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Each year in Kew Gardens, a single thistle appears in a different location, ready to bloom just in time for the Beach Celtic Festival. This year, it’s sitting just outside the children’s playground area, according to organizer Sandy Graham who started the festival 10 years ago in honour of the death of her mother. “A thistle is like a dandelion in Scotland, so there should be hundreds of them, but there’s one,” said Graham, who grew up in the Beach in a Scottish household. “And I’m pretty sure that’s my mum. I’m pretty sure she’s telling me she’s still here.” The event, which started as a neighbourhood party for Graham’s Scottish mother, Mima Sutherland Graham, has now turned into a two-day festival at what Graham describes a great Scottish price – 100 per cent free. The 10th annual festival takes place Sept. 7 and 8 at Kew Gardens. It’s Toronto’s only outdoor Ceilidh, a traditional Celtic >>>FESTIVAL, page 7
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AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION: Juggler Circus Jonathan works with young volunteers from his audience as he performs during the summer barbecue hosted by Toronto-Danforth MP Craig Scott Saturday in Kempton Howard Park.
StoryMobs bring books to life ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com Combining costumes, play and stories with a flash mob approach, StoryMobs have created a new way to bring children’s books to life.
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“The main thing is to really enjoy the book and really enjoy the story, and let the people we surprise with this feel the same way too,” said lifelong Beach resident Roxanne Dean. She is the co-organizer of the unique initiative along with
Gretel Meyer Odell, a mother of two from the Brockton Triangle who owns Fancy Pants Kids, a local dress-up play clothes company. The premise is the women choose a book and secret location. Participants prepare cos-
tumes and props and then, the day before the StoryMob, the time and location are released. Participants meet and then parade to a public location and act out the tale. “The whole point is that it >>>THREE, page 8
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