Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity

 ATTENTION ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

 HARBOURFRONT CENTRE OPENS PERMANENT TRIBUTE TO MISS LOU
Beloved cultural icon honoured

 
TORONTO – William J.S. Boyle, Chief Executive Officer of Harbourfront Centre, and the Honourable Mike Colle, Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and other dignitaries will open Miss Lou’s Room at Harbourfront Centre on the first anniversary of the passing of ‘Jamaica’s gift to the world’, Louise Bennett-Coverley.

DATE:                        Thursday, July 26, 2007
 

TIME:                        4:45 p.m. - media briefing of Miss Lou’s Room

5:00 p.m. – official ribbon-cutting ceremony in Miss Lou’s Room

5:00-5:30 p.m. – photo opportunities, dignitaries available for interviews

LOCATION:              Miss Lou’s Room

                                    2^nd level, south end of York Quay Centre

Harbourfront Centre

235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario

TIME:                        Opening Celebration of Miss Lou’s Room

5:45-6:15 p.m. – remarks

6:15-7:00 p.m. – entertainment

LOCATION:              Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage

                                    235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario

PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES:      Harbourfront Centre CEO William J.S. Boyle with Minister Colle; Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Entertainment & Culture, the Honourable Aloun N’Dombet-Assamba; former Jamaican Prime Minister Percival J. Patterson; Minister of Children and Youth Services Mary Anne Chambers; Miss Lou’s son Fabian Coverley and her executrix Pamela Appelt cutting ribbon to Miss Lou’s Room. Children and dignitaries exploring exhibit activities.

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Media R.S.V.P. to Linda Liontis, lliontis@harbourfrontcentre.com/416-973-4381

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Linda Liontis

Media Relations

Harbourfront Centre

235 Queens Quay West

Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2G8

Phone: 416-973-4381

Fax: 416-973-6055

Email: lliontis@harbourfrontcentre.com

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com