Diary of a Mad Retiree (fem.): February 2016

Saturday, 27 February 2016

Toronto Postcard Club

35th Annual Antique Postcard Show

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Japanese Cultural Centre
(Don Mills and Wynford Drive)

Admission: $ 5.00

- 1 cent stamp, image of King George; cancelled in

Shelburne (Ontario), February 11, 1922 (?)

[Dear George
We arrived here ok and they were glad to see us. I think Gib (?) will be home with me. If Edna is going to give that party on Tuesday night, he will. If you can find out let Gib (?) know. Wished you were here for tonight. Yours Nelle]

(and just in case you're interested - next year's show is

Sunday, February 26th, same location)

Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Did anyone else know about the Revolver Gallery's Andy Warhol Pop Art pop up exhibit? We only found out about it in time to catch a glimpse before it closed on New Year's Eve. (Show had only opened on July 1, 2015! Shows you how much attention we were paying!)

Admission was free, not surprisingly, with one can of Campbell's Soup!!!

Mick Jagger

"Dollar Sign 279"

Truman Capote

"Truckfull Suite"

"Cow 12"

"Saint Apollonia 330"

Wayne Gretzky

Thursday, 18 February 2016

... not your grandfather's VW!!!!

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

If you get a chance, check out "The Light Inside" at the

Ryerson Image Centre. Worth the trip all the way across campus!!!

Try and catch the docent's tour at 2:30 p.m*.

(*the Centre is allowing patrons to take photos of this exhibit.)

Then wander across the lobby to the Student Gallery for "Ways of Seeing - Building the RIC Collection". But don't leave the Gallery without turning your attention to the bin of slides just inside the door - good old-fashioned Kodak, jam them into a carousel and bore your friends and family with vacation images - slides. Rummage through until you find an image you fancy - and then take it home with you as a souvenir of your visit!!!

But visit before the end of the month!