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2014 AGM – November 15, 2014

Postcard - image of Oxford St. with date and time of 2014 KMAC AGM

KMAC (Kensington Market Action Committee) is your general-purpose neighbourhood association looking out for the interests of both residents and businesses in Kensington Market

Some of what we’ve worked with & supported in 2014

– Friends of Kensington who successfully kept Walmart from moving into Kensington Market this year
– the 25th Annual Kensington Market Winter Solstice Parade on December 21st
– Sonya’s Park Community Gardens
– new artist murals in the neighbourhood

Laneway mural with dedication to KMAC, who funded the project
– St. Stephens out of the cold program
– Canopy of Kensington – planting new trees in both front and back yards throughout the market
We also
– act as liaison for visiting film crews in Kensington
– negotiate with city officials in all matters that relate to our neighbourhood.

Is there anything you think we could be supporting?
Do you have an interest in volunteering for our board?

Please join us ….
refreshments will be served.

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To tag or not to tag?

TORONTO – With a coffee house threatened with a fine for leaving a couple of tags on their wall, graffiti has managed to spray itself across the headlines once again.

Often considered the most deviant art form, you can’t miss street art if you tried: it’s on the walls of warehouses as you pass through Scarborough on the RT, it’s in alleyways in Kensington Market, it’s even on TTC buses and subways in the form of illegible tags, which are normally an artist’s signature, scrawled with black markers.

The question is: what is considered vandalism and what is art? And why do artists, whether experienced or just starting out, feel the need to tag walls?

To read the rest of this Global Toronto article click here