Part of the ticket proceeds for this event will be donated to Sistering
With temperatures plummeting, and the city's homeless population reaching record levels, join Toronto Life magazine, city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and former Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall for this special screening-and-discussion of Shelley Saywell's acclaimed documentary on Toronto's homeless street musicians. A hit at Hot Docs 2015, Lowdown Tracks shines a light on the struggles our city's homeless face—be it in shelters, with social programs, with addictions and abuse—while celebrating the stirring soundtrack that is composed every day at our city's ferry docks and freeway underpasses, rooming houses and rooftops.
Stick around as award-winning Toronto Life contributor Nicholas Hune-Brown sits down with Wong-Tam and Hall, two of Toronto's leading experts on the public policy and humanitarian dimensions of homelessness, and Greg Cook, homeless advocate and outreach worker at Sanctuary Toronto. Learn what it will take to for a city obsessed with growth and prosperity to finally start supporting its most vulnerable residents.
You can read Nick's award-winning Toronto Life cover story on the crisis here.
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