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Events: Doors Open & Green Toronto Festivals...plus more (May 23-31)
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Friday, May 23
4:30pm-9:30pm
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Doors Open Toronto Kick Off
Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen's Park)

Speakers: Mayor David Miller, ROM CEO William Thorsell and other VIPs
at 6 p.m., plus performances by Tafelmusik and the Toronto Consort.

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May 23 & 24
12pm-8pm
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Green Toronto Festival

Toronto’s annual celebration of all things green takes to the streets of Yonge and Dundas on Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24, 2008. This year’s line up is bigger, and better than ever!

Check out hundreds of green products and services to help you live green at home, work and on the road. Everything from bees, worms and bikes, to green fashions, renewable energy, local foods and more. Come on down and see all the exhibitors!

http://www.toronto.ca/greentorontofestival/pdf/gtf_flyer.pdf
 
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Saturday & Sunday, May 24 & 25
10am-4pm

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Doors Open Toronto

Join Toronto Culture and renew your faith in Toronto architecture!

Multicultural places of worship and Toronto’s National Historic Sites will be in the spotlight during this year’s event, which gives visitors an opportunity to explore over 140 buildings of architectural, historic, cultural and/or social significance; admission is free. Many of the city’s finest churches, chapels, temples, synagogues and mosques are among the featured buildings this year, as well as green buildings and structures never before open to the public.

http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/culture/doorsopen2008.nsf/Search?OpenForm

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Monday to Saturday, May 26 to 31
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Green Screens at National Film Board

Monday, May 26
6:30 pm : The World According to Monsanto (Toronto Premiere)
Directed by Marie-Monique Robin, prize winning French journalist and filmmaker and the author of a new book, Le monde selon Monsanto. (Image & Compagnie/Productions Thalie/ARTE France/NFB/WDR). 

Wednesday, May 28
7:00 pm : Up the Yangtze
The Three Gorges Dam — contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle — provides the epic backdrop for a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China. (EyeSteelFilm/NFB)

Thursday, May 29
5:00-7:00pm :  Green Screens in the Secondary Classroom: A Screening & Resource Session
This workshop will provide educators with an integrated media education approach to using the NFB collection of environmental titles in secondary-level Language Arts, Media Studies, Global Issues and Social Studies classrooms.  Includes an overview of the NFB Mediatheque's Green Screens for Teens Workshop and the new NFB Web site FOOTPRINTS: Environment and the Way We Live.

For more information: www.nfb.ca/greenscreenseducation

7:30 pm : Refugees of the Blue Planet
An award-winner at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Film Festival, Hélène Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval’s documentary sheds light on the little-known plight of environmental refugees. (Point du Jour/Les productions Virage/NFB)

Friday, May 30
7:00 pm : Weather Report
Director Brenda Longfellow takes us to the front-lines of climate change. (Sienna Films/NFB)

8:00 pm : The World According to Monsanto

Saturday, May 31
3:00 pm : Toxic Trespass
Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the health effects of the chemical soup that surrounds us. (If You Love Our Children/NFB) * Also premiering May 14 at 10 pm on TVO.

http://www.nfb.ca/footprints/ 


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