Extraordinary Women: Celebrating our Neighbours and Their Stories

Films: A collection of SilverShorts and Mapping our Memories documentaries, produced by Back Lane Studios and featuring the stories of women from our neighbourhood. 2017-2025 (90m)

Tickets: Pay What You Can on Eventbrite (https://neighbours-stories.eventbrite.com) or at the door. 

Our neighbours have amazing stories to tell, and for our next Extraordinary Women session, we look to our own community and to the women who have taken part in Back Lane Studios’ seniors’ video-making programs. You’ll see a selection of their videos and meet some of them in person.

After the screening, we will be joined by some of our local heroines for a discussion, including Doris Dunne, 99, who went from processing invoices in the Junction to working in the art department for advertising giant J. Walter Thompson; Verna Van Sickle, 93, who ran a record store at the corner of Cumberland and Yonge St. from the mid 1950s to 1968 when Yorkville flowered and the art scene in Toronto flourished; and Elizabeth Ross, 82, who was the first woman to sell print ad space in New York City and had first-hand experience with too many “Mad Men”.

This event will also be an occasion to remember the women who shared their stories with us in short documentaries and who have since passed away. We miss them and are deeply grateful that they shared their past experiences and those of their families with us. 

We hope this Extraordinary Women event at the Revue will inspire others to join us in our efforts to record memories, preserve our collective history and enrich our own experience by learning our fellow residents’ stories. 

Back Lane Studios video projects have been supported in part by the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Project (NHSP).

Tickets: Pay What You Can on Eventbrite (https://neighbours-stories.eventbrite.com) or at the door. 

Part of the Extraordinary Women series!

Cast/Crew Info
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