How many times have you ridden a crowded subway car in rush hour in total silence, avoiding eye contact with the strangers you see each day?

How many time have you wished there was someone, something, anything! to breathe some life into the ride?

Well, if you're lucky, one day you might encounter an infamous Toronto SUBWAY PARTY... and meet some friendly folks who want to recessitate your long, dull trek to work...

The goal of these parties is not to "party" in front of passengers but to connect with them. We meet during rush hour in the morning to help make people's day better and to melt the barriers that separate us on our daily commute.

Note: We discovered that it was one of the passenger's birthdays and sang her happy birthday.

Shot by Catherine Hew, Paige Gratland, Noelle Elia.
Interviewee & Organizer: Carly Stasko

A subway party is a celebration that occurs on a mass transit system. Generally, people meet at a predetermined station in their city's mass transit system, wait until their numbers have achieved critical mass, and board the train.
This party was organized by the Toronto Media Collective.
However, Newmindspace have been throwing great parties in recent years and even have some resources about organizing your own so check check check them out at
http://www.newmindspace.com/

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APRIL 3rd - Trevor defended his dissertation "Consuming, Schooling and the End of Politics" and earned his Doctorate in Philosophy at OISE/UofT.

APRIL 4th - Trevor had a party to celebrate.

In the invitations to the party Trevor said

"A marching band will perform, followed by a roundtable of scholarly papers on the epistemological and metaphysical presuppositions that inform facebook. Some of my top Business Ethics students will perform ethical acts while blindfolded."

Trevor was joking about this, but sometimes when you put an idea out into the universe it has a funny way of coming back and finding you!

THE PLOT THICKENS......

The night of the party, little did Trevor know that a Marching Band had been formed to celebrate the occasion!
After marching into the bar, singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and dressing Trevor up as the leader of the band, we proceeded to parade around the neighborhood and through the school lobby much to the curiosity and amazement of random onlookers.

Trevor was very surprised when we arrived at the party and he was a great sport and seized his chance to lead a parade and celebrate.

It was a lot of fun with a lot of organizing and help from friends and family.

Thanks everyone, enjoy and celebrate life.

love, light and laughter
Carly

Drummers:
Nunca Antes, check them out at
http://www.nuncaantes.ca/
Alex Bordokas, Aline Morales
Ana Maria Higuera and Mari Palhares

Marchers/Dancers/Shakers:
Trevor Norris, Carly Stasko, Dave Meslin (Mez), Michelle Poirier,
Dave Fingrut, Shannon Waterman, Jesse Visser, Helen Anderson, Paul Baines. Megan Boler,, Owen Williams
Special Thanks for their behind the scenes help: Darrell Dobson, Rob Virdis, Peter Killam, Lynette, Chris, Juli and Paul Norris, Bob and Cathy Stasko, the staff and manager at the Bedford Academy, and everyone at the party who joined in and helped to keep things secret until the surprise!

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Tthe fabric looks so beautiful in the sunlight with the breeze blowing.
Great art project Natalie!

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Part 2 of an 18-minute documentary made in 1998 in Toronto exploring creative urban cultures in the context of homelessness and risk. Documents an outdoor art festival called Planet Struck, that was produced by with and for at risk youth in Toronto, and everybody else. It was held outside beneath the Bathurst St. viaduct near Lakeshore in Toronto. This powerful video features Toronto's very best breakdancing, MCing and graffiti circa 1998, as well as powerful street theatre by Cobblestone Youth Theatre, songs, rants and much more.

• Produced by the Planet Struck Youth Collective:

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- Raymond
- Maria
- Larry
- Voltisse (RIP)
- Tanya
- Jason
- Anna
- Max
- Katie
- Janice
- Denis

• Directed by John Sobol
• Edited by David Findlay and John Sobol
• Video facilitation by David Findlay
• Supported by Suzanne Thompson and by Turning Point Youth Services
• Planet Struck Festival (August 22-23, 1998) was produced by John Sobol and Dave Redfern of Mushroom Entreprises

PART 2 features rappers, singers, dub poets, freestylers, spoken word artists and more...

Deep thanks to Zoe Hamilton, Carly Stasko, Duro3, Motion and everyone else who was interviewed or featured in this video. It was a great weekend. I hope you like the video. Please identify yourselves in the comments so I know to credit you properly...

This documentary was produced with the support of:

• Mushroom Entreprises
• Turning Point Youth Services
• The Laidlaw Foundation Youth Video Initiative
• Andrew Bee and Trinity Square Video
• The Canada Council for the Arts

Grooves by Moonstarr and Aretz

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The music video for my song 'Alice', an electronic piece composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film 'Alice In Wonderland'.
www.myspace.com/pogotracks
www.last.fm/music/Pogo

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http://www.yellowgurl.com
http://www.myspace.com/yellowg url_poetry
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for booking inquiries, booking@yellowgurl.com

for screening information, contact Alli Maxwell at alli.maxwell@gmail.com

Directed by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Produced by Alli Maxwell & Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai (Moving Earth Productions)

Brooklyn, NY, August 2008.

for more info on "Black, White, Whatever" and Moving Earth Productions, go to www.yellowgurl.com/wp/category /projects.

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