Upcoming_Events

Upcoming Toronto Events

PLEASE note, dates for any location that is TBD may change as exciting new opportunities become available with the restaurant proprietors.

Dear Members,

We are all busy and our event calendars do get booked up. Please see below for the details of future events.

In an effort to help with your IW&FS event planning the following are the planned dates for IW&FS events. Book your calendars now, so you can attend. This is a heads up before the Event Registration comes in the mail with full details. Generally, the events will be at the beginning of the third week of the month on a Monday or Tuesday; the exceptions being November and December. Fixed dates are underlined. We are trying to be flexible as new opportunities become apparent. Dates we are working on are: TBC “To Be Confirmed” please check back here closer to the date.

The office address of the IW&FS Toronto Branch is as follows:

International Wine & Food Society Toronto Branch

C/o Debbie Smith

Shore Tilbe Perkins+Will

672 Dupont St., Suite 500

Toronto ON M6G 1Z6

Tel: 416.217.6519

Fax: 416-971-6765

e-mail: Debbie Smith

The IW&FS Toronto chapter events for 2010-2011 events will start in late summer, here are the tentative dates. Underlined dates are fixed:

Date: Sunday August 29th, 2010

Time: 2:00 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. AGM

Event: IW&FS President’s Garden Reception

Locatiion: The Home and Private Garden of

Martha & Philip Russel

101 Bayview Ridge,

Toronto, Ontario M2L 1E3,

Tel H: 416-385-9650

<<Get directions>>

Contact by email: Debbie Smith for reservations

Additional Information:

Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly

Contact: Debbie Smith for reservations

Additional Information from Last Year’s Event, see http://www.iwfstoronto.org/Sunday,_August_30,_2009.html

Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly

** Items under negotiation

Please put the following dates aside for exciting IW&FS Events. The dates may change as we negotiate with venue operators and as new opportunities become available. It will be a fun year of exploration and good friends. Underlined are firm dates.

Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Time: 2:00 P.M – 6:30 P.M.

Monday, September 20th, 2010 Time: 6:30 P.M Reception, 7:00 P.M. Dinner

Monday, October 18th, 2010 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.

Monday, November 15th, 2010 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.

Monday, December 13th, 2010 Time: Drinks 7:00 P.M. Dinner 7:45 P.M

Monday, January 17th, 2011 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.

Monday, February 14th, 2011 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.

Monday, March 21st, 2011 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.

Monday, April 18th, 2011 Time: 6:30 P.M. Reception, 7:00 P.M. Dinner

Monday, May 16th, 2011 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.

Monday, June 13th, 2011 Time: 5:00 P.M. AGM - 6:00PM Reception - 7:00PM Dinner

We will keep you posted of changes via the web site at: http://www.iwfstoronto.org. If you have any questions or concerns please contact one of our board members or through e-mail info@iwfstorono.org

Sincerely,

Robert Henderson, (Web Master)

International Wine & Food Society, Toronto Branch

Special IW&FS Canadian Events

As events become available they will be posted here.......

Open Letter to Members from your BGA

Dear Friends,

Where would you like to spend five days in the Americas for the 2012 IW&FS BGA Festival? The Organizing Committee from the Cape Town, South Africa branch, among our brethren in the Europe/Africa Committee Area, staged a superb IW&FS 2009 International Festival in Cape Town, just concluded last month. The Festivals & Events Committee for the Board of Governors of the Americas (BGA) now has the unenviable task of planning a festival which approaches that level of excellence at the BGA's next scheduled international rotation in 2012.

Our first task will be to decide on a location, and I’d like your help. In the fall of '04, in advance of selecting Santa Barbara, California, as the location for the BGA's 2007 Regional Festival, we
e-surveyed a broad range of IW&FS members around the world to arrive at a collection of good suggestions. We're trying that approach again.

Would you kindly comment briefly (perceived pros & cons) on a few possible location ideas, all within the Americas, and put forth any other destinations we might want to consider? Please keep in mind that in the past ten or so years, the BGA has had festivals in Napa, California; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Santiago, Chile; Portland, Oregon and Santa Barbara, California.

Note that there are some valuable prerequisites for a good festival location. First, it has to excite the imagination; we need people to want to sign on. Secondly, there should be well-established infrastructure (hotels, restaurants, activity destinations) available for our group. Thirdly, it’s nice to be in or near a wine-producing region, if possible. And any urban selection, away from wine country, needs a large collection of top restaurants and the availability of top wines. I’m certain the very experienced among you will describe other important requirements, as well.

I’ve listed below those places where there has been more than just some incidental interest so far. And we may choose a destination not on this early list.

-Buenos Aires & the Mendoza wine country in Argentina

-New Orleans, Louisiana

-Hudson River Valley & CIA in New York

-Washington, D.C. & Virginia wine country

-Montreal, Quebec

-Vancouver/Victoria, British Columbia

-Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

As you may have read in the current issue of Wine, Food & Friends, the BGA's recent 4-day Caribbean cruise in January went swimmingly (sorry). The BGA Festivals & Events Committee is delighted with the response from our attendees who returned with glowing reports, and we are investigating similar ideas for the near future.

Please forward this e-survey request to your fellow Branch members and let me know your thoughts by emailing me at davefelton@earthlink.net.

Thanks.

Dave

David R Felton

Festivals & Events Committee Chairman

Board of Governors of the Americas

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The European/African Committee (EAC) of The IW&FS has asked me to forward the attached announcement to all branches in the Americas. It announces an exciting Merseyside & North Wales Festival based in Liverpool to be followed by an optional tour of the Lake Country in June 2011.

Should any of your members be interested in attending, they should contact Ron Barker, Chair of the EAC, as directed in the announcement. Please forward this to your members ASAP so they will have every opportunity to attend what will be a fun and interesting festival with IW&FS members from around the world.

Best Wishes for the Holidays