2007 Summer Sensation
  CRAFT VENDORS

It's a Craft-lovers Dream
In addition to experiencing the exceptional music and dance of Toronto's cultures and their delicious eats & treats, you'll be intrigued by the artwork, creativity, passion, and history of their crafts.

You have four days to visit Africa, South America, the U.K., the South Pacific, and North America. June 20 – 22 at Metro Square, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. and July 12 at Yonge-Dundas Square, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Admission is free; so, come often! Bring your friends, family, and co-workers. It's a great way to wake up your day and support an organization that's working to rebuild lives and help many rediscover the zest for life. Please view our 2007 Summer Sensation specialty craft vendors.

Meet a new friend from around the world and leave with an authentic souvenir from a country you may never visit!

2007 Summer Sensation Craft Vendors
• Ten Thousand Villages (crafts representing various countries of Africa and Asia)

Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans who would otherwise be unemployed. This income helps pay for food, education, health care, and housing. Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit program of Mennonite Central Committee, the relief and development agency of Mennonite and Bretheren in Chirst churches in North America. Visit www.TenThousandVillages.ca


• Australian Shop (crafts, clothing, gift items, packages snacks representing Australia)

The Australian Shop has operated in Toronto for the past 25 years. The shop specializes in quality outdoor clothing made from environmentally friendly materials. Foremost are the waterproof 'oilskin' coats, jackets and hats. Oilskin was developed for extreme climatic conditions over 225 years ago and is made form 100% cotton. Other products include the famous Akubra fur felt hat, authentic boomerangs, opal stones and specimens, didjeridoos, tapes and CDs, animal crossing signs and T-shirts.

In all, an exceptional display of Australiana items combined with informative travel information. Exhibit will be staffed by blokes and sheilas from Down Under.

australian-shop.ca email: aussie-shop@rogers.com


• Pharos Jewelleries (jewellery, crafts, & traditional-wear representing Egypt)
• Garba Studios (stain glass, glass jewellery representing Eastern Europe)
• Faces of Fair Trade (crafts representing Cambodia and Bolivia)

Faces of Fair Trade is a non-profit organization that supports low-income artisans from developing countries by selling their art and crafts in Canada. The handicrafts reflect and reinforce rich cultural traditions that are environmentally sensitive and which appeal to North American consumers.

Faces of Fair Trade vendors are personally connected to community-based groups of artisans and possess a strong sense of commitment to helping them improve their social and economic situations. Faces of Fair Trade represents artisans from Nepal, Ecuador, Botswana, India, Cambodia, Bolivia, Columbia, Pakistan, and Nicaragua. The Ten Thousand Villages Toronto Danforth Store and Faces of Fair Trade work closely to educate the public about the range in availability of fairly traded consumer products.


• Wendy designs (crafts representing North America)
• Modraphelia (local design crafted clothing, jewellery representing Britain)
• Island Music (representing the Caribbean)
• Sandi Kitchen (Award-wining condiments and preserves representing North America)

Sandi has been producing her award-winning Zucchini Relish and other homemade condiments for the past several years. She made her first jar of relish while enrolled in the University of Guelph Diploma in Horticulture program. Sandi utilizes her talents in horticulture and art to create products without additives and preservatives. She sells her products in select gourmet shops and craft shows across Southern Ontario and at the Guelph Farmers’ Market Saturday mornings.

FOOD VENDORS
It's a Food-Lovers Dream

Taste Toronto like never before. The aromas, the laughter, the love, the passion, the creativity infused in the appetizers, traditional dishes, delicious desserts and other sweet-treat creations are inviting you to come for lunch, come for dinner, come anytime of the day; they'll be there to greet, entice, and treat you. You have four days to visit the Caribbean, South America, the U.K., the South Pacific, and North America. It's a great way to pleasantly shake up your senses and support an organization that's working to rebuild lives and help many rediscover the zest for life. Please view our 2007 Summer Sensation food vendors.

Enjoy a bite anytime of the day or night.

2007 Summer Sensation Food Vendors

• Trinidad Style Hot Roti & Doubles (main dishes, snacks, desserts representing Trinidad & Tobago)
• El Gordo Fine Foods (Chilean Empanadas and other meat and vegetarian Latin American treats)
• The Nutty Chocolatier (Belguim chocolate, peanuts, candy floss, snow cones, and gourmet candy)
• Dairy King (Ice cream treats representing North America)
• B. Martin Promotions & Cool Treats (Nouget wafers and olste delights represnting the U.K.)

2007 Summer Sensation special events are in support of Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC). PARC is a registered charitable not-for-profit organization that works with psychiatric survivors and adults experiencing multiple barriers to adequate basic needs: housing, food, income/and or employment; the organization exists to help these individuals rebuild their lives. To learn more about PARC, please see PARC's Profile for a brief description.