UrbanArts Community Arts Council is brightening up and uniting the Weston-Mount Dennis neighbourhood and Toronto this summer with a full schedule of youth arts programming. The UrbanArts’ team is leading everything from dance camps and live music performances to mural painting and community beautification projects.
The CultureShock Festival is taking place on Friday August 12th from 6-9 pm and Saturday August 13th from 1-7pm at Weston Collegiate Institute. The festival, MC’d by TSN’s Cabbie Richards and Hip Hop pioneer Michie Mee, and headlined by Hip Hop icon Wes ‘Maestro’ Williams, will feature an array of local musical talent, an art exhibit, youth art activities, vendor booths, and of course great food. The festival aims to profile the artistic community and to reflect UrbanArts’ ongoing commitment of engaging youth and community development through the arts.
UrbanArts is a non-profit Community Arts Council focused on enhancing neighbourhoods by engaging youth in community development through the arts. UrbanArts initiates arts activities that bring people together in central-west Toronto and citywide. One of four community arts councils serving Toronto, UrbanArts is an incubator for local arts, with a range of year-round programs for youth led by professional artists in visual arts, theatre, spoken word, dance music and leadership development.
Our mandate is to promote, engage and facilitate cultural and community development opportunities between artists, arts organizations, community members and community organizations.
For more information please contact:
Lennox Cadore, Arts Program Manager
Phone: 416.241.5124
Email: info@urbanartstoronto.org
Event date and time:
12 Aug 2011 - 1:00pm - 13 Aug 2011 - 9:00pm
Location:
Weston Collegiate Institute, 100 Pine Street, Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West
http://www.newyouth.ca/events/urbanarts-7th-annual-cultureshock-festival
