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.
Click here for information for visitors to the sale (including how to get there).
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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