News & Events

Coming Events

  • Executor Survival: Navigating Choppy Waters—Tips, Hints and Cautionary Tales from the Frontlines of Estates Hell – ClearView Financial Media – Part One: August 4.
  • Muskoka Chautauqua Festival, Windermere, August 9, 2025
  • Toller Exhibition & Book-signing, Beveragino, Port Carling, August 10, 2025
  • Executor Survival: Navigating Legal and Emotional Turbulence—Lawyers and Family – ClearView Financial Media – Part Two: August 18.
  • Executor Survival: Navigating an Estate with Artworks—Strategic Options for Valuable Assets – ClearView Financial Media – Part Three: September 2.
  • Power Up – Aviso Wealth presentation, September 10, 2025
  • Manulife Conference, The Toller Cranston Journey, Montreal, QC, October 7, 2025
  • 11th World Championships, World Figure Sport, Lake Placid NY, October 6-12, 2025
  • GALA Launch Event for “Artistic Impressions”, Donna Child Fine Art Gallery, Toronto, ON, November 2025
  • San Miguel International Writers’ Conference, Mexico, February, 2026
  • OLY House, Winter Olympics, Milano-Cortina, 2026

Recent Events

  • The Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, April 8, 2025
  • Rockcliffe Resident’s Association, Ottawa, April 30, 2025
  • World Figure Sport Workshops, Lake Placid, NY
  • Awarded Richard Dwyer Spirit of Skating Award, World Figure Sport, Lake Placid, NY
  • Exhibition, Saranac Lake Public Library, Saranac Lake, NY
  • Donna Child Fine Art Gallery, Book Launch Toronto, ON
  • Historic O’Brien Theatre Book Launch, Arnprior, ON
  • San Miguel de Allende Book Launch, Mexico,
  • World Figure Skating Championships, Montreal, QC.
  • Estate Planning Webinar, Manulife Canada
  • Manitoba Young Presidents Organization, Winnipeg, MB
  • Chapters Indigo Polo Park, Winnipeg, MB
  • D’Arenburg Cube Gallery, Australia
  • Art Evolution Toller Cranston Legacy Paintings, Cochrane, AB
  • Arnprior & District Museum, Arnprior, ON
  • Toller Cranston Individual Bridge Challenge, Arnprior, ON
  • Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake, ON
  • Temiskaming Art Gallery, Temiskaming, ON
  • Timberwalk Residence, Kanata, ON
  • Russell Books, Victoria, BC
  • Laughing Oyster Book Store, Courteney, BC
  • Bookstore Plus, Lake Placid, NY
  • 10th Anniversary World Figure Sport, Lake Placid NY
  • Classi Learning Lecture, June 5, 2025
  • Ice, Paint, Passion Wins Tenth Award – an IPPY online celebration.

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Book Related News & Recent Media

Check out three recent articles that Phillippa wrote for Clearview Financial Media.

Clearview Financial Media has an international readership and is the leading specialist provider of business intelligence and in-person events in the global private banking and wealth management space.”

  Part 1: Executor Survival: Navigating Choppy Waters—Tips, Hints and Cautionary Tales from the Frontlines of Estates Hell. You can find it HERE. The piece describes how an estate administrator can take charge, guard against the craziness, manage the stupidities, and armour up to get through it when matters go south and spiral out of control—in other words, lessons you won’t find on Siri or Alexa.

CPart 2:  Executor Survival: Navigating Legal and Emotional Turbulence—Lawyers and Family. You can find it HERE. It deals with how an executor can tippy-toe their way through the minefields of the hot dynamics of family and the cold, impersonal world of lawyers and billable

Part 3: Executor Survival: Navigating an Estate with Artworks—Strategic Options for Valuable Assets. You can find it HERE. It deals with the strategic options and considerations that an executor must understand in order to administer an estate when valuable assets are involved be they artworks, antiques, or vintage cars.

  Manulife Segregated Fund Summit, Montreal, October 2025

As the keynoter at the Manulife Segregated Fund Summit in Montreal, Phillippa addressed an audience of financial professionals about the emotional and human aspects of estate management. 

Charlie Angus: Read Substack HERE

Check out the chapter on Phillippa in Reinvention: Meaningful Ventures in Later Life. The book tells the stories of thirty individuals in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico who have reinvented themselves by choice, by chance, or by destiny. Ronald M. Baecker, 2025 Amazon

Aviso Wealth PowerUp 2025

Phillippa joined Manulife’s Mike Richard (National VP Segregated Funds) for the Aviso Wealth PowerUp 2025 event where they discussed lessons from her ten-year journey with the Toller Cranston estate.

News: It’s a BRONZE! 

Toller Cranston, Ice, Paint, Passion won an IPPY Award—the tenth book award won by the Toller biography. As Toller’s friend Haig Oundjian wryly observed, bronze medals seem to be a Cranston specialty.

Toller and Tollermania at Muskoka Chautauqua

The Muskoka Chautauqua Festival in August—with the incomparable Ukrainian-Canadian ceramic artist, Natalia Laluq. Check out her Tollermania video HERE, a brilliant project, inspired by Toller’s life and work that involves a stop-motion installation of individually crafted porcelain plates.

Dead Man Walking Podcast with Fred Rutman.

2025 IPPY Award Winner.

Sutherland House: Reading Suggestions.

At the Temiskaming Art Gallery with artist Cesar Forero.

Hue at Home with Tracy Koga: Phillippa Cranston Baran and her book ‘Ice, Paint, Passion.

2022 Podcast #3Turn3 with Pj Kwong and Haig Oundjian. Skate Ontario.

Article: [ICE TIME] Skating Great Toller Cranston’s Incredible Life Captured in New Book – May 29, 2024 by Jack Gallagher

Review: Lou Braibant reviews “Toller Cranston: Ice, Paint, Passion.”

theHumm Interview with Phillippa by Kris Riendeau. (download PDF)

ALBERTA MORNING: Phillippa Cranston Baran and her brother’s legacy.

Terrifying obsession: Cochrane gallery launches largest exhibit of Toller Cranston’s Artwork. (read Here)

How Toller Cranston redefined the artistry of men’s figure skating & became a queer icon.

Skateguard Blog Interview: Talking Toller with Phillippa Cranston Baran.

Oldies 107.7 – various links.

Toller Cranston book debuts in Arnprior
By Jake Davies – West Carleton Online.

Article in the International publication from Germany: Eissport Magazin.

Baran to speak on Cranston at Culture in Arnprior By Jake Davies – West Carleton Online.

Ice, paint and passion were evident at an early age.
Toller knew his destiny by the age of 7.
He was an artist.

Watch the Ice Theatre of New York’s 2015 Benefit Gala honoring Toller Cranston.

Watch Here!

rECENT bOOK PUBLICATION

With his death in 2015 at age 65, Figure skating lost a trailblazer. Canada lost an icon. The creative world lost a creative force. He became a legend. His name is Toller Cranston.

From the sister of a figure skating icon comes the stories of a creative genius who was funny, outspoken, and a fierce advocate for young talent. This book is a celebration of his life, a tribute to the values by which he lived, and a road map for living fearlessly.

TOLLER CRANSTON: ICE, PAINT, PASSION

Toller Cranston was a 6x Canadian figure skating champion who won World and Olympic medals. He was an artist who created more than 20,000 paintings. He holds an Order of Canada, was Athlete of the Year, and Skater of the Century. Lots of people won medals. Lots of people painted. Some people hold an Order of Canada. No one had a life like his. With his death in 2015 at age 65, Canada lost an icon. Figure Skating lost a trailblazer. The creative world lost a powerful force. He inspired generations. He became a legend. This is Toller.

2025

  • 2025 Estate Planning, Manulife, Montreal, QC,
  • 2025 Classi Learning Lecture
  • 2025 Rockcliffe Residents Association, Speakers Series, Ottawa
  • 2025 Legends, Icons, and Rituals, Donna Child Fine Art Gallery Toronto
  • 2025 The Arts and Letters Club, Toronto
  • 2025 Muskoka Chautauqua Festival, Windermere, ON
  • 2025 Toller Exhibition & Book-signing, Beveragino, Port Carling, ON,
  • 2025 11th World Championships, World Figure Sport, Lake Placid NY,
  • 2025 Lasso the Moon Initiative
  • 2025 Toller Cranston Individual Bridge Challenge
  • 2025 Manulife Wealth Management Seminar
  • 2025 Lake Placid Toller Event
  • 2025 Pop Up Gallery Closing Reception
  • 2025 Rick Stow Radio Interview
  • 2025 World Olympiad Association Meeting
  • 2025 Toller Cranston Legacy Scholarships
  • 2025 Dr. Audrey Tang Podcast
  • 2025 Pop Up Gallery Closing Reception, Lake Placid NY
  • 2025 Exhibition, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2025

2024

  • 2024 VIP Reception & Book Launch, Donna Child Fine Art Gallery, Toronto
  • 2024 Public Book Signing, Donna Child Fine Art Gallery, Toronto
  • 2024 Arnprior Book Launch at the Historic O’Brien Theatre, Arnprior
  • 2024 VIP Book Launch, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
  • 2024 Public Book Launch, Hotel Aldea, San Miguel de Allende
  • 2024 Mexicanos Book Launch, San Miguel de Allende
  • 2024 World Figure Skating Championships, Montreal
  • 2024 The Toller Cranston Family Connection Keynote, Arnprior & District Museum, Arnprior
  • 2024 Toller Cranston Individual Challenge, Arnprior Duplicate Bridge Club
  • 2024 Toller Cranton, Contemporary Masters Exhibition, d’Arenberg Cube, Australia

2023

  • 2023 Galeria Intersección Arte Contemporaneo, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
  • 2023 Sub Solo Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • 2023 A Terrifying Obsession Exhibition, Art Evolution Gallery, Cochrane, Alberta
  • 2023 Metamorphosis Exhibition of paintings and photographs, DCFA Gallery, Novotel, Toronto
  • 2023 Design TO Exhibition, Toller Cranston – The Painter: An Exhibition of Original Works, Cambria Gallery, Toronto

2022

  • 2022 Metamorphosis Photography Exhibition, Truth Gym Gallery, Victoria BC
  • 2022 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Donna Child Fine Art Gallery, Toronto
  • 2022 Donation in Support of Patronato Pro Ninos, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2022 Donation in Support of San Miguel Literary Sala, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2022 7th Annual Birthday, April 20, 1949
  • 2022 7th Annual Memorial, January 23, 2015
  • 2022 Donation in support of Arts Programming, Biblioteca Pública San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2022 Podcast #3Turn3 with Pj Kwong and Haig Oundjian. Skate Ontario YouTube: https://youtu.be/NHubhRcsEW8
  • 2022 Canadian Olympic Foundation Toller Award Scholarships Presented

2021

  • 2021 Inauguration of the Toller Collection at Biblioteca Pública, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2021 Turkey With Toller, Thanksgiving Fundraiser, Biblioteca Pública, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2021 6th Annual Birthday, April 20, 1949
  • 2021 Launch of Yo Inc Entrepreneurship Program, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2021 Podcast, Whistler Rotary Club: Toller: Life and Times, Whistler, BC
  • 2021 6th Annual Memorial, January 23, 2015
  • 2021 Canadian Olympic Foundation Toller Award Scholarships Presented

2020

  • 2020 Donation in support of Children’s Art Foundation Art Auction, Rosewood Hotel, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2020 Canadian Olympic Foundation Toller Award Scholarships Presented
  • 2020 5th Annual Birthday, April 20, 1949
  • 2020 5th Annual Memorial, January 23, 2015

2019

  • 2019 Toller Exhibition, Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake, ON
  • 2019 Toller Exhibition, Temiskaming Gallery, Temiskaming, ON
  • 2019 Stories from the Notebooks: Life and Times, Temiskaming Gallery, Temiskaming, ON
  • 2019 Toller Exhibition, Fabulous Florals Exhibition, Artworld Fine Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
  • 2019 Canadian Olympic Foundation Toller Award Scholarships Presented
  • 2019 4th Annual Birthday, April 20, 1949
  • 2019 4th Annual Memorial, January 23, 2015

2018

  • 2018 Art Recognition Award, Contemporary Arts Committee, Northern Ontario
  • 2018 Toller Exhibition, Prints and Line Drawings, Artworld Fine Art, Toronto, ON
  • 2018 Toller Exhibition, Mario Oliva Gallery, Fabrica la Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2018 Canadian Olympic Foundation Toller Award Scholarships Presented
  • 2018 3rd Annual Birthday, April 20, 1949
  • 2018 3rd Annual Memorial, January 23, 2015

2017

  • 2017 Canadian Olympic Foundation Toller Award Scholarships Presented
  • 2017Donation in support of Manitoba Figure Skating Association
  • 2017 2nd Annual Birthday April 20, 1949
  • 2017 2nd Annual Memorial January 23, 2015

2016

  • 2016 World Figure Hall of Fame Inductee, Lake Placid, NY
  • 2016 1st Annual Memorial January 23, 2015
  • 2016 Toller Open House, Arnprior, ON
  • 2016 A Terrifying Obsession Exhibition, Art Evolution Gallery, Calgary, AB
  • 2016 1st Annual Birthday April 20, 1949
  • 2016 Toller Exhibition, Artworld Fine Art, Toronto, ON

2015

  • 2015 Celebration of Life, Art Gallery of Ontario
  • 2015 Ice Theatre of New York 30th Anniversary Gala Award, NYC, NY
  • 2015 Donation to Ice Theatre of New York, 30th Anniversary Gala
  • 2015 Donation to Lindt & Sprüngli (CA) Ltd., 30th Anniversary Gala
  • 2015 Children’s Art Foundation Award, San Miguel de Allende, Mx
  • 2015 Art Auction in support of Children’s Art Foundation, Rosewood Hotel, San Miguel de Allende, Mx

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