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         caption:Punk band Fidget performs at the BIG on Bloor festival June 21.
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         caption:The Diva Moms and the 3 Dads performed June 14 to a crowd of several hundred in the auditorium of John English School, with proceeds going to the school's Healthy Bites Lunch Program.
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         caption:Dancers get ready backstage before Vasanth Taal at the St. Columba and All Hallows Church May 24. The evening featured a performance by the Gunaseelan Dance Company.
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         caption:Sara Montalba, Jennifer Dang, Sandra Mateiya, Nusa Fransico, Mimi Adal and Isabella Marro strike a pose during the 7th annual Stomp, an urban dance competition and showcase held recently at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
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         caption:Rishma Vhairio, centre, performs an Indian dance routine with her partners during International Night events at Lester B. Pearson Collegiate May 15. 
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BRIEFS

Enjoy a film festival on the TTC

Mark your calendars Sept. 5 to 12 for the Toronto Urban Film Festival.

The Film Festival for Commuters is an eight-day long public festival on the TTC.

The only one of its kind in North America, the festival features a different urban-themed program of one-minute films daily.

The festival runs concurrent with the Toronto International Film Festival and offers an accessible creative experience to the more than one million people who ride the TTC each day.

This year, the Top 3 films of the festival will be selected by guest judge Mark McKinney (Saturday Night Live, Kids in the Hall, Brain Candy). The final day of TUFF is programmed based on votes from the audience.

Visit www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com or the TUFF Facebook Fan Page at www.facebook.com for details.

Staying Alive winners

Insidetoronto.com readers and their friends will be learning how to eat to survive.

Breakfast for Learning ( www.breakfastforlearning.ca ) created the Staying Alive Board Game to help kids learn that eating well will help them to survive.

According to the game Staying Alive, players are mountaineers who are on their way to scale the Andean mountains when their plane crashes, destroying the communication gear.

Using eight Japanese anime-type characters, kids move their pieces, collecting nutritional points. The person with the most nutritional points wins.

The games and free and are available online or by calling 1-800-627-7922.

Congratulations to Leslie Toy from Bloor West Village; Raymond Chung, Jan Edward, Brian Mee, Lori Lam, Wendy McNalley, Audrey Gallen, Sonya McFarlane, Jennifer Wu, Scott Reinhart, Eunis Elsee Palma and Cathy Nelson from Scarborough; and Sean Rockburn and Maria Novo from York; and Danny Davis and Kitty Liu from North York.

Keep visiting insidetoronto.com for more contests.

Hilary Duff winner

One Etobicoke resident will be wearing a Hilary Duff T-shirt and Hilary Duff perfume and listening to her new CD.

Kathy Summers, 11, won the Hilary Duff prize pack, valued at about $125 ( umusic.ca/hilaryduff ).

Dignity, which features Play With Fire and With Love, is Duff's first studio album of new material in more than two years. Duff, who will be 20 in September, was born in Houston, Texas. Her first role was Wendy in the live-action film Casper Meets Wendy. She then starred as the title character in Disney's television series Lizzie McGuire. Duff has gone on to star in such movies as Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel, Material Girls and A Cinderella Story.

Congratulations to Kathy and keep visiting insidetoronto.com for details.

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