OCT 14 RiFF Opening Screening: Yorkville
YORKVILLE
If there is one true pioneer in the Canadian music scene it is Bernie Finkelstein. We will be screening the short seven-minute documentary Bernie Finkelstein Lucky Breaks and then the full-length documentary Yorkville.
If you want to know one thing about Toronto, let it be what
went on in Yorkville during the 1960s.
In Canadas version of Greenwich Village and Haight-Ashbury, draft dodgers mixed in with musicians, political activists, and curious Canadian youths until a presence was born that shocked and alarmed the Silent Generationas the 1960s counterculture grew.
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