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Interview with Mr. Joe Di Clemente, Director of Integrated Communications Joe Di Clemente is the director of Integrated Communications. His department is responsible for marketing, media relations, box office, information, social media and design.

Mr. Di Clemente started at Harbourfront Centre as a summer job. He had just graduated from art school and was planning to return to Italy in the fall to be a painter. When the summer ended, he was asked to stay on. Mr. Di Clemente accepted the offer and never left. After 30 years, Mr. Di Clemente has not lost interest or passion for his work at Harbourfront Centre. He enjoys the creative challenge and the variety of tasks, as well as the collaboration with his staff and the quality of innovation of the programmes. The liveliness of the site keeps everyone energized. One of the biggest changes Mr. Di Clemente has seen over 30 years was when Harbourfront Centre went from a Crown corporation to a not-for-profit arts centre. The physical site has changed dramatically and continues to do so. It has evolved from a series of warehouses to a jewel on the lakeshore. Volunteers help the Integrated Communications department in a variety of ways: they work at the information centre, distribute print material and gather media clippings. Some volunteers have signed on as designers to build experience for school programmes. Volunteers are a vital force in all facets of the Integrated Communications department and will continue to be. Thank you very much, Mr. Di Clemente, for giving the volunteer e-newsletter a bit of your time. We look forward to continuing our work with the Integrated Communications department in future.

By Lynn Allen

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 June 2013 October 2012

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CEP Programme Staff – Who’s who, who’s doing what The summer season at HFC started with the always energetic and exciting HarbourKIDS: Circus over the Victoria Day long weekend. Kicking off the summer season proper is Canada Day Weekend Celebrations and every weekend thereafter the world descends on our 10-acre site for music and dance performances, face painting, balloon crafts, workshops, cooking demos and so much more! We celebrate the diversity of cultures that enliven our city and our country. The global community is in our own backyard! We would like to introduce you to the people who design, plan and deliver these wonderful events. They are:

Michael Tait, Guest Artistic Associate Michael has been coerced out of retirement to work on Canada Day Weekend Celebrations (June 28-July 1)

Rodrigo Fritz and Diana Webley, Senior Project Coordinators/Artistic Associates Rodrigo is the lead programmer for Ritmo y Color (July 5-7), Hot & Spicy Food Festival (August 30-September 2) Diana is the lead programmer for Dancing on the Pier (June 27-September 19), Canada Day Weekend Celebrations (June 28-July 1) and Mabuhay! Philippines Festival (August 16-18)

Richard Martin, Artistic Associate

Richard is working

on Canada Day Weekend

Celebrations (June 28-July 1), Ritmo y

Color (July 5-7), and Hot & Spicy

Food Festival (August 30-

September 2)

Mira Coviensky, Artistic Associate Mira is the lead programmer for Fortune Cooking (August 9 -11) and Pan American Food Festival (September 20-22) and

is also working on Tirgan Festival (July 19-21) and Telus TAIWANfest (August 23-25)

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CEP Programme Staff – who’s who, who’s doing what

Candace Shaw, Artistic Associate

Candace is the lead programmer for Redpath Waterfront Festival (June 21-23), Tirgan Festival (July 18-21), Telus TAIWANfest (August 23-25) and CaribbeanTales (September 4-14)

Nadine McNulty, Guest Artistic Associate

Nadine is the lead programmer for Island Soul (August 2-5) and Calypso STARS (August 5) for the second straight year.

The Music Team: Eli Klein, Artistic Associate, Music Sergio Elmir, Assistant Artistic Associate, Music Joanne Siu, Admin Assistant, Music Eli and Sergio are co-leads for the SoundClash Festival (July 12-14). Eli is also the music programmer for Canada Day Weekend Celebrations, Classical V: Brass, Island Soul and Fortune Cooking. Sergio is also the music programmer for Ritmo Y Color and Hot & Spicy Food Festival. He is also the lead for DJ Deep Fried Fridays. Joanne is the music assistant for all of the above festivals, as well as the hotel and transportation coordinator for the summer festivals.

Caroline Hollway, Guest Artistic Associate

Caroline is the lead programmer for Classical V: Brass (July 26-28) for the second straight year.

The Event Assistants: Natalie Buckley, Nida Haroon, Alexandria Lepinksi

Natalie is the event assistant for Fortune Cooking, Tirgan Festival, TAIWANfest, and Pan American Food Festival. Nida is the event assistant for Ritmo Y Color, SoundClash, Island Soul and Hot & Spicy Food Festival Alex is the event assistant for Canada Day Weekend Celebrations, Dancing on the Pier and Mabuhay! Philippines Festival.

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Volunteer Recognition Party Harbourfront Centre hosted a volunteer recognition event on April 26 to honour our wonderful volunteers. It was a fun party and everyone had a great time.

Kate Taylor, Director, Development, addressing the volunteers

Sean McCluskey receiving his award from Kate

Yingdan Zhang looks happy with her award

Congratulations, Thanisa Sundaralingam, Ricky Yu and Helen Crispin

Elizabeth Lubowitz, Carol Flett and Kelly Gorman help The venue looked great thanks to many helping hands check in volunteers

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Volunteer Recognition Party…What a fun party

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HarbourKIDS: Circus HarbourKIDS and Zero Gravity Circus presented the 11th annual Toronto International Circus Festival. Acrobats, clowns, magicians, puppeteers and other skilled performers converged on the HFC site for this free Victoria Day weekend festival. This year, the festival paid tribute to flight. Visitors were encouraged to learn real acrobatic skills either at the Natrel Tumble n’ Swing workshops or, for toddlers, in the Kindercirque area. Volunteers were kept very busy helping face painters and balloon artists in their popular tents. It was a wonderful weekend for everyone.

Michelle having a blast at the hula hoop

Wimala at the crafts Maurice fundraising at the WestJet Stage

Various performers at HarbourKIDS Circus

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SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival From May 9 to 12, Harbourfront Centre hosted SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival. It is Canada’s premier a cappella festival and is dedicated to celebrating Canadian and international vocal artists. Participants not only demonstrated that the voice knows no limits, but they also inspired and educated today’s youth while fostering a new and revitalized patronage for the vocal arts. Festival organizers brought together thousands of like-minded students, educators, enthusiasts, divas and “in-the-shower belters” to create a platform for some of the most innovative and exciting vocal presentations of music. Aaron Jensen was the artistic director.

Forest of Reading® Festival of Trees™ Forest of Reading® Festival of Trees™ is the largest children’s literary event in Canada. It returned to HFC this year with two days (May 15-16) of award ceremonies, fun workshops, author signings, and other exciting activities. The festival was presented by Authors at Harbourfront Centre in partnership with the Ontario Library Association. This children’s choice award programme welcomed more than 8,000 readers! The students on site were very enthusiastic about being at HFC and participating in the event. Many were back for a second or third time! It was a great event at which to volunteer!

Carol ushering in patrons into the Brigantine Room

Andree directing the participants at the boardwalk

Various performers at SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival

Elinna, Info Host at Forest of Reading

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Kat’s Korner

Trivia Challenge In this issue of the volunteer e-newsletter, we want to see who has been paying attention! Here are some questions about the last issue of the e-newsletter (The April issue is here: http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/images/volunteers/2013/vol_enews_2013apr.pdf). Good luck! 1. How many years has William Boyle worked at Harbourfront Centre? 2. How many hours did volunteers contribute at Harbourfront Centre in 2012? 3. Of the two volunteers profiled in the last issue, which one said: “It feels good to contribute towards a

more involved and vibrant city”?

Please submit your answers to: volunteers@harbourfrontcentre.com

Citrus Slices (Yield: 5 dozen cookies) 1. Cream the following thoroughly:

• 1 cup shortening • 1 cup sugar

2. Add the following and beat well: • 1 beaten egg • cup grapefruit juice • ½ teaspoon vanilla • 2 tablespoons finely grated grapefruit zest

3. Separately, blend or sift together the following: • 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder • A pinch of salt

4. Add to creamed mixture and combine thoroughly.

5. Next, place dough on pieces of waxed paper and shape into rolls about 2” in diameter.

6. Wrap securely in waxed paper. Refrigerate overnight or until needed.

7. To bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice off desired number of cookies, making each about 1/8” thick. Place on greased baking sheets and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Harbourfront Mystery Spot Do you know the area around Harbourfront Centre?

(Photo by Kathleen-Sonja Moony-Childs)

There is so much forgotten history along the waterfront. This is just one of the sites that helps tie our history with that of another country. Can you name this location? The first person who can correctly identify the above mystery spot will have their name mentioned in the next issue of the newsletter. Good luck! Congratulations to Angie Rivers for correctly identifying February’s mystery spot as Shore Stories at Harbour Square Park!

Helene enjoying one

of Kat’s Citrus Slices

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Mark Your Calendar

Summer Festivals

Weekly Series

Thursdays and Sundays, starting June 30 Thursdays, starting June 27

Wednesdays, starting July 3 *NEW * Fridays, starting June 28

Volunteer E-Newsletter Sub-Committee: Lynn Allen, Coordinator/Writer; Lidia Jarmasz, Writer/Editor; Nida Haroon and Ming Lau, Design/Layout; Kathleen-Sonja Mooney-Childs, Genevieve Peng, Advisor/Editor Photos courtesy of Tom Bilenkey, Ricky Yu, Stefano Rodriguez, Holmes Pasiminio