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  Watering the Seeds for the Future of Bathurst St Community   IT was a press conference and update about A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC)and its masterplan to get bigger, louder and wear a new name.  At a Friday presser held at the bookstore at Bathurst and Bloor in downtown Toronto, organizer and store owner Itah Sadu threatened to shout down the city with her good words of emancipation and neighbourhood   The Cultural Centre is a non-profit community group committed to studying and promoting the history of African and Caribbean Canadian ancestry. It will build a large multi-purpose permanent headquarters in the large construction site known as the Mirvish Village project recently demolished Honest Ed’s  department story. The construction sight is right across the street from the existing bookstore and cultural meeting hall.   At the noon-hour presser was Anthony Joseph, the publisher of th Caribbean Camera along with other members o...

Caribbean Cultural Centre Coming to A Computer Near You by Stephen Weir A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC) recently partnered with the Afri-Can FoodBasket and Pan Fantasy Steelband to host  Filling the Gap: Love ,  Light and Hope Campaign –  an emergency fund set up in response to COVID-19 “to support and give back to the Caribbean and African Canadian communities.” The proceeds from this fund  provide food items and meals to seniors, single-parent families and those with special needs.  The Cultural Centre is also using social media to provide online programming for children who are at home. “People should check out our FaceBook site and watch what we have on  A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC) YouTube channel,” said Itah Sadu, co-owner of  the ADBCC.  ” Folks will see  Welcome to Blackhurst Moments . an online exhibition that commemorates the contributions of Black immigrants to the Bathurst Steet neig...