This exciting mural art project is funded annually by the City of Toronto and coordinated through the Harbourfront Community Centre and in partnership with Cecil Street Community Centre. The most recent artistic team consisted of a Project Coordinator and seven Youth Artists between the ages of 17 - 20 years.

 An overview of our previous summer sites
G.A.P Adventures  
Aquarius Men's Wear  
Victory Café  
318 Bathurst Street  
Harbourfront Community Centre  
World's Biggest Bookstore  

G.A.P Adventures, 19 Duncan Street. (Ward 20) Boardroom mural (20' x 8.5') and swatches of design carried through the rest of the office. Mural depicts animals and archaeological sites from all the continents. The animals are labelled with their scientific names. 

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Aquarius Men's Wear, 312 Adelaide Street West. (Ward 20) Exterior mural (8' x 10') on plywood over dressing room window. Mural depicts a tie and a dress shirt incorporated into 3-D abstract forms and the word "Aquarius" across the top. 

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Victory Café, 571 Markham Street (Ward 19) Exterior mural 40' x 20'. This site depicts a trumpet player in five different positions radiating from the middle of the wall. On the bottom and middle of the wall are "graffiti style" bands in various shades of blue. 

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318 Bathurst Street, Ward 19 (Private Residence) Exterior mural 15' x 30' (height). This site depicts a futuristic science-fiction scene. A storm trooper stands guard in front of a setting sun/apocalypse. 

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Harbourfront Community Centre - 627 Queens Quay West (Ward 20) This site hosts a group of papier-mâché figures perched on ledges above the main reception of the Centre. Thirteen canvasses hang behind the figures. The focus of this project was to celebrate the local community and the role of the centre in the area. The wide range of art styles reflect the diversity of the Harbourfront Community.

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World's Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street (Ward 27) - Exterior site 100' x 23'. This was the largest site done during the project. The mural depicts four large books with a quote from a biography on Robertson Davies. 

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Mural Transformation Project

Design concept for mural in Youth Room        

This past winter, the Mural Transformation Project designed and painted murals in HCC’s Youth Room and in the lobby of 679 Queens Quay - Anton Bacchus, Ryan Beckford, Shirajum Kazi and Jessey Pacho brought bright colours to our community! Thanks to  funding from RBC Financial Group, we will be able to continue designing and painting murals during the winter and spring of 2010.

For more information or if you are between the ages of 16 and 24 years and are looking for some part-time employment during the school year, call Michael Brown at 416-392-1509 ext. 327. To see more images visit:

www.harbourfrontcc.blogspot.com
 

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