I hope you're all looking forward to the ALL CAPS! Island Festival next weekend as much as we are. We're excited to be the first and only camping music festival in Toronto. But Dufferin Grove Park has some camping news of their own.

For the second year in a row Dufferin Grove is hosting a "sleep-in" on Friday, August 17th to Saturday, August 18th to show support for the park's programming and protest cuts to funding. Last year they hosted a film screening, a bonfire, and a breakfast. They haven't listed any programming yet, but at the very least you get to camp overnight in Dufferin Grove while showing your support for a city treasure. This is win-win!

I don't know if you knew this, but while the ALL CAPS! Island Festival is celebrating it's fourth year at Artscape Gibraltar Point, the festival has evolved over seven full years. In 2006, we hosted the first ALL CAPS! Outdoor Show in Dufferin Grove Park, an amazing space in this city that deserves credit and thanks for hosting us for three years above and beyond the work they do every day to make Dufferin Grove such an amazing space and an amazing community in this city. This festival was able to sustain and grow because of the work of the staff at Dufferin Grove Park, they supported us from the very beginning and as the organizer, I can't tell you how much that support meant to the long-term operation of ALL CAPS! as a concert series.

The sleep-in starts at 6pm on August 17th and ends at 11am on August 18th. Check out the event listing here on Facebook, where you can get details and updates. I will be there, and I hope you will be too.