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APRIL 1: April is National
Poetry Month
and the League of
Canadian Poets has well
known poets reading at
a launch event at Ben
McNally Bookstores,
366 Bay Street, 9 am to
10:30 am. Events around the
city in April at www.poets.ca
or www.young poets.ca.
APRIL 10: Milliken Mills
Lions’ first annual Vaisakhi
Family Nite. From 7 pm at
India Grill. Fine Indian cuisine,
DJ, music, dance and Find The
Life Champion In You With Clint
Cora (karate world champion
with five gold medals). Tickets:
adults, $25.00; kids (4-10 yrs)
$15.00. Contact: Gobind Shar-
ma at 647-998-1987/gobind
sharma@hotmail.com or Sudha
Verma at 416-318-5554/
sudhaestates@gmail.com.
APRIL 12-24: Acrylic on
canvas works by Syed Iqbal at
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Cedar Ridge Creative Centre,
225 Confederation Dr. Free.
APRIL 16: Full Circle. Kim
Phuc helps celebrate phenomenal
women in support of
The Mississauga Waterfront
Festival’s Sponsor a Child program.
The shattering photograph
of a nine-year-old Kim
Phuc, severely burned by napalm,
running for safety on
June 8, 1972, became the symbol
of Vietnam’s suffering. Le
Treport Convention Centre,
1075, The Queensway East.
Tickets: $100 at 905-891-0002.
APRIL 19: Congo 101: The V-
Day Teach In. Learn of the
plight of women in the Democratic
Republic of Congo where
they bear the brunt of war.
Much to look forward to in April
10:20 am and 1:30pm at Centre
For Social Innovation, 215
Spadina Ave. Strike a Chord, Not
a Woman (The V-Day be-nefit
concert). 6:30pm at Trinity St.
Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W.
Male singers and song-writers
raise their voices in soli-darity
with V-Day’s mission. Tickets:
Strike A Chord, Not A Woman –
Adults, $18; students, $14. Congo
101, $10. At www. ticketbreak.
com.
APRIL 27: An Evening With
Deepak Chopra. One of the
world’s leaders in the field of
mind-body medicine, Deepak
Kiran Ahluwalia at
Sikh Centennial
Foundation’s Gala
APRIL 18: Sikh Centennial
Foundation’s Gala. Juno
Award winner Kiran Ahluwalia
will be performing at the
gala. She is also being honoured
at the gala along with others
including Parminder Singh,
managing director, Microsoft
Canada Development Centre,
and the youngest honouree,
Jasmeet Kaur Sidhu. At the
Royal Ontario Museum. Tickets:
adults, $150; students $100, at
tickets@ sikhcentennialfoundation.com.
Info at www.sikh
centennial foundation.com.
Chopra will discuss the nature
of consciousness as a fundamental
reality, moods and emotions,
perception, behaviours,
biology, social interactions, personal
relationships, environment
and the forces of nature.
He will address the deeper
meaning of our existence. 8 pm
at Roy Thomson Hall. Tickets:
$69.50 - $39.50. Call 416-872-
Ghazal Ki Shaam, Aap Ke Naam
Well-known Toronto
artiste Manoj Chaman
enthralled guests
at an exclusive evening of ghazals
and geet at Sapphire Banquet
and Convention Centre last
month.
Following the success of his
CD Shyree, Chaman presented
original compositions from his
next, Tera Saath, as well as
much-loved songs from popular
ghazal singers.
Guests’ requests were also
sung much to their delight. One
lady was particularly happy
when he sang her requested
Ranjish hi sahi.