Hey everyone!

I just wanted to share a bit of information about something that me and my Katimavik group are working on within our community. We're starting a youth group that will be taking place once a month at Acces Point @ Danforth in Toronto. We're not targeting an extremely specific age group, what we had assumed would be ages 11-17, possibly. We're running it as an after school program. Everyone is welcome but our main reason for creating it is because there aren't a lot of youth activities going on in our neighborhood and a lot of the youth living in our neighborhood may not be able to afford after school activities, hence why we started something completely free. Our first one is going to be March 13th. What we have planned for that night is some ice breakers, food and just getting to know one another and trying to find out what youth would be interested in for the following date. We're all ready excited and eager to start this, maybe a bit nervous as well, but I'm sure it'll be amazing!

Cheers!

Taylor

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to share something with some of you guys in case you haven't heard about it yet. There's a defining moments art contest going on, this contest asks you to submit a piece of artwork that represents a defining moment as a Canadian for you. You must include approximately 75 words to describe your piece of artwork. The deadline is March 1st, if everyone could submit something that'd be amazing!

Cheers!

Taylor

Hello everyone!

This blog isn't going to be very excting, just somewhat of an update on what I've been up to in the past week. I've been looking over various member content that has been submitted to TIG, generally within the past few months, trying to gather content that would be exciting and interesting for a weekly newsletter. I've also started submitting my own artwork (photography) to the global gallery as well as to the defining moments art contest. I have set up a flickr account for my photography as well (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tayenglish/). This is the first I have ever posted any of it publically other than maybe a few shots on facebook, so that's pretty new. 

I've done a lot of exploring throughout Toronto in the past week, discovering new places and looking more in depth to places that I've already seen. I went to Lake Ontario on Sunday which was amazing. I checked out Kenzington market which was a very new experience, I've never seen anyhting like it. I also went to the Art Gallry of Ontario, which was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen.

Hopefully I'll have something more interesting or excting to blog about next week!

Cheers!

Taylor