Samba Elégua

Get the binoculars ready, it’s the August edition of PSK: Air! The Kensington Community Air Show. Okay, this year PSK Air does not actually coincide with the Air Show at the CNE, but we’ll still be as light as air! Catch Samba Elegua at the corner of Kensington Ave. and Baldwin St., in Kensington Market, [...]

It’s the July edition of Pedestrian Sundays Kensington: PSK Water! Streams of Consciousness. Though the forecast calls for a sunny day, we will be paying homage to the wet stuff that sustains the world, water. Catch Samba Elegua at the corner of Kensington Ave. and Baldwin St. in Kensington Market and then follow the pied [...]

Word to your mom, the beat’s about to go down in the streets again. It’s Pedestrian Sundays Kensington: Fire Summer SUNday and the beat is on! Sunday, June 26th, 6pm sharp. Downbeat for Samba Elegua’s performance hits at the corner of Kensington & Dundas, in Kensington Market. Bring your dancing shoes, bring your sunglasses, bring [...]

It’s the last PSK of the year – boo hoo (I mean BOO!) – Hallowe’en edition! Don’t miss the pageantry, the fire tricks, the coming together to celebrate all the goodness of 2010 PSKs and, of course, the BEATS! On Sunday, October 31st, 2010, we celebrate many global traditions that arise at this time of [...]

In celebration of the bounty of the earth, we’ll exchange seeds, meet our farmers, enjoy a feast of local foods, and learn a harvest dance (ahem, that’ll be you – we’ll be dropping the big boom!). Sunday, 5:45 pm, corner of Kensington Ave. and Dundas St. W.

Samba Elégua will perform this Sunday at the seventh annual Toronto International BrazilFest in Earlscourt Park. Our set is at 4 pm. Map to Earlscourt Park. If you can’t make it to BrazilFest, you can see us later that day at Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market, around 8 pm.

The first weekend of summer offers you a double dose of beats in the streets with Samba Elégua. On Friday June 25th, we rock a block party with the Justice for Our Communities march. This rally against the G8/G20 summit begins at Allan Gardens (Carleton St. and Sherbourne St.) at 2:30pm. Samba Elégua will meet [...]

The seventh year of Kensington Market Pedestrian Sundays begins this Sunday, May 30th. Reclaim the streets! Preview Toronto’s funner, friendlier car-free future. Samba Elégua keeps the revolution dancing. Shimmy with friends, neighbours and former strangers as we throw down the big boom — on the east side of Bellevue Square at 5:30pm. The world is [...]