Broadview and Queen is the heart of Riverside, and the Riverside BIA is thrilled to be able to Stop the Traffic, and “Bring Down Broadview” at the Riverside Eats & Beats Street festival on June 7th. The Corner of Queen & Broadview is a diversity of food, fun and all sorts of funk with Streetcar Developments, An Síbin Pub and Boots & Bourbon showcasing a lineup of musical acts and treats. We will be celebrating Riverside’s Future, Past and Present while we “Bring Down Broadview”
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FUTURE
Come visit info booths at Queen & Broadview and see future plans Riverside and Toronto’s East end. Recently, we have been getting plenty of coverage – referring to our ‘hood as “The Happening Place in Toronto” And…there is even more planned as Riverside plans to welcome the world in 2015 for the PanAm/Para Pan Am Games!! There is info on:
Ignite 2015 – PanAm/Para Pan Am Games
Riverside Bridge Lighting Capital Project
Wayfinding Markers for pedestrians to navigate the entry to Riverside
Riverside’s next piece of Public Art – a tribute to the history of Sport in Riverside
TTC infrastructure improvements as we prepare for the Futuristic Street Cars – put your name in a draw for a chance to be one of the first to Ride the new Street Car.
A celebration of theatre in the East end and input on the future of the Crow’s Nest
PAST
Join the team from the Royal Canadian Curling Club – one of Riverside’s iconic athletic epicenters to see a display of historical memorabilia including trophies, street maps, photos and historic items. – Find out about the Historic Dunlop Trophy and Riverside’s Bike Race from the 1800s.
Also on hand will be Gerald Whyte of the Riverdale Historic Society. At around 3pm, visit with local Historian Ron Fletcher and the Riverside Historical Walk concludes at our FlagShip corner. Explore the Heritage of Riverside.
PRESENT
Get a taste of Celtic and Soul food, music, and drink and enjoy a BBQ feast and some of Ontario’s best Craft Beers on the AnSibin Pub Broadview Back Patio and Beer Garden. Sample a host of delicious bites from Boots and Bourbon. At 1pm sit back under the shade of the rainbow umbrella’s with the roots, blues and folk sounds of Keith Jolie ; and at 2:30, The Tall Grass singers ( Chloe Watkinson and the Roberts Sisters will harmonize Southern Gospel and Old Time Country music, with a bit of jazz, blues and soul. At 4pm get your boots stomping with Boots and Bourbon leading line and dancing lesson, and then taking it out flash mob style. Steak night starts at 5pm – 3 different sizes and styles of Steak at great prices!!! Wind it up with the AnSibin Pub after-party at 10pm – live Celtic Rock with the O’Deadly’s Irish morsels and show off your Gallic foot work with guest Celtic band.
Keith Jolie
Tall Grass Singers
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Thanks to our prime sponsors Nell & Natasha Homeward Realty and Streetcar Developments