she never performed before from Cranko's ''The Taming of the Shrew''. James Neufeld wrote in his book ''Passion to Dance. The National Ballet of Canada'' "Veronica Tennant has built a major career and impressive artisti ...
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Louise Pitre
Louise Pitre (born January 1, 1957) is a Canadian actress in musical theatre. She performs on Broadway and in Canada. She is best known for her role as Donna Sheridan in the ABBA-themed musical '' Mamma Mia!'', which earned her a 2002 Tony Award nomination. Early life Pitre was born in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario; her family moved to Montreal and then to Welland during her childhood."Niagara's Louise Pitre lays herself bare in new show"
John Law, ''Niagara Falls Review'', September 6, 2013
Her first language is French. At age seven, she began to play



Debra McGrath
Debra McGrath (born July 5, 1954) is a Canadian actress and comedian. Education Debra McGrath was born in Toronto in 1954, where she studied theatre at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University). Career McGrath first started her career with three years as a member of ''The Second City'' in Toronto, Ontario, from 1983 to 1985, where she was a writer and actress, and eventually a director. She was best known for a take-off of Marilyn Monroe, and the song ''Condoms are a Girl's Best Friend''. During the late 1980s, she appeared with ''Second City'' at anniversary, comedy festival and Club Soda performances. In 1987, McGrath starred in ''Spoof'', a comedy pilot written by Brian Cooke and Perry Rosemond. In 1989, she had a major role in Allan King's film '' Termini Station''. She also appeared in Eugene Levy's 1992 TV film ''Partners 'N Love'', in which she played a lawyer whose client's divorce was found to be invalid. In 1990, with Linda Kash, McGrath ...
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Colin Mochrie
Colin Andrew Mochrie (; born November 30, 1957) is a Scottish-born Canadian actor, writer, producer and improvisational comedian, best known for his appearances on the British and American versions of the improvisational TV show ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. Mochrie honed his comedic talents with Vancouver's TheatreSports League and Toronto's Second City theatre. He has appeared in dozens of television series and films, as well as theatrical shows. With his wife, comedian Debra McGrath, Mochrie co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in the Canadian sitcoms '' Getting Along Famously'' and '' She's the Mayor''. He has written for numerous other series and events, and wrote and performed for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Mochrie's work has been recognized with numerous awards, including two Canadian Comedy Awards, a Gemini Award, and a Writers Guild of Canada award. He was named Canadian Comedy Person of the Year at the 2013 Canadian Comedy Awards. Ear ...
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Bernice Eisenstein
Bernice may refer to: Places In the United States * Bernice, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Bernice, Louisiana, a town * Bernice, Nevada, a ghost town * Bernice, Oklahoma, a town * Bernice Coalfield, a coalfield in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania Elsewhere * Bernice, Manitoba, Canada, a community * Bernice, an Old English name for Bernicia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the 6th and 7th centuries Other uses * Bernice (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Hurricane Bernice (other) The name Bernice has been used for five tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. * Tropical Storm Bernice (1962), made landfall in Baja California * Tropical Storm Bernice (1965), formed south of Puerto Angel, Mexico, and moved parallel to ..., tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific Ocean * USS ''Mary Alice'' (SP-397), a patrol vessel originally a private steam yacht named ''Bernice'' See also * Berenice (other) {{disambig, geo ...
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Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the recipient of honorary degrees, the Guggenheim Fellowship and many other honours. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize and twice long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. Michaels won a 2019 Vine Award for ''Infinite Gradation'', her first volume of non-fiction. Michaels was the poet laureate of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 2016 to 2019, and she is perhaps best known for her novel '' Fugitive Pieces'', which was adapted for the screen in 2007. Michaels won the 2024 Giller Prize for her novel '' Held.'' Early life Anne Michaels was born in Toro ...
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Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, (; born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996 film), ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998), and ''Water (2005 film), Water'' (2005), the last being nominated for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards, Academy Awards. ''Earth'' was submitted by List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Water'' was Canada's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film ''A Bullet in the Head (1990 film), A Bullet to the Head'' and Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature ''Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner''. She co-founded Hamilt ...
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Barbara Astman
Barbara Anne Astman (born 12 July 1950) is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner thoughts.Georgiana Uhlyarik, "Dear Canadian Art, I was thinking about you...". Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO. Art Gallery of Ontario and Goose Lane Editions, 2023. Early life and career Astman was born in Rochester, New York, the second of three children of Bertha (née Meisel, a homemaker) and George Astman (an auto mechanic and salesman.) She received her associate degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1970. That year, she moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to study at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University,) and graduated with an associate degree (A.O.C.A.) in 1973. She joined the faculty of OCAD in 1975, served as chair of photography (2001–2002), and professor in the faculty of art (2002–2021). She retired in 2021 as professor ...
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Johanna Schneller
Johanna Schneller is an American-born Canadians, Canadian film journalist and television personality, who hosted the film talk show ''The Filmmakers'' on CBC Television. A freelance celebrity interviewer for such publications as ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'', ''GQ'', ''Chatelaine (magazine), Chatelaine'' and ''Toronto Life'', she is also the film columnist for ''The Globe and Mail'', and hosted TVOntario's weekly ''Saturday Night at the Movies'' for two seasons. She has also been a regular television columnist for the ''Toronto Star'' and the ''StarMetro (newspaper), StarMetro'' chain. Schneller has lived in Toronto since 1994 with her husband, Canadian journalist Ian Brown (journalist), Ian Brown, and their two children, Hayley and Walker. References External links Johanna Schneller, ''The Globe and Mail''
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Wychwood Barns
Artscape Wychwood Barns is a community centre and park in the Bracondale Hill area of Toronto. The converted heritage building was built as a streetcar maintenance facility in 1913. It now contains artist housing and studios, public green space, a greenhouse, a farmer's market, a beach volleyball court, a theatre, a dog run, and office space for many local community groups. The site is a total of 5,574 square metres (60,000 square feet). Description Wychwood Barns is a former industrial complex of five buildings on that has been converted into a community centre in an example of adaptive reuse. The original barns were built from 1913 to 1921. They are brick structures, two storeys high with an interior steel structure that was exposed.. Architect Joe Lobko and city councilor Joe Mihevc worked to transform the early 20th-century facility into a multipurpose space. Lobko, with the help of the community, was able to identify the activities missing in the area. He came up with ...
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