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20th Anniversary 2008
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Community Support Making our Community a Better Place!

The Beaches International Jazz Festival grew up in the Beach and understands the value of working with and within this community.


Face Painting Greenbelt - Our living countryside

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse TD Painting Mural

Local Charities the Festival Supports...
Toronto East General Hospital:
Over the years, the Toronto East General Hospital's Ovation of Jazz fundraising event, held at the Balmy Beach Club in partnership with the Festival, has signaled the start of the Toronto East General Hospital's annual fundraising drive.

Lots of hospital supporter volunteers are mobilized during the Festival. It's a Festival tradition! Proceeds are directed towards the new Maternal / Newborn and Child Health Centre. Because it's just never too early to start appreciating jazz, the Hospital has had a room named after us in their Child Health Centre.

TEGH Foundation’s Roster of Donors

Toronto's Professional Firefighters
Each year Toronto's Firefighters put on their annual Boot Drive at the Beaches International Jazz Festival to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and other worthy causes.

The firefighters give you a chance to "fill their boots" with cash and feel good in the process! Remember every dollar you provide goes towards a worthy cause - the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The firefighters would like to thank you for your support.


Community Event: Sunday Jazz Service
Date: T.B.A.
Location: T.B.A.
Service: morning service

July is Jazz time in the Beach. To celebrate the spirit of Jazz local congregations have organized Sunday Jazz Services. Stay tuned for 2008 service details.




Community Event: "Jazz Up Your Windows" Contest
The Festival isn't simply about getting people to soak up the music and the ambience. It's also about getting visitors to support Beach retailers, restaurants, coffee bars and other establishments, while enjoying the Festival and its entertainment at the same time.

For the month of July, all retail establishments in and around the Beach are invited to "jazz up their windows" in celebration of the Beaches International Jazz Festival - http://www.beachesbia.com/articles/
SceneOnQueen-0407.pdf
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Certificates and prizes are offered for the "best dressed windows".

The Festival and the BIA would like to congratulate all of the retailers who participated in the 2007 "Jazz Up Your Windows" Contest. And the winners are ...

  • 1st place goes to Wisteria Way located at 1978 Queen E for their inventive Beatles display of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Life-size Beatles, dressed in full military costumes with their instruments, was the centrepiece, designed by Danielle Ward, store manager, and Cathy Norman, owner.
  • 2nd place goes to Incurable Collector located at 1945 Queen E with a great display of jazz art in posters and prints.
  • 3rd place goes to Winexpert located at 2208 Queen E with its display to jazz great, Archie Alleyne and his band, Kollage, along with musical drawings by school kids.
  • 4th place goes to Beach Kids Kutz located at 1826A Queen E with its colourful, kid-friendly hanging objects that celebrated music.
  • 5th place goes to Mendocino located at 2020 Queen E with its graphic display of mannequins.
  • 6th place goes to Midoco located at 1964 Queen E for its great jazzy art work.
Stay tuned for 2008 contest details...


Beaches International Jazz Festival Youth Initiatives - Stay tuned for 2008 Initiatives
Norm Marshall Villenueve
Each Sunday in May/07 the Beaches Jazz Festival, in conjunction with the Dominion on Queen offered High School Jazz Musicians/Students the opportunity to participate in the Norm Marshall Villenueve Jazz Revue Jam Sessions. This gave young musicians the opportunity to perform with a top rated jazz rhythm section and learn from the best.

Drummer, Norman Marshall Villeneuve has been described as a Canadian jazz icon & father figure to up and coming jazz players in Toronto.

The Norm Marshall Villenueve Jams were held every Sunday from 3:00 pm until 6:00pm. The Dominion on Queen is located at 500 Queen St. East.

For more information on 2008 initiatives please e-mail our youth initiative coordinator Julie Christian at yellowhouse6@sympatico.ca.

Dominion on Queen - Beer Parlour, Kitchen, Jazz & Blues, Comedy & Poetry


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