Upcoming Events
NEXT Toronto Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Albany Club 6:30 PM,
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FUTURE 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: TBD “To Be Determined” 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
396 Moore Avenue
Toronto ON M4G 1C7 Canada
Tel: 416.421.4243, Fax: 416.421.4617
e-mail: info IWFS
The IW&FS Toronto chapter events for 2011-2012 events will start in late summer, here are the tentative dates. The third Monday of every Month for 11 months, exception is July 2012.
Underlined dates are fixed, ** Items under negotiation:
Monday, March 19, 2012 TBD
Monday, April 16, 2012 TBD
Monday, May 21, 2012 TBD
Monday, June 18, 2012 THC Marcel’s Magic
Please put the above 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.
Two ways to register for an event ....
If you book to attend an event your are responsible for payment even if you do not attend.
Two ways to pay for an event ....
Register by email: Contact by email: IWFS Events
You can register on line, just click the button to the left. You will still have to snail mail a cheque to our Treasurer:
International Wine & Food Society Toronto Branch
C/o Robert Henderson Treasurer
74 Glen Road
Toronto ON M4W 2V6
Tel: 416.920.3022
Fax: 416.920.3772
e-mail: IWFS Events
Please act responsibly....
During IWFS events we take photos and this is how they are used....
Members and Guests have responsibilities too....
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 your board members or through e-mail Info IW&FS Toronto
See you all during the year....stay tuned...
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.......
THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WINE & FOOD SOCIETY is scheduled for September 11—16 in Vancouver BC. We are looking forward to welcoming visitors from around the world.
Open Letter to Members from your BGA
Dear Friends,
The planning for the International Wine & Food Society's 2012 International Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been ongoing since this gorgeous Western Canada destination was selected in the Fall of 2009. The Festival Organizing Committee (FOC) contracted last summer with Vancouver's beautiful new Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel to serve as our headquarters, and we've been putting the actual pieces of a wonderful festival puzzle together ever since. The dates are set: Arrival at the hotel on the afternoon of Tuesday, 11 September 2012, to be followed there by an Opening Reception and Dinner. Four full days of superb meals, accompanied by the best wines of both the region and the world, along with special activities celebrating the diversity of this grand city, will take place in various locales in and around Vancouver during the following week. We will conclude with a Gala Black-tie Dinner on Saturday evening, 15 September, back at the hotel. We also are planning to offer an optional "turn-key" pre-festival cruise to Alaska and a number of optional post-festival land trips. (You already can "see" festival articles, including the series titled Vancouver Vignettes, and other relevant information on the Society's new website, www.iwfs.org.)
We expect to open registration for 200 attendees later this calendar quarter, with a timing goal of early June 2011. Registration will be made through the IW&FS website, and payment by credit card will be handled through the site's Registration link. We hope to formally alert our worldwide membership to the opening of Registration via a combined announcement through: 1) email, 2) the website and 3) the BGA's quarterly newsletter. At that time, the FOC will fill in some of the blanks for you, listing a number of the expected highlights of the festival and, most importantly, the cost to join the party. As this is a once-every-third-year "international" festival, the FOC will use the latest membership numbers from our three geographic regions to fairly allocate attendance - using the ratio of 69 percent for the BGA, 21 percent for the EAC and 10 percent for the APZ. Should interest be strong in one region and spots fill up quickly, a Wait List will be established using a website "time-stamp" of your registration effort. If other regions don't fill their allocations completely, we will begin to move names off the other regional Wait List(s) after an appropriate period.
This email represents ONLY an indication of interest. With your reply, the FOC will retain your name and email address to be certain that you receive the initial communication announcing the timing of the official Registration Date on the website. A “Reply All”, which will go to me and the BGA's Executive Director, Christy Marsh, does not obligate you in any manner. We simply are hopeful of learning how extensive the interest might be in this upcoming event in advance of the actual Registration. I'll share the results with those who respond.
The FOC has collected as many of our worldwide member email addresses as possible. Yet, e-addresses constantly change and we may not have everyone's. If you are a Branch leader, please forward this email to your own branch member distribution list. We'd rather there be duplication of this message than have any of our worldwide members miss an opportunity to participate.
In the meantime, feel free to email Christy or me with any questions. Although I'll be traveling over the balance of the month, I'll attempt to respond with some modicum of timeliness.
I and the other members of your hard-working Festival Organizing Committee very much look forward to welcoming you to another beautiful IW&FS festival destination in the Fall of 2012. Our Society is special in many ways, but I must admit a personal fondness for these large, festive gatherings.
You have my warmest regards,
Dave
David R Felton
Chairman, Vancouver 2012 FOC
Board of Governors of the Americas
International Wine & Food Society
email: davefelton@earthlink.net.
Special IW&FS International Events
As events become available they will be posted here.......
Wine Events in Toronto, of interest to Members
Stay tuned...
International Wine & Food Society Toronto Branch
396 Moore Avenue
Toronto ON M4G 1C7
Canada
Tel: 416.421.4243
Fax: 416.421.4617
email: Info IW&FS Toronto
