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Rotary Toronto Members Only Weekend Retreat 2024

It's at Camp Scugog!

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Questions? Please email Susan Howson showson@researchcapital.com

Digger, Teacher, Soldier, Spy and Lawrence of Arabia & the Middle East.

Turned Sideways: Why Toronto and Sidewalk Labs' Smart-City Dream Faded and

What it Means for the Future of Cities

Embracing Mental Illness & Neurodiversity in the Workplace"  

Host:  Sylvia Geist

On Friday, December 10TH, Rebeccah Love is a Toronto-based film maker, writer, visual artist and community organizer. She’ll speak to us about Psychosis, Civic Responsibility and the Imagination........ 

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In these difficult times, we need to celebrate our fellowship as Rotarians.

So, this is a “feel good” luncheon.

We have some money to give away, President John and Foundation President Susan Howson will give us a little history, and as an added attraction, we’ll hear about “That Was the Week that Was” from Geoffrey Johnson.

Guest Speaker:  Friday, August 21, 2020

Location:  Rotary Virtual Lunch Meeting via Google Meet

Topic:  An Interview with and Entertainment by Liberty Silver

Liberty Silver is a multi award-winning singer/songwriter who made her professional singing debut at age 12, when she opened for reggae legend, Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, at Madison Square Gardens in New York City. She was a contestant for seven weeks on the popular TV show, Star Search, has pursued a number of musical genres, with a particular emphasis on jazz and neo-soul, and is renowned for her six-plus octave range.

In the mid-‘80s, Liberty won 3 Juno Awards for Best R&B Single and Reggae/Calypso Recording, and appeared in Canada’s Ethiopian famine relief song, “Tears Are Not Enough” in which she won a Grammy for that collaboration. In 1995, she was Jazz Report’s Female Jazz Singer of the Year. Her 1999 song, “Love’s Eternity Gate”, went double platinum and won 5 Black Music Awards, and in 2005, she received the ACAA, for Arts and Entertainment. Liberty co-wrote the themes for the Atlanta and the Athens Olympics Games; has opened for BB King, the Temptations and Harry Belafonte; and has performed or collaborated with Eddie Bullen, David Foster, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell and many others. In 2005, she released the album, At Last. Her latest and highly-anticipated album, Groove Symphony was released in December 2010.

David Lockett is a long-time Rotarian, volunteer, visionary and social entrepreneur who has spent most of his working life developing, delivering and funding innovative and cost-effective programs and strategies to address the underlying factors that lead to family and domestic violence, poverty and youth crime in Toronto. 

As the co-founder and President of the PACT Urban Peace Program, and the co-founder of the Redwood Shelter in Toronto, David has leveraged his business experience, professional network and personal perseverance to make a positive and significant social impact through integrated, best-practice solutions.

Bio Joe Cressy

Joe is the City Councillor for Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York. A City Councillor since 2014, Joe has been a champion for building a better and more liveable city - for affordable housing, public transit, safe cycling infrastructure, new and improved parkland, expanding community services, childcare, arts and culture, and combatting our growing overdose crisis.