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AGH CIBC Wood Gundy World Film Festival Hamilton Central Library 55 York Boulevard Read about my first festival screening earlier in the week – Project Nim. For my second and final screening from the AGH World Film Festival, I decided to attend one of the free showings downtown at Central Library. It was great to … Read more
Cake & Loaf Bakery 321 Dundurn Street South My fellow tour-mates and I are obviously quite partial to sweets (every restaurant we’ve been to so far has heard us inquire about the dessert menu, often while still eating our meals) and we have definitely been sampling our way in cupcakes around the City. I had … Read more
AGH CIBC Wood Gundy World Film Festival SilverCity Ancaster 771 Golf Links Road I’ve always wanted to attend a film festival, and with the annual Toronto International Film Festival happening every September, it hasn’t always been an opportune time for me to go. How perfect that the Art Gallery of Hamilton CIBC Wood Gundy Film … Read more
Mulberry Street Coffee House 193 James Street North We may have wrapped up our official summer leg of the Tour at the end of August with our Stoney Creek day, but up until this particular tour stop, it was technically still summer. Avishka, Jenny, and I wore our summer-edition tour tees one last time and … Read more
Sew Hungry: Food Truck Rally 2011 Ottawa Street Here at I Heart Hamilton Tour, we’re self-proclaimed foodies. Hamilton is getting to be known for its upsurge of food trucks, and an event dedicated to bringing them all together, plus even more trucks from out of town, seemed like an ideal tour stop. We first heard … Read more
Supercrawl James Street North Even though we have only experienced a few James Street North Art Crawls, it was time to amp it up and take on Supercrawl! This was the 3rd annual Supercrawl – an event full of music, art, food, shops, you name it. The event was expected to draw 40,000* people throughout … Read more
Kitestring Creative Branding Studio 65 Walnut Street South For the first official tour stop of September, I had the pleasure of dropping by Kitestring Creative Branding Studio on a chilly afternoon that already felt like a fall day. After finding each other through Hamilton’s huge and incredibly supportive Twitter community, co-founder Chris Farias offered to … Read more