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LAURA DASILVA ldasilva@insidetoronto.com Shakespeare is gettin’ groovy, man. The Humber River Sh a k e s p e a re Co m p a n y (HRSC) is swinging into the ’60s with its summer tour of The Merry Wives of Windsor. “It’s not often performed, but it is one of the more accessible Shakespeare plays,” said artistic director Kevin Hammond. “It’s a very lighthearted situation comedy. It’s the first sitcom.” The story focuses on the bumbling drunk and womanizing Falstaff who infiltrates the world of Windsor. The women there are affluent and quick to see his game. “I l i k e n W i n d s o r t o Muskoka cottage country. The people have wealth and time and just sort of sit back and entertain one another,” Hammond said. “Then this outsider comes to town and creates chaos. Everyone works to get back at him.” Hammond said even though Falstaff is a lazy slob, there’s a likeability to him. “There’s something wonderful about someone who can honour and live with his own impulses, even to excess,” he said. The idea of excess led Hammond to set the play in the 1960s. “It’s the time where you have this burgeoning middle class that didn’t really exist before,” he said. “There’s this idea of leisure, acquisition and wealth that the previous generation didn’t have.” Another thing in excess is the number of characters the ensemble cast brings to life. Six actors play 17 different roles.

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Actor Paula Shultz plays Mistress Page, a suitor named Slender and a servant to Doctor Caius. “It’s pretty fast paced, but we’re having a great time playing all of the different characters,” she said. “It keeps us on our toes.” She said there’s a visibility to the costume and character West Toronto tour dates: n July 25 & 26 Montgomery’s Inn n July 28 & 29 - Old Mill Inn and Spa, Toronto (Guaranteed performance, rain or shine) n July 30 - Etienne Brulé Park n July 31, Aug. 1 & 2 Montgomery’s Inn

changes, and that the audience is in on the joke. “We’re not running behind a curtain or into a tent to change,” she said. “There’s no sense in trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the audience.” For those pondering to go or not to go out of fear the complicated language will be too confusing, Hammond said this warm-spirited play will be a merry experience for families and first-time Shakespeare-goers. “There’s very little verse in this play. It’s pretty much all prose. It’s sounds modern and it’s easy to follow,” he said. “There’s really just one plot that drives the whole thing.” Hammond said there is something special about bringing theatre to communities and performing

outdoors. “When you move outside, the audience is more present because they’re not doused in darkness,” he said. “You see them, which is the way Shakespeare plays were originally done, in the open air under the sky.” Hammond encourages people of all ages to head outside to witness the farout farce. “It offers an experience that isn’t available on Netflix,” he laughed. The HRSC Merry Wives of Windsor tour started July 2 and runs until Aug. 2. They will be in West Toronto starting July 27. Performances are paywhat-you-can with a $20 suggested donation.

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next. Ideas for where the huge multi-coloured sign will be accepted until the end of the Parapan Am Games (Aug. 15) and should be Tweeted to @JohnTory with the hashtag #TORONTOsign The fun social media campaign is looking to crowdsource ideas for where the sign should be placed next – it’s scheduled to stay in front of Toronto City Hall until the end of the year. In a short video introducing the campaign, Tory cites places such as High Park, YongeDundas Square, and even jokes about putting the sign outside the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, home of the NHL’s Senators. Suggestions and photographs our view with the sign plunked somewhere in Toronto have started coming in: Build unity the new George Brown Campus, the Scarborough Bluffs, a resiby sharing dential neighbourhood, and even our sign perched atop the CN Tower. Some ideas are funny, others logical, and some just ridiculous. However, what this sign does offer Torontonians is a way to weigh in on how the city can connect. It’s one city, so the #TORONTOsign should visit every corner of Toronto. It would be a great way to build unity across the city. Imagine coming upon the sign in Mel Lastman Square, at Artscape Wychwood Barns, or the Guild Inn Park. Maybe as an entry point along the major highways coming into the city. How about walking along Queen Street in Parkdale and coming upon the sign at the amphitheatre at Dufferin Street? Maybe Councillor Norm Kelly is right, and the sign could sit above the Scarborough Bluffs looking out across Lake Ontario. How about Sunnyside Beach, the Financial District, Todmorden Mills or the Junction train platform? Toronto is considered a city within a park so why not do a travelling park tour? One thing is certain: the sign, installed for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, shouldn’t outstay its welcome. It should be on a tour of the city until it lets Torontonians feel they have connected with other Torontonians. This tour could pique interest in other areas of the city many people have not seen. It’s tough to get the west to travel east, or the north to head south. But, a #TORONTOsign might jump-start that migration.

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ext week, the tunnel connecting the mainland to Billy Bishop Airport on the Toronto Islands will be open to the air-travelling public – becoming the second piece of air-travel infrastructure to come online in Toronto this year. The first opened its doors less than a month ago – the Union Pearson Express train service running from Union Station through Weston to Pearson International Airport. It is telling that these two pieces – one privately funded and the other using federal and provincial dollars – are providing transportation services to people with passports and plane tickets and cash. Meanwhile, transit improvements for the rest of us, simply trying to get around town day-to-day, plod along at their own pace, in the best case

david nickle the city fully funded and at worst pie-in-the-sky political dreams. It is in this context that I look at the TTCriders’ suggestion last weekend, that Metrolinx simply give up the Union Pearson Express as a mass-transit route, with a bit more sympathy than usual. The advocacy group based its argument on what seems a dubious study of its own, spending a morning rush-hour counting the number of riders going in and out of the Pearson station of the line, and counted just 14 on each train. Metrolinx offers up slightly better numbers and maintains that the new $27.50-a-ride train to the airport is a success. Yet, there is compelling reason to think about

what the express might do for the morning commute – and that has to do with the morning commute itself. As matters stand, the TTC is busting at the seams, and city council, in its wisdom, has decided to prioritize costly transit improvements that won’t provide relief very soon and will likely become even more costly. The Scarborough subway extension council approved will likely have to be realigned, to make way for Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack surface rail that follows at a point the precise same route as the subway. And SmartTrack could run into its own problems, particularly in the west end through Etobicoke, on land that the city no longer owns. UP commuter train? Putting commuters on trains on the Union

Pearson line would immediately reduce the need, if there ever was one, for that western SmartTrack line. It is not, of course, as easy as that. The 15-minute service currently available in each direction for SmartTrack would probably have to be increased. Politically, abandoning air travellers for transit users would involve a mea culpa for the Wynne government and Metrolinx that might be untenable. It is, however, easy to get resentful while packed into a subway car, thinking of the ease that those few well-heeled travellers have now, making their way from their suite at the Royal York Hotel to the departure lounge at Pearson. David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column appears Thursdays. Reach him on Twitter: @DavidNickle

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Live a night Cuban style at Baka Gallery and Café Take part in an intimate community gathering hosted by Baka Gallery and Café and the Damidance Studio as part of NOCHE CUBANA – Cuban Night, Friday, July 24 at 8 p.m. The event features live music by the trio ‘Tropical Sound.’ Baka Gallery and Cafe is located at 2256 Bloor St. W. Contact damidance@ymail. com for further details. recyclable crafts made at Annette library Annette library hosts Recycling Rules! with Liz Rice, Saturday, July 25 from 2 to 3 p.m. This is a workshop where recycling skills are put to the test. Make a recyclable craft to take home. This is a drop-in event for school-aged children. The library is located at 145 Annette St. Visit www.bit. ly/1KcCSYg for details.

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local neighbourhoods and communities. There are three community housing neighbourhoods in Ward 13, Gilmour pointed out. “We’ve been giving residents grocery cards, but it takes more than grocery cards to feed the soul.” Gilmour’s initiative, coined ‘Communities that Care,’ garnered third prize at the challenge. The recognition came with $1,500 cash and $2,100 in small business social enterprise coaching. Windermere United Church is using the prize money to expand the Communities that Care idea into a viable pro-

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(collectively, “NCF”) and refers to the first two (2) monthly lease payments or first two (2) monthly finance payments. A customer’s first two monthly payments (inclusive all taxes) will be waived, up to a maximum of $225/$250/$375/$400/$375/$400/$600 per month tax inclusive. After two months, the customer will be required to make all remaining regularly scheduled payments over the remaining term of the contract. Customers must be approved to lease or finance through NCF. Cash purchase buyers or buyers who finance outside of Nissan Finance are also not eligible for this choice. 3No charge extended warranty is valid for up to 60 months or 100,000 km (whichever occurs first) from the warranty start date and zero (0) kilometers. Some conditions/limitations apply. The no charge extended warranty is the Nissan Added Security Plan (“ASP”) and is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (“NCESI”). In all provinces NCESI is the obligor. 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w Saturday, July 25

Roncy Flea WHEN: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Emmanuel-Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Lisa Forestell, 416-536-1755, emmanuelhowardparkuc@gmail.com COST: Free Browse vendor tables selling collectibles, vintage, kitsch, antiques and other unique handmade items. All money raised goes to the church’s Outreach Program.

w Monday, July 27

Pyjama Time WHEN: 7 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Jessica Rovito, jessica. rovito@gmail.com COST: Free Bring your teddy bear and don your jammies for our new drop-in evening storytime. Bedtime stories, songs, rhymes and activities for children ages five and under.

w Tuesday, July 28

Junction Seniors Gathering WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Eleanor Batchelder, 647-235-0843, www.junctionra.ca/junction-seniors, eob62@yahoo.com COST: Free The group meets twice a week at a local coffee shop for conversation, as a social network of neighbours. Tuesdays at hte above location adn

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100th Anniversary Festival of St Mary of the Angels Parish WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: St. Mary of the Angels Parish, 1481 Dufferin St. CONTACT: Nancy Santos, nancy_santos@rogers.com COST: Free Music, entertainment and food to celebrate the 100th anniversary of St. Mary of the Angels Parish. Fridays at Pascal’s, 2904 Dundas St. W., 2 to 3 p.m.

w Wednesday, July 29

Annette Village Farmers’ Market WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Runnymede Presbyterian Church, 680 Annette St. CONTACT: Ashley Davidson, cremefraichemarket.com/meet-yourfarmer/, cremefraichefarmersmarket@gmail.com COST: Free Sponsored by Crème Fraîche Market Cafe, the market offers fresh Ontario fruits and vegetables, Ontario cheeses, Ontario pasta and flours, local sustainably raised meats, sustainably caught fish, preserves, fresh bread and baked goods, wine, delicious prepared foods, and other artisan delights

w Thursday, July 30

Rotary Club of Parkdale - High Park: Weekly Meeting WHEN: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. WHERE: Grenadier Restaurant, 200 Colborne Lodge Dr. CONTACT: Paul Pereira,

647-865-2648, rcparkdale@gmail. com, parkdalehighparkrotary.org COST: Free The group meets every Thursday. An opportunity to network with likeminded people.

w Saturday, Aug. 1

Junction Farmers’ Market WHEN: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m .WHERE: 2960 Dundas St. W. CONTACT: 647929-9527, info@junctionmarket.ca, junctionmarket.ca COST: Free The Junction Farmers Market provides local, sustainably produced fresh foods in ways that build community, support local food growers and producers, and promote access to healthy food for all.

w Sunday, Aug. 2

Caterpillars, Moths and Butterflies WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to noon WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalking-

tours@yahoo.ca, www. highpark.org COST: Free Popular science writer and teacher Don Scallen shares his knowledge of these beautiful creatures. Meet at the benches near Grenadier Restaurant.

w Thursday, Aug. 6

Vegetarians of High Park: Vegan Potluck WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Bloor Street West and Windermere Avenue, CONTACT: Vegetarians of High Park, highparkveg.wordpress. com, highpark@veg.ca COST: Free Join us for a summer vegan potluck in one of our members’ beautiful backyards in the Jane/Bloor area (exact address and directions will be given only to those who RSVP). Please RSVP by Monday, Aug. 3 and let us know what kind of dish you plan to bring. Please bring your own cutlery and dish.

w Friday, Aug. 7

Queer West Film Festival August 2015 WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m., Aug. 7 to 9 WHERE: Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Michel Pare, 416-879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest.org/, queerwestartsfestival@gmail. com COST: $10 per

evening or $25 for a weekend pass. The 7th Annual Queer West Film Festival makes the jump from its annual evening screening to a weekend film festival. From shorts, documentaries and full length features, the festival aims to showcase the very best of Canadian and international queer cinema from both emerging and established directors. Benny Walker: Live from Australia WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: Melanie Ribau, 416-393-7675, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca, mribau@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Victorian Indigenous singer/songwriter Benny Walker inherited his passion for music from his father and grandfathers, all talented musicians in their own right..In partnership with the Harbourfront Centre, Planet IndigenUS and the Woodland Cultural Centre, the library celebrates international indigenous cultures.

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Leslie Barns facility delayed again Toronto artists entertain on 311 The Leslie Barns maintenance and storage facility for the TTC’s new streetcar fleet is delayed yet again. Leslie Street was supposed to have re-opened in July, delayed from June after a private contractor’s error required the concrete track bed from Commissioners Street to Queen Street to be torn up and rebuilt. The problem is now fixed but more time was needed for the project’s engineering contractor to review final designs for the work which TTC spokesperson Brad Ross termed as more complicated than usual because of technical requirements. Leslie Street is now slated to re-open next month, but the facility won’t open until late September – if there’s no further delay.

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT Members of the transit advocacy group went to the UP station at Toronto Pearson airport last Thursday to count the number of morning rushhour passengers using the four-stop premium transit line. They claim to have spotted just an average of 14 people using the service over a two-hour period, which works out to eight per cent of total capacity per train. Metrolinx reported recently ridership is at 3,250 passengers a day, in line with its first-year projections for UP which began running in early June. It’s projecting 2.5 million annual UP customers over the long-term, enough to recover day-to-day costs.

OF UP EXPRESS RIDERS CONFLICTING wNUMBER NEW STREETCARS HIT TORONTO TRACKS wSEVEN Metrolinx may be touting early

For the first time, seven new streetcars were in service as of last week, the TTC reported. Production issues with

The City of Toronto has launched Music 311, a new initiative that brings the music of Toronto artists to the 311 information phone system. “This new way to hear music recorded by local art-

ists is a great forum for us to continually showcase the very talent that makes us a vibrant music city,” Mayor John Tory said in a statement. Mu s i c 3 1 1 h a s b e e n launched to coincide with the TORONTO 2015 Pan

Am/Parapan Am Games and features music from Toronto artists when 311 callers are on hold. Visit www.toronto.ca, call 311, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, or follow on twitter @TorontoComms

SUBWAY STARTS on sunday CONSIDERED wEARLY

This upcoming Sunday will be the last scheduled early opening for the subway as the Pan Am Games come to a close. For the past two Sundays, trains have started operating at 6 a.m., three hours earlier than usually scheduled to help transport Games spectators. While the TTC claims it needs the three hours to get the trains ready for regular 9 a.m. service, it is looking into options for speeding up that needed work to allow for consistent early openings. Rahul Gupta is The Villager’s transit reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Find him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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ridership numbers for the pricey Union Pearson Express as being promising, but TTCriders isn’t convinced.

manufacturer Bombardier has meant a slow trickle of the sleek new rides, 204 of which are supposed to replace the existing fleet within five years. A revised production schedule by Bombardier promises 27 of the new vehicles will be in the TTC’s possession by the end of the year.

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