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Fashion designed with grit and glamour Local textile artist’s collection to be featured during Arts and Fashion Week LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Fashion designer and textile artist Alexandra De Francesco toils all year in preparation for the annual Fashion Art Toronto’s (FAT) Arts and Fashion Week, April 22 to 26.

FAT celebrates inventive and contemporary expression through more than 50 runway shows, live performances, fashion films, photography exhibits and art installations.

De Francesco relishes in taking her time to collect materials from recycled antiques, to lace and beading to create one-of-a-kind wearable art couture – work that has been described as “dark and daring” and “pin-up dominatrix chic.”

“It takes a long time to collect and piece together what I have,” The Roncesvalles Village resident said. “Because it’s so old, it’s tough to work with, it disintegrates.”

De Francesco initially applied to the Ontario College of Art and

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Design (OCAD) intent on pursuing drawing and painting. What she graduated with was a Bachelor Degree in design.

“I don’t know how that happened,” she said, laughing.

De Francesco said she likes to work with salvaged materials that also include ancient silks and hand-dyed and silk-screened fab-

rics, recycled furs and hand-spun threads.

“As a kid, I was always making things from everything around me, even in the garden out of leaves. I was always crafting,” she said. “My mom had fabric in the basement.

She’d help me sew outfits for my dolls.”

De Francesco honed her sewing

skills in high school in home-ec class.

Her latest collection, ‘Grit/ Glamour,’ inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald and his writing of the Jazz Age, will make its debut Wednesday, April 23 at 585 Dundas St E. “I was inspired by the excess of the time period. I started to get dazzled by the light and sequins of the era,” she said.

Her seventh showing at FAT, De Francesco is no stranger to the “craziness” of the event. It’s a blur of co-ordinating shoes, makeup, models and the like – all while holding down several other jobs at the same time.

“I’m always moving, it’s pretty intense,” De Francesco said. “It’s a hell of a lot of stress. Then, it’s over and I can relax.”

De Francesco, whose company is called Asphyxia, has exhibited her work at the Textile Museum of Canada, The Gladstone Hotel and Gallery X. Bloor West and Dufferin streetsarea Starkers Corsetry, owned by designer Dianna DiNoble, who creates custom, made-to-order corsets, will present her work during a fashion show on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22.

DiNoble’s interest in corsets piqued in high school while studying a lot of art history, although, she showed artistic talent as a child when she began sewing and painting. She studied fashion design at Sheridan College before apprenticing with couturiers and learning the same techniques she uses to create her corsets.

“It’s so versatile. It can be so many different styles,” said DiNoble, who will be showing her work for the seventh time at FAT. “I love how it can change people’s shape.”

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Downton Abbey-themed costume exhibit at Spadina Museum ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com The dinner dress and three-piece suits from the television show Downton Abbey are more than just the fashions of the 1920s, they also tell the story of social transformation here in Toronto.

Spadina Museum is hosting the Canadian premiere of the Dressing for Downton: Costumes from Downton Abbey exhibit running through to April 13, featuring 20 costumes worn by the characters from the critically acclaimed period drama.

“The costumes trace the huge changes that happened in the world because of the impact of World War One,” said Karen Black, the manager of the city’s 10 historic site museums.

“Toronto was very much a part of that changing world view.”

The costumes from the first three seasons have been borrowed from Cosprop, Ltd., the London-based costume house that designs and

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The Spadina Museum is hosting the exhibit Dressing for Downton: Costumes from Downton Abbey until April 13. Fans of the show can head down to see 20 costumes worn by the characters from the critically acclaimed period drama.

creates the clothing.

On display in the upper rooms of the historic home, the costumes are identified by character and season, and labels feature photographs of cast members wearing the exhibited costumes. The tour takes visitors

through the museum’s family and servants’ spaces and links the characters and events from the TV show to real Toronto history.

“The exhibit also includes dresses

and accessories from our own artifact collection that were worn in this city during that Downton Abbey period,” Black said.

Black explained that Spadina

Museum focuses on the period in Toronto between the two world wars and through this exhibit they are trying to tie the story of Toronto into the larger global story.

Three generations of Toronto’s Austin family lived in the home that is now the Spadina Museum from 1866 until the house became a museum in the 1980s.

“The Austins were not as aristocratic as the Crawly family of Downton Abbey, but they did face many of the same challenges including a shell shocked son returning from the First World War, the changing role of women, the new technology: everything from radio to the automobile and the telephone,” Black said.

Tickets, which are nearly sold out at $25/$35 per person, are available at spadinamuseum.streamintickets. com

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n hour of darkness.

That’s what the annual Earth Hour event calls for, this year on Saturday, March 29 between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Organized by the World Wildlife Fund, the event encourages residents and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour as a symbol of support for the planet. It is a worldwide event, which, according to organizers, has participation from more than 7,000 cities and towns in 154 countries worldwide.

But the concept isn’t front of mind for all Torontonians. In the city last year, according to Toronto Hydro, there was a seven our view per cent reduction in energy use.

In 2009, the city experienced a 15 Communities per cent reduction in energy use. what’s happening? hosting events SoFor symbolism to have strength, there needs to be meafor Earth Hour surable momentum.

There has to be growth. If there isn’t, the impact of the overall message – however powerful it may be – is blunted.

One way of ensuring that momentum takes place is seeing new and interesting ways of integrating the event into community life.

We’re encouraged, for example, that some pockets of the community build a neighbourhood gathering around Earth Hour.

Last year, there was an outdoor concert in Roncesvalles Village. This year, in Etobicoke, there’s a concert at Islington United Church celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church’s organ. In North York, the Yonge-Sheppard neighbourhood will once again have its annual Earth Hour community walk.

It’s a fine idea to consider joining a local Earth Hour event. So, too, is using our creativity to come up with our own localized Earth Hour events. Either way, you have people getting together, united in a common cause. Everyone can appreciate the environmental and cost benefits of saving energy. It’s great that Earth Hour can help bring that message to the forefront. Ideally, respect for the environment and energy conservation is a constant, front-of-mind proposition – not just for one hour in a year.

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Mayoral fringe candidate raises important question about taxes M ayoral races are a long haul in Toronto – and that leaves plenty of room for little epiphanies.

On Monday, one of those showed up to file papers at city hall – Ari Goldkind, a 40-year-old criminal defence lawyer.

He made some headlines saying that he has a nose for B.S. and referring to the current mayor as Sideshow Rob. If past experience is any indication, an ambitious but untested outsider like Goldkind will go exactly nowhere in this race.

Goldkind is a fringe candidate.

But it’s rude not to ask what ideas even a fringe candidate brings to the table, and so that’s what I did. He started out sounding a bit like David Soknacki and Olivia Chow, advocating a return to the LRT in Scarborough over the council-approved

david nickle the city

subway.

And then he kind of sounded like Soknacki on the land transfer tax, but it turned out I’d misunderstood when I thought he said that exemptions to the tax should go to more lower-priced houses and purchasers of homes worth more than $1.1 million should pay more.

What Goldkind actually wanted to see was the land transfer tax increased on million-dollar homes, and everybody else pay the same.

That, along with higher property taxes, would pay for repairs and improvements of Toronto’s public housing.

Goldkind may throw around words like B.S. pretty freely, but for him, and really only him, taxes

are not a dirty word.

After we spoke, it struck me: higher taxes shouldn’t be a de facto taboo, as they’ve become. Because while Goldkind might not have a hope at winning the election, if he actually pulled it off, his program of tax-and-spend government would probably make life a lot better here and drive almost no one from their homes.

Taxes are low in Toronto – lower than elsewhere – and yet services are slipping. Subways are crowded and buildings are crumbling and according to this year’s Ombudsman’s Annual Report, even basic customer service isn’t sustainable.

As this year’s budget debate wrapped up, City Manager Joe Pennachetti laid it bare, that property taxes will practically have to rise more dramatically in coming years than they

have in the past, just to maintain status quo.

Toronto is circling the drain.

And yet, the collection of miserly landholders that make up Toronto will almost certainly shuffle out and cast their vote for one of five or so A-list mayoral candidates with well-known resumes and no stomach for pitching the larger-scale tax hikes the city needs to pull out of its spin.

Now, I can’t say that anybody should go to vote for the unknown criminal defence lawyer who just joined the long list of fringe mayoral candidates.

But maybe it’s time that we shook our heads, and stopped believing that we can have a great or even decent future, paying only a little more than we did in the past.

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TTC working to make all subway stations fully accessible by 2025 >>>from page 1 to walk to and from Dundas subway station with my walker, which is very strenuous to push it on the icy and snow covered sidewalks,” Einikis said.

She does use Wheel Trans for longer distances, but says the service is “not always reliable” and costly. When she saw no sign of construction of an elevator this year, Einikis decided to contact the TTC. In a letter to its CEO Andy Byford at the end of January, Einikis expressed her frustration.

“Don’t see why we old seniors with mobility problems should be penalized,” she wrote.

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>>>from page 1 Jonathan Bennett whose most recent book is The Colonial Hotel and Damian Tarnopolsky, author of Lanzmann and Other Stories and the novel Goya’s Dog. Gadsby, who holds an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an Honours BA in creative writing and English from York University, is a recipient of York’s bpNichol

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Function in the Junction to support local charitable group The Junction Residents Association (JRA) hosts its fifth annual ‘Function in the Junction,’ Saturday, March 29 at the West Toronto Masonic Temple, 151 Annette St. The popular event features food, drinks, local musical talent, silent and noisy auctions and socializing with neighbours. Since its incep-

tion, Function has each year raised funds for a community group. This year’s proceeds will go to FutureWatch, a not-for-profit registered charitable organization and its youth group Y-ECO Youth Environmental Community.

Dinner, provided by local restaurants, will be served between 6 and 8 p.m. during

which the silent auction will take place. After 8 p.m., there will be a live auction, raffle, cash bar and live music at 9 p.m. by local artists.

Tickets are $50 and available in advance at Agora Cafe, 3015 Dundas St. W., and Latitude 44, 2900 Dundas St. W. Visit www.junctionra.ca for further details.

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After Parade Refreshments and exhibits located by the Jamie Bell Adventure Playground.

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The Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival has been named one of the “Top 100 Festivals and Events” in Ontario for the second year in a row.

The awards are presented by Festival and Events Ontario. Now in its 18th year, the annual Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival has established itself as one of the premier Ukrainian festivals in North America, attracting as many as 600,000 visitors from across Canada, the US. The festival returns this year Sept. 12-14.

For further details, visit www. ukrainianfestival.com Police and church join forces for good cause Eleven Division police host an event in celebration of International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Friday, March 21 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Hallelujah Fellowship Baptist Church, 425 Pacific Ave. Officers will be joined by Pastor Junn Lagud. Light refreshments will be served.

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green roof talk with horticultural society The Swansea Horticultural Society will be discussing the topic of green roofs with guest speaker Toronto master gardener Tina Van Andel at its upcoming meeting.

It takes place on Wednesday, March, 26 meeting, 7:30 p.m. at the Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. Meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, except August and December. Visit www. gardenontario.org for details.

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Toronto Real Estate Board President Dianne Usher announced that Greater Toronto Area realtors reported 3,459 transactions through the TorontoMLS system during the first two weeks of March 2014.

This result for the TREB market area as a whole was virtually unchanged in comparison to 3,464 transactions completed during the same period in 2013.

“Despite the poor weather conditions experienced during the first half of March, an abundance of willing buyers were actively searching for a home to purchase,” she says.

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For all home types combined in the GTA, the average selling price was $560,948 - up by almost six per cent in comparison to the average price for the same time frame in 2013. The semi-detached market segment in the City of Toronto led the way in terms of price growth during the first 14 days of March, with a yearover-year increase of more than ten per cent.

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This competition has served to exert strong upward pressure on the average selling price," says Jason Mercer, TREB’s Senior Manager of Market Analysis.

“The average single-detached price was down slightly in the City of Toronto year over year because of a smaller share of luxury deals this year compared to last. Tight market conditions will continue to drive strong detached price growth in 2014,” adds Mercer.

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Three spacious bedrooms are located on the second floor along with a full 4-piece bath. Relax in the fully finished basement or on the patio in the fenced, private rear yard! You won’t have to worry about parking with a detached one car garage. Steps to Bloor St W, TTC, trendy shops and restaurants! Come see it for yourself this Sat and Sun from 2-4pm! This home is move-in ready!

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Cassi Kaplan’s colourful, yet minimal design of the avenue’s skyline, took home top honours for the Experience Eglinton contest, which was held in conjunction with Metrolinx and the Upper Village BIA. Kaplan’s design, which contains the slyly rhyming slogan “When the weather outside is construction, take shelter in shops along Eglinton”, will be displayed in shops throughout the Upper Village neighbourhood.

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A new “ski transit” service was announced in New York recently and will provide bus trips from Toronto and New York City to several ski resorts in the state.

The I Ski NY Bus service kicks off next season, and will offer trips from Toronto to six ski mountains in western New York.

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Foreign Caregivers - Know Your Rights!

WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: High Park library, 228 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: Brian Bertrand, 416393-7672, bbertrand@torontopubliclibrary.ca COST: Free Staff from Parkdale Community Legal Services provide this free program about workplace and immigration law for caregivers and nannies.

Refreshments served.

Voices Chamber Choir presents “Ein deutsches Requiem” (“A German Requiem”) WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Church of St. Martin in-theFields, 151 Glenlake Ave. CONTACT: Ron Cheung, 416-519-0528, www. voiceschoir.com, voiceschamberchoir@ yahoo.ca COST: $20 adults, $15 students/ seniors Voices Chamber choir will perform Johannes Brahms’s famous requiem in its chamber version as arranged by the composer. Also on the program is “Lux Aeterna” by Morten Lauridsen. Giovanni Spanu, baritone; Dorothy Yu and John Stephenson, piano. Ron Ka Ming Cheung, conduc-

w Tuesday, April 8

Mystery Mayhem Author Series WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7692 COST: Free The Crime Writers of Canada present its monthly panel of crime writers, who will read from and discuss their work. tor. Pre-concert chat at 7:30 p.m.

w Sunday, March 23

High Park History Walk WHEN: 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. WHERE: High Park, 1873 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: highparkwalkingtours@yahoo.ca COST: Free Tour some historically important sites in High Park, ending at the zoo parking lot to join the 100th anniversary celebration of the Howard Gates. Meet at the Grenadier benches.

w Tuesday, March 25

Streetknit WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7521 COST: Free Streetknit meets monthly to knit

People are still ignoring the science.

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scarves, socks and other warm clothing items for homeless people. Wool and needles provided.

w Thursday, March 27

Chinese Brush Painting for Seniors WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: Swansea Area Seniors Association, 416-392-1953, swanseaareaseniors@gmail.com COST: 10 classes @ $100 Instructor-led sessions help you discover your artistic side.

w Friday, March 28

Constituency Hours WHEN: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St. W. CONTACT: Irmgard, 416-3924072, councillor_doucette@toronto. ca COST: Free Ward 13 City Councillor Sarah Doucette holds constituency hours

regularly to meet with constituents in person. All residents of the ward are welcome, but an appointment is required.

rapher. Prizes and light refreshments.

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w Saturday, March 29

Green 13: Annual Earth Hour Walk WHEN: 7:45 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St. W. CONTACT: www.green13toronto. org, intransitions@hotmail.com COST: Free This year’s walk is on the Humbe River. Meet at Lambton House. The guided candle lit walk (bring your own candle or lanterns) is being led by local historian Madeline McDowell.

Nature Journaling – Family Nature Walk WHEN: 1 to 2:30 p.m. WHERE: High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside Dr. CONTACT: 416-392-1748, ext. 2 naturecentre@highpark.org COST: $2-$5 / person or donate-what-youcan Having a nature journal can be a great way to connect with nature.

Make a simple journal before a hike to fill some pages with sketches, rubbings and words.

A Kinky Affair: Toronto’s Black Professional Networking Event WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Emmanuel-Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Adeola, 647-567-0278, adeola.ade2@gmail. com COST: $25-$35 A Kinky Affair is a professional networking event which will allow students, bloggers, business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals to mix and mingle in an intimate atmosphere. Entertainment for the night will include spoken word, poetry, discussion panel, music and lots more.

There will be a red carpet photo session with a professional photog-

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Swansea Town Hall Indoor Garage Sale WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: 416-392-1954, www. swanseatownhall.ca, frontdesk@ swanseatownhall.ca COST: Free Come find some treasures or book a table of your own to sell on one of three floors.

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CENTENNIAL CLASSIC BIG BAND EVENT Saturday March 29th 7:00 p.m.

Enjoy a lavish 3-course dinner and then join The Toronto All-Star Big Band

What will you be thinking about during your moment of darkness?

Think about the future you want when you turn the lights off for Earth Hour on March 29, 8:30-9:30 p.m.

on the dance floor in the Ballroom for a Tribute to Glen Miller’s Greatest Hits.

BABIES AT LUNCH Thursday April 3rd 11:45 a.m.

Bring your baby and meet up with other babies who have something in common with you!

It’s BYOB – Bring Your Own Bib!

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EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA BUFFET Sunday April 20th Executive Chef Martin Buehner features all the traditional Easter favourites and more! Bring your family and enjoy the traditional Easter Brunch and Dinner Buffet. Rumour has it the Easter Bunny will pay a special visit!

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