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An Invitation to Artists & Craftspeople
to enter the Twentieth Annual
Cabbagetown Art & Crafts Sale

Cabbagetown Art & Crafts Sale dates & hours:
Friday, September 5, 2008, 1.00 - 6.00 p.m.
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

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The Cabbagetown Art & Crafts Sale is held in Riverdale Park West, right beside Riverdale Farm, which is an urban farm featuring heritage buildings and rare breed animals in downtown Toronto. It is bounded by Wellesley, Parliament, and Gerrard streets and the Don Valley Expressway. The correct name for the area is Don Vale, but the name Cabbagetown, from the habit of its poor residents to grow cabbages on their front lawns in the 1920s has stuck, popularized by the Hugh Garner novel. Over the past 30 years, Cabbagetown has been renovated and rebuilt into one of the finest heritage neighborhoods in Canada, home to many famous people in the arts.

Our sale is on the weekend after Labour Day, coinciding with the Riverdale Farm Fall Festival and the Cabbagetown Festival. Together we attract over 20,000 visitors to the area. The Cabbagetown Fall Festival, sponsored by the Olde Cababgetown Business Improvement Association, has been going for the past twenty-five years. Its festival starts on Thursday night and continues through Sunday. Parliament Street is closed to traffic. There is a parade, all-day entertainment, sidewalk cafes, and garage sales. The Riverdale Farm Fall Festival includes craft demonstrations, corn roasts, fiddle playing, and children’s activities. We help sponsor a free square dance between 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Saturday night.

The Cabbagetown Art & Crafts Sale is the one of the biggest and best outdoor art and crafts sales in Toronto. The quality and variety of goods are hallmarks of our event. Local craftspeople and artists jury the entries, and although there are many applicants, we limit it to 170 artists. Funds raised from the sale go toward local charities and to support BarnyardArts, which offers visual art courses to adults at Riverdale Farm throughout the year. We help build a better city. As you can tell, we are in the middle of a lot of activity, in one of the loveliest parks in all of Toronto. Come join us for a weekend, and meet our friendly downtown Toronto residents.

Randy Brown
Founder & Director

With Cabbagetown being my first real-world exhibition, "I'm very exited with the positive responses from the public, my fellow artists, and craftsmen and of course the organizers of Cabbagetown Arts and Crafts Sale. I look forward to attending next year, and for years to come."
Matthew Hilts, wood turner

"I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for yet again another outstanding year. I have had the pleasure of being in the Cabbagetown show for two years now, and yet again I am amazed by how well the entire show is run."
Jeremy Browne, watercolours

Cabbagetown Art & Crafts Sale, 125 Spruce Street, Toronto ON M5A 2J4
Telephone: 416-926-0237, e-mail: cabbagetowncraft@aol.com

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