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 Raising Youth Awareness Festival History 2005/2006
There’s definitely a need for awareness of available service organizations within the Parkdale area, whether this be for help in finding a job, finding a place to stay, or getting the next meal. The goal of the Festival is to create awareness by providing a fun interactive community based event. The end result is to create an accessible online reference database of services that are available to youth. 2005 The Festival was comprised of various components, including an "Interactive Art Zone" where individuals contributed to a “mural of street art". At the end of the day these pieces were offered to various community organizations in hopes that they are proudly displayed. Throughout the day there was a rotation of DJ’s at the DJ Station spinning an array of musical genres, a variety of performances, the Rainbow Web, face painting and wading pool, a Marketplace of local artisans and vendors, and a Community Information Fair with displays of materials from various youth organizations. 2005 Official sponsors were NOW Magazine, Woolfitt’s Art Supplies, MerchGuy Showprint, Crucial Pins, Parkdale Liberty Economic Development Corporation and Parkdale BIA. 2005 support from Parkdale Liberty Newspaper, Gleaner Publications, Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, 4-Unity Productions, Councilor Watson, and Triple-X Productions. ©
2007, Parkdale Youth Festival. Site by Toronto DigitalQ Designs
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Masaryk-Cowan
Park, Queen and Cowan in Parkdale. It's a day of music and art to raise
awareness for various Parkdale youth services.