Membership dues for the 2025 - 2026 Season are now due. Dues are $50 per person. There are no longer any family memberships. Our Treasurer will accept cash, checks or an e-transfer. Send your dues to tdestreasurer@gmail.com
Our general Meetings will now be held The Fairfield Seniors' Centre at 80 Lothian Ave, Etobicoke. For those travelling by subway, from the Islington station, walk SOUTH on the east side of Islington Avenue to a little beyond Springbrook Gardens Road. There is a sidewalk OR PATHWAY going eastbound (turn left). You can see the building ahead. There will be a greeter at the appropriate entrance to direct you to the meeting room. The distance from the Islington Subway is essentially the same as to Monty's Inn at 850 meters. There is a bus service from the Islington subway. Route 110 a, b or c going south on Islington. Alight at Bering Ave.
This bus service runs on a 15-minute schedule at the 1:00 p.m. hour. For the return journey, at 4 - 5 p.m. or so, there are 6 buses per hour.
For those coming by car, there is an abundance of free parking.
You can enter the building via the west entrance - that's from the parking lot. Or you can enter the building from the north entrance. The doors do not open manually. There is the standard handicap push button or the red touchless door opener that you wave your hand over. The light turns blue when the doors start to open. We exit the building the same way.
Meetings start at 1:30 p.m and run until about 4:00 p.m. Doors open at 1:00 p.m.
The following is a tentative schedule for the meetings of the 2025 - 2026 season. Changes may happen at any time.
March 10 2026 - Dr. Colin Bray will talk on Duke Ellington's first visit to Europe in 1933
April 14 2026 - Ian Marquis
April 30 to May 2 - Essentially Ellington - Jazz at Lincoln Center. NYC
April 25 - Our annual Duke Ellington Concert, celebrating the 127 th Anniversary of his birth, will be held on Saturday April 25 2026 in the Al Green Theatre in the Miles Nadal JCC. 750 Spadina Avenue at Bloor St. Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band under the direction of Brigham Phillips will provide the music. General admission tickets are $50 and may be purchased via Eventbrite at:
Eventbrite Duke Ellington Concert Tickets
May 12 2026 - Bruce Barton
June 9 2026 - Members Choice
July 13 2026 - The
Brian Barlow Big Band and vocalist Heather Bambrick appear on the Stratford ON Festival
Stage to celebrate Duke Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder, his
Shakespeare-inspired suite born from his 1956 visit to the Stratford Festival. Monday
July 13 at 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Further information and tickets are available through the link below:
Stratford Swings Ellington with the Brian Barlow Big Band
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