Toronto Touring

For incoming tourists.

Distillery District - has NO CARS, some nice shops and balzac's coffee, but expensive and closes early and always full of tourists

St Lawrence Market has some interesting shopping.

CN Tower - it's a cliché but still pretty neat. The resto is $$$ but not bad, worth a revolving drink anyway.

Harbourfront & Toronto island some established art and the island's nice in the summer.

Spadina Chinatown, Kensington Market - just wander around

Queen Street West though you have to go pretty far west these days for the edgy stuff. Still the Queen Mother's an old favourite and Ghandi Roti is amazing.

Contemporary Art Museum (Queen West) or just check the galleries on the street

OCAD building is neat to look at from the outside, but you can sneak in and see what the art students are up to.

Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) if they have something interesting on.

College Street including Croft Street, many nice restos.

Bloor Street West including High Park

Bata Shoe Museum is actually pretty neat.

The Annex just wander around.

Yonge Street (South of Bloor) all the trashy stuff slowly being transformed into an outdoor US mall

Danforth & Broadview park for a great city view on a clear night

Yonge Street (North of Bloor) is cute, visit the 'seven thieves' shops for expensive food.

Way up north, the Pacific Mall gives you a real taste of Asian shopping.

For more food (Rashnaa!) see Toronto restaurants

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Toronto 43° 39' 12.53" N, 79° 23' 2.16" W Arts Dance Person Asian Origin

Lata Pada is a Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. Pada is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance Company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the Founder and Director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UK-based Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing.Pada founded the dance company in 1990 because she wanted to showcase Bharatantyam dance as an art form throughout the world.

Pada, who attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai, trained under the gurus Kalaimamani Kalyanasundaram and Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan.Pada lives in Mississauga, near Toronto. Pada married geologist Vishnu Pada when she was 17 years old.

In 1985 Lata Pada and her family decided to take an extended vacation to India. On June 23 of that year Vishnu Pada and daughters Arti and Brinda died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Lata Pada was not aboard since she left on an earlier date to tour India for Bharatanatyam recitals in Bangalore and across India; Lata was in Mumbai rehearsing for her tour, while her husband and daughters stayed behind in Sudbury, Ontario because Brinda was graduating from high school; afterwards the three flew on Air India 182. Lata Pada became a spokesperson for the families of the victims. After the crash she created the dance piece "Revealed By Fire" in remembrance of the incident. Pada received a master's degree in fine arts from York University in 1997.

Pada married Hari Venkatacharya in September, 2000. Venkatacharya is an entrepreneur and was Managing Director of Nytric Business Partners and is the Immediate Past President of TiE Toronto. He also serves on the Boards of the Ontario Science Centre and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. They both met while founding the South Asian advisory committee at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1995, where they raised over $3 million Canadian dollars for Canada's first permanent South Asian Gallery.

In December 2008, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to the development of Bharatanatyam as a choreographer, teacher, dancer and artistic director, as well as for her commitment and support of the Indian community in Canada. Lata was also recently appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Dance, York University, Toronto.

This article based on content from http://www.wikipedia.org. Original version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Pada