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41. Design Talks: Planning for Your Home – Organized Urban Living

February 10, 2011

Whether you live in a tiny condo unit or a palatial manor, it’s difficult to get organized! This month’s Design Talks guest, Clare Kumar, Chief Organizer at Streamlife, will give you tips and tricks to make the most of the space and time in your life.

February Design Talk

Clare will teach you what it means to be organized and why it’s so tough to get there (and stay there!) Her presentation and interactive discussion will help you to better manage your space, time, information and “stuff,” allowing you to experience the efficient living experience and peace of mind you desire!

Finally fulfill your New Year’s resolution to “get organized” and join us on February 10, 2011 at Urban Mode at 7:00pm. Spaces are limited, so purchase your ticket today at http://gettingorganized.eventbrite.com/. Get ready to experience organized urban living!

About the Speaker:

Clare Kumar has a natural gift for creating space and making time. How? By using organizing principles to solve a multitude of problems, Clare helps people become more organized at home and at work.

Since creating Streamlife, an organizing company in 2005, Clare has coached residential, small business and corporate clients to improve productivity and achieve greater peace of mind, while creating inspiring spaces in which to live and work. Clare has been a guest expert on Breakfast Television and The Steven & Chris Show, The Shopping Channel and Downright Domestic. These days she can be seen regularly on Real Life, and is the Storage and Organization Expert for Canadian Tire. She has been interviewed by The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Press, Metronews and CBC Radio, appeared in Canadian House & Home, has written for Neatfreak Group Inc., and blogged for Stables and ACCO Brands Canada. Clare is the go-to person in the organizing industry.

Clare is a Silver Leaf member of Professional Organizers in Canada (POC) and has served as its Director of Marketing. She is also a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). She actively participates in the Institute on Challenging Disorganization, and is a certified home stager (CCSP®).

30. Come Up to My Room Alternative Design Event

January 30, 2011

As the Gladstone Hotel’s annual alternative design event, Come Up to My Room showcases the collaborative efforts of designers and artists as they transform 11 rooms and create 14 public space installations.

Come Up to My Room

This year’s show is curated by Jeremy Vandermeij and Deborah Wang and features design talk events and curatorial tours. Curators select designers and artists based on their past work and experience, then turn over the exhibition space with little knowledge about what the finished piece will look like. By giving the artists and designers complete freedom, the final results are challenging, thought-provoking, and extraordinary.

Today is the last day of Come Up to My Room; exhibition hours are from noon until 5pm. Tickets are $10 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased on the Come Up To My Room website.

 

14. Karaoke at the Gladstone Hotel

January 14, 2011

Voted Queen West’s “best karaoke bar” by NOW Magazine for seven years, it’s no exaggeration to say that karaoke at the Gladstone is an institution.

Karaoke at the Gladstone Hotel

Hosted by Peter Styles every Friday and Saturday from 10pm until 2:30am, you can croon the night away with your pals (and new-found pals: nothing quite brings people together like karaoke!)

http://www.gladstonehotel.com/