Music, Infrastructure Upgrades and Climate Change in Regent Park

By Fred Alvarado Fred is a community journalist with FOCUS MEDIA ARTS CENTRE

Welcome to RPTV Weekly News Show (Episode 35) for Aug 12 to Aug 19, 2022. In this weekly news show hosted by RPTV reporters Fred Alvarado, Victoria Nanneti, Jabin Haque, Jamelia Parnell, Abiqa Al-basith, and Syana Balasundaram, we present news that impacts on Toronto's Regent Park and the surrounding areas.

Episode 35 for the week of August 12th to August 19th, 2022 features segments on:
Regent Park Celebrates “Sunday in the Park Festival:
Resilience & Revival” on August 14th, 2022 (1:21 min);
Regent Park Summer Series concerts every Friday at Daniels Spectrum by Community Music Schools of Toronto (17:48 min);
Regent Park songwriter Mustafa wins 2022 Prism Prize for top Canadian Music Video (21:39 min);
Months of construction set to begin on major downtown artery for Ontario Line (27:02 min); Heatwaves: Community Resilience to Extreme Weather - dealing with the inequities of climate change (29:08 min);
Covid-19 & Vaccination Update: 1. More than two-thirds of Toronto residents 18 years or older have received their third dose. 2. Vaccine and Wellness Clinics in the Neighborhood (35:01 min); Events and Jobs in Regent Park (36:23 min).

Community Music Schools of Toronto expanding from Regent Park School of Music brings the Summer Series concerts weekly performance to Regent Park neighborhood featuring students from the Community Music Schools of Toronto summer camps every Friday at 3:30pm on the Daniels Spectrum Terrace supported by Daniels Corporation.

Regent Park School of Music recently announced their new name to Community Music Schools of Toronto as an umbrella name that connects all their programs and still celebrates their history in Regent Park and Jane Finch, and more communities in the future.

Founded in 1999 with just 71 kids, Community Music Schools of Toronto has gone on to impact the lives of thousands of young people in Regent Park, Jane Finch, Wandering Spirit School (formerly First Nations School of Toronto) and other school-aged children from high-risk neighbourhoods in a combination of after-school, weekend, March Break and summer camp music education programs.

Community Music Schools of Toronto gives children and youth future prospects a rich and rewarding music and social education, by removing the financial obstacle. Students have access to some of Toronto’s best music teachers and a vast array of musical instruments and options
Students, through a first-come, first-served model, access over 80 dedicated music teachers, and can study everything from classical piano, strings, voice, brass, wind and percussion to electronic music, song-writing and recording.  

If you want more information please visit: www.communitymusic.org or 585 Dundas Street East, Suite 220