Why do we look for a free venue for Tartan Day.

Tartan Day is about celebrating our Scottish heritage and making it accessible to the majority of people in Toronto. Most of the venue's in Toronto charge between $3000 and up to $70,000 and normally have a minimum door spend. Hiring these venues would mean increasing your ticket from $25 to $70+ and this would result in less people being able to participate.

We need your help in breaking last years total fundraising of $4000.00.

Tell your friends about Tartan Day, Tell your work mates about Tartan Day, Tell your Facebook and Twitter accounts Tartan Day or just join us for a fun evening of dancing.

Here is the link needed to make a donation directly to Sick Kids. 

Many thanks to the Sons of Scotland who are once again helping to sponsor Tartan Day.

Sonsofscotland.com

Hey Fellow Tartan Day Supports,

This has been the most difficult Tartan Day event ever to organize! Why? Because no-one was prepared to give us some event space free of charge. It has been my goal to make the Tartan Day Dance accessible to everyone in the GTA without a huge admission tag. There were 3 halls which were available at a reasonable rate, so Currie Hall was chosen for this years Tartan Day.

Currie Hall is part of the Canadian National Ballet School and formerly known as the Quaker Meeting House. The hall has been fully restored with a great wooden dance floor.

Limited tickets are now on sale, but you will have to be quick as there are only 230.

Tartan Day raises $3918.35 for the Sick Kids Foundation.

Guilermo Del Toro

Monster master Guilermo Del Toro attends the Tartan Day dance at the Fairmont.
Biography

CP24 Breakfast Show

I had a fabulous morning at the CP24 Breakfast studio's with presenters Gurdeep Ahluwalia and Pooja Handa. All the team were fully on-board with Tartan Day and really helped promote the Sick Kids Foundation. 

I arrived at the studio's around 8:30am, where I met up with the Nancy Richards from the Nancy Richards School of Highland Dancers and Ann & Steve from WeeDanMusic, who were also going to take part in the morning show. Sandra from the RSCDS turned up around 9:15 to perform some Scottish dancing.

I bought 2 of my Campbell kilts, including sporran, socks, flashes and even a sgian dubh, for the presenters to wear on the show - luckily both were my waist size. Presenter Gurdeep Ahluwalia and weather presenter Jamie Gutfreund, were brilliant and took to wearing the kilts. If you had watched the breakfast, you would have seen how much fun the presenters had during the show.

I spoke a little about kilts, Tartan Day and the Sick Kids Foundation and then it was stevie's tern to let Gurdeep Ahluwalia have a go on the pipes and play for the dancers.

Outside filming with the presenters

Photo of the girls from the Nancy Richards School of Highland Dancers (below)

Photo fo the RSCDS dancers

The CP24 Studio's