NCE4: Harbourfront/Trinity-Spadina
Location
Yonge / Queen's Quay (just east of Yonge street in front of the Waterlink Condos)
Theme
Cultural Fusion
Times runners pass by and entertainment happens
8:20am to 10:45am
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Neighbourhood Champions: TBA
Neighbourhood Charity & Sponsoring Group:
Brandon Street Community Development Foundation for its Anti-bullying campaign
Brandon Street Community Development Foundation is a registered charitable organization. Since 1987, it has worked tirelessly to strengthen families, develop unique programs for children and youth and provide training, mentoring, employment and other opportunities for young adults. It also runs an Intergenerational Arts Project for seniors; a youth choir; provides free temporary accommodation for families in crises and promotes individual and group progress.
2009 Sponsors:
2009 Entertainment features:
Our 2009 Cheering Section will prove to be an exciting experience for all. Building on last year, we will have a lively, vibrant pavilion with entertainment including rap, dance, group performances and live music. Runners will be encouraged by the enthusiastic cheers form our group.
Stop by our pavilion at NC4 (Queens Quay and Yonge). You'll be energized and mesmerized by the creative efforts of youth from The Self-Esteem Academy that chose this year's theme 'Cultural Fusion'.
2009 Entertainment Lineup:
Kid Banga (KB)
Introduced to the love and life of hip hop at the age of thirteen, Jeramy Henry is more commonly known as Kid Banga (KB) for short.
He is a Hip Hop artist, an MC, beat producer and a business man. KB began writing rhymes in his early adolescence and discovered an innate talent for creating music from the ground up. He uses his music to motivate, inspire and elevate people.
At the age of sixteen, he became involved in his first self-proclaimed hip hop crew "Illimitada". There, he exercised his lyrical abilities and used that opportunity as a learning experience to build a name and career for himself.
K.B. knows first hand how music influences the youth, including his younger sister and therefore chooses the words of his songs very carefully to set a good example and have a positive influence on them.
K.B. lives and works in Toronto.
Check him out at www.myspace.com/kbthamc.
Carl Henry III
Internationally renowned artist, Carl Henry III, has lead a successful career including such hits as "Do You" (Sonic Sound), "Roomful of Tears" (Taxi Label), "Survival" (Volcano Label) and his current single "Over and Over" (Torino Label).
Currently Carl is working with producer Maurizio Rossetto (Glen Ricketts, Liberty Silver) on his upcoming CD release "American Dream".
You can download Carl's latest songs from ITunes, Amazon or any other online music store.
Carl has done numerous television appearances including Telelatino - Canada, CHIN - Canada, CBC – Canada, JBC TV - Jamaica.
Carl's vocal talents have taken him around the world including Jamaica, USA, Canada, and most recently Europe where he performed to packed audiences in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. His outstanding performances have resulted in future return engagements worldwide.
Carl has a positive attitude towards his work and the people around him. He is always professional, courteous and punctual. He strives to perform at his very best, singing the most sophisticated ballads reggae, rock n' roll, and R&B.
Access/parking:
Parking in Beer Store Lot [paid] at NW corner of Queen's Quay West and Rees St. By car, access inbound must be via Spadina Ave. south. Spadina is the ONLY north/south road accessing Queen's Quay that is open all day on the 24th. South on Spadina, turn LEFT [East] onto Lakeshore eastbound lanes [do NOT go straight down to bottom of Queen's Quay, as you'll only be able to go West on QQ from there and you need to go east!]; then right onto Rees and right onto Queen's Quay and the lot. Exit west on QQ, north on Spadina into the city [east on Adelaide to Start/finish]; OR north on Spadina, east on Lakeshore to Rees St. on ramp to Gardiner Eastbound.
NCE4 is supported by Councillor Pam McConnell (Ward 28)